Abstract
This chapter explores the ways in which sensorial understandings of the city generated by dance practitioners can provide the basis for dialogue with urban designers and planners to inform public interest design. In doing so it provides a framing for the “Moving and Mapping” micro-project in Sensing the City, foregrounding the situated dance practice of the collective enter & inhabit.
Reflecting on the “Moving and Mapping” micro-project, taking place in Coventry, UK, the chapter considers the value of iterative, reflective and processual city engagement as practised by dance artists, arguing that this offers a methodology for understanding the lived experience of cities. Closing with future recommendations, the chapter suggests we might regard dance artists as ‘expert-notators’ who can offer spatial, haptic and affective understandings of the city that are crucial to emerging urban design and planning approaches concerned with participatory and interdisciplinary methodologies.
Reflecting on the “Moving and Mapping” micro-project, taking place in Coventry, UK, the chapter considers the value of iterative, reflective and processual city engagement as practised by dance artists, arguing that this offers a methodology for understanding the lived experience of cities. Closing with future recommendations, the chapter suggests we might regard dance artists as ‘expert-notators’ who can offer spatial, haptic and affective understandings of the city that are crucial to emerging urban design and planning approaches concerned with participatory and interdisciplinary methodologies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Urban Sensographies |
| Editors | Nicolas Whybrow |
| Chapter | 3 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780367808396 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Dec 2020 |
Publication series
| Name | Routledge |
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