Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:56:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CinthiaSO_TESE.pdf: 4439176 bytes, checksum: 4a9fb3c961f80971e11ea214049dd828 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-17 / This paper presents the theoretical-methodological possibilities of the French philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, for the discipline of architecture and urbanism in an effort to overcome the fragmentation imposed by the institutionalization of science in general. From Du rural ? l'urbain (Lefebvre, 1970) compilation, it brings the author's other works from the period between 1968 and 1974, indicating the conduits for reflection and their interrelationships with methods, types of analyses and other procedures to treat the space-time urban. The methodology involves a research on the author s 'today and yesterday' in the scientific field, a research and analysis of his procedures in highlight of philosophical, social, economic and political aspects, the historical context of his references and provides significant and possible elements for the study, research and extension in the area in question / Este trabalho apresenta possibilidades te?rico metodol?gicas do fil?sofo e soci?logo franc?s, Henri Lefebvre, para a disciplina de arquitetura e urbanismo, no esfor?o de ultrapassar a fragmenta??o imposta pela institucionaliza??o das ci?ncias de modo geral. A partir da compila??o Du rural ? l urbain (LEFEBVRE, 1970), abrange outras obras do autor do per?odo entre 1968 e 1974, indicando condutas para a reflex?o e suas inter-rela??es com m?todos, categorias de an?lises e outros procedimentos para tratar o espa?o-tempo de vida urbana. A metodologia envolve pesquisas sobre o ontem e o hoje do autor no meio cient?fico, investiga??es e an?lises dos seus procedimentos ? luz de aspectos filos?ficos, sociais, econ?micos e pol?ticos, a contextualiza??o hist?rica de suas refer?ncias e apresenta elementos significativos e poss?veis para o estudo, a pesquisa e a extens?o na ?rea em quest?o

Les organisations, tentées par la perspective de transformer un poste de dépense considérable en véritable ressource organisationnelle, envisagent généralement leur espace comme un potentiel outil de management, mais de l'espace conçu à l'espace vécu, on observe souvent un décalage remarquable. Cette thèse pose la question de ce que peut révéler un espace organisationnel du management pratiqué en son sein : au-delà des déclarations d'intention, que peut-on comprendre de l'espace? De la façon dont il est administré? Notre terrain d'observation est le siège social d'une grande banque internationale, de son projet architectural initial (rédigé en 1989) jusqu'à nos jours, soit six ans de construction (livraison des tours en 1995), et dix-neuf années de pratique spatiale. Ce cas emblématique a retenu notre attention car le projet consistait à faciliter la mise en place d'un "New Model Worker" par un aménagement spatial particulier, propice à la communication informelle. L'analyse de nos données nous a finalement permis de mettre au point une grille de lecture - regroupant la territorialisation, la valorisation et la localisation - pour mieux appréhender l'espace des organisations. / Willing to turn a tremendous item of expenditure into a real organizational resource, organizations usually perceive their spaces as potential management tools, but from conceived spaces to lived ones, a noticeable gap is often to be found. This thesis aims at understanding what an organizational space can reveal about the ongoing management practices: what can we understand from the way space is organized, beyond official discourses? Our research is focused on a case: an international bank's headquarter, from its original architectural project document (written in 1989) to 2014, that is to say: six years of construction (as the towers were delivered in 1995) and nineteen years of spatial practice. This is particularly interesting for those towers were supposed to help implement a "New Model Worker" through a particular spatial setting, favorable to informal communication. From our collected data, we've been able to build up a fresh perspective - an analysis grid gathering space, place, and artefacts - to better understand organizational spaces.

The purpose of this bachelor’s thesis is to examine what changes have taken place in space and spatialisation at hospital libraries during Covid-19 and how the changes have been experienced by the librarians. The empirical material consists of five semi-structured interviews conducted during April 2022. In the development of the interview guide and analysis of the interviews, the theoretical framework "La Production de l'Espace" by Henri Lefebvre has been used. Lefebvre’s theory is based on the fact that the social space is produced in a three-part dialectic based on the three dimensions: the perceived space, the conceived space and the lived space. The research questions for this study are: What changes were implemented at the hospital library during the pandemic? How have these changes been experienced by hospital librarians? How do the spatial dimensions of Lefebvre’s theory interact in the changes that the hospital library has implemented? The result of the study shows that the biggest changes that took place at hospital libraries during Covid-19 were that they needed to close their physical services and thereby increase digital communication, and that the librarians felt that the changes mainly had positive effects for the library and their own work situation. The results also show how the dialectical relationship between the dimensions is made visible through changes as a change of space and spatialisation affects and is expressed in several dimensions. By making changes in the library room, the physical aspects are affected, which in turn affects the experience of the room and also how we produce the room we are in. / Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att undersöka vilka förändringar som skett i rum och rumslighet på sjukhusbibliotek under Covid-19 samt hur förändringarna upplevts av bibliotekarierna. Det empiriska materialet består av fem semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförda under april 2022. Vid framtagande av intervjuguide och analys av intervjuerna har det teoretiska ramverket ”La Production de l’Espace” av Henri Lefebvre använts. Lefebvres teori grundar sig i att det sociala rummet producerats i en tredelad dialektik utifrån de tre dimensionerna: det upplevda rummet, det föreställda rummet och det levda rummet. Frågeställningarna för studien är: Vilka förändringar genomfördes på sjukhusbiblioteket under pandemin? Hur har dessa förändringar upplevts av sjukhusbibliotekarierna? Hur samspelar de rumsliga dimensionerna i Lefebvres teori i de förändringar som sjukhusbiblioteken har genomfört? Resultatet av studien visar att de största förändringarna som skett på sjukhusbiblioteket var att de behövde ha stängt för fysiska besök och därigenom öka den digitala kommunikationen samt att bibliotekarierna upplever att förändringarna främst gav positiva effekter för biblioteket och sin egen arbetssituation. Resultatet visar även hur det dialektiska samspelet mellan dimensionerna synliggörs genom förändringarna eftersom en förändring av rum och rumslighet påverkar och tas i uttryck i flera dimensioner. Genom att göra förändringar i biblioteksrummet påverkas de fysiska aspekterna vilket i sin tur påverkar upplevelsen av rummet och även hur vi producerar rummet vi befinner oss i.

This study investigates the relationship between law and space by focusing on the role of the land-use planning system in producing the space of Australian urban regions. The primary aim of the project is to demonstrate the significance of the theoretical and sociological framework of Henri Lefebvre for an emerging field of socio-legal studies concerned with the relationship between law and geography. To this point very few contributions to this field have considered the theoretical connections between law and space in any depth. This thesis demonstrates how Lefebvre's sophisticated theory of the socially produced nature of space can broaden the scope of 'law and geography' research. It does so through a detailed survey of Lefebvre's work and a deployment of his ideas in a series of inquiries into the production of space in Australia. This endeavour is pursued in two stages. Part I of the thesis begins by examining how explanatory models within the social sciences have become increasingly concerned with the spatial dimensions of social life. This 'spatial turn' is reflected in a small, but growing literature within socio-legal studies which focuses on the interdisciplinary connections between law and geography. However the theoretical foundations of this field remain underdeveloped. Through an analysis of Lefebvre's writings, this thesis identifies an anti-reductionist methodological approach to space and its social production. This is used to establish a theoretical framework for the study of the spatial dimensions of law. Part II of the thesis uses this framework to address two questions about the law-space relationship. The first of these is concerned with how law is involved in the production of space. This is considered through three linked studies of the production, planning and legal regulation of space. The starting point for this investigation is the geographical site of suburbia. Lefebvrean categories are used to redescribe Australian suburbia as a form of abstract space - simultaneously fragmented, homogeneous and hierarchically organised. The thesis then argues that the land-use planning system in the post-war decades played a significant role in the development of this form of settlement space, by adhering to a form of bureaucratic thinking that Lefebvre characterises as the rationality of habitat. This rationality embodied technocratic functionalism, a visualised formalism and a structural imposition of expert authority in planning decision-making. With the shift to a neoliberal state form in the last two decades, there have been significant changes to spatial planning. Through an analysis and critique of the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (Qld), it is demonstrated that under neoliberalism there has been a reformulation of the rationality of habitat. In particular, the Integrated Planning Act relies on two new formal strategies, the exchange form and the integrative form, in instituting its changes to planning practice. The exchange form abolishes the technique of land-use 'zoning' and increases the use of market mechanisms in the designation of spatial uses. The integrative form restructures the relationships between local and State government agencies and attempts to channel most forms of public participation into the early stages of policy formation. This thesis argues that rather than changing the spatial outcomes of land-use planning, by commodifying space and restructuring the hierarchies of state decision-making, the Integrated Planning Act will continue to reproduce the social relations of abstract space. The second question in Part II deals with how Lefebvre's ideas can contribute to critical thinking about public law in general. It is argued that while law plays a significant role as a producer of space through the planning system, processes of spatial production also shape and structure state institutions. Two areas of research which could benefit from a Lefebvrean theoretical framework are identified. The first area concerns explanations of the effects on public law of the reterritorialised state form that has emerged under neoliberalism. The second is the renewal of critical theory in public law. In particular, the thesis makes the case that the spatial contradiction between the use and exchange values that are attached to space, challenges the normative orthodoxy within public law scholarship which relies on the values of participation and accountability. This thesis contributes to socio-legal research in three important ways. Firstly, it uses Lefebvre's theoretical approach to develop a critical planning law, linking state planning to the process of the production of space. Secondly, the thesis uses Lefebvrean categories to link the study of public law to political struggles which surround spatial production. It suggests a new way for critical legal scholarship to conceptualise public law in terms of the relationship between state power and the inhabitance of space. Lastly, these inquiries demonstrate the importance and relevance of Lefebvre's social theory for the discipline of socio-legal studies. By grounding the concept of 'space' in material processes of production, a Lefebvrean approach provides an alternative to existing theoretical accounts within law and geography research and will deepen our understanding of the relationships between legal and spatial relations.

Secondary school staffrooms serve a genuine need for teachers not easily replaced by subject department workrooms, yet staffroom use in many schools has declined. As a result, some staffrooms are being turned into classrooms or even abolished altogether from secondary school designs. This dissertation investigates the causes and effects of the decline of secondary school staffroom use in a large Canadian school board. Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad is applied to situate the investigation into spaces that are perceived, conceived, and lived. Staffrooms are analyzed as perceived spaces in the context of the production and reproduction of teachers’ labour, and the sub-communities of teaching found in workrooms. Staffrooms are viewed as conceived spaces by investigating their physical design and placement, as well as the role of secondary-level administrators in supporting or repurposing staffroom space. Staffrooms are understood as lived spaces by exploring how time, history, metaphor, and habit – especially habits formed in the early years of teaching – influence meaning for the users. Quantitative data drawn from a 23-question survey (256 responses) confirmed that although staffroom use had declined for the majority of respondents, secondary school staffrooms were still overwhelmingly considered to be necessary components of secondary schools even among non-users. The data analysis revealed that this decline was influenced by factors such as the isolated location of a staffroom, long distances from workrooms and classrooms to staffrooms, increased workloads, and habit. The findings of are supported by qualitative data in the form of 717 optional comments provided by survey participants, field notes from observing two secondary staffrooms: one inactive and the other frequently used, and through 26 semi-structured interviews held in five different staffrooms. It is my contention that staffrooms remain important to secondary school teachers as potential places for increasing perceptions of staff collegiality, providing opportunities for informal professional learning, developing cross-curricular connections, and managing teacher health and retention. The conclusion suggests how secondary school staffrooms might be reconfigured to better suit the needs of those who wish to use them.

Zugl.: Heidelberg, Univ., Magisterarbeit, 2006

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Para isso, aborda a rela??o entre a constru??o do Bairro e da Vida de Bairro e ampara-se no embasamento te?rico-metodol?gico elaborado pelo fil?sofo e soci?logo franc?s Henri Lefebvre, quando prop?e uma leitura da vida social urbana que se descortina no bairro enquanto fragmento privilegiado ou n?cleo de vida social somente compreendido na rela??o com a cidade. Parte do seguinte questionamento: como incluir o espa?o diferencial, pensado por Henri Lefebvre, na an?lise do bairro e da vida de bairro a partir do estudo da realidade de Nova Descoberta? E levanta como hip?tese a afirma??o de que a exist?ncia e a realidade do bairro de Nova Descoberta s?o determinadas e somente explicadas pelo movimento simult?neo e contradit?rio do seu espa?o concebido, percebido e vivido. Para isso, constr?i uma an?lise do bairro de Nova Descoberta como espa?o diferencial, produzido na converg?ncia e na simultaneidade de diferentes l?gicas e dimens?es que se descortinam na produ??o do seu espa?o e fundamenta-se nos estudos do citado autor franc?s acerca do bairro, da vida cotidiana e da vida social urbana, bem como do seu m?todo dial?tico regressivo-progressivo, que prop?e an?lises espa?o-temporais de confronta??o entre a vida moderna, o passado e o poss?vel, se afirmando como uma pesquisa qualitativa, amparada na realiza??o de entrevistas, observa??es in loco, tomada de imagens, consultas em ?rg?os p?blicos e em antigos registros do campo emp?rico. Percorrendo trilhas de investiga??o que ajudaram a entender a forma??o do bairro na cidade, mostramos o processo de consolida??o dos n?cleos iniciais de ocupa??o, Nova Descoberta e Morro Branco, e nos deparamos com a constru??o de um bairro institucionalizado, mas tamb?m percebido e vivido a partir das tramas e redes do vivido que sustentam a mem?ria individual e coletiva, a no??o de pertencimento e a identidade consolidada do espa?o de vida do morador na cidade. Nesse contexto, as novas descobertas realizadas confirmaram nossa hip?tese de que Nova Descoberta, enquanto bairro oficial da cidade, somente pode ser compreendida em sua totalidade como espacialidade concreta, como unidade institucionalizada e como n?cleo de vida social, ou seja, como produto da din?mica simult?nea e contradit?ria de produ??o do seu espa?o concebido, percebido e vivido, que permitiu sua leitura como espa?o diferencial. Constata??o que nos permitiu afirmar que o atual bairro institucionalizado de Nova Descoberta, apresenta duas refer?ncias socioespaciais diferenciadas, Nova Descoberta e Morro Branco, que apontam para a conviv?ncia, por vezes conflituosa, entre o bairro oficial e o bairro cotidiano, onde um n?o nega o outro, mas a ele se soma como parte de uma mesma realidade. Enfim, o trabalho destaca a possibilidade de habitar o bairro como resgate e reafirma??o da vida social urbana, contribuindo para estudos posteriores acerca da rela??o bairro-cidade, vida cotidiana-vida social urbana, na cidade atual. / The present thesis considers the social-spatial dynamics that historically constructed the neighborhood of Nova Descoberta in Natal, Brazil, from the second half of the twentieth century. To make it possible, the thesis addresses the relation between the neighborhood construction and the neighborhood?s life, and supports itself in the theoretical-methodologic basement created by the french philosopher and sociologist, Henri Lefebvre, that proposes a vison of an urban social life that uncover into the neighborhood as a privileged fragment of a social life core, only understood in its city relationship. The thesis starts from the following question: how to include the differential space, thought by Henri Lefebvre, into the analysis of the neighborhood and neighborhood?s life from the study of the Nova Descoberta reality? And it raises as hypothesis, the claim that the existence and the reality of Nova Descoberta district is determined and only explained by the simultaneous and contradictory movement of its conceived, perceived and lived space. The thesis constructs an analysis of Nova Descoberta as a differential space, produced by the convergence and simultaneity of different logical and dimensions that uncover into its space production and bases itself in the study of the quoted writer about the neighborhood, the everyday life and the urban social life, as well as his regressive-progressive dialectical method that proposes spatial-temporal analysis of the confrontation between the modern life, the past and the possible, affirming itself as a qualitative research, based in interviews, in loco observations, images capturing, public agencies consulting and in old empirical scope registers. Walking through research tracks that helped us to understand the formation of the district in the city, we show the process of consolidation of the initial cores of occupation of Nova Descoberta and Morro Branco, and we face the construction of an institutionalized perceived and lived neighborhood from the networks of living that support the individual and collective memory, the notion of belonging and the residents? consolidated identity of the living space in the city. In this context, the new discoveries realized confirmed our hypothesis that Nova Descoberta as an official part of the city can only be understood in its totality, as a concrete spatiality, as institutionalized unity and as the core of social life. In other words, as a product of simultaneous and contradictory dynamics of production of its conceived, realized and lived space that allowed the perception of the neighborhood as a differential space. This finding, allowed us to affirm that the current institutionalized district of Nova Descoberta presents two different social-spatial references: Nova Descoberta and Morro Branco, that points to a coexistence, sometimes conflicting, between the official and the everyday neighborhood, where one does not negate the other, but adds itself to each other as part of the same reality. Finally, the paper highlights the possibility of inhabiting the neighborhood as redemption and reaffirmation of urban social life, contributing to further studies on the relations between neighborhood and town, daily life and urban social life into the city currently.

Den här uppsatsen har som syfte att utifrån Gun-Britt Sundströms roman Student -64 (1966) undersöka hur en författare genom beskrivningar av platser och rum formulerar en stadsmyt och därmed även konstruerar en viss identitet för personerna inom den. Utgångspunkten var att det finns en viss myt om Uppsala som studentstad, och att denna skildras i bland annat skönlitteraturen. Genom att fokusera på myten om studentstaden Uppsala och identiteten som student har också frågan om vilken funktion myten om staden har för studenten varit i fokus. För att genomföra undersökningen har en motivstudie baserat på rumsliga teman genomförts, som resulterade i en kartläggning över vilka platser som förekommer i romanen samt hur ofta de nämns. Det teoretiska ramverket som användes bestod huvudsakligen av Henri Lefebvres teorier om socialt rum och hur vi skapar rum genom tre olika slags erfarenheter: fysisk, mental och social, som vi får antingen genom rumsliga praktiker, representationer av rum eller genom representationella rum. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att Sundström i Student -64 gestaltar ett antal platser i Uppsala där protagonisten Sagas rumsliga praktiker kommer till uttryck. Platserna relateras till Sagas sociala erfarenhet och det hon som kallar för ”uppsalastämning”, vilket är en del av den historiska myten om Uppsala som Sundström anknyter till.  Därmed bidrar hon till att befästa myten genom att bygga på det representationella rum som är studentstaden Uppsala i sin helhet, samtidigt som hon omformulerar myten i en modern tolkning genom att skapa nya representationella rum. Dessa rum visar sig också möjliggöra en viss studentidentitet, samt en utveckling inom denna som i sig bidrar till att myten kan fortsätta leva.

This essay explores the power dynamics embedded in the construction and perception of spatial environments in the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. With the help of Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space as a socially constructed phenomenon and practice, this essay argues that the characters’ experience and perception of spaces in the novel including the house and the street are entangled with the dominating forces related to gender, identity and patriarchy in the surrounding society. The essay also argues that the novel apart from revealing these power dynamics, also, through its protagonist Esperanza suggests a new kind of space, an alternative and more just space for the individual and the community. Additionally, this essay also discusses and elaborates on the pedagogical implications of using the novel with a focus on space for upper secondary students. An investigation of how individual and social spaces functions in different ways in the novel provides valuable opportunities for teachers and students to reflect and discuss power relations, social injustices and inequities in their community, and allow them, as the protagonist Esperanza, to imagine alternative and more just spaces.

Within curatorial practice, graffiti has come to little attention. On the occasion of the street art hype during the 2000s, graffiti appeared only as a minor component. Considering, that graffiti remains an undefined and mostly illegal and uninstitutionalized practice, the fact that it is not a common exhibition topic seems self-evident. However, graffiti is a globally and publicly present form of visual output and communication which upon closer look reveals conceptual depth and complexity. Therefore, this thesis investigates illegal graffiti in urban space and the possibility of curatorial approaches. Using the theoretical framework of Henri Lefebvre’s writings on the city, graffiti in urban space is conceptualized and analyzed. Possible readings and understandings of graffiti are highlighted. On the basis of such, past curatorial practices with and research on graffiti are outlined and discussed. Finally, the thesis aims to establish an understanding of graffiti as an institution of its own. For a productive curatorial approach to graffiti, an awareness of that division is considered crucial.