Urgent Minor Matters: Re-Activating Archival Documents for Social Housing Futures
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Urgent Minor Matters : Re-Activating Archival Documents for Social Housing Futures. / Kajita, Heidi Svenningsen.
In: Architecture and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2022, p. 483-511.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Urgent Minor Matters
T2 - Re-Activating Archival Documents for Social Housing Futures
AU - Kajita, Heidi Svenningsen
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Architectural archives of large-scale housing projects are usually ordered with construction in mind, but can they also function in support of the social in housing? This article reveals how particular notions of inhabitation were inscribed in documents used in the design processes of a post-World War II housing estate, the Byker Redevelopment in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (1968-83). From their site office, Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor AB experimented with communicative processes with residents, some of which were kept on record and stored. Scribbles on furnished drawings point to particular imaginaries involving sometimes just one household; residents’ voices are noted in lists, in a local newspaper and in evaluative reports. Re-activating the office archive ethnographically, I stitch together episodic accounts from these scant scraps. The aim is not an all-embracing representation of historical events, but instead the possibility to attend to small truths of the social – urgent minor matters – in mainstream housing futures.
AB - Architectural archives of large-scale housing projects are usually ordered with construction in mind, but can they also function in support of the social in housing? This article reveals how particular notions of inhabitation were inscribed in documents used in the design processes of a post-World War II housing estate, the Byker Redevelopment in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (1968-83). From their site office, Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor AB experimented with communicative processes with residents, some of which were kept on record and stored. Scribbles on furnished drawings point to particular imaginaries involving sometimes just one household; residents’ voices are noted in lists, in a local newspaper and in evaluative reports. Re-activating the office archive ethnographically, I stitch together episodic accounts from these scant scraps. The aim is not an all-embracing representation of historical events, but instead the possibility to attend to small truths of the social – urgent minor matters – in mainstream housing futures.
U2 - 10.1080/20507828.2022.2093603
DO - 10.1080/20507828.2022.2093603
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 483
EP - 511
JO - Architecture and Culture
JF - Architecture and Culture
SN - 2050-7828
IS - 3
ER -
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