Interiority and the Open City

Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference

Description

The relationship between the Open City and Interiority is challenging urban design: Could we serve all people in our hyperdiverse cities by introducing specific qualities of interiority in our public spaces while designing for the open city? This lecture brings together two lines of reasoning in the eminent career of Richard Sennett; those on the open city and those on interiority. In their intertwining, the two perspectives help to understand the design affordances in public spaces for very different and overlapping social groups, while not dismissing urban designers from approaching public spaces as places for all and for unexpected encounters. The lecture moves away from pure spatial considerations to the relations between subjectivity, public life, and productive activity.

The lecture is organized by Maurice Harteveld, Section of Urban Design, Department of Urbanism.
Period24 Nov 2023
Event titleProjections, Limits, Encounters: A Month of Urban Design
Event typeOther
LocationDelft, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • open city
  • Open City
  • interior
  • interior architecture
  • interior public space
  • public space
  • Public Space
  • public sphere
  • public interior
  • public goods
  • public government
  • public life
  • public values
  • design for values
  • ethics
  • Ethics
  • moral values
  • community
  • communities
  • urban design
  • Urban Design
  • hyperdiversity
  • inclusive city
  • societal challenges
  • social justice
  • urban sociology
  • subjectivity
  • intersubjectivity
  • production of urban space
  • productive city
  • critical theory

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