The Sense of the City: an exhibition at
the Canadian Centre for Architecture and a book by Mirko Zardini
“Sense of the City” is a major
exhibition curated by Mirko Zardini at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
in Montréal (until 10 September 2006), dedicated to the theme
of urban phenomena and perceptions which have traditionally been ignored,
repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in
the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent
qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts,
communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life—thus
advancing a new spectrum of experience and engagement. “Sense
of the City” explores overlooked modes of perception, suggesting
a new ‘sensorial’ approach to urbanism. The materials
exhibited include drawings, photographs, artefacts, maps, printed
ephemera, models, installations, videotapes, projections, recorded
sounds, and odours.
A catalogue of the same name accompanies the exhibition, co-published
by the CCA and Lars Müller Publishers, and edited by Mirko Zardini.
Following the thematic structure of the exhibition, the book comprises
a critical interpretation of the city through sensory experience.
With an introduction by Mirko Zardini and a preface by Phyllis Lambert,
the volume features essays by cultural historians Constance Classen
and Wolfgang Schivelbusch, anthropologist David Howes, urban designer
and planner Norman Pressman, and historian Emily Thompson.
Domus # 892 publishes a thorough review of the book by Cristina Bianchetti’s
(Professor of Urbanistic at Turin Polytechnic).
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