Aesthetics of Participation

<p>This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera House Norway. As an iconic and culture-led building these different modes of participation reveal the tensions between staged space and individual experience.</p><p>Movement materiality light and art are viewed through an atmospheric lens to demonstrate how architecture can shape people’s engagement with and understanding of urban space. This book contributes to a growing literatureon atmosphere in relation to our experience of the built environment. In adopting this atmospheric perspective the book speaks to the concerns of designers users and researchers interested in the way contemporary development infuses our cities with the experiential as a means of developing access participation and democracy. It explores the ways in which people experience a building held up against the claims intentions and assumptions that surround it. </p><p>The book’s focus on design participation and experience in relation to political ideals will appeal to architects planners and academics concerned with the production of space. Equally its underlying atmospheric contribution and methodological approach will be of interest to designers scholars professionals and students of ambiance affect and atmosphere architecture city planners and urban developers human geographies anthropology and urban studies.</p>