Transitional Temporalities

Transitional Temporalities: Latent Potentials of the Reterritorialized Extra-Statecrafts

Yanakieva, Kalina (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Awan, N.N. (mentor)
Rommens, O.R.G. (graduation committee)
Parravicini, M. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Borders and Territories

2021-09-15

The paper investigates the power-relations that define the urbanization of an Extra-Statecraft zone, process them in a phenomenological view of the indigenous people in the case-study of Gwadar, Pakistan. Criticizing the monotonous manner with which the zone Deterritorializes and diminishes existing practices within a context, to argue for the hypothesis that only the symbiosis of smoothness and striation would enrich the landscape, that is otherwise doomed to become a non-place. It raises the concern of the placelessness in recent architecture discourse.

Extra-Statecraft
urbanization
placelessness
Deterritorialization
smooth and striated
genius loci
the Animist
beliefs and rituals
‘knowing how’ and ‘knowing that’

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Student theses

master thesis

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