Screen LibraryMonsoon as method : assembling monsoonal multiplicities /
"The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a co-producer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting...
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Actar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a co-producer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. The book invites urban practitioners, from architects to policy makers, to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | 358 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781948765787 1948765780 |
| Index Number: | NA2541 |
| CLC: | TU-05 |
| Call Number: | TU-05/M755 |
| Contents: |
Monsoon as method / Illustrated glossary of monsoonal terms / Chennai, city of airs / Dhaka, a city woven from water / Yangon, a city shaped by the geological monsoon / Monsoonal cartographies / Drawing the monsoon into eco-critical conversations / Intuiting a monsoonal ethnography / Monsoonal thermodynamics / Fieldwork encounters with monsoon time / Design studio as method: un-grounding and re-grounding design pedagogy / Monsoonal atmospheres / The air of the monsoon: in myth, pause and story / The ocean and the monsoon / Thinking with groundwater from Chennai / Salt, matter and mattering / Monsoonal sediments / Plastic trails: tracing recalcitrant matter / Bangla bricks: constellations of monsoonal mobilities / Canals as infrastructure for constructing the indebted state / South Indian tanks as meteorological infrastructure / Pipes and pots / Atmospheric ecologies of the Pantala flavescens dragonfly / The changing monsoonal waterworlds of the hilsa fish / Stickiness of the Halasina Hannu / Earth goddesses, snakes and the monsoon / Architecture, weeds and the chemical calculus of decay / |