Agentic and visual effects of large-scale science research facilties
(2019) Conference of the UK Association for Studies in Innovation, Science and Technology- Abstract
- Large-scale science research facilities, such as those for investigation into the smallest components of physical matter, often consist of buildings with quite extraordinary features as regards shape and scale. These architectures are semiotically interesting in several ways: they have extraordinary outer forms that reflect the their inner activities; they require forms of mediation and planning that are able to handle their significant impact on cities and landscapes; and they contain activities that - metaphorically or factually - suggest human futures and promises of better products. How, then, more precisely, is future reflected in the planning and actualisation of these facilities, and how may their realisation have an impact on... (More)
- Large-scale science research facilities, such as those for investigation into the smallest components of physical matter, often consist of buildings with quite extraordinary features as regards shape and scale. These architectures are semiotically interesting in several ways: they have extraordinary outer forms that reflect the their inner activities; they require forms of mediation and planning that are able to handle their significant impact on cities and landscapes; and they contain activities that - metaphorically or factually - suggest human futures and promises of better products. How, then, more precisely, is future reflected in the planning and actualisation of these facilities, and how may their realisation have an impact on regional and global spatial change? These questions are here approached as a study of the visual properties of architectural proposals, and the affordance given in the establishment of these types of research facilities, sometimes labelled Big Science Labs. The paper’s empirical focus lies on a large scale nanoscience and particle physics science park in Lund, Sweden, labelled and spatially enveloped as “Science Village Scandinavia”, which includes two large scale accelerators that can be seen as “giant cameras” registering the inner constitution of matter. Through agency-based visual semiotics that explores the medial, social, economic and political consequences of architectural design (Latour 2005; Yaneva 2012; Sandin 2013; Kopljar 2016), it is here suggested that the politics of large scale science facilities can be seen as spatial problems that reflect larger political dilemmas, not least by requiring unique planning procedures. (Less)
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- Sandin, Gunnar LU and Kopljar, Sandra LU
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- publishing date
- 2019-09-09
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- Contribution to conference
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Architecture, science, planning, agency, visual rhetoric
- conference name
- Conference of the UK Association for Studies in Innovation, Science and Technology
- conference location
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2019-09-09 - 2019-09-10
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- English
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abstract = {{Large-scale science research facilities, such as those for investigation into the smallest components of physical matter, often consist of buildings with quite extraordinary features as regards shape and scale. These architectures are semiotically interesting in several ways: they have extraordinary outer forms that reflect the their inner activities; they require forms of mediation and planning that are able to handle their significant impact on cities and landscapes; and they contain activities that - metaphorically or factually - suggest human futures and promises of better products. How, then, more precisely, is future reflected in the planning and actualisation of these facilities, and how may their realisation have an impact on regional and global spatial change? These questions are here approached as a study of the visual properties of architectural proposals, and the affordance given in the establishment of these types of research facilities, sometimes labelled Big Science Labs. The paper’s empirical focus lies on a large scale nanoscience and particle physics science park in Lund, Sweden, labelled and spatially enveloped as “Science Village Scandinavia”, which includes two large scale accelerators that can be seen as “giant cameras” registering the inner constitution of matter. Through agency-based visual semiotics that explores the medial, social, economic and political consequences of architectural design (Latour 2005; Yaneva 2012; Sandin 2013; Kopljar 2016), it is here suggested that the politics of large scale science facilities can be seen as spatial problems that reflect larger political dilemmas, not least by requiring unique planning procedures.}},
author = {{Sandin, Gunnar and Kopljar, Sandra}},
keywords = {{Architecture; science; planning; agency; visual rhetoric}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{09}},
title = {{Agentic and visual effects of large-scale science research facilties}},
year = {{2019}},
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