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00.What then are we seeing in Lowry’s image? The scale of the celebrationdepicted goes beyond a localised party; we see that the playful activity isspilling into all city space on view. This consideration takes us to otherways in which we understand events of collective playful activity. The‘festival’, as looked at by Lefebvre, is a suitable conversation to turn toat this point.Figure 3: Detail View Lowry, L.S, VE Day.12.
03. REFLECTIONTHEORISING SPACE AND PLACEWEEK 4, 06.02.18In his seminal text, The Production of Space, Lefebrve draws acomparison between the relationship of the festival and the everydayto the relationship of the monument and the building. 12 Lefebvreunderstands these relationships to both be dialectical in nature. We areled to consider this situation by imagining the effect of the monument’sabsence in the city:_Turmoil is inevitable once a monument loses its prestige, or can onlyretain it by means of admitted oppression and repression. When thesubject – a city or a people – suffers dispersal, the ‘building’ and itsfunctions come into their own; by the same token, ‘housing’ comes toprevail over ‘residence’ within that city or amidst that people. Thebuilding has its roots in warehouses, barracks, depots and rentalhousing. Buildings have functions, forms and structures, but theydo not integrate the formal, functional and structural ‘moments’of social practice. And inasmuch as sites, forms and functionsare no longer focused and appropriated by monuments, the city’scontexture or fabric – its streets, its underground levels, its frontiers– unravel, and generate not concord but violence. Indeed space as awhole becomes prone to sudden eruptions of violence. 13Within this extract, buildings can be appreciated for their utility alone;that they serve a purpose in accommodating the basic functions ofsociety but not beyond necessity. Lefebvre notes the shift in use oflanguage from ‘residence’ to ‘housing’; this observation shows a shellspace for living privileged over a place to dwell on a long-term basis. 14Lefebvre explains that it is this switch in feeling, for the building as aspace for utility, which shows its inability to accommodate ‘moments ofsocial practice’. Leferbrve’s description of the city is as a fabric, withinwhich the monument binds all other elements; the buildings, the roads12. Henri Lefevbre, “The Production of Space (extracts)”, in Leach, Neil. Rethinking Architecture: AReader in Cultural Theory. (London: Routledge), 1997, p.141.13. Lefevbre, “The Production of Space (extracts)”, pp. 140- 141.14.”residence, n.1”. Oxford English Dictionary Online. March 2018. Oxford University Press.http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/163559?rskey=nq8OXt&result=1&isAdvanced=false(accessed March 20, 2018).13
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