Making visible | Visible making

Making visible | Visible making: providing agency for dissipated residents

de Bruin, Just (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)

van Lierop, J.P.M. (mentor)
Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor)
Cavallo, R. (mentor)
Chen, Y. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers

2023-05-08

This thesis explores the potential of difference and disruption as a productive ground for approaching gentrification in London. Multiple forces are driving the process of gentrification, the focus lies on the aspect of postmodern consumerism. A cultural change in which the individual, through a variety of choices, can meticulously stage their own identity. This causes an erosion of cohesive norms and values. Moreover, the cityscape is changing into enclaves whose coherence with the bigger scheme of the city is diminishing. While the original urban experience, with its complex and uncertain character, is essential to form interfaces between people from different walks of life and therefore truly address intricate problems.
My research is a search for possibilities for an open society in which architecture becomes a medium for negotiation, a domain of confrontation. Approaching this angle requires a critical approach to the reciprocal relationship between architecture and the social. Moreover, in search of differences, places of juxtapositions are derived through selective mapping and research. To fully understand the difference in experiences of the same places and find opportunities for concurrence. Unfortunately, during the research, it turned out that there were too few leads. As a result, the design shifted from wanting to bring together different target groups, to a more activist direction. Namely, providing agency for displaced residents.

gentrification
postmodernistic consumerism
Fragmentation
Open City
Self-building
concurrence
representation
agency
belonging

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Student theses

master thesis

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