eprintid: 10194016 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/40/16 datestamp: 2024-07-02 10:03:15 lastmod: 2024-07-02 10:03:15 status_changed: 2024-07-02 10:03:15 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Zhu, Jingyi title: Public space research inspired by ‘heterotopia’: A tentative discussion ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F39 keywords: Public space; heterotopia; actor; non-normative; ordering note: Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License abstract: Heterotopia, as introduced by Foucault and developed by many scholars from different disciplines, describes sites that are other to, deviant or different from the normal and the mainstream. Characterised by its ambiguity as well as open-endedness and simultaneity, heterotopia could offer inspiration for rethinking contemporary public space and its publicness. More specifically, public space research has a strong tendency to be normative in nature, which, though useful, does not adequately address issues heightened by the increasing complexities of the contemporary city such as how to approach the contextual dynamics of public space and the relational quality of publicness. This paper offers an attempt to bridge heterotopia and public space. Instead of using heterotopia as a label to define any space as heterotopian or as a definite analytical framework, it draws on key developments of the concept of heterotopia following Foucault’s original idea, namely heterotopia as space of alternative ordering and heterotopia in relation to normative city models, actors, and change. The paper calls attention to three aspects of public space and publicness, including actors and visions, normativity, and processes of ordering, in order to reflect on approaches to public space that could reflect and reveal the complexities inherent to public space. date: 2024-06-21 date_type: published publisher: Università di Napoli Federico II official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.6093/2281-4574/11014 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2290609 doi: 10.6093/2281-4574/11014 lyricists_name: Zhu, Jingyi lyricists_id: JZHUA24 actors_name: Zhu, Jingyi actors_id: JZHUA24 actors_role: owner full_text_status: restricted publication: TRIA : Territorio della Ricerca su Insediamenti e Ambiente volume: 17 number: 32 pagerange: 123-136 issn: 1974-6849 citation: Zhu, Jingyi; (2024) Public space research inspired by ‘heterotopia’: A tentative discussion. TRIA : Territorio della Ricerca su Insediamenti e Ambiente , 17 (32) pp. 123-136. 10.6093/2281-4574/11014 <https://doi.org/10.6093/2281-4574%2F11014>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194016/1/11014-Articolo-40803-1-10-20240622.pdf