TY - CHAP

T1 - Rendering Atmosphere

T2 - Exploring the creative glue in an urban design studio

AU - Stenslund, Anette

AU - Bille, Mikkel

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Discussions of the credibility of renderings are continuously brought up in public media. While this focus on effect of the rendering has been widely discussed in research, there is a dawning recognition of the necessity to understand the complex social construction of renderings as a creative process, where the credibility is more on how it feels than what one can merely see on the rendering. For instance, from an ANT-approach, it is argued that renderings create atmosphere by participating in networks of humans, non-humans and places, and so it becomes possible to recognize the rendering process as a practice of power, negotiation and translation. Research has however still to acknowledge the atmosphere that marks the actual rendering process. Based on a phenomenological perspective we highlight how the process is an actual creative process characterized by the transformation of feelings. We show how atmosphere is not only the effect of renderings on an audience but acts as the kit that ties the whole rendering practice together.

AB - Discussions of the credibility of renderings are continuously brought up in public media. While this focus on effect of the rendering has been widely discussed in research, there is a dawning recognition of the necessity to understand the complex social construction of renderings as a creative process, where the credibility is more on how it feels than what one can merely see on the rendering. For instance, from an ANT-approach, it is argued that renderings create atmosphere by participating in networks of humans, non-humans and places, and so it becomes possible to recognize the rendering process as a practice of power, negotiation and translation. Research has however still to acknowledge the atmosphere that marks the actual rendering process. Based on a phenomenological perspective we highlight how the process is an actual creative process characterized by the transformation of feelings. We show how atmosphere is not only the effect of renderings on an audience but acts as the kit that ties the whole rendering practice together.

U2 - 10.4324/9781003094142-13-18

DO - 10.4324/9781003094142-13-18

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9780367555757

SN - 9780367555795

T3 - Routledge Research in Architecture

SP - 207

EP - 223

BT - Architectural Anthropology

A2 - Stender, Marie

A2 - Bech-Danielsen, Claus

A2 - Landsverk Hagen, Aina

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -