The Urban Household of Metabolism

OASE104
1. OASE 104
  The Urban Household of Metabolism
  2019
  Abstract
  Metabolism is the conversion of one form of matter into another. Urban design and architecture are currently paying a great deal of attention to the charting and controlling of material flows that have been severely disrupted by industrialization. OASE 104 explores the context of locations in which metabolism took place.
  
  Public washrooms, communal bread ovens and urban slaughterhouses are examples of locations of metabolism that kept communities’ urban household in order. At the same time, these places added an extra layer of meaning to the urban landscape by their specific agreements and codes of conduct that regulated and facilitated their shared use in an urban environment.
  
  How can architecture and urban design contribute to a politically and ecologically relevant metabolism that presupposes citizenship rather than customership? In other words, which projects can help create the conditions under which the metabolic perspective can regenerate an urban perspective on citizenship?
  Editors of this issue
  David Peleman, Bruno Notteboom, Michiel Dehaene
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Asli Cicek, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Sereh Mandias, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
  Authors
  Burkay Pasin & Gul Kacmaz Erk, Ben Vandenput, Koenraad Danneels, Julia von Mende, Dagmar Pelger & Emily Kelling, Ludo Groen, Nitin Bathla, Andrea Bortolotti, Andrea Aragone & Marco Ranzato, Diana Soeiro, Ciel Grommen, Dieter Leyssen & Maximiliaan Royakkers, Nadia Casabella & Jan Denoo, Riccardo M. Villa en Hans Vandermaelen
  Design
  Karel Martens, Aagje Martens
  October 2019
  English/Dutch
  Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
  170 × 240 mm
  Order this issueas hard copy or ebook
  ISBNISBN 978-94-6208-517-6
  © nai010, 2019
  
  David Peleman, Bruno Notteboom, Michiel Dehaene
  001
  Fragments of a Changing Natural History of Urbanisation
  001
  Editorial
  
  Koenraad Danneels
  012
  Meat as an Urban Question
  The Ghent Slaughterhouse in the Nineteenth Century
  012
  In this article, the case of the Ghent Slaughterhouse (1857) is mobilised to show how changing ideas on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ nature restructured the food supply of the city. It retraces the …
  
  Burkay Pasin, Gül Kacmaz Erk
  022
  The Metabolism of the Victorian Turkish Bath
  022
  This article concentrates on the spatial reflection of modern norms of health and cleanliness, leisure and pleasure in the Turkish baths built in Great Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. …
  
  Ben Vandenput
  032
  Victor Hugo’s Paris of Sewers
  ‘a Paris... of mire... minus the human form’
  032
  In the last part of his novel Les Misérables from 1862, Victor Hugo deviates from the storyline. The escape of Jean Valjean and Marius Pontmercy through the Parisian sewer is sufficient reason for …
  
  Julia von Mende
  038
  The Dispersed Home
  Spatial Reallocations between the Private and the Public Domain
  038
  The redefinition of borders is an essential issue in urban housing. Blurring boundaries between the private and the public are deeply interwoven with underlying social and technological …
  
  Nitin Bathla
  050
  The Metabolism of Tenement Towns on a Planet of Fast Fashion
  The global circulation of commodities such as fast fashion produces extensive spatial transformations, such as the explosion of agrarian settlements into tenement towns that accommodate hundreds and …
  
  Dagmar Pelger, Emily Kelling
  056
  Dispersed Dwelling as Enforced Commoning
  Homeless Newcomers in Berlin’s Hostel Industry
  056
  Considering the various hostels and guesthouses in Berlin that economically revolve around the presence of homeless newcomers as an urban household practice of commoning shifts the perspective to a …
  
  Ludo Groen
  069
  Haussmann and the House of Fashion
  069
  From the House of Worth to the Houses of Dior and Chanel, the notion of the ‘house’ in fashion – both physically and symbolically – can be described as a metabolic system that builds upon …
  
  Andrea Bortolotti, Andrea Aragone, Marco Ranzato
  075
  Charting the Spatiality of the Brussels Biowaste Metabolism
  075
  This article describes how a fine-grained spatial analysis of biowaste generation in Brussels can help to rethink its urban metabolism. It makes it possible to better understand the differentiation …
  
  Ciel Grommen, Dieter Leyssen, Maximiliaan Royakkers
  086
  Seasonal Neighbours
  The Social Role of Seasonal Migrant Workers in Horticulture in Haspengouw
  086
  The cultivation of fruit is part of a metabolism characterised by production peaks and manual labour. Today, the sector depends largely on seasonal workers from Eastern Europe for the picking of …
  
  Nadia Casabella, Jan Denoo
  091
  Food Aid in Brussels and Urban Citizenship
  091
  Cities are woven into material flows, articulated globally through specific technical and socioeconomic production and consumption processes. In this article, we aim to enrich the knowledge on forms …
  
  Riccardo M. Villa
  103
  The Umwelt as a Project
  Designs of the Urban Milieu in the Age of Bio-Power
  103
  Besides their differences, Hilberseimer’s vision of the metropolis and Wright’s organic architecture seem both to respond to the loss of a clear urban figure: in their designs the project of the …
  
  Hans Vandermaelen
  113
  Urban Manure Systems and the Historical Articulation of the Urban Nutrient Question
  113
  The history of the urban manure systems is often misperceived as a perfectly closed nutrient cycle between city and countryside. This article approaches urban manure systems as an attempt of an …
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