{"title":"Paul Carter","description":"Paul Carter is a highly acclaimed writer, artist and interdisciplinary scholar. His book The Road to Botany Bay and his artwork Nearamnew (at Federation Square, Melbourne) are particularly well-known. He is Creative Director of the design studio Material Thinking (established 2007), and Professor of Design (Urbanism) in the School of Architecture \u0026amp; Design, RMIT University.","products":[{"product_id":"places-made-after-their-stories-design-and-the-art-of-choreotopography-paperback","title":"Places Made After Their Stories: Design and the Art of Choreotopography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is emotional meaning found in places? How can creating new urban spaces be a vehicle for less adversarial forms of political coexistence, new customs of social innovation? \u003ci\u003ePlaces Made After Their Stories \u003c\/i\u003eshows how the emotional geographies we carry inside us and the ecstatic desire at the heart of democratic community-making can come together to inform contemporary landscape and urban design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing case studies of public space design from Alice Springs to Perth and Melbourne, in which the author forged for himself the novel role of designer-dramaturg, Carter describes a new approach to place-making in which topography and choreography fuse. He counters the symbolic neglect of functionalist design with a brilliant account of poetic and graphic techniques developed to materialize ambience. Bringing together and further transforming insights from such earlier publications as \u003ci\u003eMaterial Thinking \u003c\/i\u003e(2004) and \u003ci\u003eMeeting Place \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), Carter describes a practice of sense-making and form-making that embodies fundamental gestures of welcome, arrangement and exchange in the built setting. This is a book of characteristic eloquence, generously gathering philosophical and poetic evidence to illuminate a new way of place-making. It will be a practical vade mecum for artists wanting to work in the public realm and a key reference for planning authorities, governments and communities keen to reconnect place making to human creativity and affect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50868072743135,"sku":"9781742587608","price":43.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/b-Lo7zAVj59781742587608.webp?v=1785910267"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/paul-carter.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}