Housing our Selves: An Ethnography of Active Inhabitation
Final Report Abstract
This research project has shed light on some empirically important phenomenon: the under-researched theme of Baugruppen, housing development more generally and urban planning in a European capital. It explores ideas of participatory architecture, home and develops some new insights for a sociology of architecture. However, beyond the empirical, it draws deeply and contributes to social theory ideas about process and the nature of how stability is achieved amidst the complexities of social life. The main findings are oriented towards developing a programme of housing as activity. The work contributes to sociological literature on home, housing, architecture, space, planning and social theory. Thus far, publications have focussed on planning, space and urban design, with a monograph still being prepared. The empirical case studies changed from my initial plan, but the end result is, in my view, richer than the originally conceived project.
Publications
- “Great Spatial Expectations: On Three Objects, Two Communities and One House” In: Current Sociology. 54(4): 603-622
Martin Graham Fuller
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392117694071) - “Introduction: An Invitation to Spatial Sociology” In: Current Sociology. 54(4): 469-491
Martin Graham Fuller with Martina Löw
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392117697461) - “Spatial Sociology: Relational Space after the Turn”. Current Sociology. 54(4)
Martin Graham Fuller with Martina Löw
- “Reconstructing Berlin: Materiality and Meaning in the Symbolic Politics of Urban Space” In: CITY. 22(2): 202-219
Martin Graham Fuller with Dominik Bartmanski
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1451100) - “The Art Opening: Proximity and Potentiality at Events” In: Theory, Culture and Society. 36(7-8): 135-152
Martin Graham Fuller with Julie Ren
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419834638) - “Becoming a Planner” In: Johannes Lenhard & Farhan Samanani (eds). Home: Ethnographic Encounters. Bloomsbury: London. 101-116
Martin Graham Fuller
(See online at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003085577-7)
