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https://doi.org/10.21857/mjrl3uxlz9
Space as social practice: hillforts and heterotopia
Igor Kulenović
orcid.org/0000-0002-9715-0982
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za turizam i komunikacijske znanosti, Zadar, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The paper discusses the concepts of space and architecture in the context of Eastern-Adriatic Bronze and Iron Age. Hillforts are traditionally viewed either as a material trait defining the content of an archaeological culture or as a measure for determining or evaluating some other processes, such as social complexity. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study hillforts in their immediate materiality, i.e. what they as architecture literally do in relation to the environment, the cultural landscape, and people who are benefactors of these spaces. The space is defined through two related theoretical concepts: heterotopia and thirdspace, meaning that space is an active and constitutive element in producing, creating and negotiating the sociality. The Štrkovača and Kruglaš hillforts complex was used as a case study to demonstrate that architecture is a social product, which actively participates in the constitution of subjectivity. The methodology included a formal analysis of architectural forms and their relations. First, the formal elements constituting this architecture have been determined, followed by the analysis of relations and effects these relations engender. Such places are socially produced spaces where the basic values of society are embodied, produced by the space itself. These procedures have hopefully demonstrated that the Štrkovača and Kruglaš hillforts complex is an aesthetically, architecturally and choreographically carefully designed space. We can easily imagine how they might have produced high emotional effects and a sense of personal involvement. These spaces are heterotopias or thirdspaces by definition. They contain in themselves the dynamics, theatrics and emotionality enabling them to actually be the spaces where the very fabric of society is negotiated, questioned and ordered, as well as altered.
Ključne riječi
hillfort; heterotopia, thirdspace; Bronze and Iron Age; Eastern Adriatic coast; architecture; space
Hrčak ID:
210533
URI
Datum izdavanja:
6.12.2018.
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