Urban Culture in Tehran - Moeini, Seyed Hossein Iradj;Arefian, Mehran;Kashani, Bahador
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This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979. It analyzes urban resistance and urban processes in underground cultural spaces: bookshops, cafes and art galleries. The intended audience is architects and urban planners interested in socio-political aspects of bottom-up space formation, but also those in humanities and particularly cultural studies. The idea of the book reflects architectural criticism and bottom-up processes of space formation. It analyzes alternative, non-official ways of forming cultural spaces in Tehran and the way they resist formally endorsed…mehr

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This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979. It analyzes urban resistance and urban processes in underground cultural spaces: bookshops, cafes and art galleries. The intended audience is architects and urban planners interested in socio-political aspects of bottom-up space formation, but also those in humanities and particularly cultural studies. The idea of the book reflects architectural criticism and bottom-up processes of space formation. It analyzes alternative, non-official ways of forming cultural spaces in Tehran and the way they resist formally endorsed culture.

Cafés, bookshops and galleries, each take various and different sets of strategies to constitute their territory and their communities within the city. From temporarily occupying street corners (booksellers) to constitution of an underground network of unfixed meeting points, to using the modern paradigms of ownership and the idea of private property, primarily as apolitical tool for management, to claim a safe alternative sphere of art, and finally to semiotic spatial codifications of spaces to make them as a safe gathering places taking food as a means. All these three cultural spaces deal with various conditions to form specific forms of resistance practices, throughout processes that leave their spatial traces on the city.

Autorenporträt
Nastaran Sedehi holds a Master of Architecture degree, practised architecture for three years, and is currently a graduate student and researcher at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the University of British Columbia. She is passionate about activist-oriented interdisciplinary practice in architecture and its potential for problem-solving in underprivileged and marginalised communities. In the capacity of a student researcher, she contributed to the 'Not for Sale' exhibition organised by the Architects Against Housing Alienation Collective, which represented Canada at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition showcased projects at the intersection of research, design, activism, and advocacy, offering innovative responses to the escalating housing crisis in Canada. She enjoys skateboarding, cycling, painting, and watching live music. Iradj Moeini is a senior lecturer in architecture in Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran-where he has obtained his MArch-and a practising architect in London. Having obtained his PhD from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, on contemporary architecture theory and criticism, he is the author and co-author of numerous papers and four books, has also taught in Yazd, Tehran Azad, and Shariati universities, and worked in a range of Iranian and British practices in a professional capacity. A member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), he is also an amateur photographer and musician.