Making Sustainability Concrete

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10742537

Christo Sims, Akshita Sivakumar

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Abstract

Abstract “Sustainability” is an increasingly fashionable design criterion for celebrity corporate architects, their clients, and the governmental bodies that regulate urban development. Yet determining if and how a building is actually sustainable remains controversial, with different actors positing qualifications that are often at odds with each other. In this article, the authors explore how the ideal of sustainability is made concrete in contemporary corporate architecture, focusing on the design of one of Google's new corporate campuses in Silicon Valley that has been extensively touted and recognized as admirably green. The article draws attention to how various experts who participated in the design of Google's new campus rendered sustainability differently and argues that the temporal and social structure of the design process worked to compel coordination and compromises among these experts’ different renderings. Ultimately the authors advocate for problematizing the design process as a key site where political questions about sustainability in the built form get settled pragmatically.

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制作可持续性混凝土

“可持续性”是名人企业建筑师、他们的客户和管理城市发展的政府机构日益流行的设计标准。然而，确定一座建筑是否真正具有可持续性以及如何实现可持续性仍然存在争议，不同的参与者提出的条件往往彼此不一致。在这篇文章中，作者探讨了可持续发展的理想是如何在当代企业建筑中具体化的，重点是谷歌在硅谷的一个新企业园区的设计，该园区被广泛吹捧并被认为是令人钦佩的绿色建筑。这篇文章关注了参与谷歌新园区设计的各种专家如何以不同的方式呈现可持续性，并认为设计过程的时间和社会结构迫使这些专家在不同的效果图中进行协调和妥协。最后，作者主张将设计过程作为一个关键的场所，在这里，关于建筑形式的可持续性的政治问题得到了务实的解决。

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来源期刊

Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.