…”The City Is an Oeuvre, Closer to a Work of Art Than to a Simple Material Product.” Henri Lefebvre

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…”the city is an oeuvre, closer to a work of art than to a simple material product.” Henri Lefebvre

Connotations of ephemeral spaces of consumption: a case study in Singapore’s Little India

Adriana Gonzalez Brun

Little India

1880s and 1980s

SoHo or Theme park?

Ephemeral spaces of consumption Ephemeral spaces of consumption Ephemeral spaces of consumption

Fragments within a fragment

Ephemeral events that punctuate the official urban master plan.

The product of complex contestations and creative tactics.

Composed by in between fragments.

Campbell Lane

Along Serangoon Road

Street astrologer

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Slice 1: Quote from Henri Lefebvre, Writings on cities (Oxford:Blackwell,1996) p.101. Slice 7‐14: 1‐ Henri Lefebvre, The production of space (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), p.73 2‐ Rohan G. H Quinby, Negri’s multitude in the contemporary metropolis. http://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/ha ndle/10179/923/01front.pdf?sequence=2 (accessed 12 August 2011) p.31 3‐ Ibid. pp.35‐36 4‐ Rohan G. H Quinby, Negri’s multitude in the contemporary metropolis. http://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/ha ndle/10179/923/01front.pdf?sequence=2 (accessed 12 August 2011) p.51 6‐ Baudrillard, J. in Kellner, D. ‘Jean Baudrillard and Art’, http://gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/ke llner/essays/baudrillardandart.pdf.(accessed 12 July 2012) 6‐ Baudrillard, J. in Mark Poster, M. (ed) ‘Jean Baudrillard: Selected writings’ http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/books/Baudrillard,%20Jean%20‐%20Selected%20Writings_ok.pdf (accessed 20 July 2012) 7‐ Marsahll Bermann http://www.georgescialabba.net/mtgs/1983/06/all‐that‐is‐solid‐melts ‐into‐a.html ( accessed 1 October 2012) Slice 23: 1‐ Baudrillard, J. in Kellner, D. ‘Jean Baudrillard and Art’, http://gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/baudrillardandart.pdf . (accessed 12 July 2012) Slice 24: 2‐ Chang, L. (2000) ‘Singapore’s Little India: A Tourist Attraction as a Contested Landscape’, Urban Studies, Vol.37, n.2, p.376

Illustration credits: Slice 1: Picture source http://twi‐ny.com/blog/wp‐content/uploads/2010/09/bodies‐in‐urban‐space.jpg (accessed 20 September 2011) Slice 4: Picture source http://www.wineandbowties.com/art/bodies‐in‐urban‐spaces‐william‐dorners‐human‐pyramids/ (accessed 20 September 2011) Slice 8 ‐14…. Slide 16: Map source Siddique, S. and Shotam, N. (1982) Singapore’s Little India: Past, Present and Future, (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) p.17. modify by author. Slice 17: Pictures source http://www.hsse.nie.edu.sg/staff/blackburn/SerangoonRoadLittleIndia.pdf (accessed September 20 2011) pp.13 ‐ 14 Slice 16,18, 19, 21, 22,23,24,25,26 and 18 Picture source: author’s photographs Slice 27: Picture source http://www.wineandbowties.com/art/bodies‐in‐urban‐spaces‐william‐dorners‐human‐pyramids/ (accessed 20 September 2011)