City as Skin: Urban Imaginaries of Flesh and Fantasy. (November 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Loeffler, Silvia; Mosley, Jonathan; Sara, Rachel
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 83:Number 6(2013:Nov./Dec.)
• Page Start: 114
• Page End: 119
• Publication Date: 2013-11
• Subjects: 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1684
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Like a human body patterned with tattoos, any city's public spaces are commonly covered with inscriptions. Artist and educator <bold>Silvia Loeffler</bold> describes how subversive and unauthorised interventions, such as graffiti, can be perceived as urban expressions of a 'sexscape' or body made of flesh, which emanate 'forms of longing and a dimension of the social'.</p> </abstract>