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Abstract
How do the multi-sensory experiences and aesthetics of nocturnal places enable us to reimagine how those environments might be? In addition, how do those who inhabit the urban night through their labour engage with its aesthetics and develop knowledge of specific geographies? This paper draws upon ongoing autoethnographic fieldwork including encounters and exchanges with a range of night workers and creative practitioners based in the city of Manchester, UK, to explore the entanglements between light and dark, work and respite, creativity and place. This paper proposes that understanding how nightscapes are used differently by various people is valuable to shaping how they may evolve. This is of critical importance if we are to develop wider and deeper knowledges of the situated, relational, and practised nature of the city after dark, and be able to rethink and reclaim it as a time and place that considers accessibility and equity.
Résumé
Comment les expériences multisensorielles et l’esthétique des lieux nocturnes nous permettent-elles de réimaginer ce que pourraient être ces environnements? De plus, comment ceux qui habitent la nuit urbaine par leur travail s’engagent-ils dans son esthétique et développent-ils des connaissances sur des géographies spécifiques? Cet article s’appuie sur un travail de terrain autoethnographique en cours, y compris des rencontres et des échanges avec une gamme de travailleurs de nuit et de praticiens créatifs basés dans la ville de Manchester, au Royaume-Uni, pour explorer les enchevêtrements entre la lumière et l’obscurité, le travail et le répit, la créativité et le lieu. Cet article propose que comprendre comment les paysages nocturnes sont utilisés différemment par différentes personnes est précieux pour façonner leur évolution. Ceci est d’une importance cruciale si nous voulons développer des connaissances plus larges et plus profondes de la nature située, relationnelle et pratiquée de la ville après la tombée de la nuit, et être en mesure de la repenser et de la revendiquer comme un temps et un lieu qui tiennent compte de l’accessibilité et de l’équité.
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