{"id":918,"date":"2020-07-30T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feministssoa.group.shef.ac.uk\/?p=918"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:12:21","slug":"site-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Site-Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Title:<\/strong> <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Site-Seeing<\/strong>: Constructing the \u2018Creative Survey\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Authors: <\/strong>Carolyn Butterworth and Sam Vardy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">In:<\/strong> <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">\u2018<\/strong>Alternate Currents\u2018, Field:, 2.1, 125-137<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Year:<\/strong> 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Abstract:<\/strong> This paper explores the role the site survey could play in developing architectural praxis where agency is shared at all stages with participatory diverse users. Even though the profession increasingly accepts that architecture is a relational construct rather than an object-based discipline, the site survey remains intransigent. New working practices are emerging that transform the later stages of the design process in architecture, through the creative participation of users, but the site survey remains unchanged, characterised by its focus on the physical, and its abstraction from the user. We discuss in detail the exclusionary nature of the normative site survey model and propose, with examples from our own work, the use of techniques from relational art practice that offer an alternate \u2018creative survey\u2019 model, which provokes new, potent and inclusive relationships between site, users and architect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Site-Seeing_Constructing_the_Creative_Survey_Carolyn_Butterworth_and_Sam_Vardy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article. Carolyn Butterworth and Sam Vardy, in Field:, 2.1, 2008. This paper explores the role the site survey could play in developing architectural praxis where agency is shared at all stages with participatory diverse users. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[50,49,56,57],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-inclusivity","tag-methodology","tag-pedagogy","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}