Saving the White Building: Storytelling and the Production of Space

Author : Jonathon Louth, Martin Potter
Category : Conference Papers and Dissertations
Format : PDF
Geographic Focus : Phnom Penh
Published : Dec.2015 Download

This paper explores the role of recent projects to document the everyday lives of the White Building’s inhabitants as both a means of resistance and to enable critical reflexivity among participants. By utilising a Lefebvrian analysis the authors argue, first, that the dominant discursive acts of the more powerful can be challenged through the expression of the ‘lived’ and the elevation of everyday life. And, second, they argue that the very perception of the space and the sense of place is (re)produced through these interactions across these new and diverse mediascapes.