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While generally considered to be a waste of time and experienced as frustrating, waiting can also be unbearable in critical situations. However, waiting has sometimes been evaluated as an opportunity, whether for tactical purposes or for more existential reasons. This paper draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as using literature, in particular W. G. Sebald's novel, Austerlitz, in order to develop the beginnings of a critical phenomenology of the “waiting room” as a spatial, metaphorical, and experiential reality. It is argued that waiting should be considered a ubiquitous, multifaceted, spatial–temporal activity that potentially occurs throughout daily life. All waiting, whether formally structured or spontaneous and ephemeral, involves the transformation of space/place. However, while specifically designed waiting zones or “waiting rooms” can be viewed as technologies attempting to impose spacial-temporal control over daily rhythms, it is suggested that waiting can also provide political, creative, and existential opportunities.
While generally considered to be a waste of time and experienced as frustrating, waiting can also be unbearable in critical situations. However, waiting has sometimes been evaluated as an opportunity, whether for tactical purposes or for more existential reasons. This paper draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as using literature, in particular W. G. Sebald's novel, Austerlitz, in order to develop the beginnings of a critical phenomenology of the “waiting room” as a spatial, metaphorical, and experiential reality. It is argued that waiting should be considered a ubiquitous, multifaceted, spatial–temporal activity that potentially occurs throughout daily life. All waiting, whether formally structured or spontaneous and ephemeral, involves the transformation of space/place. However, while specifically designed waiting zones or “waiting rooms” can be viewed as technologies attempting to impose spacial-temporal control over daily rhythms, it is suggested that waiting can also provide political, creative, and existential opportunities.
Surveying “The Waiting Room”
Bishop, Peter (author)
Architectural Theory Review ; 18 ; 135-149
2013-08-01
15 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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