Monospace and Multiverse: Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory (Materialities)

In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual entanglement of people, objects and building. She traces the work that is necessary in »doing« space and thus suggests a re-conceptualisation of space in architectural theory.

Sabine Hansmann (Dr.-Ing) is a substitute professor for architecture, space and society at HafenCity University Hamburg. From 2019 to 2021, she was a research associate at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City at Technische Universität Braunschweig. Previously, she was a member of the »Laboratory for Integrative Architecture« at Technische Universität Berlin and the »Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on architecture, urbanism, spatial theory, actor-network-theory and material semiotics.