Replacement displacement materiality of cardboard on the street

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2015-05-15

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Aydın, Hatice Server
Kaygan, Harun

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Corrugated cardboard is a material that is primarily used in packaging. Produced out of recycled pulp, which is both cost-effective and sustainable, the light and durable structure makes it possible to carry loads efficiently. However, it is in its later appropriations on the street that the qualities of cardboard shine, as it is put to reuse in the form of shelter, structure, container, and signage by various groups of people. In response to Tim Ingold’s (2007) critique that materials are still neglected despite the recent return in the social sciences and anthropology to materialist approaches, the study turns to the theoretical approach suggested by the psychologist James J. Gibson (1979) to emphasize how material properties and cultural practices are intermeshed. The theoretical discussion is supported by field observations and one-to-one interviews on everyday life practices of five social groups who inhabit the street by cardboard: the homeless, the refugee, the recycler, the peddler, the activist. The study highlights the two key affordances of the cardboard: placemaking and mobility. Each of the participant groups is found to have their own practices with the cardboard, mediating their conditions of existence and these two key affordances.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/86739

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4T: Design in Times of Turmoil: Displacement, Replacement, Emplacement, 2015

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H. S. Aydın and H. Kaygan, “Replacement displacement materiality of cardboard on the street,” presented at the 4T: Design in Times of Turmoil: Displacement, Replacement, Emplacement, 2015, İzmir, Turkey, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/86739.