“Smells Like Bureaucracy”: Material Overhang, Affective Atmosphere, and the Obstruction of Place-Making
基于德国难民紧急避难所的民族志研究，探讨建筑的物质性如何通过引发监狱式和官僚式的情感氛围，阻碍志愿者和难民将行政办公楼改造为家园和公共空间的场所营造努力。
This paper takes an interest in how buildings can obstruct place-making efforts. Drawing on ethnographic research of a refugee emergency shelter in Germany, we explore how volunteers and refugees seek to turn a previous administrative office complex into a home and a communal place. However, the building's materiality evoked affective atmospheres, involving prison-like and bureaucratic affects, obstructing these place-making attempts. We conceptualize the material obstruction of the building to place-making efforts as material overhang, drawing attention to the limits of the productiveness of space as well as the agency of materiality.