Hangin Clothes: Gestures of the Everyday Experience of the City

Hangin Clothes: Gestures of the Everyday Experience of the City

Authors

  • Rebeca Silva Roquefort Universidad de Chile
  • Luis Campos Medina Universidad de Chile
  • Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v10i2.3022

Keywords:

hanging clothes, infraordinary, gestures, production of space

Abstract

Obvious and insignificant, hanging clothes spend most of the time unnoticed in our daily wanderings. However, leaning out of the windows or floating in the wind, they are part of the urban landscape of our cities. Moreover, in its supposed insignificance, hanging clothes suggest multiple aspects of current life: restrictions and inadequacies of space; work and rest routines; social identities and community coordinations. What do we see when we see hanging clothes? Do we still see our clothes? Or do we begin to see colors, shapes, stories, intimacies? Des-save and expose our clothes can interpellate us in several ways: what do we decide to expose? What is it legitimate to make visible? What things do we hide from the scrutiny of others? In this text we inquire about how the presence of hanging clothes can be understood as a series of gestures that refer to different approaches to the materialities that make up our daily experience of the city. Gestures that link the functional with the poetic and exposed with the intimate. Inspired by the notion of Perec’s “infraordinary” and based on the understanding of the importance of everyday gestures and the sociology of objects, we explore the sensitive, public and political power of hanging clothes in urban environments.

Author Biographies

Rebeca Silva Roquefort, Universidad de Chile

Chilena. Doctora en Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España y diplomada en Estudios Avanzados en Urbanística y Ordenamiento Territorial. Diplomada de Postítulo en Ergonomía, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Luis Campos Medina, Universidad de Chile

Sociólogo chileno de la Universidad de Chile. Máster en Ciencias Sociales y doctor en Sociología por la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Francia . Académico e investigador del Instituto de la Vivienda de la Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Cientista política de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Magíster en Estudios Urbanos de la University College London, Londres, Reino Unido, y actual estudiante de doctorado en Geografía y medioambiente en la University of Oxford, Reino Unido.

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Published

2020-06-29

How to Cite

Silva Roquefort, Rebeca, Luis Campos Medina, and Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion. 2020. “Hangin Clothes: Gestures of the Everyday Experience of the City”. Revista Rupturas 10 (2):127-42. https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v10i2.3022.

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