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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Towards a new art of reading

Abstract

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Reading has a long history, marked with shifts in inscription and language and with evolutions in the architectural typology of the library and reading room. How - and what - we read changes over time. Towards a New Art of Reading imagines a future state of readership, affective reading - capturing and illustrating instances of affective reading through the creation of five reading rooms. These speculations do not aim to predict a singular future of reading, but rather position a possible one - alluding to and depicting a reality based on reciprocities identified in past and present forms of reading. These series of instances, or reading rooms, outline a possible, expanding universe of affective reading.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master
Department dc:contributor.department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Grantor dc:publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year dc:date.issued
2019

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Graziano, Anne M.(Anne Marie)
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Sheila Kennedy.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.
Language dc:language.iso
eng

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121696
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/121696

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Graziano, Anne M.(Anne Marie). Towards a new art of reading. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121696