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Design is in the House: Basic Concepts to Understand the Role of Design in the Creation of the Club Experience

verfasst von : César Lugo-Elías, Pedro Cardoso

Erschienen in: Advances in Design and Digital Communication II

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The present paper reviews different sources from specialized literature regarding the role of Design in the construction of the club experience, focusing on clubs devoted to house and techno music. This review aims to explore Design not as the discipline in charge of the construction of objects – furniture, image, fashion, lighting devices – to be inserted within the physical space of the club, but as the discipline in charge of the creation of artificial environments capable of triggering emotions, organizing experiences, and challenging traditional notions of space. This paper reviews several works analyzing the case of the design of eight historic clubs and it is closed by a final section presenting eight Design strategies in the creation of the club experience. It also presents a critical comment and identifies some gaps in the literature. Hopefully, by sharing this literature review, other designers will be also inspired to look at clubs not only as spaces of leisure but also as a territory for design experimentation and design research.

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Fußnoten
1
Members of the Gruppo 9999 were Carlo Caldini, Fabirzio Fiumi, Mario Pretu and Paolo Galli (Kries et al., 2018, p.51). The Gruppo 9999 was part of the movement called Architettura Radicale, other collectives like Archizoom, and Superstudio – identified with the movement – created similar clubs in cities like Milan, Turin, and Florece (Rossi, 2018).
 
2
In 2019, Isozaki became the recipient of The Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the Nobel of Architecture.
 
3
To understand the private or semi-private nature of the Loft, it is necessary to contextualize it in the NYC in the decades of 1960s and 1970s. Lawrence (2018) and Munuera (2018) report three main factors involved in the appearance of such private events: first the rise of feminism, gay liberation and anti-war, and LSD movements, whose members needed private security spaces to gather; second, the need to avoid NYC’s legislation on alcohol and opening times applied to public clubs, by not selling alcohol and therefore not needing any licence; and finally, the drop in rent prices of large spaces, especially in lower Manhattan, due economic crisis and urban decay in the 1970s.
 
4
Richard Long oversaw the design of this sound system which was characterised by an accurate and powerful bass (Lawrence, 2018). The system was so famous that it was duplicated in other venues, like the Zanzibar in Newmark, New Jersey, and later in London’s renowned Ministry of Sound (Fikentscher, 2000, p.70).
 
5
As Arnold (2012) documents, the Warehouse was located inside a three-storey building with no signal on the façade and black painted windows producing darkness and evoking secrecy.
 
6
The Rolling Stone Magazine has considered the Berghain as one of the best techno clubs in the world: https://​www.​rollingstone.​com/​culture/​culture-news/​berghain-the-secretive-sex-fueled-world-of-technos-coolest-club-111396/​ (last accessed, March 24th, 2019); as well as by the British journal The Guardian: https://​www.​theguardian.​com/​travel/​2016/​jul/​15/​berlin-clubs-nightlife-germany-techno (last accessed, March 24th, 2019).
 
7
This is noticeable in historic clubs, such as the Paradise Garage and the Warehouse, which were installed in a parking garage and a warehouse respectively and took the characteristic of this spaces into the design of the dance floor and into the venue’s name.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Design is in the House: Basic Concepts to Understand the Role of Design in the Creation of the Club Experience
verfasst von
César Lugo-Elías
Pedro Cardoso
Copyright-Jahr
2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89735-2_42