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                The role of youth culture in shaping spatiotemporal dimensions of place: A study on the rhythmicity, performativity and identity of Berlin Kidz.
        
      
Shared with the World by Elangkathir Duhindan
    Based on netnographic fieldwork with a virtual mixed-methods approach, this dissertation  investigates the spatiotemporal dimensions of youth place-making. The aim is to illustrate  how young people make meaningful connections with place through performative and  rhythmic processes, and to learn about what young people search for. This study develops a  framework in which young people are considered as active producers of culture, and as a vital  part of cultural phenomenology. In unearthing how youth have been deprived of places to call  their own that represent their own identity since the decline of urban public space, this study  uses a single case-study, Berlin Kidz. This youth collective are notorious for their  recognisable graffiti, train surfing, free-riding and other spontaneous activities across Berlin. I  employ Lefebvre’s rhythm analysis and reinterpret this discourse through the postulation of  performative urbanism in the hopes of contributing toward notions of urban planning and  design. This phenomenological understanding of place unearths the spatiotemporal practises  that young people exercise. It emerges that a central aspect of youth place-making is being  able to create alternative dimensions through their role as performative place-makers,  orchestrators of rhythms, and soldiers for youth. I illustrate how youth fabricate spatial and  temporal disruptions in order to maintain a practice of improvising and organising, which to  Berlin Kidz is a way of constructing meaning in everyday life.
      Shared with the World by Elangkathir Duhindan
 
	  
