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Difference and Repetition in Redevelopment Projects for the Al Kadhimiya Historical Site, Baghdad, Iraq: Towards a Deleuzian Approach in Urban Design

Kareem, Najlaa K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin154383950723304

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2018, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
In his book Difference and Repetition, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze distinguishes between two theories of repetition, one associated with the `Platonic’ theory and the other with the `Nietzschean’ theory. Repetition in the `Platonic’ theory, via the criterion of accuracy, can be identified as a repetition of homogeneity, using pre-established similitude or identity to repeat the Same, while repetition in the `Nietzschean’ theory, via the criterion of authenticity, is aligned with the virtual rather than real, producing simulacra or phantasms as a repetition of heterogeneity. It is argued in this dissertation that the distinction that Deleuze forms between modes of repetition has a vital role in his innovative approaches to the Nietzschean’s notion of `eternal return’ as a differential ontology, offering numerous insights into work on issues of homogeneity and heterogeneity in a design process. Deleuze challenges the assumed capture within a conventional perspective by using German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s conception of the `eternal return.’ This dissertation aims to question the conventional praxis of architecture and urban design formalisms through the impulse of `becoming’ and `non- representational’ thinking of Deleuze. The research attempts to conceptualize the relationship between history and the occurrence of new social contexts and to locate varying forms of active and temporal engagements with the material formations of cultural environments and historical sites. This dissertation explores the possibility of using history as a dynamic, intensive force in an architectural and urban design thinking process as a mean to escape the historicism and representational image functionary towards a re-engineered creative historical/architectural dialogue. The dissertation will conceptually analyze the difference between mimicking historical styles in a decontextualized manner and repeating them with difference using the theory of Difference and Repetition outlined by Deleuze. More precisely, this dissertation will show what Deleuze creative ontology of becoming and change might offer to architectural and urban design discourses where their practices can be improved through repetition, and where it is believed that reproducing history may reinforce pride and develop the sentiment of nationalism while making way for more accepted forms of imitation. A good example is a historical revivalism happening in Iraq. Although Deleuze’s influence on architectural and urban design thinking has grown dramatically since the early 1990s, the affective strategies that have resulted from his creative approach remain mostly unaddressed in Middle Eastern architectural knowledge. This dissertation aims to fill that gap. Methodologically, it will compare and contrast two different design strategies for the redevelopment of the Al Kadhimiya historical site in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. This comparative research investigates the problem of representational thinking in architectural and urban design practices and to what extent repeating the past produces sociocultural uniformity or cultural difference. The significance of this dissertation ranges widely from exploring the ethico-aesthetics of heterogeneous architecture in contemporary design associated within the innovative cultural paradigms to the role of philosophy in emerging new subjectivity and relational practices in architecture and urban design, including creative and strategic spatial practices.
Adrian Parr, Ph.D. M.A. (Committee Chair)
Laura Jenkins, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Patrick Snadon, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
208 p.
Architecture
Difference and Repetition; Gilles Deleuze; Felix Guattari; Al Kadhimiya Historical Site; Urban Design; Urban Assemblage

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  • Kareem, N. K. (2018). Difference and Repetition in Redevelopment Projects for the Al Kadhimiya Historical Site, Baghdad, Iraq: Towards a Deleuzian Approach in Urban Design [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin154383950723304

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  • Kareem, Najlaa. Difference and Repetition in Redevelopment Projects for the Al Kadhimiya Historical Site, Baghdad, Iraq: Towards a Deleuzian Approach in Urban Design. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin154383950723304.

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  • Kareem, Najlaa. "Difference and Repetition in Redevelopment Projects for the Al Kadhimiya Historical Site, Baghdad, Iraq: Towards a Deleuzian Approach in Urban Design." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin154383950723304

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