The document discusses how architecture shapes habits of citizenship and civic participation. It argues that voting booths are designed to force focus on voting by isolating the voter. Additionally, the document examines how private voting became standardized through architectural changes in the 19th century. Finally, it explores how occupations of civic spaces and public monuments shape competing views of citizenship and can be sites to reform habits of civic engagement.

1. Architectures of Habit
Adrienne Brown

2. -Benjamin insists that studying how
Architecture shapes our perceptual modes
can teach us how the masses more broadly
learn to perceive and be—through repeated
use and the gradual accumulation, of habits.

3. -Citizenship is fundamentally a reletive
relationship, of one’s ability to participate
in the civic life of their locale.
-Architecture shapes the habits of both
perceiving and feeling citizenship.

4. -This essay, then, is an attempt
to marshal our attention to consider the
distracted and circuitous ways architecture
scripts our habits of citizenship
as well as various attempts to reshape
those habits using architecture.

5. -The voting booths are structures designed
to force its users to attain a certain amount
of focus—or to at least stage the appearance
of such—by quarantining us from the rest
of the world.Voting Booth belongs to the
physical infrastructure of citizenship.

6. - A- The process of voting - abstract form of intimacy
- Flimsiness of material would make you feel its
impermanency
- Serve to heighten the distinctiveness of the
occasion or mark its formal abnormality
measurable civic space
- The process of voting - abstract form of intimacy
- Flimsiness of material would make you feel its
impermanency
- Serve to heighten the distinctiveness of the
occasion or mark its formal abnormality
- Designed for those who can fit themselves into
measurable civic space

7. - A.- Before the second half of the nineteenth century:
noisy and viscerally public affair
- By the middle of the nineteenth century: a ballot
system ensconcing private voting
- In nineteenth-century Britain: private voting
“mass produced a new abstract space of privacy”
- Before the second half of the nineteenth century:
noisy and viscerally public affair
- By the middle of the nineteenth century: a ballot
system ensconcing private voting
- In nineteenth-century Britain: private voting
“mass produced a new abstract space of privacy”

8. - A.- In the Grip of Power
(Lonnie Holley)
- In the Grip of Power
(Lonnie Holley)

9. - A.- Relocate civic participation to the public square
and citizenship as a social act of collective
demand and public voice
- Physical occupations of civic space insist upon
the immediate presence of people in real space
- No matter how much we treat corporations like
people, they can’t physically occupy space
- Relocate civic participation to the public square
and redefine citizenship as a social act of collective
demand and public voice
- Physical occupations of civic space insist upon
the immediate presence of people in real space
- No matter how much we treat corporations like
people, they can’t physically occupy space

10. - A.- The Charlottesville protests (2017)
- Monuments are material instantiations of
competing fantasies of citizenship as well as
active sites for shaping its habits
- Memorialization—how we commemorate the
past—can never be fully untangled from how we
form habits in the present
- The Charlottesville protests (2017)
- Monuments are material instantiations of
competing fantasies of citizenship as well as
active sites for shaping its habits
- Memorialization—how we commemorate the
past—can never be fully untangled from how we
form habits in the present

11. - Occupation as a form of protest is an old
form indeed...look to the Poor People’s
March and accompanying occupation of
the National Mall during the winter and
spring of 1968 planned by Martin Luther
King Jr. and led by Ralph Abernathy
gathering a range of
economic justice.
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12. - A neighborhood is both an imagined
community and the product of everyday
routines often undertaken in varying states
of distraction within communal space.
- But like all scales of citizenship, the
neighborhood is organized by both
collectivity and exclusion

13. - Brown proposes we look closer at what
exists before leaping to remake or renew
neighborhoods—actions which have
historically helped to displace existing
residents rather than improve how they
live.

14. - Nations have used architecture to
demonstrate their strength and solidity
since the walled city-state.
- ...built environment holds the power
within it to reframe citizenship as a
practice of spatial, social, and perceptual
expansion that demands new forms of
attention.

15. THANK YOU
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