Marvin, S. orcid.org/0000-0001-5538-5102 and Rutherford, J. (2021) Understanding the socio-technical hybridisation of indoor–outdoor relations : emergent, merged, and stretched. Area, 53 (4). pp. 627-636. ISSN 0004-0894
Abstract
Indoor and outdoor leisure environments are increasingly understood to be mutually constituted through merged relationships but there has been less focus on the actual forms that hybridisation can take. This paper provides an analysis of forms of hybridisation through time by focusing on the socio-technical configurations through which three leisure environments are materially constituted. We analyse the key functional elements of these configurations: the technological systems and their genealogies over time that allow the making and unmaking of activities; the spatiality of facilities and systems in terms of their locations and connections across space; and the construction by providers of user pathways between indoor and outdoor activities. The paper uses this structure to compare purpose-built indoor recreational spaces located in the city region of Greater Manchester that recreate outdoor activities focusing on skydiving, skiing, and ice wall climbing. We construct a framework of three modes of hybridisation – emergent, merged, stretched – that contributes a deeper understanding of the diversity, intensity, and changing temporality of interrelations between indoor and outdoor environments.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Greater Manchester; hybridisation; indoor; leisure; outdoor; sociotechnical |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Australian Research Council DP170101111 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 May 2021 08:56 |
Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2022 10:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/area.12715 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:174573 |