Document Type
Book Chapter
Date
2016
Keywords
Experience Design, Kidzania, Politics of Space, Architecture, Actor Network Theory
Language
English
Disciplines
Architectural History and Criticism | Environmental Design | Interior Architecture | Leisure Studies
Recommended Citation
Lonsway, B. (2016). Complicated Agency. In S. Lukas (Ed.), A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces (pp. 239-247). Pittsburgh: ETC Press.
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Additional Information
This chapter examines how the framework of actor network theory is both productively and destructively complicated through the highly themed environment, using the Kidzania chain of entertainment destinations as a case study. It challenges the depiction of the themed environment as "fake," seeking to leverage critical agency for both the occupants of these environments and theorists writing about them via the concept of complicatedness.