Casper Laing Ebbensgaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 150352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Casper Laing Ebbensgaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Casper Laing |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebbensgaard |
| SIGNATURE | EBBENSGAARD C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3926-0702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Environmental Legacies and Epistemic Reparations in the Afterlives of Colonial Extraction
This article develops the portal as a spatial theory that fosters chrono-geographic vigilance toward the erasure of earth relations in the making of a decolonial subject of rights. Drawing on archival research in the UK and South Africa, it reconstructs a geo-social history that links slum housing in east London and diamond mining in South Africa to contemporary data mining and manipulation through AI. Responding to the theme of inhuman reparatio…
Shifting elemental bodies in the city
While thermal comfort and daylight exposure are subjective and context specific, and in some cases even counterpoised, we show how individual and communal efforts to reduce exposure (in the case of heat) or increase exposure (in the case of sunlight) center the elemental as a point of struggle for just urban living and citizenship. The two examples of Delhi and London that we present demonstrate how heat and daylight are encountered in the face o…
Introduction
In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical. This special issue tinkers with the limita…
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability
This paper shows how residential high-rise developments in London deteriorate the living conditions for existing residents and set a legal precedent for distributing harm unevenly across the population. The paper unpacks the contentious decision-making process in one of several local planning applications in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets that ended in a spur of high-profile public planning inquiries between 2017 and 2019. The Enterprise Hou…
Architectures of disavowal and enduring acts of refusal
Engaging with scholarship on vertical urbanism, this paper advances an understanding of architectural disavowal to account for the ways that vertical architectures deny their responsibility in causing harm to residential populations. The paper draws on Dionne Brand's notion of disavowal in the vertical city to examine residents' experience of and resistant responses to the harmful effects that vertical developments impose on their daily and night…
Tales from other people's houses
This paper explores what it means to live together in the city through a focus on home and urban public space in East London. It develops a conceptual framework for understanding home as a site of dis/connection - both connected to and disconnected from - the wider estate, street, neighbourhood and city. Drawing on a series of home-city biographies with residents living on different housing estates, we explore what makes a city 'liveable' for its…
Light infrastructures and intimate publics in the vertical city
This paper explores how the uneven distribution of light and darkness in the vertical city conditions residents’ capacities to form meaningful attachments to the places in which they dwell. Drawing on ethnographic material collected on a recent high-rise development in London, the paper explores how residentsilluminate their homes in improvisatory engagement with the basic infrastructures that support their domestic lives and with the wider urban…
Standardised difference
Artificial lighting has received increased attention from urban scholars and geographers in recent years. It is celebrated for its experimental aesthetics and experiential qualities and critiqued for its adverse effects on biological life and the environment. Yet scholars and practitioners unite in their disapproval of uniform and homogenous lighting that follows from standardised lighting technologies and design principles. Absent from debates i…
The “living of time”
This paper explores the entanglements between urban and domestic temporalities in order to understand what it means to live in the city. The “living of time” encompasses the temporalities of urban dwelling at home and in relation to the wider estate, street, neighbourhood, and city and reveals how residents adapt to, negotiate, and at times resist processes of change and continuity at home and in the city
Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change
This paper is concerned with the affective power of light, darkness, and illumination and their role in exposing and obscuring processes of rapid urban change. Little academic attention has focused on how lighting informs multiple, overlapping, and intersecting urban temporalities and mediates our experience of an ever-changing city. This paper foregrounds a walk through the illuminated city at night as an epistemic opportunity to develop an embo…
Making sense of diodes and sodium
Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark
Advice on how to light the home is often rooted in scientific knowledge. Doctors, psychologist, biologists and engineers quantify the performance and impact of light to identify technical solutions
I like the sound of falling water, it's calming
Post-industrial wastelands have been given increased attention by landscape architects since the late 1990s. Through their redesign, landscape architects argue that the sensory qualities of wild nature benefit people’s health and well-being and improve the urban ecosystem. In this article, I argue that such landscape designs mark a shift from designing nature as such to designing the sensation of nature. By following discussions within cultural g…
Illuminights
As part of the urban nightscape, illumination of urban environments across Europe has gained significance recently. Altering the aesthetic appearance of material surfaces, urban illuminations transform our sensory every night experiences of space; experiences that, within geography, have not been dealt with in depth. This article undertakes an ethnographic study of the sensory everynight experiences of the changed aesthetics of illuminated spaces…
The “living of time”
This paper explores the entanglements between urban and domestic temporalities in order to understand what it means to live in the city. The “living of time” encompasses the temporalities of urban dwelling at home and in relation to the wider estate, street, neighbourhood, and city and reveals how residents adapt to, negotiate, and at times resist processes of change and continuity at home and in the city
Illuminights
As part of the urban nightscape, illumination of urban environments across Europe has gained significance recently. Altering the aesthetic appearance of material surfaces, urban illuminations transform our sensory every night experiences of space; experiences that, within geography, have not been dealt with in depth. This article undertakes an ethnographic study of the sensory everynight experiences of the changed aesthetics of illuminated spaces…
Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change
This paper is concerned with the affective power of light, darkness, and illumination and their role in exposing and obscuring processes of rapid urban change. Little academic attention has focused on how lighting informs multiple, overlapping, and intersecting urban temporalities and mediates our experience of an ever-changing city. This paper foregrounds a walk through the illuminated city at night as an epistemic opportunity to develop an embo…
Tales from other people's houses
This paper explores what it means to live together in the city through a focus on home and urban public space in East London. It develops a conceptual framework for understanding home as a site of dis/connection - both connected to and disconnected from - the wider estate, street, neighbourhood and city. Drawing on a series of home-city biographies with residents living on different housing estates, we explore what makes a city 'liveable' for its…
Light infrastructures and intimate publics in the vertical city
This paper explores how the uneven distribution of light and darkness in the vertical city conditions residents’ capacities to form meaningful attachments to the places in which they dwell. Drawing on ethnographic material collected on a recent high-rise development in London, the paper explores how residentsilluminate their homes in improvisatory engagement with the basic infrastructures that support their domestic lives and with the wider urban…
I like the sound of falling water, it's calming
Post-industrial wastelands have been given increased attention by landscape architects since the late 1990s. Through their redesign, landscape architects argue that the sensory qualities of wild nature benefit people’s health and well-being and improve the urban ecosystem. In this article, I argue that such landscape designs mark a shift from designing nature as such to designing the sensation of nature. By following discussions within cultural g…
Making sense of diodes and sodium
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability
This paper shows how residential high-rise developments in London deteriorate the living conditions for existing residents and set a legal precedent for distributing harm unevenly across the population. The paper unpacks the contentious decision-making process in one of several local planning applications in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets that ended in a spur of high-profile public planning inquiries between 2017 and 2019. The Enterprise Hou…
Introduction
In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical. This special issue tinkers with the limita…
Standardised difference
Artificial lighting has received increased attention from urban scholars and geographers in recent years. It is celebrated for its experimental aesthetics and experiential qualities and critiqued for its adverse effects on biological life and the environment. Yet scholars and practitioners unite in their disapproval of uniform and homogenous lighting that follows from standardised lighting technologies and design principles. Absent from debates i…
Architectures of disavowal and enduring acts of refusal
Engaging with scholarship on vertical urbanism, this paper advances an understanding of architectural disavowal to account for the ways that vertical architectures deny their responsibility in causing harm to residential populations. The paper draws on Dionne Brand's notion of disavowal in the vertical city to examine residents' experience of and resistant responses to the harmful effects that vertical developments impose on their daily and night…
Illuminights
As part of the urban nightscape, illumination of urban environments across Europe has gained significance recently. Altering the aesthetic appearance of material surfaces, urban illuminations transform our sensory every night experiences of space; experiences that, within geography, have not been dealt with in depth. This article undertakes an ethnographic study of the sensory everynight experiences of the changed aesthetics of illuminated spaces…
I like the sound of falling water, it's calming
Post-industrial wastelands have been given increased attention by landscape architects since the late 1990s. Through their redesign, landscape architects argue that the sensory qualities of wild nature benefit people’s health and well-being and improve the urban ecosystem. In this article, I argue that such landscape designs mark a shift from designing nature as such to designing the sensation of nature. By following discussions within cultural g…
Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark
Advice on how to light the home is often rooted in scientific knowledge. Doctors, psychologist, biologists and engineers quantify the performance and impact of light to identify technical solutions
Making sense of diodes and sodium
Light infrastructures and intimate publics in the vertical city
This paper explores how the uneven distribution of light and darkness in the vertical city conditions residents’ capacities to form meaningful attachments to the places in which they dwell. Drawing on ethnographic material collected on a recent high-rise development in London, the paper explores how residentsilluminate their homes in improvisatory engagement with the basic infrastructures that support their domestic lives and with the wider urban…
Standardised difference
Artificial lighting has received increased attention from urban scholars and geographers in recent years. It is celebrated for its experimental aesthetics and experiential qualities and critiqued for its adverse effects on biological life and the environment. Yet scholars and practitioners unite in their disapproval of uniform and homogenous lighting that follows from standardised lighting technologies and design principles. Absent from debates i…
The “living of time”
This paper explores the entanglements between urban and domestic temporalities in order to understand what it means to live in the city. The “living of time” encompasses the temporalities of urban dwelling at home and in relation to the wider estate, street, neighbourhood, and city and reveals how residents adapt to, negotiate, and at times resist processes of change and continuity at home and in the city
Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change
This paper is concerned with the affective power of light, darkness, and illumination and their role in exposing and obscuring processes of rapid urban change. Little academic attention has focused on how lighting informs multiple, overlapping, and intersecting urban temporalities and mediates our experience of an ever-changing city. This paper foregrounds a walk through the illuminated city at night as an epistemic opportunity to develop an embo…
Tales from other people's houses
This paper explores what it means to live together in the city through a focus on home and urban public space in East London. It develops a conceptual framework for understanding home as a site of dis/connection - both connected to and disconnected from - the wider estate, street, neighbourhood and city. Drawing on a series of home-city biographies with residents living on different housing estates, we explore what makes a city 'liveable' for its…
Introduction
In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical. This special issue tinkers with the limita…
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability
This paper shows how residential high-rise developments in London deteriorate the living conditions for existing residents and set a legal precedent for distributing harm unevenly across the population. The paper unpacks the contentious decision-making process in one of several local planning applications in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets that ended in a spur of high-profile public planning inquiries between 2017 and 2019. The Enterprise Hou…
Architectures of disavowal and enduring acts of refusal
Engaging with scholarship on vertical urbanism, this paper advances an understanding of architectural disavowal to account for the ways that vertical architectures deny their responsibility in causing harm to residential populations. The paper draws on Dionne Brand's notion of disavowal in the vertical city to examine residents' experience of and resistant responses to the harmful effects that vertical developments impose on their daily and night…
Environmental Legacies and Epistemic Reparations in the Afterlives of Colonial Extraction
This article develops the portal as a spatial theory that fosters chrono-geographic vigilance toward the erasure of earth relations in the making of a decolonial subject of rights. Drawing on archival research in the UK and South Africa, it reconstructs a geo-social history that links slum housing in east London and diamond mining in South Africa to contemporary data mining and manipulation through AI. Responding to the theme of inhuman reparatio…
Shifting elemental bodies in the city
While thermal comfort and daylight exposure are subjective and context specific, and in some cases even counterpoised, we show how individual and communal efforts to reduce exposure (in the case of heat) or increase exposure (in the case of sunlight) center the elemental as a point of struggle for just urban living and citizenship. The two examples of Delhi and London that we present demonstrate how heat and daylight are encountered in the face o…
Sociology (10 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Impact of Light on Environment and Health (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works)