Groups, scenes and other performative social structures
Lawickmüller show urban space as the stage for self-presentation and aesthetic distinctiveness, as a locus for the processes of identification and group formation. Public places and insider niches of the city environment serve as adventure playgrounds or spaces of self-stylisation, in which a group identity can be developed.
Their coming together may be purposeful or coincidental, regular or fleeting – but the togetherness of groups and in-crowds is invariably defined by unambiguous codes and badges of identity or by affinity to a particular place.