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Speculative Reading/Making : Life outside the circle of architecture In troubled times they all sought to experience life away from social definitions of success or failure. From there, these primitive huts marked personal, original inquires into the ever-mysterious nature of human existence. Anne Cline. A Hut of One’s Own Life Outside The Circle Of Architecture.…

Localities of experience and research : Making Entangled Making Entangled : An eclectic synthesis of knowledge fields Confronting Spatial Intelligence-tracing the use of spatial intelligence. What are we learning about in the concrete particularity of this space? Leon van Schaik : Spatial Intelligence ‘Architecture is the product of our spatial intelligence, of its workings in…

EMOTIVE SPATIAL ENCOUNTERS : Performativity/Unbounded Outcomes   MATERIAL and AFFECT EMOTIVE SPATIAL ENCOUNTERS RUINS and SUBJECTIVITY Encounter with place through transpositions/re-deployment of materials/technologies and design The rules followed by medieval cathedral builders could not and did not prescribe their practice in every detail, but instead allowed scope for action to be precisely fine-tuned in relation…

An asperity of thoughts/Vibrant Matter : Braking Down/Diffracting The Apparatus of Reading/Research Bringing back vibrant matter into a world cluttered by images that are standing in for the redundancy of that experiential experience. Research as a discursive activity gathering new forms of expression. Duration, Steven Holl Building Uncertainties into the explorations of making . REVIEW…

A Vessel Defines Emptiness As Presence : Craft, Studio Practice /Theory and Analysis on Hans Coper, Edmund De Waal, Martin Heidegger   STUDIO PRACTICE, THEORY AND ANALYSIS. MA SCHOOL OF CRAFTS AND DESIGN. Working Notes : Brockwood Granary 2014 Theory and Analysis Documents, UCA Farnham Working Contexts/Title : Spatial/Making analogies/relationscapes “Innerness” in Ceramics/Architecture and Philosophy/Painting…

The Social : Catching The Light/Architectural Apparatuses/Spatial Methodologies It would probably not be wrong to define the ex­treme phase of capitalist development in which we live as a massive accumulation and proliferation of apparatuses. To recapitulate, we have then two great classes: liv­ing beings (or substances) and apparatuses. And, be­ tween these two, as a…

INSIDE THIS CLAY JUG : Vessel makers that recall the eidetic origination of our own mental space   Architecture that forces us to confront our own spatial intelligence by moving us so much that we  recall the eidetic origination of our own mental space. (Schaik,2008:80) ‘The phenomenology of space – the matter of how we experience…

A PAINTING IS BOTH CONCEPTUAL AND SENSATE, Robert Mangold : Towards a spatial inquiry   COLLAGE and ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES THE TRANSPOSITION AND ABDUCTION OF PLACE What protects us against delirium or hallucinations are not our critical powers but the structure of our space. The Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty The Field-Fieldwork-Ethnography-Anthropology The Body-Spatiality-Creative Practices- Arts and…

A reflective building is an echo not a statement : SENSING AND SPATIAL PRACTICE IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018 The House-sheds : Camping There’s more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don’t need…