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- Berlemont, Thierry, 1966, et al.
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The Sense of Architectural Constructs
- 2014
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Ingår i: The Art of Research Conference: Experience, Materiality, Articulation. 26-27 november 2014. Helsinki.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In architecture science and art meet each other in the design process. In most architecturalpractices designing implements both scientific knowledge, gained from unified observationsof the world, and poetic knowledge gained from embodied experiences in the world.Architectural research has an established tradition in the development of scientificknowledge in the fields of technology, construction, history and theory. But other modes ofknowledge production remain relatively uncovered. The research presented here aims toarticulate the potential of the architectural construct towards poetic knowledge productionby blurring the distinction between intelligibility and sensibility and treating the ideal andthe material as one continuous heterogeneous field. It is in the liminal zones, the in-betweenthat things meet, interact, reverberate, where encounters take place, and we expect thearchitectural construct to position in the milieu to stage these encounters. The disruptiveencounter will be discussed as a specific type of sense making involving a co-developmentof theoretical perspectives and creative making processes. Poetic measuring will bepresented as a tactic for staging encounters, recently developed within the research groupRadical Materiality at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas Brussels.
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- Dyrssen, Catharina, 1949, et al.
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Transvaluation: Making the world matter. International symposium in search for alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, creation and invention, of "Making and Thinking"
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the current measurement- and indicator-driven knowledge culture, research in architecture, art and several disciplines within humanities and social sciences may succumb to economic or scientific models, or be separated from important contexts of invention, risking to reduce research largely to standardized reproduction. Responding to the current proliferation of evaluation systems and the dominant culture of measurement that comes with it, the Transvaluation international symposium, May 21-22 2015, searches for alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of ‘making and thinking’, and ways to trans- and re-value research cultures from within. The ambition was a high quality event with top level keynote speeches, small format seminars and collective forum discussions, with the intent to start a broad debate addressing fundamental strategic research questions across disciplinary borders, and to instigate possibilities for change. Key note speakers were international experts in social, global anthropology, Arjun Appadurai; art researching practice and doctoral education, Andrea Phillips; and speculative realism and material objects, Graham Harman. The symposium focused two major themes, Poetics and Politics of Value, referring to the (re-)making of values, both in artistic and architectural practice and in human scientific research, and their related political and systemic aspects. These themes were examined through two conceptual lenses: Worlding (shaping the world, transforming matter) and U-topos (space for speculative thinking and making). The text is an introduction to published proceedings, where the ambition is to search for ways in which architecture, art, philosophy, anthropology and other areas of research may challenge, together, the very concept and formation of knowledge, stretching and enriching it, hence “transvaluing” material and spiritual research cultures from within, disclosing alternative approaches and strengthening their logics of argumentation within the interdisciplinary frame, with potential to change its systemic conventions.
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- Godts, M., et al.
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Theoretical, conceptual, ethical and methodological stakes to induce a new age: M.U.D.
- 2012
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Ingår i: Architecture in the Space of Flows. - : Routledge. ; 9780203721018, s. 43-62
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The M.U.D project develops ways of thinking about shared territory (here: the Belgian coastline) and tries to be coherent with the ideas of fl ux/fl ood/fl oating/fl ows etc. Its design presents an ‘artist’s impression’ pre-fi guring the age of the hybrid called M.U.D. Its designers turn the coastal area into a zone of ‘future confl ict’ where fl oods and fl ows are anticipated, accepted, even welcomed. In consequence the use of land as well of sea will be negotiated in permanence.To compensate for ‘loss’ of land and ‘solids’, a new ‘liquid’ exploitation is proposed. Changing grids scan M.U.D for fl ow-through of source material, energy and waste, fl uxes of data transport, population and migration and recode all these as transactional knowledge, technology and culture. The ‘urban network coast’ formerly known as ‘linear coastal city’ and once, long ago, as ‘coastal resorts’, dissolves, atomizes, explodes further and further into a enormity of small interactions and changes, shifts of interstitial, making the coastal area, again, truly, a ‘coast’, that is: a Space of Flows.
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- Janssens, Nel, 1971
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Poetic Knowledge Building and Transdisciplinarity: the role of the artefact
- 2013
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Ingår i: Knowing (by) Designing conference. 22-23 may 2013. Brussels. Associated Faculty of Architecture of the KU Leuven, LUCA, Campus Sint-Lucas. ; , s. 355-362
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- I discuss a type of poetic knowledge building, which assigns to artefacts the role of carriers and generators of concepts and the power to act as discursive statements. In this paper I discuss what the role of artefacts can be in a context of transdisciplinary theory-development. I focus on artefacts resulting from poetic knowledge building where the ‘making’ (material creation) and ‘speculating’ (inventive) aspects of theory and practice are emphasized. The transdisciplinary quality of such artefacts is situated on two levels: as drivers of transdisciplinary processes (instigating discussions among different disciplinary and non-disciplinary actors) and generators of speculative theory (involving a specific theory-practice relationship). I will reflect on how we should understand the relation between transdisciplinarity, poetics, sense-making and speculative theory development.
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- Janssens, Nel, 1971, et al.
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Utopia-Driven Projective Research
- 2013
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Ingår i: Boundaries. - 2239-0332. ; III:8, s. 60-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Janssens, Nel, 1971
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Utopian-driven projektive research exploring the field of Metaurbanism
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this thesis a design-based approach is developed to address the issue of reconceptualising urbanisation. The approach is called utopia-driven projective research and is the result of a process of reflection on a number of conceptual design projects the author participated in. The research builds on the idea of 'theory-through-design' and shows how the projects are brought into interaction with theoretical frameworks that serve as another kind of design perspectives. Through the process of abstraction and extraction that is thus set in place, the core elements, both on the level of the subject-matter and on the level of the design approach, were distilled from the projects and developed into a research topic and research approach. The development of utopia-driven projective research must be seen against the backdrop of the general condition of unsettlement our society finds itself in – a condition that raises the issue of how to maintain the habitability of our world(s). The assumption made in this thesis is that in a context of systemic changes (economic, environmental, political) there is a growing urge to make sense of the situation. Sense-making involves to an important degree the revising and restating of values, and it is an issue of learning from the future. In this situation the default mode of thinking is imagineering and projecting and this type of thinking is characteristic to a critical and utopian designerly thinking. Through utopia designerly thinking gets a model-theoretical character, useful to future-orientated sense-making, stance-taking and hypothesis-development. Hence, utopia-driven projective research is proposed as a way to investigate the futurity of the way we inhabit our environment. Utopia-driven projective research is orientated to the integration of scientific modes of knowledge production and design-based, poetic modes of knowledge building, which are particularly relevant in a context of sense-making. The field, in which this specific research approach is operative, is called Meta-Urbanism. Meta-Urbanism studies how the worldview of a people generates deep rooted form-giving principles of urbanisation. It is a transdisciplinary field in which urbanisation is investigated against a context of worlding. Worlding concerns the development of concepts of territory that differ from the currently dominant one of growth and consumption of space. Meta-Urbanism offers urbanism a ‘laboratory’ for collective future-orientated sense-making about alternative ways to inhabit the environment.
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- Nilsson, Fredrik, 1965, et al.
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Perspectives on Research Assessment in Architecture, Music and the Arts. Discussing Doctorateness
- 2017
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Research in the creative fields of architecture, design, music and the arts has experienced dynamic development for over two decades. The research in these practice and arts based fields has become increasingly mature, but has also led to various discussions on what constitutes doctoral proficiency in these fields. The term ‘doctorateness’ is often used when referring to the assessment of the production of doctoral research and the research competence of research students, but in architecture and the arts the concept of doctorateness has not yet attained a clearly articulated definition. The assessment of quality has been practiced by way of supervising, mentoring and the evaluation of dissertations, but much less discussed. This book offers perspectives on how to qualify and assess research in architecture, music and the arts. It creates a broader arena for discussion on doctorateness by establishing a framework for its application to creative fields. The book is grouped into three sections and includes contributions from international experts in the various fields, working in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK. The first section offers general frameworks for further conceptualising doctorateness in the fields in question. It is followed by a section that describes and discusses various experiences, concerns and visions on the production and assessment of doctoral research reporting from doctoral programmes in different stages of development. The third section includes future-oriented perspectives on knowledge-building processes, and asks how the ongoing, profound changes in academia could influence the concept of quality in both doctoral process and product. The book presents different perspectives on research assessment practices and developments of relevant criteria in the practice-based and creative fields of architecture and the arts. The contributions propose ways of framing this issue conceptually, show the need for awareness of the specific context and tradition programmes develop and give proposals for various potential trajectories for the future.
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