The power of gentleness in architecture : towards an aesthetics of hospitality

• The Power of Gentleness in Architecture. Towards an Aesthetics of HospitalityThe last decades the discourse of sustainability has expanded towardsother related approaches on the built environment in architecture theory and practice. These relational perspectives can be characterized by a move away from the architectural object itself towards a focus on the processes through which the architectural object is materialized, produced, con- structed, maintained, demolished, recycled, renovated, and experienced. Reconsidering architecture from these relational sustainable perspectives (of social - and ecological care), is of extreme and urgent importancegiven the multifaceted crisis of care today, but unfortunately the question of aesthetics has disappeared by reducing architecture to a by-product of processes, materials, and technologies. By neglecting the question of the aesthetics, it is underestimated how essential the visual, experiential, haptic and bodily engagement are for its users, architects and alike. The inevita- ble questions of affection, perception, beauty, joy and happiness need to be considered as intrinsically linked with sustainable issues for society and its different cultures as a whole.With my new research “The power of Gentleness in Architecture. The Aesthetics of Hospitality,” I aim to document, explore, define, and theo- rize how a particular aesthetics of hospitality can emerge and be devel- oped towards a sustainable future of social and ecological care by looked at exemplary contemporary and historical architecture practices and the different lifeworld’s that are created under influence of migration. Such sustainable practices of architecture are effective through both their in- novate material and technical solutions as well as their aesthetic regime, enabling the configurating of new experiences that create new modes of sense perception while inducing novel forms of social and political sub- jectivity beneficial for both the individual, society as a whole. It is about an approach and aesthetics how you can dance with enmeshment within the constraints of a particular time, in other words can enable provisional freedom by means of an aesthetic regime.In simple terms it comes down to an open architecture; one incorporating multiple voices, backgrounds, and ethnicities empowered through its sus- tainable aesthetic regime redistributing the sensible. It is about a research wishing to make a case for an architecture that accommodates and fosters diversity, liveliness, and unpredictability, in stark opposition to over-deter- mination, exclusion. Its gentleness is about a power that is also soft, a nobil- ity that is also humble, a sweetness that is also intelligent, a subtlety that is nevertheless striking. Gentleness is about a fragility and complexity that has the potential to subvert and change the status quo, a micro-politics of specu- lative construction towards an open, ecological, and socially just future.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Arkitektur (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Architecture (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Bildkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Visual Arts (hsv//eng)

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Architecture

Aesthetics of Hospitality

Power of Gentleness

Politics of Care

aesthetics

estetik

theory of architecture

arkitekturteori

history of architecture

arkitekturhistoria

arkitektur

architecture

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