Abstract: An inspiring lecture on the unique teaching approach at the Potemkin Art Academy Wendorf, where we question the societal norms that shape education. At the Academy, we believe universities should encourage critical thinking and the exploration of how to make the world better, rather than just preparing students for profit-driven careers. I will explain the concept of Performative Urbanism, where students and residents collaboratively transform urban spaces, bringing new possibilities to life. We emphasize a method of Improvisation as Research, transforming traditional approaches into creative, anticipatory exercises that shape our understanding of space. The goal of Wendorf Academy is to foster Heterotopic spaces that challenge existing norms, offering fresh sustainable perspectives through critical engagement and creative expression.
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Organized by BAS studio for Theory and History " Ways of teaching - with in Architecture" Lecture Series
Abstract: Metaphorical statements operate under pretence, implying and introducing a learning-oriented game of make-believe: readers and hearers engage in the process of imagining one thing as if was another thing, in order to better understand that first thing. Two seemingly unrelated subject matters are joined; their respective values and properties, mingled.
In this presentation, I consider three cabin metaphors, where (the architectural properties of) cabins are operationalized to account for and strengthen a given normative theory. I insist on the specific spatial and built dimension of the metaphors, and clarify implied values. Bringing this philosophical inquiry into dialogue with contemporary architectural pedagogy (and, particularly, traditions of open, non-hierarchical forms of knowledge), I argue that teaching architecture today requires attentiveness to the representational and institutional frameworks through which we imagine collective presents and futures, and that philosophical metaphors provide tools to cultivate such attentiveness.
The puzzles of the presentation are: what is it about cabins which make them prone to be used in environmental and political philosophical theorizing? Conversely, what do the three metaphorical games of make-belief reveal about our spatial and material imagination of cabins? And how can architectural teaching engage with, expose, and possibly reconfigure the normative spatial imaginaries embedded in these philosophical metaphors?
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