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University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture

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SCENOGRAPHY AS SITUATED PRACTICE >>

University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture

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with Matilde Igual Capdevila & Kollektiv Raumstation

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PERFORMING >>

University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture
with Bettina Siegele

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University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture

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University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture

with Prof. Bart Lootsma

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#seminar #architecture #scenography

OUT OF SCALE >>

University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture

Winter Semester 2020-21

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ARCHICOMICALS >>

University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture
with Bettina Siegele & Giacomo Pala

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Social Design Studio_dieAngewndte
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A JOURNEY AROUND MY ROOM >>

University of Innsbruck_Institute for Architecture

with Prof. Bart Lootsma & Melanie van der Hoorn

video:
http://www.architecturaltheory.tv/?p=3136&la

Brief:

“… ‘performative’ suggests a dramatic and contingent construction of meaning.” [1]

Bodies performing architecture :: Architecture performing bodies.

This semester’s studio at architectural theory is inspired by the artist Heidi Bucher’s understanding of architecture as a spatial manifestation of social relations: an intertwining of space, body, and identity. Going through different scales, this studio’s aim is to investigate the different encounters between the human body, technology, art, space, and architecture. We will  do so by  studying different constructs of performance and to blur the boundaries between an occupied space and the occupying body.

The studio will be organised in thematic cycles:

Starting with “Performing: Domesticities”, we will look into the performance of everyday life in therefore constructed and assigned spaces/architectures. “Performing: Habitats” will look at bodies that when liberated from such ascriptions inhabit artificial envelopes. “Performing: Metamorphoses” marks the point at which the body turns into architecture by modifying its flesh and skin or by creating space through its own movement. And last but not least, in the cycle "Performing: Materialities" we will look into New Materialism, as it either takes back the body and lets thethe body into the virtual space.

Combining the reading, viewing, and interpreting of various sources (literature, movies, podcasts, ….) and round table discussions throughout the semester, we will take a closer look into references that are strongly related to architecture, the body and of course the performance of them, as well as the work of architects, artists and thinkers who have embedded these into their practice. The outcome of this process is then presented in a collectively edited publication(s).


1 Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), 177.


Image: Lucy McRae, Compression Cradle, 2019.