A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Configuration, geometry and spatial choreography
Here, I engage with architecture from a perspective related to Judith Butler’s discussion of performativity as structures-in-the making. The relation of local, spatial situatedness to the extended structuring of social relations is of particular interest. This needs to be done with care since, as Nick Kaye notes, architectural space is not a precise enough symbolic system to form statements with distinct meanings, nor abstract and systemic enough to form a structure or lexicon. This leads to an ongoing negotiation of situatedness with space and architecture as active participants. While, for instance, a stage holds a range of possible, probable, and potential meanings and is embedded with sets of (expected and suggested) social relations, the particular meaning of that stage in a particular situation will always-ever be a matter of contextual, situated meaning-making. This does not leave architecture innocent; rather, it is precisely because such situations are dynamic social negotiations that architecture participates in the structural aspects of performativity. I will draw from concrete examples to address the local situatedness of people to one another through architectural configuration and geometry. ; QC 20210406
Configuration, geometry and spatial choreography
Here, I engage with architecture from a perspective related to Judith Butler’s discussion of performativity as structures-in-the making. The relation of local, spatial situatedness to the extended structuring of social relations is of particular interest. This needs to be done with care since, as Nick Kaye notes, architectural space is not a precise enough symbolic system to form statements with distinct meanings, nor abstract and systemic enough to form a structure or lexicon. This leads to an ongoing negotiation of situatedness with space and architecture as active participants. While, for instance, a stage holds a range of possible, probable, and potential meanings and is embedded with sets of (expected and suggested) social relations, the particular meaning of that stage in a particular situation will always-ever be a matter of contextual, situated meaning-making. This does not leave architecture innocent; rather, it is precisely because such situations are dynamic social negotiations that architecture participates in the structural aspects of performativity. I will draw from concrete examples to address the local situatedness of people to one another through architectural configuration and geometry. ; QC 20210406
Configuration, geometry and spatial choreography
Koch, Daniel (author)
2021-01-01
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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