Architectural Body
Architectural Body is a pedagogical research project based at the University of the Arts in The Hague, in collaboration with the Architectural Body Research Foundation and the Arakawa + Gins Tokyo Office. The project is hosted by Dutch architect and researcher Renske Maria van Dam, with Dutch spatial artist Cocky Eek and Dutch architect/arist Joke Post.
Departing from the work of artist-and-philosopher-turned-architects Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins we study the architectural body; the crucial bodily dimension that gives way to the emergence of our spatiotemporal experience. Arakawa and Gins understand architecture as a creative tool for figuring ourselves out and constructing ourselves differently. To further their philosophical implication’s and its impact on human life they developed a so called procedural architecture. Procedural architecture offers process-oriented speculations to the way our moving bodies and environment mutually form and extend each other. A functional tool, whether it is a hammer, a telephone, or a telescope, extends the senses, but procedural architecture examines and reorders the sensorium. To study the architectural body Arakawa and Gins developed a specific form of ArtScience referred to as coordionology and biotopology. In this project we study and iterate on their approach as to examine and reorder the sensorium by means of procedural intervention.
Partners
Interactive /Media /Design | ArtScience Interfaculty | Architectural Body Research Foundation | Arakawa + Gins Tokyo office
Participants
Joke Post, Cocky Eek, Renske Maria van Dam, Tamman Azzam, Flora van Dullemen, Jacob Wallet, Thorir Hoskuldsson, Max Baraitser Smith, Bjarte Wildeman, Kristján Stein, Thordur Hans, Finn Stevenhagen, Nina Luisa, Yujia Wu, Cocky Eek, Anni Nops, and all students of the Interactive / Media / Design department at the University of the Arts The Hague.
Courses
2018 Architectural Body I: Interactive /Media / Design Department, University of the Arts The Hague
2019 Architectural Body II: ArtScience Interfaculty, The Hague
2020 Architectural Body III: ArtScience Interfaculty, The Hague
Contact for course material
Events
Exhibition: Burst Week, February 2018
Exhibition: A Laboratory for Daily Research, October 2020
Architectural Body III, September 2020
Architectural Body II, October 2019