Hugging Architecture
In the project Hugging Architecture we explore tactics from art and design which activate new levels of the radical care and affection with and for our surroundings. With a focus on affirmative ethics as a practical exercise, we wonder what it means to shift focus from the disempowering feelings of fear or nostalgia, to the generative power of compassionate actions in the here and now.
We collaborate with the newly built cultural center of the Hague called Amare. Amare is designed as a ‘multiversum’: an inviting, multifunctional, cultural and social space with streets, alleyways and small squares. In this context, we work towards artistic interventions that invite empathic engagements with the built environment. Collectively, we question what it means to “dare to care”.
In this project we work with students from the Interactive/ Media/ Department and the Artscience Interfaculty at the University of the Arts The Hague. The project is initiated and guided by architect and researcher Renske Maria van Dam, together with performance researcher Leon Lapa Pereira and atmosphere designer Hannah Mulqueen.
Presentations
15 December 2022: Presentation Day at Amare
2 June 2023: Opening exhibition with spatial interventions and performances at Amare
2-17 June 2023: Exhibition at Amare
17 June: Short reflection at De Dag van de Architectuur Den Haag
Partners
Amare, Cultural Centre The Hague | ArtScience Interfaculty |
Interactive/Media/ Design, University of The Arts The Hague
Courses and Workshops
2022 Interactive/ Media / Design
2022 ArtScience Interfaculty.
We collaborate with the newly built cultural center of the Hague called Amare. Amare is designed as a ‘multiversum’: an inviting, multifunctional, cultural and social space with streets, alleyways and small squares. In this context, we work towards artistic interventions that invite empathic engagements with the built environment. Collectively, we question what it means to “dare to care”.
In this project we work with students from the Interactive/ Media/ Department and the Artscience Interfaculty at the University of the Arts The Hague. The project is initiated and guided by architect and researcher Renske Maria van Dam, together with performance researcher Leon Lapa Pereira and atmosphere designer Hannah Mulqueen.
Presentations
15 December 2022: Presentation Day at Amare
2 June 2023: Opening exhibition with spatial interventions and performances at Amare
2-17 June 2023: Exhibition at Amare
17 June: Short reflection at De Dag van de Architectuur Den Haag
Partners
Amare, Cultural Centre The Hague | ArtScience Interfaculty |
Interactive/Media/ Design, University of The Arts The Hague
Courses and Workshops
2022 Interactive/ Media / Design
2022 ArtScience Interfaculty.
Start Reading with Us:
Braidotti, R. (2019). Affirmative Ethics and Generative Life. In Deleuze and Guattari Studies 13.4: 463-481.
Lavin, S. (2011) Kissing Architecture. Princeton, UK: Princeton University Press.
Strauss, C.F. (2021). Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz.
O’Brien, K. (2021) You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World.
van Dam, R. M. (2021) Working With/In the Gap: Japan-ness in Architecture of Experience. [Doctoral Dissertation] Brussels, Belgium: KU Leuven.
Wołodźko, A. A. (2015). Materiality of affect. How art can reveal the more subtle realities of an encounter. In This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life, Brill/Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York.
