About
Spacious Pedagogy explores an alternative way to connect architects and artists with their research and practice. What distinguishes our approach is the emphasis on sited experimentation in the form of sensorial fieldwork and procedural intervention.
We find that the goal oriented work ethos that takes place inside the design office or faculty building, distances us from the dark, dirty and wild aspects of architectural life.
The emphasis on design concepts and experiential futures undermines the real work as it happens in the immediacy—and uncertainty—of the lived experience.
To study and construct space should not imply a withdrawal from society. Instead, it should include a direct collaboration with the environment itself.
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Sited experimentation at the Artscience Interfaculty in The Hague, October 2020
Participate and collaborate
Working with(in) Spacious enables you to develop alternative rhythms for your spatial practice. We bridge the gap between artistic and academic research in the Dutch architectural community by connecting practice-based research with a solid cross-pollinated theoretical framework at the intersection between Asian and Western practices.
Our projects are organized as open research-ateliers. Participants are held together by affinity rather than by any structure of membership or institutional hierarchy. We work by the principle of give-and-take; you are asked to contribute what you can and take what you need.
Projects run over multiple years and are presented across diverse media, methods and milieus. In the past years we have worked on the projects Tiny Perceptions (2019-2021), Architectural Body, (2018-2020) Movement Matters (2016-2018), and Sensing Shipyard (2017-2018). Currently, we work on the project Hugging Architecture .
To experiment is not to know in advance and –more often than not–to forget after the event. Therefore, we start without a predefined plan to let curiosity-driven and proactive experimentation emerge in correspondence with the site.
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Sited experimentation at Scheveningen beach The Hague, ArtScience Interfaculty, October 2020
Team and partners
Spacious has a small core team that initiates and guides the experiments. From that base, the community engages a transdisciplinary constellation of cultural organizations, educational institutes, researchers and creative practitioners.
Past and current partners include: ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague; INSIDE Master of Interior Design in The Hague; Ecologies of Architecture Research Group at the Technical University in Delft; Material Narratives Research Group at KU Leuven in Brussels/Ghent; Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and the Sonic Acts Academy in Amsterdam.
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Core team
Renske Maria van Dam
Founder
Spacious is initiated by architect and creative practice researcher Renske Maria van Dam. In her atelier, creative practice research coincides with the careful construction of architectural life. She started Spacious to bridge the gap between artistic and academic research in the Dutch architectural community.
renskemaria.com
Vivien Vuong
Research Assistant
Vivien Vuong studies at the ArtScience Interfaculty and the Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD). As creator of regenerative spaces, she studies breathing as an artistic medium. In the summer of 2022, she has joined Spacious as research assistant to support all ongoing activities.
Creative researchers and practitioners
Leon Lapa Pereira
Performance Researcher
Cross-disciplinairy performance researcher Leon Lapa Pereira develops experienceable ecologies between humans and plants to expose the mediated body. Leon is involved in the project Hugging Architecture.
arisiology.hotglue.me
Cocky Eek
Spatial Artist
Spatial Artist Cocky Eek connects us with the deeper layers of our surroundings. As Cocky would say: 'Perceiving directly that there is no separation between the environment and us is profoundly different from thinking about it.’ Cocky is involved in the projects Movement Matters and Sensing Shipyard.
cockyeek.com
Max Baraitser Smith
Practice-based Researcher
Max Baraitser Smith works with ancient technologies and self-built musical instruments. He is interested in how these devices embody abstract concepts, e.g. about time, gravity, synchronicity, momentum falling, bouncing or rolling. Max is involved in the projects Architectural Body and Tiny Perceptions.
max.huntergatherergames.com