PDFS: DWELLING ACTS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTS SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTS BUILDING ACTS REPRESENTATIONAL ACTS RESEARCH IN ACTION
Push, Pull, Bend, Bind: Enacting Architecture Through Behaviour and Consequence
LANCELOT COAR, University of Manitoba
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Informality in Bogotá: Housing, Rapid Urbanization, and Public Space
JORGE COLÓN, University of New Mexico
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Poetic Action for Autism: An Intersubjective Approach
ALLISON DVORAK, MSH Architects
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Black Contemporary: Act of Construction
PETER P. GOCHÉ, Iowa State University
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Experiencing the Three-Legged Stool: Social, Economic and Environmental Education
Through the Mariposa Redevelopment
MARIANNE BELLINO HOLBERT, University of Colorado-Boulder
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Clouds of Action: Rethinking Urban Contexts as Differential and Participatory Fields
HANNAH HOPEWELL, Auckland University of Technology
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Inhabiting Difference: Integrating Rule Based Design and Cultural Ritual
JASON S. JOHNSON, University of Calgary
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Exposing Experiences: Research Based Placemaking
JENNY KEMPSON, Framework Cultural Placemaking (Seattle)
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Turbulence and the Creation of Home
GRAHAM LIVESEY, University of Calgary
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Heaven on Earth: Transient Dwelling and Adaptation in Downtown Houston
GREGORY MARINIC, University of Houston
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Digital Surrogacy in Ephemeral Sites
URSULA EMERY MCCLURE, Louisiana State University
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Returning Anew: Sequential Experience in the Jewett Art Center
KEVIN MOORE, Auburn University
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Patterning Temporary Atmospheres: Installations for the Experience of Sound and Light
CLAY ODOM, University of Texas
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Photography as a Phenomenological Tool in Architectural Representation
ERIKA PETRIC, Technical University of Graz
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Apocalyptic Architecture: Designing Within Resilient Detroit
ZIAD QURESHI, Iowa State University
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Free Zoning: Designing a Framework for Typological Evolution and Continual Building Acts
GEORG RAFAILIDIS, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Blind Spot: The User Usurps the Dwelling Act and the Designer’s Attention
NATALIJA SUBOTINCIC, University of Manitoba
In Air and Dreams Gaston Bachelard ponders, “…I am inclined to believe that flight is a warm wind before being a wing.” 1 In contemplating the design process one might also say that architecture is an imagined experience before becoming a physical thing. How we, as designers, verbally articulate our design(s) reveals much about what we are imagining and where our attention is placed. Not that many years ago, a variety of verbs were commonly employed when imagining life within the spaces we design: to live, reside, inhabit, abide, occupy, exist, and more specifically, to pass through, pause, wander, etc. Through language, these diverse terms allowed us to touch upon the particular nature of the relationship we were creating between the inhabitant(s) and the spaces we were designing for them. Juhani Pallasmaa eloquently offers the following in this regard, “The phenomenology of architecture is founded on verbs rather than nouns. The approaching of the house, not the facade, the act of entering, not the door; the act of looking out of the window, not the window itself; or the act of gathering around rather than the hearth or the table as such seem to trigger our strongest emotions.” 2 When we as designers engage dwelling acts through verbs, we gain access to, and in turn may affect, this rich and multifarious emotional terrain at the heart of experience. Recently, however, we have seen a significant impoverishment of the language employed in speaking and thinking about design. The rich pallet of verbs has been almost exclusively replaced with the terms use and the user. This paper will discuss the origins and emergence of the user as the exclusive inhabitant of imagined/designed spaces, and will examine how the user has come to affect the way designs are conceived, with speculations on what this might mean for human experience.
1 Gaston Bachelard, “The Poetics of Wings,” in Air and Dreams, An Essay on the Imagination of Movement, trans. E. and F. Farrell (Dallas: The Dallas Institute Publications, 1988), 73.
2 Juhani Pallasmaa, “Identity, Intimacy and Domicile - Notes on the Phenomenology of Home,” in Arkkitehti – Finnish Architectural Review (Helsinki, Suomen Arkkitehtiliitto, 1994), accessed June 13, 2007, http://www2.uiah.fi/esittely/historia/e_ident.htm#identity
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Toward Anonymity in Architecture: An Augmentation of the Historical Project of Autonomy
JOSHUA M. TARON, University of Calgary
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Call Before You Cut! The Importance of Tree Protection
ANNA THURMAYR, University of Manitoba
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AARON J. WEINERT, Wentworth Institute of Technology
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The Architectural Lessons of Anselm Kiefer’s La Ribaute: The Material of History and the Space of Dramatic Representation
STEPHEN A. WISCHER, North Dakota State University
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PAOLA ZELLNER, Virginia Tech
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Atmosphere is generously supported by the Faculty of Architecture Endowment Fund and the following professional associations: the Manitoba Association of Architects (MAA); the Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects (MALA); and the Professional Interior Designers Institute of Manitoba (PIDIM).
Aspects of Atmosphere 2014 ACTION are being presented in collaboration with StoreFront Manitoba and aceartinc.