EVENT + CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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<br>This event is free to attend and will consist of a morning lecture and
<br>afternoon seminar with two guest speakers. We welcome PhD students and early
<br>career scholars who are interested in participating in the afternoon seminar.
<br>Further details about the event and how to apply for travel bursaries can be
<br>found below.
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<br>ANOTHER SCENOGRAPHY FOR ARCHITECTURE: EXPERIENCE AND A RENEWED EMPIRICISM
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<br>University of Manchester, UK
<br>Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG)
<br>06 June 2019
<br>10 am - 6 pm
<br>Rm 1.69/1.70 Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
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<br>Guest Speakers:
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<br>- Prof. Hlne Frichot - Professor of Architecture in Critical Studies and
<br>Gender Theory, and Director of Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH
<br> "Creative Ecologies: Environment-Worlds, Things, and Thinkables"
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<br>- Dr. Keith Murphy - Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine.
<br> "Critical Empiricism in a World of Designed Things"
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<br>Event Description:
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<br>Experience is often cut in two: split between a brute and passive materiality
<br>and the active subjective representations added to it. In the diagnosis of
<br>philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, it is bifurcated between primary and
<br>secondary qualities, whether in terms of nature and culture, mind and matter,
<br>words and things, subject and object. Architectural and urban theory is still
<br>stuck within this scenography: either a passive built form that reflects or
<br>acts according to subjective representations, cultural, social, political and
<br>economic forces; or an active built environment that determines behaviour,
<br>structures social relations, or produces percepts. Either one or the other.
<br>But this affords a rather anaemic understanding of architectural experience!
<br>If, in the spirit of a renewed empiricism, we would like to learn from
<br>experience again, it is essential to escape this dualism and engage with
<br>another scenography. One populated with many more actors and scripts: the
<br>surprising agency of objects and materials, with different kinds of expertise,
<br>knowledge and activities, and set within a heterogeneous and relational
<br>ecology of practices.
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<br>This workshop aims to explore this different scenography through a broader
<br>concept of experience, taking inspiration from the pragmatist tradition of the
<br>early 20th century, its revival in the methodology of Actor-Network Theory,
<br>and in contemporary philosophy. On the one hand, this concept of experience
<br>allows us to multiply and reconfigure the boundaries of what constitutes
<br>architecture: from the use of space, the design practices of architects,
<br>politics of construction, urban and infrastructural ecologies, to
<br>architectural aesthetics and the annals of architectural history. On the other
<br>hand, it forces us to rethink our methodological tactics for researching it,
<br>and to re-orient the production of architectural knowledge. The aim is to
<br>collectively experiment and discuss this difficult notion of experience by
<br>testing it against empirics drawn from our individual investigations and its
<br>potential for informing architectural thought and research.
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<br>How to Apply:
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<br>We welcome proposals to participate in the afternoon session from early career
<br>/ PhD researchers on the concept of experience within architectural practice
<br>and research. Proposals should illustrate how experience manifests in your
<br>research (through its questions and means) and how it assists the group in
<br>exploring this within architecture. A small number of BURSARIES for travel
<br>are available. To apply please send an abstract (Max 250 words) by May 06 2019
<br>to either: benjamin.blackwell@manchester.ac.uk,
<br>brett.mommersteeg@manchester.ac.uk, david.johnson-3@manchester.ac.uk,
<br>simon.mitchell-2@manchester.ac.uk
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<br>Organisers: Brett Mommersteeg, Ben Blackwell, David Johnson, Simon Mitchell
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<br>Brett Mommersteeg
<br>Doctoral Researcher, Architecture
<br>The University of Manchester
<br>MA, Theory and Criticism
<br>+44 07521187557
<br>brett.mommersteeg@manchester.ac.uk
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