Radical MaterialityOn Materialised Interaction?

JOINT DOCTORAL SEMINARS ARCHITECTURE + ARTSTuesday 04/02/2014 9:00 am - 18:00 pm

LUCA – Campus Sint Lukas BrusselPaleizenstraat 70

1030 BrusselsRoom A 2.03

Attending the JDS is free of charge Register by sending an email to dieter.devlieghere@kuleuven.be before 31st January 2014.

JOINT DOCTORAL SEMINARS ARCHITECTURE & ARTSRADICAL MATERIALITY

In the context of the shifting institutional landscape, this series of Joint Doctoral Seminars (JDS) was set up with the intention to preserve and further enhance the fundamental ar-tistic connectedness between the different disciplines present at LUCA, more particularly between the Arts and Architecture. We choose to set up this JDS around a specific theme: Radical Materiality. This theme represents a content that is basic to both architecture and the arts: every artistic discipline aims at placing something in the world such that it moves us; at (re)structuring matter in order to enhance its capacity to touch us. Or as Henk Borg-dorff stated: characteristic of artistic products, processes and experiences is the fact that in and through the materiality of the medium something is presenced that surpasses the materiality. By radically putting materiality at the centre of the conversation, each doctoral presentation will be looked upon through an additional lens – that is, apart from the content, topic and approach particular to each individual project, we will specifically look at the role matter and materiality have in the projects.

Two JDS days will be organized, each addressing a specific aspect of materiality. Radical Materiality Edition 1 will focus on Materialised Interaction (Feb 4th, 2014) and Radical Ma-teriality Edition 2 will focus on sensuous and embodied matter (June 12th, 2014). The theme will be framed both from an architectural and an artistic perspective. This will be done by two external experts who will give their view at the start of the JDS. Then follow 6 presentations by PhD students both from the arts and from architecture. A panel, also mixed ‘Architecture + Arts’, will give feedback on each presentation. Concluding the day, the invited experts will present a cross-section of the presented work based on its relation to materiality and how it is dealt with in the research.

Radical Materiality 1On Materialised Interaction?

The first JDS addresses the theme of Materialized interaction from two main perspectives. In the morning we focus on the genre of interaction as occurs between the maker and the made, between the ‘materializer’ and the ‘materialized’. The work presented gives an ac-count of how matter and maker in-form and trans-form one another. It also substantiates a recurrent fascination for matter as an active agent in the design process; for how matter informs the process of generating ideas and artefacts; and for the poetics of artistic appro-priation of craftsmanship and fabrication.While in the morning it is all about the one to one conversation between the designer and the designed, the afternoon will address matter as it performs in a more collective effort of interacting with a larger socio-material context. The work presented tells the story of how props, probes, mock ups, models and the like facilitate the communication between different actors (human and non-human) and as such, establish participatory strategies that engage co-materialising as an act of building communities.

The day thus juxtaposes two different intrinsic logics of the agency of materiality. One that focuses on the inner qualities of matter as they emerge through poetic manipulation. The role of matter here is to provide the input to its very own transformation as by the hand of the designer or artist material qualities are turned into artefactual qualities. The other strand focuses more on the outward oriented qualities of matter, such as the communicative and engaging logic of materials. The role of matter and material is here to enhance co-creativity whereby the actual design problem lays outside the material objects used in the process.

09.15-09.30:

Welcome and introduction – Carl Van Eyndhoven

09.30-10.00:

Framing I: On Materialised Interaction? in Arts – Liesbeth Huybrechts

Framing II: On Materialised Interaction? in Architecture – Søren Kjørup

10.00-11.00:

Case I: HUNACTURING - Contemporary jewellery & objects. Questioning the nature of re-production via a fusion of natural materials and mechanical treatment, within an industrial

context. – Lore Langendries (30’)

Q&A from panel and public (30’)

11.00-12.00:

Case II: Projective Modelling: Between Design and Making – Corneel Cannaerts (30’)

Q&A from panel and public (30’)

12.00-13.00:

Case III: From everyday object to sculpture – Dimitri van Grunderbeek (30’)

Q&A from panel and public (30’)

13.00-14.00:

Lunch

14.00-15.00:

Case I: Cultivating Communities Haspengouw – Ben Hagenaars (30’)

Q&A from panel and public (30’)

15.00-16.00:

Case I: Socially innovative forms of urban disaster reconstruction; the potential of social capital in building resilience to future natural disasters. A political ecology perspective

(case study: the post-Katrina New Orleans) – Angeliki Paidakaki (30’)

Q&A from panel and public (30’)

16.00 -17.00:

Case III: Visioning Resonance in Architecture – Dag Boutsen (30’)

Q&A from panel and public (30’)

Radical MaterialityOn Materialised Interaction?