Bodily-scenic sensitivity as the basis of a new aesthetic?
The visual perception of architecture is traditionally overemphasized. We don’t just view the world as distanced observers, but experience it with all our senses and are part of the situation ourselves. One of the key factors here is physical sensation, the importance of which for spatial experience was underestimated or even ignored until recently. These new approaches result in promising and fascinating perspectives for the understanding of architecture, the city and designed space, which will be explored and further developed in the proposed symposium.
An event of the Institute for Building and Urban History, TU Berlin (Prof. Dr. Johannes Cramer) and the Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin (Dr. Hans-Dieter Nägelke) Organizers: Katharina Brichetti & Franz Mechsner
Lecture program
Monday, May 21, 2012
9.45-10.30
Kirsten Wagner, Sensory expeditions through the city. Walking as a method and a figure of knowledge
10.30-11.15
Gernot Böhme, Strolling in the shopping mall
11.30-12.15
Saskia Hebert, Shifts in location: Interfaces between lived and built spaces
13.15-14.00
Jan Restat, The kinaesthetic basis of spatial cognition
14.00-14.45
Katharina Brichetti, Experiencing and understanding architecture in the flesh
15.00-15.45
Matthias Müller, The constitution of the self as an effect of space
15.45-16.30
Franz Mechsner, man and scene
16.45-17.30
Karl Schawelka, Nobody knows anything
17.30-18.15
Annette Homann, A veil of light moves the body
Evening program
19.00-22.00 Foyer in front of A053
Alex Arteaga, open film installation: “Emerging Environments”
20.00-21.00 Room A053
Gernot Böhme, Metaphors in Architecture (Public Evening Lecture)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
9.00-9.45
Axel Buether, spatial thinking and visual communication
9.45-10.30
Nathalie Bredella, Cinematic Space and Architecture. On the construction and experience of moving spaces
10.45-11.30
Martin Brösamle, Architecture and Gesture
11.30-12.15
Achim Hahn, Experience in the space of the everyday landscape
13.15-14.00
Alex Arteaga, Space as emergence and its exploration through aesthetic practice
14.00-14.45
Monika Wagner, Optical and tactile surfaces. From the transformation of urban spaces
15.00-15.45
Jürgen Hasse, The sharp corner in city and architecture
15.45-16.15
Final discussion
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