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 Rambles Through the City: On Walking as a Method and a Figure of Understanding
10:30–11:15
Gernot Böhme, Strolling Through the Shopping Mall
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Saskia Hebert, Shifts in Place: Intersections Between Lived and Built Spaces
1:15–2:00 p.m.
Jan Restat, “The Kinesthetic Basis of Spatial Cognition”
2:00–2:45 p.m.
Katharina Brichetti, Experiencing and Understanding Architecture Through the Body
3:00–3:45 p.m.
Matthias Müller, “The Constitution of the Self as an Effect of Space”
3:45–4:30 p.m.
Franz Mechsner, People and the Scene
4:45–5:30 p.m.
Karl Schawelka, *Nobody Knows Anything*
5:30–6:15 p.m.
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”
8:00–9:00 p.m., 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, Kinematic Space and Architecture: On the Construction and Experience of Moving Spaces
10:45–11:30
, Martin Brösamle: Architecture and Gesture
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Achim Hahn, Experiencing Space in the Everyday Landscape
1:15–2:00 p.m.
Alex Arteaga, “Space as Emergence and Its Exploration Through Aesthetic Practice”
2:00–2:45 p.m.
Monika Wagner, Visual and Tactile Surfaces: On the Redesign of Urban Spaces
3:00–3:45 p.m.
Jürgen Hasse, “The Pointed Corner in the City and Architecture”
3:45–4:15 p.m.
: Closing Discussion
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