Gatherings
(2018)
author(s): Annelies, Alice De Smet
published in: Research Catalogue
‘Gatherings’ are the second level of operation of the doctoral study ‘Architecting Bodies by Immersive Gestures’. The first level of operation is called ‘responsive walking’ and is of direct embodied immersion of the author/learner’s bodymind while looking for the mess in urban environments and adopting a micro-perspective by means of walking and embodied creation. The second level departs from the assumption that embodied immersions in mess by responsive walking are desettling and urge sense-making. By creating video-assemblages, performance-lectures and conversation pieces processes of embodied sense-making are explored. Thereby, the challenge is to avoid the pitfalls of quick dichotomic, hierarchic and disembodied understandings of bodymindly engaging with the environment. To resist slipping into these categories – that are so readily present when sense-making is discursively elaborated – the notion of ‘pregnantness’ and the notion of a ‘propelling hypothesis’ are proposed. The former is a bodymind state that allows to imaginatively presence not-yet and becoming significances of embodied engagements with environments. The latter is an operative design instrument that allows the responsive shifts in hypothesis to become the very mechanism of a form-giving practice that reflects whimsicalities and contingencies. In order to work towards ‘pregnantness’ and follow the ‘propelling hypothesis’, gatherings interweave autobiographical, fictional and referential voices (i.e. the work of others) through one another. Also different media (i.e. body, drawing, writing, photo, video, sound, animation, modelling), low-tech assembling and analogue-poetic thinking are put into action to bring more sensory, ephemeral, affective and imaginative aspects of bodymindly relating to the environment into account.
MATTERS OF CARE
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Breg Horemans, Valentijn Goethals, Mira Sanders, Tybo Dessein, Hanh Trinh, Hanh Trinh, Mathieu Voet, Jolien Vleminckx, Louise Vantoest, Robin Miel, Artuur Herman, Brent Muys, Lotte Engelborghs, Heleen Goethals, Jens Allard, Remmelt De Rauw, Elise Gaeremynck, Julie Lenaerts, Hannes Torrekens, Ruben Verbanck, lukas vandeweege, Hanne Reynaert, Lynn Alleman, Annelies, Alice De Smet, Maïté Peters, Lotte Vanderbemden, Nicolas Van Oyen, Bert De Backer, Noor Naessens, Stijn Oeyen, Aiken Parmar, Amber Vermaete, Alice Van Heuverswyn, Fleur Trossaert, Michiel Mertens, RUBEN DE VOGELAERE, Simon Rooms, Andrijs Arnout, Maarten Deman, Caro De Block, Marieke Schoonjans, Michelle Vervaele, Cas Maertens
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This is a collective introduction page to 'Matters of Care - Positioneren I-II', a project that runs from September 21st to June 21st 2021 for the 3rd bachelor in Architecture at the Department of Architecture of KUL in Ghent.
Dit is de collectieve introductie-pagina voor 'Matters of Care - Positioneren I-II', een project dat loopt van 21 september tot 21 juni 2021 voor de 3de bachelor in de Architectuur van het Departement Architectuur aan de KUL, in Gent.
