Antwerp, Belgium
28-29 May 2015
session 3
the empathic turn
Design takes a central role in the creation, comprehension and development of architecture. The designed artefact acts as an epistemic object, embodying various kinds of knowledge. Through spatial structure and expression, the designed building mirrors and constructs society and culture. The act of designing provokes a future‐oriented state of mind, an inquiry‐based mental mode of imagination and creation, resulting in spatial articulation, aiming at anticipating and influencing societal change. Empathy: “The quality or power of projecting one's personality into or mentally identifying oneself with an object of contemplation, and so fully understanding or appreciating it.” (Oxford English Dictionary) The ARENA DR_SoM group has invited through an open call 15 architectural design researchers to share with peers their experiences regarding their empathic relationship, through design, with the conceived/real world. This will not be done in a theoretical way, but instead based on the presentation of own design work of current research. In addition, six keynote speakers, academics and practitioners, strongly engaged with the theme, will explore and frame “the empathic turn” in architectural design research from different perspectives. Participation is free. For the individual research presentations and the round table discussions, the number of places is limited. Therefore registration is required. Register at http://www.uantwerpen.be/arena‐dr‐som/. Registration for attending the keynotes only can also be found there. an event organized by ARENA, international network for architectural research, and the
Henry van de Velde Research Group, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp
keynotes
Alessandro Ayuso Eeva‐Liisa Pelkonen Petra Pferdmenges (University of Westminster) (Yale School of Architecture) (Alive‐Architecture, Brussels) Body Agents: Empathic figures in design. Architecture and Empathy in the 20th Century Community‐based Architecture Julian Lewis Ruth Morrow Pieter Versteegh (EAST, London) (Queen’s University Belfast) (Psyche – ESA, Paris) City Relationships Respectively Yours’ Derrigaray, Rahab, Care an event organized by ARENA, international network for architectural research, and the
Henry van de Velde Research Group, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp
seminar
28 May
11:00 11:40
11:40 12:20
12:20 13:00
40' presentations
emmanuelle roberties
Nafiseh Mousavian
Ferencz Judit
GERPHAU
GERPHAU
Bartlett
Architectural Shape, Shape in shaping
Visual thinking 1 as my empathic way
visualising Robin Hood Gardens: reworking a layering
technique of Hungarian monument
protection through illustration
14:00 14:40
14:40 15:20
Gillian Horn
Andelka Cirovic
Sheffield
Belgrado
The Taste for Neo-Vernacular Housing
Drawing research: Partition of the living space in
architectural drawing
15:40 16:10
Catherine Willems
15' presentations
Hélène Aarts
HoGent
Future footware
TUEindhoven
imagining space; how to experience space through
drawing?
Human characters - spatial definitions
A Design Research Aimed at Engaging in the World
16:10 16:25
16:25 16:40
16:40 16:55
Alexander Kostic
? Nadia Casabella
WIT Ireland
ULB, La CambreHorta
29 May
11:00 11:40
11:40 12:20
40' presentations
Wayne Forster
Nerea Amoros
Cardiff
Bartlett
12:20 13:00
Kilian Doherty
Barlett
14:00 14:15
15' presentations
Litao Zho
Sheffield
14:15 14:30
Sven Mouton
Cru-Belgium
14:30 14:45
? Steven Schenk
empathy with site
Early-childhood stimulation in refugee camps in east
Africa
Post-development' design practice(s); the Reconstitution
of identities within Rwanda Nouveau
Architecture of Alterity: Start from Agents of
Embedded Bodily Spatial Practices
community earth and bamboo constructions in CamburiBrazil
Presence and empathy
FOW
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28 May 2015
welcome coffee
introduction Johan De Walsche
keynote Alessandro Ayuso
keynote Pieter Versteegh
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keynote Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
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29 May 2015
keynote Petra Pferdmenges
keynote Julian Lewis
keynote Ruth Morrow
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plenary coffee sesssion
dinner
an event organized by ARENA, international network for architectural research, and the
Henry van de Velde Research Group, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp
about the Antwerp session In design research, designerly thinking meets embedded knowledge. This mode is generating new insights and bringing forth new possibilities which could not be thought of otherwise. However, if the artefact is embodying knowledge, what does it know? What does the designer attribute the artefact to know? And if the design proposal of the designing researcher mirrors society and culture, what then can (s)he see, once becoming part of the imaginary world of the “looking” glass, which (s)he created. Design is a future‐oriented state of mind, aiming towards change. Thereby, it is the means to induce change which is designed, not the change in itself. However, can the act of design also reveal the desire for change to which it hopes to lead ? The Antwerp session of the DR_SoM series focusses on paradigmatic and methodological affinities between architectural design research and qualitative research, to be found for instance in its inductive character and the lateral position of theory, its emphasis on visual analysis, its interpretative nature, its attention to social processes, and its inescapable cultural and ethical normative framing. More precisely, the Antwerp session will focus on those moments in which the architectural designing researcher is deliberately adopting the act of designing to induce and reach an empathic stance towards his object of study. Given the multi‐ and transdisciplinary nature of architectural design, the seminar is an occasion and invitation for cross‐links and knowledge exchange on methodology between disciplines and research communities. Therefore, researchers from other disciplines, focusing on the topic of this session, are welcome to attend the sessions and join the debate. about the project Design research, a large umbrella In design research the research process is highly typified by the role and position of the act of designing, by the design proposal (an object, a building, an urban project, a landscape), by the specific capacities and fascinations of the researcher, by the profile of stakeholders, by the audience, by the research environment, by contextual references, and by the mutual interaction of these factors. As a result, architectural design research acts as a large umbrella, covering multiple approaches and addressing distinct audiences. Design Research, Series on Method After some decades of experimentation and ontological dissent, design research has come of age. At the same time, due to the amount of parameters, paradigms and perspectives that directs its conduct, design research is a multiple concept, a catch‐all term in need of clarification and discrimination. ‘Design Research, Series on Method’ (DR_SOM) consists of a series of research seminars and workshops, based on the rationale that discerning common and distinctive features in the broad scope of approaches covered by the epithet “design research”, will contribute to a better understanding of its specific capacities. The identification of particularities and coherence between themes, tools, strategies and discourse will be helpful to be more precise in writing research proposals, to allow for identifying appropriate peers, resulting in a more accurate assessment of the outcome, and, eventually, to inspire for future endeavours. At last, a better comprehension of design research as an academic field and culture will contribute to a better communication, interaction and exchange with other research disciplines and communities. It will reveal its capability for inter‐ and trans‐disciplinary research, and its capacity for offering new approaches to pending issues. The seminars In each meeting, DR_SOM sequentially focuses on a specific approach, and looks for common ground and distinctive qualities and conditions. It is a two day event consisting of workshops where early stage PhD design researchers, selected on either representativeness or originality in approach towards the theme, interact with a panel of senior researchers and an audience of peers. There are no parallel sessions, the number of participants is limited to 30 persons, discussing 10 to 15 projects. an event organized by ARENA, international network for architectural research, and the
Henry van de Velde Research Group, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp
Proposals, registration, publication The DR_SoM seminar will take place on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 May 2015. There are no parallel sessions. There is no registration fee; however, the number of participants will be limited to 40, of whom 15 researchers will present their research, either in a concise presentation of about 15 minutes, or in a more extensive presentation with a timeslot of 40 minutes, providing plenty of time for presentation and discussion. Discussions will be held as a round‐table debate. Full papers were not required as we recognize work in progress. On the contrary, participants are invited to write a paper afterwards, for publication in a booklet dedicated to this DR_SoM session. Coffee and a light lunch are offered by the organization. All participants are invited for dinner on Thursday. Registration for dinner at 40€. Next to the oral presentations, the possibility for exhibiting graphic work is provided. Further information can be found at http://www.arena‐architecture.eu/news/dr_som‐antwerp‐2015‐may‐28‐29/ and at http://www.uantwerpen.be/arena‐dr‐som/. venue Faculty of Design Sciences, Campus Mutsaard Mutsaardstraat 31, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium please check the website http://www.uantwerpen.be/arena‐dr‐som/ enquiries For enquiries on the seminar, submission and participation, please e‐mail [email protected] For enquiries on the venue, please e‐mail [email protected] DR_SoM scientific committee Oya Atalay Franck, ZHAW Winterthur Roberto Cavallo, TUDelft; Johan De Walsche, UAntwerpen (projectleader); Murray Fraser, UCL Bartlett; Flora Samuel, SSoA Sheffield; João Sequeira, ECATI/ULHT Lisbon; Johan Verbeke, KULeuven/Luca/Aarhus; Pieter Versteegh, ESA‐PSYCHE an event organized by ARENA, international network for architectural research, and the
Henry van de Velde Research Group, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp