The human body has often been neglected in the context of architectural reception, however it is the essential prerequisite of all our perception and understanding, thought and action. So, we asked ourselves: How can the corporeal reading of Aarhus help us define “the relationship between architecture and film”, the topic of the summer school?
We were invited to teach at CAFx Summer School at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. We based our masterclass with Carmen Garcia from Landscape Film Festival on a process developing participants’ spatial sensuousness. By touching, smelling, and listening we uncover the subtle side of architecture, which we easily all overlook.
Connecting to space through touch.
Connecting to space through smell.
In the first stage of the process we dismantled our body into sensory units, connecting to space through smell, touch, taste, sight and hearing, whereas in the second stage we put them back together and exposed our body to the city with the newly established spatial awareness. This embodied knowledge integrates qualities, which cannot be found on any map or a plan and leads towards solving creative tasks in an engaging and innovative way.
In the final stage of the process participants placed their individual experiences one next to another and asked themselves: What can we as a group agree to agree upon the relationship between architecture and film? Their answer “From the infinite to the point” consists of twelve installations called ”Sensory poems”. They reinterpret space in a cinematic way, without actually being the cinema”. Feel free to read more about them here.
Testing and Experimenting.
Testing and experimenting)
Testing and experimenting.
Testing and experimenting.
Sensing and perception are inherently subjective, no matter what reality is, there is no correspondence to reality other than what we experience and there is no truth other than what we as human fellows agreed upon. We are using Mindful Spatial Experiencing sessions as a vehicle to enrich and create experiences that will be “shared” among our ”fellow human beings” to come to an “agreement” about architecture.
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