New forms of collaboration are here not simply locales for experimentation: they are matrices of cultural becoming.
Experimentation will function as much at this collective level as at the conceptual level, and on both levels technically. The aim of the event is produce a platform for speculative pragmatism where what begins technically as a movement is immediately a movement of thought.
Participants are invited to propose pragmatic “platforms of relation” that can be experimented with during the event.
Readings
A.N. Whitehead, Modes of Thought (NY : Free Press, 1938), extracts (Chapter 1
« Importance », sections 1-7, pages 1-15; Chapter 2 « Expression », sections 1-4,
pages 20-36; Chapter 8, pages 148-174)
A.N. Whitehead, Process and Reality (NY : Free Press, 1978), extracts (part 1,
chapter 1, section 5 on the limits of language; part 3, chapter 1 on the theory of
feelings)
Gilles Deleuze, Le Pli : Leibniz et le baroque (Paris : PUF, 1988), Chapter 7, « La
perception dans les plis », pages 113-132; English translation The Fold
(Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pages 85-99
Greg Lynn, Animate Form (Princeton : Princeton Architectural Press, 1999),
« Animate Form », pages 8-43
Madeline Gins and Arakawa, The Architectural Body (Tuscaloosa : University of
Alabama Press, 2002), extracts (Chapter 1, « Organism That Persons », pages 1-
4; Chapter 2, « Landing Sites », pages 5-22; Chapter 4 « Architectural Surround »
pages 39-47)
Bernard Cache, Earth Moves (Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995), extracts (Chapter
1, « Territorial Image », pages 5-19; Chapter 2, « Architectural Image », pages
22-29; Chapter 6, « Dehors », pages 68-75
Housing the Body; Dressing the Environment
New forms of collaboration are here not simply locales for experimentation: they are matrices of cultural becoming.
Experimentation will function as much at this collective level as at the conceptual level, and on both levels technically. The aim of the event is produce a platform for speculative pragmatism where what begins technically as a movement is immediately a movement of thought.
Participants are invited to propose pragmatic “platforms of relation” that can be experimented with during the event.
Readings
A.N. Whitehead, Modes of Thought (NY : Free Press, 1938), extracts (Chapter 1
« Importance », sections 1-7, pages 1-15; Chapter 2 « Expression », sections 1-4,
pages 20-36; Chapter 8, pages 148-174)
A.N. Whitehead, Process and Reality (NY : Free Press, 1978), extracts (part 1,
chapter 1, section 5 on the limits of language; part 3, chapter 1 on the theory of
feelings)
Gilles Deleuze, Le Pli : Leibniz et le baroque (Paris : PUF, 1988), Chapter 7, « La
perception dans les plis », pages 113-132; English translation The Fold
(Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pages 85-99
Greg Lynn, Animate Form (Princeton : Princeton Architectural Press, 1999),
« Animate Form », pages 8-43
Madeline Gins and Arakawa, The Architectural Body (Tuscaloosa : University of
Alabama Press, 2002), extracts (Chapter 1, « Organism That Persons », pages 1-
4; Chapter 2, « Landing Sites », pages 5-22; Chapter 4 « Architectural Surround »
pages 39-47)
Bernard Cache, Earth Moves (Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995), extracts (Chapter
1, « Territorial Image », pages 5-19; Chapter 2, « Architectural Image », pages
22-29; Chapter 6, « Dehors », pages 68-75