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2021, L4 Society Zine
This theoretical essay draws on the spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre and others; as well as recent technoscientific ethnography (Lisa Messeri) and cultural-architectural history (Fred Scharmen) within Space Studies; as well as the ideas of space-settlement found in the work of Gerard O'Neill, Timothy Leary, and Freeman Dyson. It proceeds and concludes by synthesizing these threads into a particular conceptual assemblage which makes spatial, political, and ontological arguments concerning strategies, tactics, and operations of/in praxis within the frame of the contemporary and everyday life, as well as towards long-term goals involving these topics with special focus centering the entwined foci of: 1) Spatial praxis and the production of space; 2) Post-scarcity and cyborg-Posthumanist futures, which reach out towards space settlement beyond the territory of the Earth. The essay is also served with original digital art by the author. [This is a pre-publication final draft and may visually differ from the final physical publication.] Buy the (beautiful!) zine @ https://tinyurl.com/5c8wxb4n
Montreal Architectural Review, Vol. 3
Dasein in a Space Station: The Conquest of Space and the Potentiality of Architecture2016 •
The paper explores some aspects of astronautics' influence on late-modernist architecture and its existential consequences. The astronautics' technologies and many 1960s designs of futuristic cities shared a false sense that in the near future man would be able to live anywhere on Earth (underwater, in the desert) as well as in outer space. When Ron Herron envisages the Walking City as a group of lunar rovers, with no foundations, freely roaming the surface, a GIAP member, Paul Maymont designs an air-conditioned city on the Moon. Less known are similar concepts by the architects from the Central-Eastern Europe, such as the "spacesuit-isation" of public buildings presented by Polish architect Andrzej Frydecki at the Terra-1 International Exhibition of Intentional Architecture (Wrocław Museum of Architecture, 1975). The hermetic spacesuit, which was to control and maintain fixed vital parameters of the body during space flight, has provided a solution for the modernist tendency to hermetically seal the spaces of architecture. The house of the future was to resemble the spacecraft cabin, as if the modernist "machine for living" paradigm had been replaced by the idea of a survival capsule for interplanetary flight. A similar tendency can be found in the 1960s urban utopias; the cities of the future are often disconnected from the ground, as if the new Gabriela Świtek | Montreal Architectural Review : Vol. 3, 2016 70 civilization could not be rooted on Earth. The 1960s architectural question of "dwelling on the Moon" is confronted with Hannah Arendt's and Martin Heidegger's reflection that it is the earth, and not the universe , which is "the centre and the home of mortal men."
III Criticall Proceedings
Space and the otherness: An anthologyAlexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 2011. The project began in 2001 resulting in three volumes: Designing Cities (2003), The Form of the Cities (2006) and Understanding Cities (2011). Unlike other anthologies on architecture, this author organized it as follows: critical selection of authors' texts from various disciplinary areas (vol. I), the approach systematization according to the defined categories (vol. II) and the discussion of the "meta-theories" that would underpin a renewed critical disciplinary perspective (vol. III). The categories of analysis include the disciplinary tradition and emerging In this sense, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) had already indicated the ideological limits of both modern urbanism and the new spatial strategies of globalization, and proposed a new science of space and city, free from the direct injunctions of the defining economic determinations of 'urban society'. This would be a task of thinking about social praxis. The aim of this research is to answer: Does this theoretical-empirical approach respond to the Lefebvrian requirement of a critical-theoretical reflection that would be the basis of a new space discipline? Does Alexander Cuthbert overcome the dichotomy between urbanism and architecture towards a disciplinary methodology of spatial intervention? Therefore, this study discusses the categories of Alexander Cuthbert according to Lefebvre's critical propositions and his "unitary urbanism". In this sense, we believe that instead of proposing operational categories, Cuthbert proposes heterologies – or preconditions – that could configure a new critical thinking. Its objective would be a theoretical unit that surpassed the urbanism like "fragmentary sciences", restricted to the functional and economic dimensions of the production of the space. Cuthbert's anthology showed the most appropriate approach to the new themes and challenges, considering the multiplicity of theoretical interfaces that converge in the architectural practice. Panel presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av43DmhHsFs
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In this paper, I study some aspects of urban environment using the concept of non-place intro- duced by Marc Augé in 1995. I first define the concepts of space, place and non-place. I then explain why nomadism plays an important role in the way that we appropriate urban space. I discuss the role of narrative architects and how they intervene in the politics of space. And I conclude by questioning the supposedly superiority of places over non-places.
The theory of architecture has an inquisitory point of view through the design, production or the use of space. Thinking upon the space and its interrelations between other subjects, the main problematic of this research is the space as configuration: how it constitutes itself and relates with human. Thus, the point can be divided into two groups which are the physical formation of the space and the social experience of the person self. Relating these two subjects, the patterns of space and the patterns of culture comes up to the issue. Spatial configuration can be defined as a progressive process which connects the built environment and the human's spatial experience and behaviour. Nevertheless, apart from this connection the configuration of space has also a cultural meaning which relates with the everyday life living patterns. With this regard, firstly the theoretical background is being discussed through examining the physical formation of the space: shape and spatial configuration. Secondly, the social experience of the human is being discussed while understanding human's spatial experience and cultural living patterns. On the third part, the space syntax technique opened up to the issue, reading both the patterns of space and culture. It is aimed to see the possibilities of space syntax in order to understand the social logic of the space. Thus, some plans will be analysed using the space syntax diagrammes and comparisons are being made. The relation between the patterns of space and culture will be investigated. The findings will be discussed upon the space syntax research which defines spatial configuration as the understanding of social dimension in human environment. Introduction Description of the Subject Built form (shape) can be defined as a physical appearance in architecture. Nevertheless, it constitutes a space having configurational properties which also have social and cultural meanings. Spatial arrangements consist of several organizational units in which different living patterns occur. Thus it becomes important to make a connection between the physical arrangements and the cultural living patterns of the space. According to Rapoport (1980), environments are thought before they are built. The design of a space has a prethinking process. Architects configure the space as they use this prethinking and designing process. Then there is a process of producing and using the space as it is presented. Pearson & Richards (1994) examines this as ''We build in order to think and act. The relationship is essentially dynamic and reflexive. Winston Churchill said that-first we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us-''. So we can consider that there is a kind of interaction between the space we built and the built space that effects us. The conception of a space can be shallowly defined as a series of objects that exists and the organisation of them or in other words the way they come together. So the first part of the research subject can be examined the space and the spatial organisation. On the other hand, there is also a human who involve in the space and constitute a new kind of meaning in the space. Heidegger focuses on this point as ''What is being?'' and the word ''Dasein'' which refers to ''Being there''. For Heidegger, a building was built according to the specifics of place and inhabitants, shaped by its physical and human topography (Sharr, 2007). Thus, the second part comprises from the human as involving in the space with its internal experiences. In addition, the human spatial experience lead us to the cultural living patterns. The reason why there is a two-sided relation between the space and the human is that of the patterns of the space which affect the human and the patterns of the culture that influence the space. The third part of the subject is then understanding both the patterns of space and the culture.
Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry (Edited by Vassiliki Rapti and Eric Gordon)
Technoecologies: The Interplay of Space and Its Perception2021 •
The essay presents how Technoecologies exhibition at the intersection of art, architecture, and humanities reconceives the relationship between humans and their environment in architecture through prototypes and models that explore emerging forms of bioarchitecture, living systems, and evolving environments. Technoecologies exhibition proposes a metabolic architecture as a provocative alternative approach, being manifested by speculative yet tangible ways (technoutopia vision). Metabolic architecture is contemplated here both literally, and metaphorically. Literally, it deals with material transformations caused by either growth or decay of organic matter. Metaphorically, it relates to immaterial transformations of light or sound caused by environmental or artificial stimuli. Through these processes, metabolism within architecture becomes an apparatus that produces constant changes in form, space, and in user perception.Through a series of concepts/modes such as metamaquettes and installations, the notion of experiment and experience, metabolic aesthetics, the binary of ordinary and illusionary, empathy and vulnerability, as well as public participation and user engagement, Technoecologies exhibition let us envision the possibility of this future world, and its positive and playful aspects.
40th International Conference on Environmental Systems
A Nonterrestrial Approach to Space Inhabitation2010 •
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
A Waste of Space? Towards a Critique of the Social Production of Space2000 •
The aim of this study is to describe a model of the dynamics of constituting a living place that is peculiar to the material condition of humanity today and that lends itself to empirical studies of meta-development and sustainability of the human-made environment. The empirical point of departure is the novel character of contemporary knowledge and knowing and the shift it leads to from the transparent, perspectival space to networked quasi-objects, from design to meta-design. It is argued that the self depends for its ability to recognise itself primarily on collisions that suspend the flow of spatialised complexity. The sites of such collisions are superpositions of virtual and material interactions – spatio-temporal instabilities or warps. The structure of such collisions mirrors the mechanisms characteristic of the functioning of our techno-scientific civilisation and associated with different levels of measurement, embodiment, and organisation that pattern the human unconscious, the material and knowledge systems, the 'lifeworlds'. This proposition expands the notion of the Schmarsow-Benjamin 'elbow room' (Spielraum) and gives a perceptual-empirical meaning to the self's ontology, to the 'living place' and its 'sustain-ability'. The 'elbow room' may be viewed as a dynamic impact parameter – an effective existence radius of the self – as an assemblage of the self, place and interactive narratives binding them dynamically together.
AMPS Conference
The Production of Space and the Archive of Everyday Life2020 •
The cloud is a complex material entanglement that moves across multiple scales from the microscopic to the mega-city. The material manifestations of the cloud, like data centers are nodes in an entangled network that cannot be thought apart from the modes of being that they produce. This requires us to think beyond the question — dominant in much architectural discourse — of what it is and ask what does it do? Concerning the cloud these two questions cannot be separated, to ask one is immediately to ask the other. This is the reason why I propose that Lefebvre’s triadic is a useful conceptual framework which architects can use to understand the processes at play in the production of space within the archive of everyday life.. To make the case for the ongoing usefulness of the triadic I will begin by briefly introducing Lefebvre’s three-dimensional spatiology. I will then focus on two processes within the triadic that will help foreground the complex entanglements between architecture, ways of being in the world and the production of space. These two areas are perceived and conceived space. In The Production of Space Lefebvre does not explore in detail how it is that the shifts in the modes of production actually change modes of perception and conception. Someone who does do this is philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler. I will therefore expand on the role of perception and conception in spatial production by reading them through Stiegler’s concepts of tertiary retention and tertiary protention which I contend are central to understanding the spatial nature of shifts in modes of being created by new modes of production. Forthcoming as book chapter 2021
Journal of the Siam Society
Spiritual Connections to Nature and to Climate Change Action2023 •
Schlette, M. & Tewes, C. (2024). Einleitung Die Wirklichkeit der Wahrnehmung. In M. Schlette & C. Tewes (Ed.), In Kontakt mit der Wirklichkeit: Die Perspektivität verkörperter Wahrnehmung (pp. 1-28). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Einleitung Die Wirklichkeit der Wahrnhmung2024 •
International Centre for Science, Humanities & Education Research (ICSHER) Journal
Use of Context-Based Learning Strategy and Secondary Students' Academic Achievement in Physics2024 •
Language, Culture and Society, 3:2
Editorial Special Issue 3:2 LCS Language, epistemology, and the politics of knowledge production2020 •
Journal of Research and Technology
PENGENDALIAN PENYAKIT KARAT PURU PADA BIBIT SENGON (Falcataria moluccana) DENGAN PRIMING BENIH DAN FUNGISIDA NABATI DAUN MINDI (Melia azedarach)2020 •
American Journal of Applied Scientific Research
Biodeterioration of Premium Motor Spirit and Automotive Gas Oil by Bacterial and Fungal Deteriogens2017 •
Platelets
Effects of age, gender and menstrual cycle on platelet function assessed by impedance aggregometry2018 •
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Procedia Materials Science
Magnetic Barkhausen Noise and Magneto Acoustic Emission in Stainless Steel Plates2015 •
Arts and Architecture Journal
So Much Ado about Michael Graves and the Reasons Why2023 •