22-28.06.2008 | TU-Delft

Architectural Design Computing Graduate Program in collaboration with TU Delft, Explore Lab Master Program

Organizers: G. Çağdaş, S. Alaçam, E. Gürbüz, A. Çekmiş, K. Lemmens, S. Broomsma, F. Veld, A. Geesink, W. Moorlag, P. Arts, J. Hage, E. Heemsker

In the workshop titled “Poetry and Architecture”, poetry stands for experience.  The workshop will concern the experience of architecture, in both physical and psychological sense.  We are organizing a variety of activities and lectures to study the sensory experience of space, both in a hard-scientific way as well as through a softer empiric approach.  From there we can furthermore not deny to consider the influence of the linguistic –or otherwise cerebral– conceptual mediation of experience, by both subjective and inter-subjective cognition.  (The latter may ultimately connect this workshop through art, science and the present-day ubiquitous media to the earlier training-course on Architecture and Society.) In this respect poetry takes in an interesting position, since poems are in a way ‘purely’ linguistic constructs, which as such can evoke an emotional or experiential response. Therefore poetry will not just be a metaphor within this workshop: we will also give it literal presence in order to inspire us refreshingly.