When: |
10 May through 31 May 2021 | |
Where: |
Online Event | United Kingdom | |
Website URL: |
https://memory.lcir.co.uk/memory-poetics-of-architectural-formation/?fbclid=IwAR365gAH-2u5m2ow4u3cdbfOEQQEgIbxNQ6siyCMuffJnG0Isv_sk41ceT8 | |
Sponsoring organization: |
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Academic LAB | |
Categories: |
Arts & Humanities - Languages/Literature |
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Course overview
The concepts of (and studies of) memory itself underwent a radical transformation in the 20th century. Static models of archive- and museum-like structures were replaced with a dynamic process of narrativized reconstruction that is susceptible to context, narrator's fallibility, or the 'censorship' on the part of narrator's defense mechanism. This is hardly surprising, given the fact that architectural works are generally thought of as solid and immutable. Outside of normative protocols of creating architecture, however, architects and urban planners never ceased to engage with the evolving branches of memory studies or even neuropsychology – Maurice Halbwachs's concept of collective recollection, Gaston Bachelard's phenomenological account of urban space, or Pierre Nora's places of memory, to name but a few.
Instead of an idealized model, we will reflect on alternate perspectives on memory employed in architectural designs. The course is aimed at bringing toge...
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