Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).
Part of course series: B&SM - Acting and The Acted in a More-Than-Human World
The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Body and Space Morphologies (B&SM) is a research-based teaching program in the Building Art department. Dedicated to Phenomenology in Architecture, the program offers Trans-Disciplinary master studios in explorative – architectural, pre-architectural and post-architectural - making, sensing and thinking.
We aim at preparing and enabling students to conduct their own interest driven investigation into Architectural Phenomenology understood as Research Creation; a working mode creating an inspired, process focused and reflective Material Practice. We consider this to be the Artistic Parallel to both Traditional Scholarly Research and Common Architectural Design Practice.
Based on performativity and affordance theories, performance and performance studies, disability and neurodiversity studies as well as phenomenology and perception theories, the B&SM Studio Works investigate primal and/or pre-architectural material/processes/phenomena/conditions and develop or perform a series of experienced distinct objects that behave relational, that inspire imagination, that provide new knowledge, strong architectural interests and/or architectural narratives or identities.
Spring 2023 marked the start of the second cycle of the B&SM course series on Acting and The Acted in a More-Than-Human World. The series is structured into spring and autumn modules:
Spring semesters are dedicated to the topic on Animism in Architecture - studied and worked through a discourse on the various ideas, movements and awareness created in current ecoperformance, ecopoetic, ethnopoetic and ethnofiction works.
Autumn semesters investigate actual Ecoperformance in Architecture – studied and worked through a discursive design practice that seeks to establish a porous architectural infrastructure understood as the environment, body, performer, process and/or vehicle the quote below talks of:
Ecoperformance understands environment and body as inseparable dimensions of performative creation. In an ecoperformance, the environment constitutes a living and interactive play of presences and forces. The performer is not the central agent, but one of the play’s components. At the same time as an ecoperformance experiments with environmental interactions as a performative event, it configures itself an environmental process. Ecoperformance can take place in any landscape, natural or urban, and may, among other possibilities, question, honor and reaffirm human being/environment interconnections. It may serve to raise the awareness of the harmful environmental impact of human actions, and, eventually, become a vehicle of political denunciation. (Maura Baiochi, 2009) https://www.ecoperformance.art.br/about-ecoperformance
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The studio meets for every Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 to 17.00 for lectures, screenings, reviews, and worktable talks. Fridays from 13:00 – 15:00 are reserved for Studio Commons (student driven events or discussions etc.).
We have five public mid-term reviews and prepare at the end of the semester a work display. The exhibition allows for the students to display their complete works (all objects and artefacts – found or made) together with a book and/or film or video containing a written and/or otherwise illustrated experience of their making and that what the making had connected to. An external sensor team will study the exhibition and books and/or video/films and then give feedback and critique on the individual work but also on the studio as a whole.
The Body & Space Morphologies diploma thesis candidates are integrated in the studio and work in the same space. We recommend the master course students to attend the diploma mid-term reviews (between four or five during the semester).
Sustainability commons & goals of the B&SM studios:
Excursion:
If possible, we plan two trips to the Lista-peninsula in Southern Norway:
Attendance & participation in your individual studio work:
20 weeks full-time study. The work must be conducted and performed in the studio (or at LISTA) - the working material is present at any time.
Presence & participation in the collective studio discussion:
You are expected to be present at: weekly talks, lectures, and studio discussions, frequent work reviews, workshop in book making, the final exhibition and a final review with invited guests-critics.
Course literature will be available in Leganto.
Vurderingsform | Gruppering | Karakterskala | Kommentar |
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Vurderingsmappe | - | Bestått / ikke bestått | The course is assessed on the basis of: -Semester project Individual studio work on your own selected project developed throughout the course and critically reflected / presented on a final deliverable. This entails practical and theoretical exercises, visual and verbal project presentations, and the making of a final exhibition. -Process book with a text/essay. For each of the reviews, assignments are announced and students hand in visual and textual works which is complementary to the actual physical work made available and presented in the reviews. The final exhibition includes visual haptic project material and a final book (including an essay of ca 5-10000 words). |
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Oppmøte | You are expected to be present at: weekly talks, lectures, and studio discussions, frequent work reviews, workshop in book making, final exhibition and at final review with invited guests-critics. |
Ekskursjon | Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this. |