Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).
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.
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 - structured into spring and autumn modules:
The semester task spring 2024 - Animism in Architecture: Ecopoetics
As a discipline, ecopoetics investigates how the human is situated within its habitat; how “home” is defined and built; where (or whether) borders exist between body and world, human and other, space and place; and how sense activities, physical presences, memory, and moments of thinking locate and assist the human desire to navigate the self in the world.
Ecopoetics, thus, contributes to the dissident project of resistance to dominant cultural modes of thinking. What is often written as the legacy of the Enlightenment—science, rationalism, the dominion of man over nature—is critiqued for its pernicious cultural legacy: a body of encyclopaedic “knowledge” deeply rooted in formulations of the world in terms of “classes” and “species.”
Bristow, Tom. “Ecopoetics” in Facts on File Companion to World Poetry: 1900 to Present Ed. R. Victoria Arana. New York: Facts on File, 2008. PP156-159.
Knowledge of:
Skills in:
approaching environments, situations, and discussions phenomenological and applying and recognizing performativity in speech and action as productive means from which to provoke and receive social employed knowing in trans-disciplinary teams
General competence in:
not knowing a thing, but having the passion, dedication, endurance, and imagination to wanting to get to know it.
The studio meets for every Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 to 17.00 for lectures, screenings, reviews, and worktable talks. Fridays from 13:30 – 15:30 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:
We plan two trips to the Lista-peninsula in Southern Norway:
Course literature is available in Leganto
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