Description
Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 November 2024Duke Street Riverside, 26 Duke Street, NR3 3FF
Body Matters aims to investigate notions of Body in contemporary architectural discourses. Always a fundamental in architecture, the body needs to be reconsidered on its own terms, as a creative, material and philosophical concern. Beyond historical materialism and phenomenological approaches in architecture, recent new materialism thought has proposed a cross-disciplinary endeavour to confront long-held assumptions about the relationship between humans, nonhumans and the world.
The material world is understood as a network of relational, non-fixed entities, always in flux and emerging in unexpected ways around actions and events. How then can Architecture position itself and its role in these shifting and pluralist perspectives? Body Matters aims to explore not only what the body looks like, how it works and performs and what it is made of, but also how it blurs its own boundaries as it resonates with the environment. Ultimately it will interrogate how bodies matter, in architecture and beyond.
The themes of this conference bring into sharp focus ‘our forgotten relation to the encompassing earth’ (Abram) to discuss a renewed environmental sensitivity, that spans across science, politics, nature and culture.
Venues
The AHRA International Conference 2024 will be hosted by Norwich University of the Arts in Norwich, UK. It will take place in the university’s Duke Street Riverside and Duke Street buildings in the centre of the city.
| Period | 21 Nov 2024 → 23 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|
| Event title | 21st International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association - BODY MATTERS: AHRA 2024 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Norwich, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Fields of Expertise
- Sustainable Systems
Documents & Links
Related content
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Activities
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Affordances of Architectural Typology
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at conference or symposium › Science to science
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UCLouvain - LOCI Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Lecturer at external institution
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"Architectural Affordances" lecture at As Found Symposium KU Leuven - Sint Lucas Ghent - BE
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at conference or symposium › Science to science
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Lecture "Typologies of Umbau" at Doctoral School DAD – Dipartimento Architettura e Design, Universita di Genova, IT
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk at conference or symposium › Science to science
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Architektur. Bücher, Filme und Gespräche
Activity: Participation in or organisation of › Conference or symposium (Participation in/Organisation of)
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„Counterintuitive Building Types“ (CBT) Projektworkshop
Activity: Participation in or organisation of › Workshop, seminar or course (Participation in/Organisation of)
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Research at external institution
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Was Gebäude lehren: Das Steinhaus (Event)
Activity: Publication peer-review or editorial work › Editorial activity
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Interview with Diana Agrest & Mario Gandelsonas
Activity: Public engagement › Other
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Affordances of Architectural Typologies - AUID PhD Workshop at DAStU Politecnico di Milano
Activity: Participation in or organisation of › Workshop, seminar or course (Participation in/Organisation of)
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Affordances of Architectural Typology
Activity: Participation in or organisation of › Workshop, seminar or course (Participation in/Organisation of)
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Atlas of Affordances – Recent Typological Research - Lecture at AUID PhD Program Politecnico di Milano
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at workshop, seminar or course › Science to science
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Interview with Keller Easterling
Activity: Public engagement › Other
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Publications
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Journal of Architecture - Special Issue on Peripheries / Peripherocene: Journal of Architecture
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Affordances of Architectural Typology
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Counterintuitive Typologies – Re-assessing Hybridity in Architecture
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Drawing Attention to the Periphery
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Architectural Affordances - Typologies of Umbau
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
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Prizes
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Visiting Scholar DAStU 2022/23
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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POLIMI DAStU Fellow 2022-23
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Projects
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CBT - Counterintuitive Building Typologies
Project: Research project