Perspectives on Dwelling : Architectural Anthropologies of Home

Doctoral seminar held during April & June 2022.
Guest lecturer: Dr. Ray Lucas, Manchester School of Architecture, Faculty of architecture International Chair 2022.
Coordination: Denis Derycke

This workshop asks participants to make use of drawing and other inscriptive practices as a way of understanding and deepening engagement with the world. Drawing is a form of perception and understanding.The interpretation of the environment and description of our world through lines is an important practice to architecture, however those lines are inscribed. By drawing, we are able to see more deeply, able to under-stand more thoroughly, interpret meanings and explore possibilities. This workshop will explore a variety of inscriptive practices and ask participants to apply these to the spaces of everyday life, where we live and dwell.The aim is to explore both the conventions of architectural drawing and to expand the scope to consider alternative traditions of inscriptive practice such as notation. The aim is to describe the temporalities of dwelling as a state continually in the making and never completed.The work is grounded in a long-term engagement with the work of anthropologist Tim Ingold, bringing his wide ranging discussions of being, liveliness, and imagining into contact with the practices of architectural design and theory. We owe it to ourselves to restore drawing to its place in the academy as a worthwhile activity, one capable of incredible nuance and which communicates with an engaging directness, bringing the viewer into the observations of the scribe.

Participants:
Julien Rippinger (ULB), Myriem Saoud (ULB), Lisa Rapport (ULB), Charlotte Gyselinck (ULB), Jonas Rent (ULB), Ellen Van Huffel (ULB), Ipek Avanoglu (KUL Sint-Lucas/ITU), Ben Clarck (ULB), Rohit Shinkre (ULB).