Body Mind Machine
An engaging panel with Kristin Anne Carlson, Davide Rokeby and Chris Salter, moderated by Nell Tenhaff which delves into different relationships artists are cultivating with machines.
About the Symposium
Architectural creation, its representation, interpretation, and associated activities more often than not are seen as processes of revelation. However, one can argue that architecture hides as much as it reveals. The Purloined Letter, a detective story written by Edgar Allen Poe, describes the chase to look for a stolen letter with confidential information. The story revolves around the search for a letter hidden by being left out in the open. Allen Poe highlights a complicated relationship between visibility, revelation, clarity and its complementary hiding, concealing, camouflaging.
In the realm of architecture, are there examples of ‘hiding’ in teaching, representing, knowing, writing and building architecture? If so, how do those manifest themselves? How is hiding practiced under other terms that obscure the practice of concealment? What does it result in? What sources does it emerge from and who operates behind it?
This symposium aims to explore processes of hiding that can take representational, material and theoretical forms.
Architectures of Hiding is the inaugural event in the series of biennial symposia called Agora, organized by Carleton Research | Practice of Teaching | Collaborative (CR|PT|C).
CR|PT|C is formed by PhD candidates and students, Post-Professional Master students, and faculty members from the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Held on September 24–26, 2021, the symposium is organized and coordinated by Rana Abughannam, Émélie Desrochers Turgeon and Pallavi Swaranjali with the supervision of Federica Goffi and with the advisorship of Monica Eileen Patterson.
Under the theme of Architectures of Hiding, Hidden Relics investigates a secret design found hidden inside a wall of a building: two lavishly illustrated empty match-boxes, a holy picture with a prayer, a king of cups briscola card, a wooden spoon. What can we infer from these relics? Endless stories. The podcast features Claudio Sgarbi in conversation with Ryan Stec, Artistic Director at Artengine, and Pallavi Swaranjali, co-convenor, Architectures of Hiding and co-coordinator of C R | P T | C. The creative piece by Claudio Sgarbi can be found at www.architecturesofhiding.com/exhibition
DR. CLAUDIO SGARBI, Dottore in Architettura (IUAV), MS, Ph.D (University of Pennsylvania), Visiting Professor (Lebanese American University), Adjunct Research Professor (Carleton University), Tutor (Marangoni Design School), is a registered architect and is lecturing in several universities. His research concerns the ethics, the image and the gender of the architect, the design of construction sites, the building technologies, and the relevance of architectural history and theory in our contemporary projects. He designs, writes, publishesand lectures to accomplish these projects while being fully involved in the construction processes. He is working on a publication with the title Misconceptions: The Infertile Belly of the Architect.
DAVID BASTIEN-ALLARD is a graduate student at the Azrieli School of Architecture, he is known for his interest in filmmaking, classical architecture and contemporary design. David’s research is based on inclusive designs, mental health and ways architecture can improve well-being. Aside from being an architecture student, David is also interested in social issues, gender equity and human rights. His hope for the future is that architecture and mental health will play a larger role in society.
RUBIN DE JONGE recently completed his Bachelor of Architectural Studies with a focus in design at Carleton University. Prior to pursuing his degree, he worked as a craftsperson building hand-made guitar—from which he carries skills and principles into his current vocation. His areas of interest include the study of architectural scale, seeking to reconnect what we measure with how we measure, and how the ‘memory’ of a drawing translates into the impression of a space. He currently holds the position of Research Assistant at Carleton’s Immersive Media Studio where he is pursuing techniques which combine digitally assisted and manual fabrication.
FABIO ELIA SGARBI BIONDI, Photographer (IED, Madrid) with an education in architecture (IUAV) develops his figurative research traveling between spaces of conflict and territories of everyday banality. He dwells in the omnipresent tension that springs from the ordinary and extra-ordinary. His images are a meticulous attempt to capture visual frames of recurring coincidences.
An engaging panel with Kristin Anne Carlson, Davide Rokeby and Chris Salter, moderated by Nell Tenhaff which delves into different relationships artists are cultivating with machines.
