Description
The relationship between atmospheres, imagination, and architectural design is a complex one. While the built environment is often described, experienced or recalled as atmospheric, we contend that we need new methods of imagination in architectural and design practice - and in particular through making - to advance design for and with atmospheres. One reason for this is that imaginative processes of making are powerful in helping people feel their way into atmospheres, by engaging directly with materials and their affordances, by working collaboratively with other people and non-humans, and by engaging in complex manual problem solving that requires people to attend carefully to the actual, situated conditions of their practice. Moreover, architectural methods of visualising, drawing and modelling are intended to support design processes that focus on the structure itself more than the experience of those who might one day encounter it. Such processes necessarily reduce the built environment to flattened and abstracted propositions. While these may be imagined as atmospheric by the architect or designer, if, as Edensor and Sumartojo (2015) insist, atmospheres cannot be designed, then how can we actually develop an atmospheric attunement with the world? How might we develop an atmospheric praxis - a possibility that brings a deep conceptual engagement with the past decade of thinking about atmospheres together with the expertise and methodological rigor of architectural practice? In this panel we invite submissions that discuss new methods for designing with, through or for atmospheres. We hope to hear from both creative practitioners who work with a concept of atmospheres in the built environment, and researchers who consider imagining or making built environments. In particular, we wish to focus on: New approaches to methods of imagination or design - how can we speculate about built futures atmospherically? What does an atmospheric lens or practice make possible? How can architecture’s role as a means by which culture is produced, reinforced and challenged be approached through an atmospheric lens. How can we attend to and account for sensory aspects - light, sound, touch, temperature, the movement of air, proprioception and more – achieved through various architectural elements?| Period | 8 Oct 2024 → 11 Oct 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Lisbon, PortugalShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |