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>>> Atmosphere:
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>>> Atmosphere:
“(...)
[T]he atmosphere of a building seems to be produced by the physical form. It is
some kind of sensuous emission of sound, light, heat, smell and moisture; a swirling
climate of intangible effects generated by a stationary object. To construct a
building is to construct such an atmosphere.(...)”
WIGLEY, Mark (1998) “The Architecture of Atmosphere” in: Constructing
Atmospheres, Daidalos n68, Juni 1998, p. 18
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>>>Ethology
"Ethology is first of all the study of the relations of speed and slowness, of the capacities for affecting and being affected that characterize each thing. For each thing these relations and capacities have an amplitude, thresholds (maximum and minimum), and variations or transformations that is peculiar to them. And they select, in the World or in Nature, that which corresponds to the thing; that is they select what affects or is affected by the thing, that moves it or is moved by it. For example, given an animal, what is this animal unaffected by in the infinite world? What does it react to positively or negatively? What are its nutrients and its poisons? (...). Every point has its counterpoints: the plant and the rain, the spider and the fly. So an animal, a thing, is never separable from its relation to the world. The interior is only a selected exterior, and the exterior, a projected interior. The speed and slowness of metabolisms, perceptions, actions, and reactions are linked together to constitute a particular individual in the world."
DELEUZE, Gilles (1970 (1988)), cited in: FRITSCH, Jonas & THOMSEN, Bodil Marie Stavning, "An Ethology of Urban Fabric(s)", post-digital research, Kunsthal Aarhus, 7-9 October 2013.
http://post-digital.projects.cavi.dk/?tag=immediations (Accessed 17 December 2013).
>>> Excerpt:
"Ethology is first of all the study of the relations of speed and slowness, of the capacities for affecting and being affected that characterize each thing. For each thing these relations and capacities have an amplitude, thresholds (maximum and minimum), and variations or transformations that is peculiar to them. And they select, in the World or in Nature, that which corresponds to the thing; that is they select what affects or is affected by the thing, that moves it or is moved by it. For example, given an animal, what is this animal unaffected by in the infinite world? What does it react to positively or negatively? What are its nutrients and its poisons? (...). Every point has its counterpoints: the plant and the rain, the spider and the fly. So an animal, a thing, is never separable from its relation to the world. The interior is only a selected exterior, and the exterior, a projected interior. The speed and slowness of metabolisms, perceptions, actions, and reactions are linked together to constitute a particular individual in the world."
DELEUZE, Gilles (1970 (1988)), cited in: FRITSCH, Jonas & THOMSEN, Bodil Marie Stavning, "An Ethology of Urban Fabric(s)", post-digital research, Kunsthal Aarhus, 7-9 October 2013.
http://post-digital.projects.cavi.dk/?tag=immediations (Accessed 17 December 2013).
>>> Excerpt:
”(…)
To take or select passages from (a book, film or the like); abridge by choosing
representative sections [late ME < L excerpt(us)
(ptp. of excerpere) picked out, plucked out
(…).”
in:
Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (1989), New York: Books, p.496
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Field:
“(…)
Field conditions are bottom-up phenomena, defined not by overarching
geometrical schemas but by intricate local connections. (…)”
ALLEN,
Stan (2009) “Field Conditions in Architecture + Urbanism” in: ALLEN, Stan: Practice: Architecture, technique +
representation, New York: Routledge, p. 218
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>>> Mapping:
“(…)
As a creative practice, mapping precipitates its most productive effects
through the finding that is also a founding; its agency
lies in neither
reproduction nor imposition but rather in uncovering realities previously
unseen or unimagined, even across
seemingly exhausted grounds. Thus, mapping unfolds potential; it re-makes territory over and over again,
each time with
new and diverse consequences. Not all maps accomplish this,
however; some simply reproduce what is already known. These
are more ‘tracings'
than maps, delineating patterns but revealing nothing new.(…)”
CORNER, James (1999) "The Agency of
Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention", in: COSGROVE, Dennis: Mappings, London: Reak-tion
Books Ltd., p. 213
>>>Microperceptions
Like perception, "(...) microperception is bodily, but qualitatively different from perception in that it is felt without registering consciously:
"The world in which we live is literally made of these reinaugural microperceptions, cutting in, cueing emergence, priming capacities. Every body is at every instant in thrall to any number of them. A body is a complex of inbracings playing out completely and in serial fashion. The tendencies and capacities activated do not necessarily bear fruit. Some will be summoned to the verge of unfolding, only to be left behind, unactualized. But even these will have left their trace."
Like perception, "(...) microperception is bodily, but qualitatively different from perception in that it is felt without registering consciously:
"The world in which we live is literally made of these reinaugural microperceptions, cutting in, cueing emergence, priming capacities. Every body is at every instant in thrall to any number of them. A body is a complex of inbracings playing out completely and in serial fashion. The tendencies and capacities activated do not necessarily bear fruit. Some will be summoned to the verge of unfolding, only to be left behind, unactualized. But even these will have left their trace."
MASSUMI, Brian (2009), "Of Microperception and Micropolitics. An interview with Brian Massumi, August 2008", INFLeXions no. 3, Micropolitics: Exploring Ethico-Aesthetics. Cited in: FRITSCH, Jonas & THOMSEN, Bodil Marie Stavning, "An Ethology of Urban Fabric(s)", post-digital research, Kunsthal Aarhus, 7-9 October 2013.http://post-digital.projects.cavi.dk/?tag=immediations (Accessed 17 December 2013).
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>>> Notation:
“(...)
Notations go beyond the visual to engage the invisible aspects of architecture.
This includes the phenomenological effects of light, shadow, and transparency;
sound, smell or temperature, but also– and perhaps more significantly– program,
event, and social space. Notations are not pictures or icons. They do not so
much describe or represent individual objects, as they specify internal
structure and relationships among the parts. Inasmuch as the use of notation
signals a shift away from the object and toward the syntactic, it might open up
the possibility of a rigorous, yet non-reductive abstraction. The use of
notation marks a shift from demarcated object to extended field.(…)”
ALLEN, Stan (2009):
“II_Notations+Diagrams: Mapping the Intangible”, in: ALLEN, Stan: Practice: Architecture, technique +
representation, New York: Routledge, p. 6
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