Overview
Overview
Program
PROGRAM AND ROSTER OF SPEAKERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
July 21-28
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN
July 21- 23
Santiago de Compostela will be our first location, where we will pursue two themes:
July 25 - 27
July 28
July 29 - Aug 4
PORTO, PORTUGAL
July 29 - 30
Porto will be our second location. Here we will engage the following themes:
July 31 - Aug 2
August 3 - 4
The architectural profession needs to bring the full-blooded human being into its very core. In Santiago de Compostela we will face this challenge using a new perspective that emerges in the rapidly evolving collaboration between architecture and human sciences such as cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience, among others. These disciplines have developed notions of the person and the environment that are starkly different from one another, using first-person and third-person perspectives. Designers need a framework capable of integrating concepts and methods developed by different disciplines. On Day 1 we will begin exploring this integration in a series of lectures and discussions dedicated to the interface of natural sciences and humanities. On Day 2, we will look into how such integration can be facilitated by grounding this inquiry in the local environment: the landscape, the local culture, its history and traditions. In the workshops held during field trips on this day, we will delve into regional culture, visiting multiple works of architecture, guided by local builders, artists, and craftsmen. On Day 3, we will attempt to synthesize this knowledge by exploring how different human sciences could contribute to understanding the phenomenon of place and regional culture.
Phenomenon of Place
Friday, July 22
10:00
10:45
11:15
12:00
12:45
1:30
2:00
4:00
8:00
Thursday, July 21
10:00
10:45
11:30
12:30
12:45
1:15
2:00
5:00
5:45
6:00
6:30
7:00
8:00
Coffee
Opening remarks
A welcome note | Agrasar
Course preview by the Chairs (Berger, Gepshtein, 15 min each)
Making a Place | Harry Mallgrave
Respondents: Jeffery, Gepshtein
Debate: Perez-Gomez, Pallasmaa, Berger, Hunker, Agrasar
Q&A
Lunch (Note: all lunches are on ones own)
Neuroscience of Space, Time and Memory￨Kate Jeffery
Respondents: Perez-Gomez, Pallasmaa
Debate: Mallgrave, Agrasar, Albright, Kirsh
Q&A
Local Voices: Atlantic Architecture: A Sesitive Approach
Fernando Agrasar
Welcome Dinner: walk from CGAC
Saturday, July 23
9:00
9:45
10:30
11:15
12:00
12:20
1:00
2:00
5:00
5:45
6:30
6:50
7:20
8:00
Coffee
Interactive session: summary and opening remarks
Place, Ethics, Architecture ￨Jeff Malpas (remote lecture)
Can Place Attachment be Designed
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Dialogue of Goldhagen and Malpas
Q&A
Roundtable Discussion I Albright, Gephstein, Macagno, Mallgrave
Lunch
Species of Space and Science and Design ￨Sergei Gepshtein
From Space to Place - Existential Experience in Architecture A ￨Juhani Pallasmaa
Dialogue of Gepshtein and Pallasmaa
Q&A
ROUNDTABLE Discussion
Berger, Pérez-Gómez, Macagno, Curtis
Dinner
Coffee
Workshop Introduction: Berger, Gepshtein
Human Experience and Place by Rick Joy
Discussion, break
Alvar Aalto and The Persistence of Duality￨Kurt Hunker
Discussion
Lunch
Tour: CGAC and Bonaval Park
(2 hours) I Jeffery, Agrasar, Berger
Stone Workshop (2 hours)
2 groups
Dinner
Dynamics of Experience
Sunday, July 24
Free Day St. James's Day Festivities, fireworks in front of the Cathedral
Monday, July 25
10:00
10:45
11:30
12:45
2:00
5:00
5:45
6:30
8:00
Coffee
Introduction: Local host, Berger, Gepshtein
In Quest of Attuned Architectural Atmospheres: Contributions of Cognitive Theory and Neurophenomenology￨Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Discussion
Lunch and Bagpipe Concert
Embodied Cognition￨David Kirsh
Architecture "from within": The body, space and the brain￨Vittorio Gallese
ROUNDTABLE Discussion
Pérez-Gómez, Hunker, Berger, Gallese, Gepshtein, Kirsh
Dinner
Wednesday, July 27
10:00
10:45
11:30
12:30
3:00
5:00
5:45
6:00
6:30
7:00
8:00
Coffee
Neuroscience for Architecture: Thomas Albright
Q&A and Discussion
Sketching lesson: Oscar Fuertes
supported by Berger, Hewitt, Shinberg
Lunch
Spatial navigation is an intrinsically dynamic experience | Eduardo Macagno
RespondentsIPallasmaa, Agrasar
Debate: Berger, Curtis, Mallgrave, Pérez-Gómez
Q&A
Poem, Structure, Architecture:
Miguel Anxo Fernan Vello
Dinner
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
July 24-27
Santiago de Compostela is a destination of pilgrimage. The St.James’ Day (Apostolo) is the most important local holiday of the year, when pilgrims arrive at the Catedral Basilica de Santiago de Compostela. This context will help us to frame our theme of dynamics of experience. Day 4 is a free day. On Day 5, we will continue investigating the theme of experience of place through several lenses, in particular those of phenomenology and neuroscience of perception by a moving person. We will study how places shape one’s behavior and how experiences arise in the interaction of sensory and motor systems of the person. On Day 6 we will hold workshops in which we will study the experience of movement and analyze several works of local architecture, including the Galician Museum of Contemporary Art, Bonaval Park, and the School of Journalism by Alvaro Siza. On Day 7, we will continue exploring the city of Santiago de Compostela. Walking its medieval streets we will study how physical objects can facilitate thinking and imagination: the notion called extended mind. This day and our visit to Santiago will conclude with a roundtable discussion of how thinking about movement and time can help to develop new strategies for architectural and urban design.
The World of Senses
Friday, July 29
9:00
10:00
10:10
10:30
11:45
12:00
01:00
04:00
04:45
05:30
07:00
Coffee
A welcome note by Jorge Carvalho.
Preview by the chairs (Berger, Gepshtein)
A Conversation￨ Alvaro Siza Vieira and Juhani Pallasmaa
Responses by Scientists I Thomas Albright, David Kirsh
Discussion
Lunch
Light and the World of Senses. Omnipresence and Absence Claudia Kappl-Joy
Lecture￨Rick Joy
ROUNDTABLE Discussion Albright, Joy, Kappl-Joy , Kirsh, Macagno
Dinner
Coffee
Welcome by Sampaio
Abstraction and Light: Atmospheres of the Alhambra
Discussion
Alvar Aalto's Painterly and Atmospheric Light - Spatial, Haptic and Emotive Illumination| Juhani Pallasmaa
Dialogue of Curtis and Pallasmaa
Q&A
Lunch
Drawing as an anticipatory finding of the senses| Edite Rosa
Enactive Cognition and Experience Design I David Kirsh
Roundtable Discussion (William JR Curtis, Mark Hewitt, David Kirsh, Edite Rosa, Tatiana Berger, Sergei Gepshtein, others)
Dinner
Saturday, July 30
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:45
11:15
12:00
12:20
01:00
04:00
04:45
05:30
07:00
Porto
July 29-30
Porto will set the stage for concentrating our study on how the built environment engages the senses. On Day 1 we will study how urban experience is always mediated by multiple senses. We will investigate how architectural atmospheres are created by the interaction of seeing, hearing, haptics, and olfaction, and also the senses that register one’s own posture, balance, and movement. On Day 2, we will hear a lecture by the project architect, who worked in the office of Alvaro Siza on the construction of the Santa Maria Church in Marco de Canaveses and make a bus trip from Porto to experience the church.
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The venue: Casa da Arquitectura - Portuguese Centre for Architecture is the only institution exclusively dedicated to architecture that, in Portugal, preserves, treats, disseminates and promotes the authors and the national and international architectural production, associating to its growing documentary archive the aspect of cultural programming. Casa da Arquitectura has the mission to bring architecture to everyone. As part of its mission, it organizes and produces a vast programme of activities, from visits, exhibitions, conferences, debates and artistic crossings.
Perception and Emotion
Sunday, July 31
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:45
11:15
12:00
12:45
01:00
01:30
07:30
09:30
Coffee
Opening remarks
Architectural Design and the Enacted Mind￨Mark Hewitt
Q&A
Body Conscious Design by | Cranz
ROUNDTABLE Discussion
Siza, Cranz, Hewitt , Pérez-Gómez, Albright, Macagno
Introduction to Walk downtown
by Carvalho
Bus to Downtown
Lunch
Walk in the historic center of Porto
Dinner
Bus from Ribeira
Monday, August 1
09:00
09:30
09:45
10:30
10:45
11:30
11:45
12:30
02:45
03:00
04:30
05:30
07:00
07:30
Coffee
Opening Remarks
Emotion and Perception: Introduction to Philosophical Perspectives with a View toward Implications for Architecture | Giovanna Colombetti
Q&A
Tuning Humans With Architecture | Davide Ruzzon
Q&A
ROUNDTABLE Discussion I Pérez-Gómez, Colombetti, Ruzzon, Mallgrave, Gepshtein
Lunch
Bus to Serralves Museum
Visit Serralves Museum on one’s own (tickets are provided by Moving Boundaries)
Groups 1+2: Sketching Tour with Hewitt and Rosa
Groups 3+4: Sketching Tour
Hewitt and Rosa
Bus to Casa da Arquitectura
Dinner
Tuesday, August 2
09:00 Coffee
09:30 Aging and Movement in
Neuroscience and Design I
10:15 Q&A
10:30 Interface of Cultures I Gepshtein
11:15 Discussion
11:45 Interview with Álvaro Siza Vieira by Tatiana Berger
12:30 Q&A
01:30 Lunch
04:00 Coming back to
Architecture￨Alberto Pérez- Gómez
04:45 Q&A
05:15 Roundtable Discussion
Siza, Pérez-Gomez Macagno, Joy, Cranz
07:30 Farewell Dinner
Quinta do Ribeirinho, Matosinhos
Porto
July 31 - Aug 2
The concept of architectural atmosphere blends sensory and emotive aspects of experience. Having explored the sensory side of atmosphere in previous days, now we will concentrate on the emotive side. On Day 3 in Porto, we will study the intricate relationship between emotions and cognitive faculties, and how this relationship is fundamental to experiencing architecture. This study will take us to investigate how insights from the objective, third-person perspective of the sciences can be integrated into design. On Day 4 Alvaro Siza will give a lecture about his work, followed by a field trip to several of his built projects including the Serralves Museum of Art, Boa Nova Restaurant, and the Swimming Pools in Leça da Palmeira. We will hold a workshop dedicated to the analysis of sensory and emotive aspects of Siza’s architecture. We will also continue our exploration of how architectural atmosphere can be captured by different methods of architectural representation. In the morning of Day 5 we will study how emotive aspects of experience are incorporated in the process of architectural representation and design. In the afternoon, we will bring together many ideas that will have emerged from this journey, and will collectively imagine the tools and strategies arising from the collaboration between architecture and human sciences. The day will conclude by a farewell dinner with fado music.
Tours
Aug.3
08:45 Bus leaves Casa da Arquitectura
09:00 Group 1 Guided tour of Boa Nova Restaurant
09:30 Group 2 Guided tour of Boa Nova Restaurant
10:15 Group 1 Guided tour of Piscina das Marés
10:45 Group 2 Guided tour of Piscina das Marés
11:15 Lunch and Swimming at the Piscina das Marés
04:15 Groups 1+2 Bus to Office of Alvaro Siza Vieira
05:00 Visit Office
06:00 Bus to Casa
Tours
Aug. 4
08:45 Bus leaves Casa da Arquitectura
09:00 Group 3 Guided tour of Boa Nova Restaurant
09:30 Group 4 Guided tour of Boa Nova Restaurant
10:15 Group 3 Guided tour of Piscina das Marés
10:45 Group 4 Guided tour of Piscina das Marés
11:15 Lunch and Swimming at the Piscina das Marés
04:15 Groups 3+4 Bus to Office of Alvaro Siza Vieira
05:00 Visit Office
06:00 Bus to Casa
Santiago de Compostela
to Porto
Thursday, July 28
09:00 Bus leaves Santiago d. C.
01:00 Groups 1+2. Guided tour of
Viana do Castelo Public Library
Groups 3+4. Lunch in Viana do Castelo
02:30 Groups 3+4. Guided tour of
Viana do Castelo Public Library
Groups 1+2. Lunch in Viana do
Castelo
7:00 Arrive at Casa da Arquitectura
in Matosinhos
This unprecedented traveling course will offer a series of masterclasses, lectures, immersive workshops and field trips, in which we will explore a new perspective that has been emerging from the rapidly evolving collaboration between architecture and the “natural human sciences” that include neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, psychophysics, and experimental phenomenology. On this journey, we will move across boundaries of several kinds. Some boundaries will be of a conceptual nature, separating the worlds of objective science, subjective experience, and intersubjective culture. Other boundaries will be geographic and ethnic: we will travel between the regions of Galicia in Spain and Minho in northern Portugal, immersing ourselves in local traditions in architecture, design, urban planning, language, music and cuisine. We will pursue a number of questions foundational to the future of design, such as how the built environment is experienced by human beings in real time, how the scientific method can help to develop new tools and strategies for design, and how scientific results contribute to theory and practice of design. We will also explore the importance of regional culture and identity in the making and experiencing of architecture. Every participant will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the Course.
“The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.”
- Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
July 21-23