ARCHITECTURE FROM A NEW SIGHT AT PORTSMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Thing-power, the  agency of inanimate objects  Fifth week (Friday, 25 October, 2024) To repurpose disarticulated artifacts to create new work with them   This week we were supposed to go to a charity shop, or a skip and buy, or find a domestic object such as a piece of furniture. Also, we had to  make a 1:1 'technical' drawing of the object. In the class we were provided with a verb list written by Richard Serra. We were asked to read the verbs and choose one of them. In the workshop we had to  take our object apart and remake it in relationship to a text by Jane Bennett   with accompaniment by the verb we had chosen from  Richard Serra's Verb list. My verbs were: to cut, to split, to remove, to knot, to fire, to collect. The Force of Things (the first chapter of Vibrant Matter) Jane Bennett in the first chapter of her book highlights the active role of nonhuman materials in public life . Also, she points out that things do affects other bodies, enhanc...

MY EXPERIENCE OF RHYTHM KNOTS IN THE CLASSROOM, ELDON BUILDING Fourth week (Friday, 18 OCTOBER, 2024 In this week of my academic year at Portsmouth University, students were required to study the first and second chapters of Henri Lefebvre's book named Rhythmanalysis. This book examines spatial and temporal rhythms and their impact on daily life.  Rhythm... , I had heard this word before but this time as a spatial architecture student at Portsmouth university I experienced it in a different way, in a way that caused me to gaze my tutor, Oren, in wonder. I did not know how ubiquitous and  influential Rhythm can be, how we as architects can organize it in our design for example to reach a much more peaceful place, something that in today's hectic and chaotic world is our urgent need...

SPATIAL PRACTICES Third week (Friday, 11 OCTOBER, 2024) As a weekly reading, students should have read first chapter of SPATIAL PRACTICES Modes of Action and Engagement with the city by Melanie Dodd, named Space is always political. When I first started reading, it seemed to be extremely challenging to understand so I tried to find answers for questions which had been shaped in my mind:  How something is considered political? What politics means? When space can be political? and.... -When Something is political that it is a social activity linked to the existence of diversity and conflict and to a willingness to act collectively. -Politics means Interactions amongst free and equal citizens acting in concert in search of processes of conflict resolution.  -Space is political when  Instead of acting as the mere backdrop for an unfolding time, it  becomes intimately linked to lived experience. On Friday, 11 October, 2024, tutors and students were supposed to b...