In this summer’s Hardcourse workshop !You are sitting on my code! students explored shared chairs, CNC and robot Braille, and now you can explore the results exhibited in the library.

We experience objects, surfaces and spaces depending on our ability to process visual and tactile information. Whereas a sighted person takes in the whole and details in parallel, a partially sighted or blind person feels details first and then assembles information piece by piece and section by section. The workshop aimed at developing an inclusive design for multi-functional furniture that carries narratives in the form of images and text (Braille), such as a stool/side-table hybrid.

The goal was to create a shared object for communities so that places we use become accessible and users with different abilities are comfortable, inspired and ‘feel’ a place that belongs to them.

In the workshop, differences between varying degrees of perception relative to images or engravings for touch was explored and combined into tactile and visual narratives. 1:1 furniture prototypes were designed and fabricated in timber through CNC milling, with precise joints shared in a Rhino archive. Afterwards patterns, images and Braille text were embedded into the objects with robotic milling, based on a shared GH script archive that translates pixels as robotic tool angle, depth and gradients of shades to express darker and lighter areas in images.

Workshop organisers: Dagmar Reinhardt, Povl Sonne-Frederiksen, Mathias Ørum Nørgaard, Max Buthke, Thorlak Solberg.

NB: We ask that you do not sit on the chairs. Instead, we invite you to touch the chairs and leave your feedback.

Udstillingen er den femte i rækken af udstillinger som afholdes i ONSITE GALLERY, Arkitektskolen Aarhus´ galleri for arkitektur. Galleriet ligger i byggehegnet mellem Institut for (x) og NEW AARCH, den nye Arkitektskole i Aarhus.

I forbindelse med opførelsen af den nye skole har det været vigtigt at se på, hvordan byggepladsen og tilstødende arealer kan indrettes, hvordan der strategisk kan arbejdes med involvering under projektets udførelse, og hvordan man i fællesskab kan udvikle den nye bydel.

Med udstillingen ”FORM FOLLOWS PEOPLE” sætter Institut for (x) fokus på ord, mennesker og form. I et forsøg på at nedbryde bymaskinens kompleksitet (Den Gordiske Knude) opstilles seks postulater, der sætter spørgsmålstegn ved måden byplanlægning og arkitektur udvikles på.

Har bymaskinen slugt muligheden for at realisere drømme, og er arkitekturens originale DNA blevet erstattet af politik og økonomi? Institut for (X) inviterer til at deltage i debatten og i udstillingen, som er et transformativt værk, der går fra postulater på en væg til arkitektoniske greb på selve galleriets form.

På galleriets 1. sal vises screening af gamle samt nye videoer fra Institut for (x), der viser historien, livet og formen på en kreativ frizone. Den fortælling kan man tage med sig ud på den kulturelle byggeplads, hvor man kan opleve manifestationer på sammensmeltningen mellem Institut for (X) og Arkitektskolen Aarhus, bl.a New Neighbour.

Udstillingen postulerer, at mennesket er glemt i moderne arkitektur. På Institut for (X) lader man formen følge folket.

Udstillingen er skabt af:

• Institut for (X)
• Bureau Detours
• Bydelskontoret
• Arkitektskolen Aarhus

The PhD course gives a broad introduction to research within the fields of design and architecture aimed at PhDs in the early stages of their project. It will help PhDs to form a general understanding of research within the fields with a particular focus on research by design. It addresses questions of structuring research, developing research questions, planning of research, choice of methodologies and contextualisation of research.

The course will use the PhDs individual research projects as source material to help the participant to arrive at a better understanding of how to situate their research while developing and sharpening the focus, content and methodologies of the projects.

12-13 September – Research in the design fields / Research Question
The first part of the course introduces research within the fields of design and architecture. We discuss the participant’s research projects through workshops. The role of the research question in the design fields is introduced.

26-27 September – Discourse analysis / Historiography
The second part of the course focuses on the contextualization of the research, the understanding of the research traditions of the field and the discourse analysis of analytical and theoretical texts.

10-11 October – Research methods/ Research design
The third part of the course addresses the choice of research methods and the formation of a research design to plan and structure the research process.

The course format includes lectures by instructors and guests, group discussions and workshops. Participation requires preparation (approximately three days) before and in between the three parts of the course (about 5-8 days) as well as active participation in all course activities. Participants are encouraged to participate in all parts of the course, but it is possible to join parts.

Course instructors: Richard Herriot, Claus Peder Pedersen and Anders Troelsen.
Target group: PhD fellows within design and architecture, and related fields in the early stages of their PhD.
ECTS Points: 6
The number of participants: Up to 12
Deadline for signing up: 16 August

A reading list will be provided.

Please sign up by emailing Mia Mimi Flodager mmf@aarch.dk

Please attach a short description of your research project.

Forelæsningsrækken “Grundlæggende forelæsninger om arkitektur” kredser om det grundlæggende spørgsmål ”hvad er arkitektur”?
Hvor kommer arkitekturen fra, hvordan har den udviklet sig gennem tiden og hvordan manifesterer den sig som den nødvendige, men (forhåbentlig) også berigende og inspirerende fysiske ramme om menneskers hverdagsliv? Arkitektskolens professorer vil på skift forsøge at besvare disse spørgsmål, via forskellige blikke på arkitekturens udvikling og samfundsmæssige rolle.

Onsdag d. 18. september holder Mogens A. Morgen forelæsningen “Kulturmiljøer”. Om forelæsningen skriver han:

“Om kulturmiljøer som geografisk afgrænsede områder, der afspejler væsentlige træk af den samfundsmæssige udvikling og som giver os en forståelse for, hvor vi kommer fra og hvem vi er. Steder der rummer en fortælling, som har værdi for mennesker i dag og som sætter en individuel og kollektiv erindring i spil. The memory of place.