THE BIRKBECK INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH,
in
association with LivingMaps
is pleased
to announce a lecture by Professor Tim Ingold
What if the
city were an ocean and its buildings ships?
Of surface, ground and the interstitiality of things.
Discussant: Professor Jonathan Hale
WHEN: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 6pm-8pm
WHERE : Room 421 Birkbeck College
, University of London - Malet Street London WC1E 7HX GB Summary"The question of my title was inspired by a recent exhibition of work by artist David Lemm at Edinburgh Printmakers, on the theme of wayfinding and mark-making in the city. Lemm had superimposed schematic icons pointing to details of buildings (e.g., railings, lintels, steps), that could be seen from different locations, on old nautical charts.The exhibition led me to reflect upon how we think of buildings in relation to the ground of the city, as superstructure on infrastructure, placed upon the ground rather that sunk in its depths. Indeed it led me to reflect upon the ground itself, for on David’s charts, the parts of buildings not only appeared disconnected from one another. They also seemed to float like bric-a-brac upon the surface of the ocean.What if the ground of the city were like the ocean? Is it at ground level, rather than above or below, that the city has to contend with the forces of disintegration?For the mariner, the ship is a point of stillness in a turbulent world of sea and sky, and his attention is directed not to the surface but to currents below and winds above. How might we think of buildings and of the city differently, if we were to imagine the ground, likewise, to heave with the swell of the elements, and of buildings to converse with the earth and with the sky? And what if our city maps were more like nautical charts, indicating depths and cardinal directions rather than surface features and their layout."Tim Ingold is Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013) and The Life of Lines (2015). Jonathan Hale is Associate Professor & Reader in Architectural Theory at the University of Nottingham. His research interests and publications cover the fields of architectural theory and criticism; phenomenology and the philosophy of technology; the relationship between architecture and the body. He has just completed a book for the Routledge series Thinkers for Architects on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The lecture will be chaired by Dr Melissa Butcher ,Birkbeck Institute of Social Research, and introduced by Professor Phil Cohen, Research Director LivingMaps .TICKETS £10.00 Concessions £5.00 (students,seniors)TO BOOK GO TO bit.ly/timingold2016For further information about LivingMaps events and projectswww.livingmaps.org.uk
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