Sunday, 11 July 2021

The Poetics of Order/Making/Odyssey : Dom Hans van der Laan/Tim Ingold/Jane Bennett

Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat

By Hans van der Laan

http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl/en/home/







Makers work in a world that does not stand still


Iteration allows for continual correction (material conversation) in response to an ongoing perceptual monitoring of the task as it unfolds, mixing the potential for blending or combining matter that already exists into new combinations
Tim Ingold 2010

The social life of making
Making speaks in vivid dialogue with two associated themes, material and skill
Creativity involves not merely a spark of innovation or the execution of artistic inspiration. But the capacity to respond to unfolding iterations with materials. To use slowly accrued haptic knowledge to manipulate processes on the fly, and to judge how to counteract error and seize opportunities as they evolve 

Making becomes a process of iteration, and a maker works with this iteration prolifically 

Matter and materials are lively and require attention, materials continue to thwart in unpredictable ways, decaying and breaking down or wearing or breaking under force
Vibrant Matter, A Political Ecology of Things
Jane Bennett 2010

Attending to the process of making opens up prospects for following the lead of the material, where the properties of the materials themselves shape the direction in which making proceeds
Tim Ingold 2010

The aesthetic/vibrant spaces between objects








Collected Notes : Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2020

Walking underneath, through, passing by, 
… are all laid out in different moments in time.

Dom Hans van der Laan

ODYSSEY Aesthetic Intervals/Timbre/Traces


Studio Blackboard




Immateriality/Temporal/Transitions material and movement/Human agency

A Species of Spaces



 



Construction/Making/Collage


Forming, slowness and repetition, elements of painting

Assemblage, sensation, surface, objects and spaces between them gathered/thresholds



Sheltering/Weathered/ Exploring a fragility of a painting in the landscape



 



Robert Mangold, Paintings and Architectural Forms

Fragments from sketchbooks



 Ephemeral Architecture



 



Canvas as spatial verb

Yellow Ochre, Molochite, Gesso, Canvas, Paper, Textiles,
Wood, Lead, Nails



Canvas as folded construction/shelter/place

Operative Design, A Catalogue of Spatial Verbs



Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles, Landscapes and the aesthetic ecology of things

The poetics of order:










Dom Hans van der Laan’s architectonic space
Caroline Voet

Already in his first writings in the 1930s, Dom van der Laan aims to define architectural principles that provide an intellectual expression of the act of dwelling (‘wonen’). To dwell is to enter into a relationship with one’s surroundings, meaning to understand them. For van der Laan, this is the primordial function of architecture: it makes space readable. From his Benedictine background, he draws concepts that enable him to understand this complex process of cognition. He studies the old church fathers such as St Thomas Aquinas, especially his comments on Plato and Aristotle. The Benedictine way of life builds upon the intertwined relation between mystery and matter, between intellect and senses, believing that this relation can be expressed through a Platonic order.5 Professor van Hooff, in describing the work of Dom van der Laan, defines cognition as a dual process of synthesis and analysis.6 On the one hand, there is the act of living, a synthesis of the concrete and singular reality. On the other hand, there is the process of analysis by the abstracting intellect. For us to know the concrete and singular reality, an intense interrelation between the two processes is needed.

http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl/pics/pdf/130105-poetics_of_order-Caroline_Voet.pdf



 














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