Making Matter(s)~Truth : The unison of experience and imagination in a world to which we are alive and that is alive to us. Tim Ingold

Making begins somewhere between matter and experience. Clay enters this space not as passive substance but as something already entangled with sensing, dwelling, thought and the world around it. The material does not simply receive an idea; it participates in its formation. Making becomes a way of staying with this correspondence, where experience and imagination are not opposites but movements within the same material field.

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

The purpose, dynamic and potential of Anthropology.

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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

First constellation — Ceramic Bodies

Making Matter(s)~Truth

Overspilling Forms

The Ceramics Reader / Brickyard Ceramics

Making Iterations / Procedures

Working Notes : Clay, Interior Skins of Light and Dark

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