anghelos
center on communication studies
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INTERNATIONAL
OBSERVATORY
OF STUDIES IN ARCHITECTONIC
AND ARTISTIC DESIGN
living between
Le ciel est
loin la terre aussi, M. Materic
The
relationship between man and space makes one think that man stays on one
side and space on the other side. On the contrary space isn't something
standing in front of man. There aren't men and besides space.
M.
Heidegger
Then the questions that the Observatory, according to the point of view adopted, asks are:
What is the living culture of our time and what defines its quality?
How many and which kind of relations-interactions today's man establishes with space?
Which of these relations-interactions concern the domestical space (the house)?
In which direction has the architectural-design research to orientate to find some significant answers for a living in evolution and corresponding to the needs of this time?
last
How does the Cosmos vision that our contemporaneity is outlining influence
and define arts and architecture?
THEME
by Fabio Alfano
living bewteen
INTERACTIONS man house cosmos
The architectural
and artistic research in general terms of these last decades evidenced
how the living space, as for its different communicative potentialities,
can be considered fundamentally a 'place of relations'. Place of 'phenomena',
'events', 'experiences', ... the contemporary space stands out for its
wide possibility to generate inter-actions at different levels
with what it referres to.
In parallel man, today, finds himself involved in a series of
social cultural ethic behavioural changes… that lead him to an
individual re-discovery of new multiple dimensions of his living that
are looking for a necessary expression in the space, especially in his
own house space.
Among the modern theories on living (Heidegger, Norberg-Schulz,...)
many, besides, refer to the close connection between the 'living' subject
and the space around him in terms of extension, belonging, identity
and search for the suitable requirements for the development of his
own activities.
Again, other
fields of knowing like the 'new sciences', describe the Universe
as a 'complex' unitary system organically integrated and interacting
in all its parts, and whose laws seem to be applicable in an analogous
way to all the scale (D.Bohm, F.Capra, P.Davies… ).
Therefore, they appear more and more evident, the indissoluble relations
and the analogies that link man to his space and both to a more general
system, traditionally called cosmos, which contains them.
The conception of the living space in general, of the house space (primary
space) in the specific, the looking for of its actual specificity and
quality, put surely the question of the recognition and study of the
varied and different 'interactions' that space is able to establish
with all the elements connecting with it.
INVESTIGATIONS
see also
PROPOSED RESEARCH THEMES
A
LOOK AT THE ORIGINS
I. interactions Man House Cosmos in House constructive experience of
ancient and etnic civilizations
THE BASIS
II. interactions Man House Cosmos in XX century House researches (Modern
Movement, Modernism,…)
THE
EVOLUTION
III. interactions Man House Cosmos in contemporary vanguardies House
researches (decostruttivism, informal, new organicism, high tech…)
THE EXTENSION
OTHER
LIVING CULTURES
IV interactions Man House Cosmos in the other living cultures (japanese,
jewish, indian islamic house ...)
THE
VISUAL ARTS
V. interactions Man House Cosmos in "case d'artista"
DESIGN
VI. interactions Man House Cosmos in the household object design