Performative Spaces of the Everyday

Abstract

For medieval builders, drawing was not the visual projection of an idea already fashioned in the intellect – as implied by the synonymy of drawing and design in disegno – but a craft of weaving with lines. (Ingold, 2013, p. 66)

This paper presents the conceptual foundations of the work developed by the students of the Design Studio 1 course, in the first semester of the first year, reading for a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies at the IE School of Architecture and Design (Segovia and Madrid, Spain). The course is framed as an anthropology of the everyday oriented studio, under the title: Reimagi(ni)ng the Domestic Space

The studio begins with the students actively turning their senses to the minimal acts of everyday life, both in relation to the objects that populate it and to the body that inhabits it. Beginning with a domestic object chosen in relation to their memories and desires, and through an extensive hands-on process based on the performative interaction between the object and their bodies, the students reenact this interaction in movement to construct an intimate space through drawing and model making. In a sequence that moves from a simple domestic object, to the body that perceives and manipulates it, to the embodied actions that result from this relationship to the object, to the interactions with the other inhabitants of the domestic environment, the complex spatial network of relationships thus created ultimately builds a rich and multilayered architectural space from within.

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