Critical (Spatial) Dialogue

9-10 March 2023


Pedagogy
Dialogue
Performance

What does it mean to speak to each other?

What does it mean to listen?

This two-day LAHP-funded workshop explores Critical Spatial Dialogue as a site and condition of contemporary research within and across art, design, architecture, and the humanities.

Conceived and led by Adam Kaasa and David Burns of the Fiction Feeling Frame research collective at the Royal College of Art.

What is the space of critical dialogue – metaphorically, and literally? Phonemes and vibrations and gestures? The materiality and sociality of air, of breath, of mouth, of tongue, of body, of hands, of signs, of smiles, of utterance, of noises, of glances, of blinks, of walls, of chairs, of audience, of fans, of interviews, of motions, of walking, of movements, of meaning, of value, of reciprocity, of names, of in-common, of translation, of biographies, of lost futures, of desire, of I’m sorry, of can you repeat that, of I understand, of I know what you mean, and of, and of, and of.

Within this and of, and of, and of that expands with each breath, this 2-day workshop explores what might be at stake for research within and across art, design, architecture, and the humanities in its relation to critical (spatial) dialogues.



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From ‘Frames of Love, or Love’s Perspective’ (2018)

‘Love’s perspective might be a window into someone’s life. Or perhaps it is more like a signal that one sees and likes and recognizes what another or other put/s forward as a framed structure of their feeling of life.’
- Adam Kaasa
From ‘Feeling Bodies of Architecture: Towards an Incommensurable Pedagogy’ (2023)

‘Space, time, energy must be made for the bodies of architecture to be present in this new pedagogic performance, for feeling in both senses of the word to happen, for bodies that have moved to be moved again, by and through each other.’
- Adam Kaasa