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Feeling bodies of architecture: Toward an incommensurable pedagogy

2022

Pedagogy
Feeling
Architecture
Writing
Kaasa, Adam, 2022, ‘Feeling bodies of architecture: Toward an incommensurable pedagogy’ In: Harriss, Harriet, Salama, Ashraf M. and Gonzalez Lara, Ane, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 103-112. ISBN 97803678937052

Abstract:
What it might mean for an architectural pedagogy to center the body and its senses, not simply as the recipient, the user, the client, the public, the crowd, the appropriator, the intended, but also as the body and bodies that draw drawings, sketch sketches, model models, imagine imaginings? This is a call to center the body, bodies – their senses, their sensations, their inarticulable feeling – in the methods, the ways, the modes, the metaphors, the sites, the attentions, the outcomes of spatial pedagogy. To work through this proposal, I turn to a discussion at the intersection of decolonial thinking and queer theory, explore spatial metaphors of knowledge production and suggest architectural pedagogy must dwell in the incommensurate.

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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