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Spacious research bridges the gap between academic and artistic research in architecture.
SPACIOUS RESEARCH
Spacious advances interdependent, embodied-enactive perspectives in architectural theory and practice.
Our approach to research is distinguished by the creation of spatial installations, such as mock-ups and re-enactments, through which we conduct sensorial and participatory fieldwork. These testing grounds allow us to study the spatial experience artistically and scientifically, intersecting the field of architecture with insights and methods from cognitive and contemplative sciences as well as from other visual and performative arts.
Our creative approach to scholarship generates peer-reviewed publications as well as non-traditional research outputs such as performances, visual essays and exhibitions.
Spacious programs challenge the role of the architect and architecture.
TESTING GROUNDS
Testing grounds add a first-person ecology to the scientific third-person perspective still prevailing in academia.
SPACIOUS RESEARCH
Spacious advances interdependent, embodied-enactive perspectives in architectural theory and practice.
Our approach to research is distinguished by the creation of spatial installations, such as mock-ups and re-enactments, through which we conduct sensorial and participatory fieldwork. These testing grounds allow us to study the spatial experience artistically and scientifically, intersecting the field of architecture with insights and methods from cognitive and contemplative sciences as well as from other visual and performative arts.
This creative approach to scholarship generates peer-reviewed publications as well as non-traditional research outputs such as performances, visual essays and exhibitions.
LONG-TERM RESEARCH PROJECTS
ARCHITECTURE OF THE IN-BETWEEN
2017-2021
At the heart of Spacious’ practice is our research to the Japanese spatial and performative practice of 間 [Ma]. This research re-casts western architectural practices through the lenses of a sensorial and participatory approach to the built environment. It introduces you to a craftsmanship of the in-between much needed in realizing more reciprocal relationships with the earth. The research is conducted in affiliation with the Radical Materialities research group at KU Leuven (BE) and the Ecologies of Architecture research group at TU Delft (NL).
THE COMPASSION PROJECT
2024 - current
The Compassion Projects is a new research project into the capacity of spatial intervention to enhance compassion, kinship, and reverence in and for the environment. The research is conducted in affiliation with ArtEZ professorship Theory in the Arts (NL) and the Studies of the Architectural Body Research Group at Kansai University (JP).
TRANSFORMATIVE SPATIAL PEDAGOGIES
2020 - current
Transformative Spatial Pedagogies is an ongoing research project focusing on in-situ spatial pedagogy as an agent of transformation. The project started in 2020 in affiliation with the Teaching Tools research group at University of the Arts The Hague (NL) and has continued in affiliation with ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL).
FEATURED MEDIA
PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES AND NON-TRADTIONAL RESEARCH OUTPUT (NTRO'S)
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Biotopological Craftsmanship in the Here and Now
Book chapter in T. Kadobayashi & N. Mimura (Ed.), Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century After Arakawa and Gins. Tokyo, Japan: Ratik. 2023.
Zigzagging Pathways and Somersaulting Horizons as Agents of Transformation
Lecture at Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 2023.
Un/Balancing Procedurals
Lecture at Master Performing Arts in Public Space, Fontys, Tilburg Netherlands. 2023.
Working With/In the Gap
Contribution to group exhibition at AGxKANSAI Exhibition 2022, Kyoto University of the Arts, Japan. 2022.
Working With/In the Gap
Interview for podcast AI Murmurings, 12(2). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Slow Research Lab/ Podbean. 2022.
Working With/In the Gap: Japan-ness in Architecture of Experience
Doctoral dissertation, KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Brussels/Ghent, Belgium. 2021.
Forming Social and Ecological Transformation
Lecture at Corpo-real Master interior Architecture, ArtEZ, Zwolle, Netherlands. 2022.
A Planet of Bodies: Human and Other Physiques at the Intersection of Nature and Design
Panel participation at BK-Talks, TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Delft, Netherlands. 2022.
Biotopological Craftsmanship in the Here and Now
Invited lecture AGxKANSAI Conference 2022: Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century After Arakawa and Gins, Kyoto University of the Arts, Japan. 2022.
Reversing Destiny: Initial findings on Japan-ness in Arakawa and Gins
Book chapter in A. Radman & S. Kousoulas (Eds.), Architectures of Life and Death: The Eco-Aestetics of the Built Environment (153-163). Lanham, England: Rowman and Littlefield International. 2021.
Grasping 間 [ma]
Essay in A. Radman & S. Kousoulas (Eds.), Architectures of Life and Death: The Eco-Aestetics of the Built Environment (153-163). Lanham, England: Rowman and Littlefield International. 2021.
