EXPERIENCE | EXPLORE | ENGAGE
Spacious research bridges the gap between academic and artistic research in the built environment.
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.
EXPERIENCE | EXPLORE | ENGAGE
Testing grounds add a first person ecology to the third person perspective still prevailing in academia.
RESEARCH
At the heart of Spacious’ practice is our ongoing research. We critically rethink the role of the spatial designer in building climate just futures by advancing embodied-enactive and post-Western perspectives in 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 and urbanism 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 CYCLES
THE COMPASSION PROJECT (2024 - ONGOING)
The Compassion Project explores how spatial intervention can enhance compassion, kin relationality, and ecological belonging in public space. 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).
Keywords: Compassion; Procedural Architecture; Architectural Body; Arakawa and Gins; Planetary Health
TRANSFORMATIVE SPATIAL PEDAGOGIES (2020 - 2024)
Transformative Spatial Pedagogies is a research project exploring sensorial and peformative experimentation as a pedagogical tool for driving systemic change. The project started 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).
Keywords: Co-Creation; Collaboration; Generosity; In-Situ; Architecture Education.
WORKING WITH/IN THE GAP (2017 - 2021)
Working With/In the Gap is a research project dedicated to the transformative potential of in-between space. Key concepts like “building”, "space" and “time” as well as the role of the designer in building (climate) just futures are recast through the lenses of the Japanese concept of 間 (Ma). 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).
Keywords: Ma; Japan; Arata Isozaki; Space-Time; 4EA Cognition.
FEATURED MEDIA
PUBLICATIONS AND NON-TRADTIONAL RESEARCH OUTPUT (NTRO'S)
Titel
Publisher/ Venue
Medium
Link | Download
Home Within Movement: The Japanese Concept 間 [ma]: Sensing Space-time Intensity
Book chapter in in G. Bracken (Ed.), Care of the self: Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (241-257). Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press. 2019.
Yellow Sphere, How Are You Today?
Essay in T. Kadobayashi (Ed.), Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Philosophy of Body in the 22nd Century. Tokyo, Japan: Film Art. 2019: Published in Japanese translated by N. Onuki. English draft available online.
Un/Balancing Textures
Invited Lecture at Faculty of Spatial Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.2019.
Sensing 間 [ma]
Invited Lecture at International Institute for Asian Research, Leiden, Netherlands. 2019.
Minor Paradigm Shifts With Arakawa and Gins
Presentation at DARE: Machinic assemblages of desire Conference, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium. 2019, with Lila Athanasiadou.
Approaching Ma: Marking, Zigzagging and Rotating
Presentation at CA2RE Conference, KULeuven, Ghent, Belgium. 2019.
Moments of Ma
Performance at Intensive Cartographies Seminar 4: Mapping Rhythm, Architecture Faculty TU Delft, Netherlands.2018, with Cocky Eek and students.
Moving on, 間 [ma] 40 Years After
Invited Lecture at Intensive Cartographies Seminar 4: Mapping Rhythm, Architecture Faculty TU Delft, Netherlands. 2018.
Reversed Destiny: Constructing Life with Arakawa and Gins
Presentation at Architectures of Life and Death, 8th Annual Lowlands Deleuze Scholarship Conference, TU Delft, Netherlands. 2019.
Sensing Shipyard
Spatial installation at Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supported by The Hague University of the Arts, The Hague. 2018, with Cocky Eek and students.
Zigzagging
Spatial installation at Cloud DansLab, The Hague, the Netherlands, supported by KU Leuven. 2018.
