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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)
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Ma and Blank
Invited Lecture at Studies of the Architectural Body Research Group Seminar, Kansai University, Japan. 2018.
10 days at Bioscleave House
Invited Lecture at Architectural Body Research Foundation supported by KU Leuven New York Hub. 2018.
Summersaulting Horizons and Making Sense of Sensorial Journeys
Invited Lecture at Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2018.
Sensing the Shipyard: A Sensorial Journey
Panel participation at Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2018.
Dirty Co-creation
Invited Lecture at INSIDE: Corrupted Spaces Seminar Series, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands. 2018.
Beyond Bioscleave
Presentation at Scaffolds International Symposium, Alice-lab, Brussels, Belgium. 2018.
Transformances
Exhibition at the Sixth Annual Lowlands Deleuze Scholarship Conference at AKI University of the Arts, Enschede, the Netherlands. 2017, with Sjoerd van Oevelen.
Exhibition Design as Common Ground
Presentation at Environmental Asia, 10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference, Oslo, Norway. 2017.
A Beautiful Catastrophe: A Japanese Approach Towards Energy in Environmental Design
Presentation at Environmental Asia, 10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference, Oslo, Norway. 2017.
Home Within Movement: The Japanese Concept of 間 [ma]
Presentation at City and Society: The Care of the Self. 9th Annual IIAS-TU Delft Conference, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands. 2017
Place is Relation
Pitch at The future of Craftsmanship in Architecture symposium at Venice Biennale, Italy and iFabrica Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Met de Wind Mee is de Horzion Niet Altijd Recht
Essay in Landing Sites, 6-11. Utrecht, Netherlands: Sweigman&. 2017