Our public spaces mean something. Our parks mean something. A bridge means something to a river. Our buildings mean something for our streets. The streets mean something toward how we move. How we move means something for what we see and what we can hear.
In our experiments students are a given space to explore with their bodies through what we have called “kropp-legge”. Such “embodied-registration” works through to generate novel overviews and readings and tests potentials for being places anew. Series are often the outcome, as activities that are timebound in a place are manifested by the group becoming “recording devices” or placeholders. The opportunities are ceaseless and can be made from a system which might be of action, orientation, position or movement.
Every gesture from simply sitting, walking, eating or climbing, opens different possibilities to experience a given space. Whether outside or in, our inhabitation and our motion shape the understanding we have of being here, or there. Architects might be unified through discussion of the protective qualities of a tree or a roof, and the spaces these objects construct in tandem with their context. But we are occupied with reorientating our focus and terms of engagement. ‘Kropplegging’ then, offers a deliberate relearning of space, through ‘embodied registration’.
To «kropp-legge» is to refind understanding and sequences, to get space that contains alternative perceptions and movements. By doing so we add our own definitions and actions in which we gather further subjective understandings of space. Through such performance acts we seek to detect potential, patterns or limitations. In doing so, can we reveal our conventions and break with them.
In our experiments students are a given space to explore with their bodies through what we have called “kropp-legge”. Such “embodied-registration” works through to generate novel overviews and readings and tests potentials for being places anew. Series are often the outcome, as activities that are timebound in a place are manifested by the group becoming “recording devices” or placeholders. The opportunities are ceaseless and can be made from a system which might be of action, orientation, position or movement.
Every gesture from simply sitting, walking, eating or climbing, opens different possibilities to experience a given space. Whether outside or in, our inhabitation and our motion shape the understanding we have of being here, or there. Architects might be unified through discussion of the protective qualities of a tree or a roof, and the spaces these objects construct in tandem with their context. But we are occupied with reorientating our focus and terms of engagement. ‘Kropplegging’ then, offers a deliberate relearning of space, through ‘embodied registration’.
To «kropp-legge» is to refind understanding and sequences, to get space that contains alternative perceptions and movements. By doing so we add our own definitions and actions in which we gather further subjective understandings of space. Through such performance acts we seek to detect potential, patterns or limitations. In doing so, can we reveal our conventions and break with them.
Kropplegging ---------
Workshop in Landart
Teacher
Co-author Silje Kolltveit, Hanne Bat Finke, Anna Røtnes, Sindre Wam, Lone Sjøli, Petter Kveseth, Jonas Gunerius Larsen and Mads Øiern
Kropp-legging was a three-day course for both first year architecture and landscape students with a focus on reorientating our terms of engagement for the addressing of space.
