Recordings I made during the Call to Papers "Architecture and Phenomenology" held at the Kyoto Seika University. With permission of the Organising Committee, I make them available publicly. I have to apologise for the quality of the recordings as it was done with a voice recorder on my desk. The call for papers was the following:
Architecture and Phenomenology Second International Conference, Kyoto Seika University, Japan June 26, 2009 (Friday) to June 29, 2009 (Monday)
In continuation of the First Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, which was held in Haifa, Israel during May 2007, the Second Architecture and Phenomenology Conference explores diverse relationships between phenomenology and architecture. The committee members of the Conference invite papers on the relation between architecture and phenomenology, and on phenomenological interpretations of architecture at various levels. Phenomenology has been one of the most productive and inspirational arenas of thinking in the discourse of contemporary architecture since the 1960s. Despite criticisms made by other schools of philosophy such as neo-Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, post- colonialism and so forth, phenomenological lessons on life-world, language, perception, body, creation and ethics inspired consistently leading architects and writers in architecture. This Second International Conference on Architecture and Phenomenology seeks to open a new chapter in the history of phenomenological scholarship and practice in architecture. The Conference will revisit how phenomenology has been understood and employed in the scholarship and practice of architecture and urbanism. It will explore architectural and urban lessons of recent development in phenomenology itself such as the ideas of ‘being given’ and ‘saturated phenomenon’ by Jean Luc-Marion and ‘generative phenomenology’ by Anthony Steinbock. Lastly, the Conference will engage with the contemporary situation in which discourses on materiality, sustainability, and digital design and fabrication claim to have opened new arenas in the manner that we apprehend and design environments. The Conference investigates how phenomenology offers itself as a valuable lens through which the openings and limits of these discourses can be evaluated.
Another unique aspect of the Second Architecture and Phenomenology Conference consists in the fact that it is held in an East Asian country. This venue is particularly meaningful in that phenomenology in the West has shown a great affinity to the traditional and modern East Asian thinking. Most of the phenomenology-based studies in architecture have employed as their references the philosophies of Western thinkers such as Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), and so forth. Despite the fact that, in the area of philosophy, East Asian tradition has been studied by many Asian and Western intellectuals, it still remains an uncharted territory of intellectual potential for the discipline of architecture. Accordingly, this Conference will set up a momentous stage not only to balance this tendency, but also to explore the phenomenological tradition of East Asia represented by the Kyoto Philosophical School and its view of nothingness, horizon, body, perception, creation, and art and architecture. Some of the keynote speeches and general paper sessions of the Conference will be devoted to this cross-cultural relationship in phenomenological thinking at the level of both philosophy and architecture.
If you are interested more in this lectures I recommend the following book: www.amazon.com/Things-Themselves…ogy/dp/487698235X
Негізгі бет A+P2 - Kyoto 2009 | Jin Baek - "Opening Remarks" [01/41]
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