ENAC Seminar series // Constructive Disobedience
Event details
| Date | 27.06.2024 |
| Hour | 13:15 |
| Speaker | Helga Blocksdorf is a freelance architect who runs the architecture office Helga Blocksdorf/Architektur in Berlin, established in 2013. In 2021, she was appointed as professor and head of the Institute for Construction at the TU Braunschweig. As an initiation to the re-orientation of the institute, she organised the international conference Constructive Disobedience together with Katharina Benjamin (kntxtr) and Matthias Ballestrem (TU Dortmund) in 09/2022. In successful research and teaching formats, the institute is dedicated to the ecological transformation of the construction industry. Prior to this position, she was a guest professor of constructive design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and worked as a research assistant in the team headed by Prof. Ute Frank at the TU Berlin from 2007 to 2012. In 2019, she was accepted into the 'Programm Entwurfsbasierte Promotion' (Programme for Design-Based Doctorates) as a doctoral candidate. Between 2001 and 2013, she was part of the artist collective après-nous, which held international exhibitions and installations in cities such as New York, Berlin, and Copenhagen. After graduating from the University of the Arts in Berlin, Helga Blocksdorf gained experience in construction management, execution planning and competitions at Staab Architekten, Berlin. |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
There are particular places in the design process where the idea, bearing in mind all analogue and digital design tools with the obligation to build according to the state of the art, overlaps with planning law, building physics, thermal, noise and fire protection requirements and above all with structural- constructive questions and condenses into a seemingly unsolvable problem. Described by Jan Turnovský in 1987 in The Poetics of a Wall Projection‚ as the predetermined breaking point between the intention of the concept and the resistance of the empirical material, the targeted search for these ‘seismic points’ in the design process reveals itself as a preoccupation within the body of work. An inevitable condition of this observation must be an explicitly non-linear understanding of the constructive ‘processing up the scales‘; on the contrary, all parameters are permanently overwritten in the service of the idea. If one considers the evocation of these fault lines in the design and construction process as a method, the enormous potential for failure becomes as clear as the great architectural potential keeping change in mind. This approach includes the potential of finding virulent constructive themes as future topics for ‘explorative research and teaching’, starring specifically with the open questions which are to be identified in the process.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Contact
- Prof. Jeffrey Huang