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SUMMARY:Mud on the Floor. Dirty Realities in Scholarly Work / EDAR\, THEMA
DTSTART:20241016T123000
DTEND:20241016T140000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Honsa\, KU Leuven\nThe public lecture series Mud on the
  Floor looks at methods for studying construction sites. Although constru
 ction is required for architecture and cities to be built\, it can be nota
 bly absent from scholarship. There are a few institutional reasons for thi
 s (architectural history developing as a subset of art history\, for examp
 le) but also structural reasons for it: as ephemeral\, chaotic\, and liter
 ally dirt-y sites\, construction can challenge our neat scholarly frames a
 nd methods.\nThe presentations will be from architects\, historians\, and 
 anthropologists. The series encourages that we as scholars spend more time
  in the field or in the archives of the construction site as a way of brin
 ging a bit more “mud” back into our institutions and\, in doing so\, b
 etter taking on questions of working conditions\, improvisation\, tacit kn
 owledge\, and even uncertainty\, to name just a few of the ways that looki
 ng at construction can enrich our research work.\n\n16 October / 12:30-14:
 00  / Jesse Honsa\, KU Leuven\nConstruction Drawing: Retracing the Role
 s of an Early 20th Century British Contractor\nThis talk introduces drawin
 g as an investigative tool. Architectural drawings do not only communicate
  information\, but create it: compiling\, scrutinizing\, charting\, compar
 ing\, and hypothesizing from existing sources. Such methods are especially
  relevant in a particularly resource-scarce and messy area of historical r
 esearch: construction history. The lecture focuses on one building firm: J
 ohn Laing & Son\, a large-scale builder of garden cities and settlements i
 n the early twentieth century\, using drawings to piece together construct
 ion sites\, details\, projects and work relationships. The scale and scope
  of Laing’s vertically-integrated organization redefined normative roles
  such as ‘contractor\,’ ‘unskilled worker\,’ ‘developer\,’ and
  ‘architect.’\n\nMud on the Floor is coordinated by Sarah Nichols (TH
 EMA Lab) and represents the 2024 SCHOLARS in Transition public lecture s
 eries. This established EDAR annual series of lectures aims at giving a vo
 ice to contemporary scholars who\, within their ongoing research activity\
 , are experiencing a « transition » condition: their contribution to ne
 w and emerging research topics\, and to tentative interpretations and unco
 nventional approaches\, marks the intersection of their personal research 
 agendas\, the evolution of their discipline\, the public debate\, and the 
 availability of sources and data.
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