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SUMMARY:Landscape as affective image (and the instruments of experience)
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography and Fellow of King’s
  College at the University of Cambridge with particular interests in lands
 cape\, infrastructure\, and bio-diversity. //  Elise Misao Hunchuck is a 
 Berlin-based landscape researcher\, editor\, and educator trained in lands
 cape architecture\, philosophy\, and geography.\nLandscape as affective im
 age (and the instruments of experience) is the third seminar of the ALICE 
 series Surrounded by a fog of virtual images. Organized in 2020-2021 by AL
 ICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) at the ENAC / EPFL this onlin
 e series seeks to explore and operationalize architectural research questi
 ons through a series of talks with international guest speakers led by its
  grad and post-grad researchers around key topics of their work.\n\n--\n\n
 In his Ethics\, the philosopher Spinoza defined the image as “those affe
 ctions of the human body\, the ideas of which represent to us external bod
 ies as if they were present\, although they do not actually reproduce the 
 forms of the things”. In this third seminar\, we want to explore how thi
 s image allows us to overcome landscape’s enclosure within the pictorial
  or figurative and point to new practical and conceptual tools for landsca
 pe\, architecture and urban planning. Spinoza’s “affective image” se
 nds us from the 17th century paintings at the beginning of so many landsca
 pe histories to the older definition of landschaft as a form of commons e
 merging out of shared practices\, customary law and the inherent dynamism 
 of the land. By thinking of landscape as the common entanglement of nature
 \, material practices and meanings\, a form of commons organizing and supp
 orting the spatiality of more-than-human communities\, we seek to find new
  instruments to make this affective image operative within our architectur
 al practice.\n\nLandscape and architectural representation have been subst
 ituted by objectifiable and/or quantifiable description. Locations are red
 uced to coordinates while the botanical richness of our world becomes phot
 oshopped greenery. Meanwhile\, in magazines and Instagram feeds architectu
 ral and landscape images become asignifying snapshots thrown at a passive 
 user. Against this situation\, the affective image operates in the realm o
 f fuzziness and ambiguity\, always requiring an active engagement from its
  embodied beholder. Do the idea of an affective image and the expanded sen
 sorium it brings about offer an opportunity to open up the architectural t
 oolbox once more to the entanglements between the affective\, the symbolic
  and the political? Drawings and traces\, narrations and performances\, at
 lases and figurations… are they capable of unlocking the noticeable dead
 -end of current architectural representation? What imaginal\, perceptual a
 nd experimental instruments do the affective atmospheres of our living env
 ironments demand?\n\nImagination is a form of collective unconscious\, an 
 immanent repertoire of virtual images feeding agency and engaging us polit
 ically with(in) the world. Landscape understood and operationalized as the
  common affect threading and giving ground to dynamic nature cultures\, ca
 n help us unfold material practices capable of working with the ambiguous 
 and the indeterminate while acknowledging the socioecological challenges o
 f our time.\n\n---\n\nIn this third SBAFOVI session\, Lucía Jalón Oyarzu
 n from ALICE will welcome our guest speakers\, Matthew Gandy\, cultural\, 
 urban\, and environmental geographer and Professor and Fellow of King’s 
 College at the University of Cambridge\, and Elise Misao Hunchuck\, resear
 cher and designer with degrees in landscape architecture\, philosophy\, an
 d geography\, we will dive further into these questions.\n\nTo join the le
 ctures and conversation: Zoom\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/89764168632?pwd=YWJSZXFvMjBReDB1R1ZMb0hqbk
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