NAT CHARD
INSTRUMENTS NINE AND TEN
Statement about the Research Content and Process Description
In the practice of architecture, however, aspects of
design are not always possible to discuss because they exist in the realm of tacit knowledge. This research acknowledges this reality and develops by:
Instruments Nine and Ten search for means of developing tacit knowledge by manipulating the essential terms of architectural drawing: projection, reception and sciagraphy. They belong to an ongoing body of research that examines indeterminate occupations in architecture beyond the reductive predictions of programme.
1. Placing the researcher in a phenomenal relationship with the issue that is being studied; 2. Examining didactic instruments in astronomy, natural history and natural sciences;
Questions
1. In both our phenomenal experience and representation of architecture, shadows play an important role. If we can disturb the shadow beyond our expectations, how does this affect the presence of architecture?
3. Designing, constructing and operating architectural instruments for gaining tacit knowledge; 4. Working iteratively between different generations of instruments and learning from the evolution of the work;
2. What degrees of influence do object, surface and light source parallax have on the relational performance and perception of a floating shadow?
5. Sharing tacit knowledge by opening up the work to the phenomenal experience of others in public exhibitions.
3. How can the terms of architectural projection be reconsidered through the projection of paint rather than light?
Dissemination
Two solo exhibitions in collaboration with Perry Kulper at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, and The Bartlett, London; a smaller solo show in Copenhagen and two group exhibitions in London and Denver. Five journal papers (New Zealand, UK, USA), seven conference papers (Canada, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, UK), two symposiums (London, New York), and four workshops (Aarhus, Detroit, Winnipeg). Public lectures in North America and Europe and four keynotes in Europe.
4. How can didactic instruments help develop and convey tacit architectural knowledge?
Methodology
The typical expectation of academic research is that findings are articulated in a way that can be passed on to others as explicit knowledge.
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