Institut für Kunst und Architektur Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna www.akbild.ac.at/ika
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860413
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
LECTURE SERIES AND TACK TALKS
ARCHITECTURE AND ITS WAYS OF KNOWING LECTURE SERIES WINTER 2021/ SUMMER 2022 The title and theme of the research project, and consequently of the lecture series, derive from the idea of “tacit knowledge”, which was introduced by Michael Polanyi and Gilbert Ryle starting in the 1950s. They addressed the fact that there is a whole range of forms of knowledge that we learn and apply implicitly, mainly through immediate physical implementation, without being able to explain them precisely. For Polanyi, this meant that, “we know more than we can say”. Architecture, and especially the architectural design process, fits well into this thesis. For although many architects make great efforts to explain and (post-) rationalise their design approaches, the actual process remains unknown, even when working in a team. The physical activity of sketching, drawing, building working models, etc. is individual and collective at
the same time, since in addition to the subjective choice of forms and structures, there is also recourse to the familiar, because it is easy to communicate: processes, images and jargon, which in turn also promote habitual prejudices.
JANUARY 2022 Tim Anstey Oslo School of Architecture Helena Mattsson KTH Stockholm Jennifer Mack KTH Stockholm
The annual lecture series at IKA in the academic year 2021/2022 will be organised in partnership with the EU research project Communities of Tacit Knowledge (TACK): Architecture and its Ways of Knowing, in which we are involved as one of ten academic partners.
MARCH 2022 Christoph Grafe Bergische Universität Wuppertal Peg Rawes Bartlett, UCLondon
11 OCTOBER 2021 Lara Schrijver University Antwerp Tom Avermaete ETH Zürich 6 DECEMBER 2021 Klaske Havik TU Delft Janina Gosseye TU Delft
MAY 2022 Margitta Buchert Leibniz Universität Hannover Gennaro Postiglione Politecnico Milano Gaia Caramellino Politecnico Milano Mondays All lectures start at 7pm The lectures will be organised as “TACK talks”, as discussions between the partners in a hybrid format, and streamed via YouTube on the TACK website. www.tacit-knowledge-architecture.com