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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. 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.1
21 MARCH 2022, 7PM
Christoph Grafe, Bergische Universität Wuppertal Peg Rawes, Bartlett, UC London
9 MAY 2022, 7PM
Margitta Buchert, Leibniz Universität Hannover Gennaro Postiglione, Politecnico Milano Gaia Caramellino, Politecnico Milano
TBA
Tim Anstey, Oslo School of Architecture Helena Mattsson, KTH Stockholm Jennifer Mack, KTH Stockholm
COMMUNITIES OF TACIT KNOWLEDGE: ARCHITECTURE AND ITS WAYS OF KNOWING 1 The research project is an Innovative Training Network for doctoral students, as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the European Framework Programme Horizon 2020. The research project has received funding since March 2020 and will run for three years. The project involves ten doctoral students at ten European universities, along with nine architecture firms, three cultural institutions, and an advisory board consisting of six renowned academics in the fields of architecture and urbanism.
The lectures will be organised as “TACK talks”, as discussions between the partners in a hybrid format, and streamed via YouTube. www.tacit-knowledge-architecture.com 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.
