IKA S2021
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If we rehearse producing the affect “joy”, will we generate “paradise”? A question, too naive, absurd and lofty to be contemplated as an applicable strategy for place-making. However, affect as a constituent material agent has been studied extensively in philosophy and critical theory and is one of the central concerns of New Materialism (Spinoza 1992; Bergson 1998; Deleuze 1988, 1992; Massumi 2002; Brennan 2004; Thrift 2007; De Landa 2006; Braidotti 2013).
While theories of affect have become an integral part of today’s discourse in art, (Bishop 2012; Ranciére 2009), the ethical and spatial implications involved in the application of a post-human ontology through the production of affect have not been sufficiently exploited yet through architectural practice. In the wake of current global challenges, how do we engage in the production of space? What is the role of contemporary architects – is s/he a social reformer, environmentalist, artist,
