Programme

Thursday 22 April 2021

10:00 - 10:30

Introductions

Performing

The section aims at a discussion of bodily awareness and space through music and choreography. Sound and body movement are interrelated to perform the meaning of a space through the time of musical or dance performance. This meaning can vary from religious, to recreational or even geopolitical.

10:30 - 12:30

Magnus Williamson

Steps, stages, space and song: Observations on performance architecture in the long thirteenth century

Maria Athanasiou

Approaching aural embodiment and awareness

Charlotte Veal

Embodying Security: Choreopolicing and Choreopolitics at the US-Mexico Border

15:30 - 17:00

Stella Mygdali (presentation & workshop)

Walking Encounters

 

Friday 23 April 2021

10:30-12:30

Agency in Architecture 

This cluster of presentations explore the role of human agency in architectural design process and experience, touching themes of tackling distancing in space making of different scales, as well as meaning-defining operations embodied in heritage buildings, such as memorials or significant sacred sites.

Beniamino Polimeni and Martin Richardson

Representing objectified spaces using Regular Polyhedra. Images, models, holograms. 

Yasser Megahead

Revisiting the Majaz. Reading the Embodied Multi-sensory Experience in the Threshold Space of Al-Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo

Andrea Jelic & Aleksandar Stanicic

Embodiment, meaning-making, and architectural heritage: Towards an interdisciplinary framework

15:30 – 17:00

Psycho-Somatic Dynamics

Renos Papadopoulos

 

Saturday 24 April 2021

10:30-12:30

Testing

Seeking to touch upon to disjointed embodied reality that we have been living in during the COVID-19 crisis, the two projects presented in this session regard experimental creative practice processing of material taking place during the event. By using the event as their testing ground the proposals will seek to a retrofitting of the virtual Symposium on Embodied Awareness and Space, by discussing or attempting space-time making acts to take place during its course. The intention is to create a spirally (not circular) evolving symposium/situation, the different parts of which give feedback to each other.

Mark Laverty and Alec McCullogh

The Splitting of Number 12: An exploration into disembodied experience within the domestic

Alex Blanchard and David Boyd

Revise Embodiment: Dialectical Computation as Spatial Practice