Session 4C : Bourdon 1st Floor Lecture Theatre
Saturday June 10th, 2023 : 13:30 – 16:00
Overview
This panel proposes to investigate the teaching and learning of temporality. An essential, but often overlooked quality in any creative practice is the quality of time folded into making. More than merely measuring clock-time, the possibilities presented by temporal thinking are manifold.
This multidisciplinary panel will investigate temporality in terms including but not limited to: linear, cyclical, iterative, meanwhile; diurnal & nocturnal, matter & memory, futures & utopias, speculation, intuition and duration. How can we use temporal thinking to equip students to respond creatively to the questions we face today regarding material scarcity, climate emergency, and multiple inequalities?
Speakers
Ray Lucas
Dan Dubowitz
John Wood
John is a practicing architect and teacher in FLUX Atelier at Manchester School of Architecture, a teaching and research team unified by a belief in empowering citizens in the making of their city. John’s practice research engages with complex urban places which are subject to plural and contradictory forces, often operating on the margins of viability. His work aims to promote equitable access to high quality architectural and urban design through a deep and critical understanding of economic, experiential, social and technical factors.
Jen Clarke
The Thick Time of Transcorporeality
José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano
José Á Hidalgo is Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, where he leads the undergraduate programme. He has been previously Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (Suzhou, China), and taught in UCH-CEU (Valencia) and the IUAV (Istituto di Architettura di Venezia). He holds a Degree in Architecture (ETSA Barcelona, 2001) and a PhD in Architectural Design (UPM Madrid, 2016). He has given lectures at universities in China, Hong Kong, Sweden, México, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Chile and Argentina. His research is focused on connections between humanities and architecture, with special interest in literature, philosophy and music.
Stefano Romano
Stefano Romano (Naples 1975) is an accomplished artist and curator, with several years of experience in teaching art practices. In 2015 he joined Polis University in Tirana (Albania) as a lecturer of Visual Arts. Previously he lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo (Italy), where he graduated with honors in 2003. His artistic work has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions. Romano’s approach is based on the idea of the work as a spatiotemporal process. Within this framework, he is completing a double degree PhD in architecture at the University of Ferrara and Polis University in Tirana.
Bart Geerts
Bart Geerts (Belgium, 1978) is an artistic researcher and educator who creates spaces in which looking, making and thinking enter into dialogue with each other. He has a special interest in spatial (re)presentation models, the performative potential of visual work, and drawing as a research method. Geerts holds MAs in Germanic Philology and Fine Arts and completed the postgraduate course at the HISK in Antwerp. In 2012 he obtained his practice-based PhD on the painterly, an exploration of the contemporary potential of painting. He is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts and at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven (both in Belgium).
Tzang Merwyn Tong
Tzang Merwyn Tong is an award-winning independent filmmaker, arts-educator and researcher whose research interests include pedagogies in storytelling, filmmaking and around Eastern Philosophy. He received an MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice from Goldsmiths University, and is a recipient of the LASALLE Scholarship. He is currently a Lecturer at Republic Polytechnic, teaching Visual Storytelling and Film Appreciation. Tzang’s films that have travelled to festival acclaim in Rotterdam, Berlin, Montreal and Tel Aviv. He is the founder of the Zen-Mind Filmmaking Movement - a pedagogical approach to make the filmmaking practice mindful and in-the-present using Zen Philosophy.
Miika Hyytiainen
Miika Hyytiäinen’s music has been performed in most contemporary music festivals in Europe, especially in the Nordic countries and Germany. Typical for his music is the versatile use of human voice and intimacy of the sound. He combines different art forms, such as performance, theatre and academic lecture. Hyytiäinen graduated from Universität der Künste Berlin, where he studied composition and experimental music theatre with Daniel Ott. In 2022 he finished his doctoral project at the Sibelius Academy on the communication between singers and the composer.
Lisa Fornhammar
Collaboration Practice and Research Based Teaching in Contemporary Vocal Music: A Duoethnography