Beskrivelse
The theory of material imagination recognizes that there is an oneiric dimension to materials deeply within our individual and collective psyche; that we ‘dream’ with materials. Pioneered by the French philosopher-chemist, Gaston Bachelard, this inner life is discovered by moving beyond our visual account of materials: "The eye assigns them names," he wrote in 1942, "but only the hand truly knows them."This lecture recounts a recent research project into the material imagination through the example of marble, one of architecture’s most fascinating materials. Drawing from historical-cultural sources, field work, and workshop-based experiments, we focus primarily on ‘marbles from the north’, with cases from Greenland and Norway. Under the framework of the material imagination, connections are made between contemporary, digital tools, material reveries in marble’s translucency and crystal interior, and remote quarry landscapes.
Periode | 10 nov. 2022 |
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Sted for afholdelse | University of Limerick, Irland |
Grad af anerkendelse | International |
Relateret indhold
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Publikationer
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"A noble Danish Material": Greenland marble extraction in the 1930s
Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Konferenceabstrakt til konference › Forskning
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Conglomerate Experiments Towards an Imagination in Fauske Marble
Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
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New Demonstrations in Nordic Marble
Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Paper › Forskning › peer review
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Acheiropoietic tales and the lithic imagination
Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Paper › Forskning › peer review
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Reading into Greenland Marble: "a noble Danish material"
Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
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The Architecture of the Nordic Marble 'left-over'
Publikation: Bidrag der ikke har en tekstform › Bidrag til udstilling › Forskning › peer review
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Marbellous
Publikation: Bidrag der ikke har en tekstform › Udstilling › Forskning
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New Demonstrations in Fauske Marble
Publikation: Bidrag der ikke har en tekstform › Bidrag til udstilling › Forskning
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Aktiviteter
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WORKS+WORDS 2022
Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangement af en begivenhed › Deltagelse i workshop, seminar og kursus
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Material Imagination
Aktivitet: Andre aktivitetstyper › Ekstern undervisning og censoraktivitet
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Material Imagination
Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangement af en begivenhed › Organisation af og deltagelse i konference
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Field studies in Maarmorilik, Greenland
Aktivitet: Andre aktivitetstyper › Andet
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Projekter
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Material Imagination: Reconnecting with the matter of architecture
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
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Nordic Marble
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
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Presse/medier
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Kunst und Stein, Der Marmor aus dem Eis
Presse/medie