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Project Details
Description
My research on the Material Imagination began during my Ph.D studies (2009) and has been foundational to my thinking and pedagogy, having taught three successful courses and published widely on the subject. In 2015, for example, I published an essay on the sense on smell in relationship to intuition and the work of Carlo Scarpa in the book, The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter (Ashgate). As a result of my extensive research in the field, I was included as a named team member for the recently awarded DFF Grant in Research Lab 2 at Aarhus School of Architecture entitled: Material Imagination: Reconnecting with the Matter of Architecture. The Domestic Uncanny project continues the line of research, reflecting upon the
relationships between the material imagination and the cultural, technological and psychoanalytic structures of the domestic everyday life realm. The point of departure confronts the works of Gaston Bachelard, one of the founders of the notion of the Material Imagination. His work, Poetics of Space (1958), a widely known text
among architects structured around notions of home, will be explored through his research on matter and materials, two parts of Bachelard’s thinking that have not been connected before. What is the materiality of the domestic? What is the role of architecture in participating within such emotional structure of belonging? What
are the cultural translations of materials within the intimate horizons of the homely?
relationships between the material imagination and the cultural, technological and psychoanalytic structures of the domestic everyday life realm. The point of departure confronts the works of Gaston Bachelard, one of the founders of the notion of the Material Imagination. His work, Poetics of Space (1958), a widely known text
among architects structured around notions of home, will be explored through his research on matter and materials, two parts of Bachelard’s thinking that have not been connected before. What is the materiality of the domestic? What is the role of architecture in participating within such emotional structure of belonging? What
are the cultural translations of materials within the intimate horizons of the homely?
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 01/08/2018 → 30/06/2021 |
Keywords
- domestic space
- artefacts of wonder
- material culture
- feminine practices
- erotic space
- interior space
- architecture of intimacy
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Inter/Sections
Carolina Dayer (Lecturer) & Claudia Carbone (Lecturer)
29 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Research in Practice
Carolina Dayer (Participant)
12 Nov 2018 → 14 Nov 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
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Det Erotiske Vindue
Dayer, C., May 2019, In: Arkitekten. 121, 04, p. 30-32 3 p.Translated title of the contribution :An Erotic Window into Domestic Space Publications: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication
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Domestic Imagination: The Foundational Workspace of Carlo Scarpa
Dayer, C., Jun 2019. 4 p.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
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Practicing History
Dayer, C., 12 Nov 2018. 5 p.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review