Open Lecture: Fluctuated [Flat]scape

Date:	19.04.11
Location:	The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 41, entrance Y 1434 Copenhagen K
Time:	11:00 – 12:30
Event holder:	Study Department 6

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture is inviting Toshikatsu Kiuchi and whiteweekendkites to hold a workshop during 11th ‐ 19th April for the students from 1st and 2nd year at Study Department 6. The final review will take place at 11:00 – 12:30 on Tuesday 19th at Study Department 6, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 41, entrance Y, Stensalen. The final review will be open to the public.

The workshop is aimed for the students from 1st and 2nd year to experience the utilization of a computational system as a key to bridge between quantitative / analytical approach and qualitative / emotional, vital, fleshy (even illogical) approach to design architecture.

Thinking of the beauty of “deformation”, there seems to be always the conception of “normal” on the other side as a counter. In a way, we can recognize the “deformed” because we know what is “normal”. We see the beauty in a “deformed” object because it is different from “normal” and thus it appears as singular.

But an immediate question which comes to our mind next is; Does anything “normal” actually exist? As a hypothetical answer to it, we say No in this workshop presuming that there only exist singularities. “Normal” is just a dull, blunt or careless view at a ridge of singularities, where the difference declares its own existence with wild, lively and unremitting voice.

Starting off from the point of view stated above, we set up an approach to “eventualize” certain things, which are perceived as “normal” (in the sense of Michel Foucault), to open up a better perspective or even fluctuate the view of what is “deformation” about. In an exploration of this path, we should be able to rediscover “deformation” not as a shift from something “normal” but as a peak in a ridge of singularities.