SÉMINAIRES
Mon, Jun 13
|Séminaire ONLINE
ARCHITECTURE & COGNITION
TABLE RONDE 5 : Patrice Ceccarini (EVCAU École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Val de Seine ENSA) Ole Möystad (Architecture et Cognition | AD Faculty, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Heure & Lieu
Jun 13, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM GMT+2
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Patrice Ceccarini
Ole Möystad
BUILT ENVIRONMENT - MORPHODYNAMICS OF MEANING AND AGENCY
This paper will address the question of “… how semiotics of space can challenge, criticize or propose
new approaches?” The paper bases its approach to this question on two premises.
First premise is that we adopt the current position in cognitive science that human cognition is a
direct, two-way interaction between brain and environment (Gibson, Moser, Chemero, Epstein).
Second premise is that we don’t build cities anymore, we change them piece by piece (Chr.
Alexander, Møystad).
René Thom modelled the forms that change took on in nature, while pointing out that to model and
hence predict it’s outcome the topological form of a certain change is not to explain it.
Given that we, humans, as well as our built environment, are part of nature, we are also agents of
the morphodynamics of our own Umwelt. At first sight it may look as if Thom, by precluding
explanation from the model, is implying an efficient causation without semiotic causation, or a blind
agency (Kant, Hoffmeyer).
When we imagine, project and describe changes in our built environment, do we not also imply an
explanation for our acts of producing form? In other words; when we (Thom, Brandt, Marcos) imply
a path from real space (RS) to behavior space (BS) (model), do we not also imply a path from BS to
RS? A path opening a door to an epistemological level in RS, ascribing agency not only to RS, but also
to BS. Is it possible to construe Thom’s catastrophes in BS not only as descriptions, but also as tools for
actually producing urban form – in real space?
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