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HS23 - Denkraum #13
Inconvenience
We are the Ministry for the Future

By dressing up as a Competence Center, we take the perspective of the institution seriously. What if we are the Ministry of the Future? What would we do? 

HS23 - Geocentric Driftings #3 (feat. Dept. of the Ongoing)
Iceland
Political Geologies

"What if culture was nature all along?" Vicky Kirby

 

HS23 - Master Thesis
Architectures of Correspondence

“If, today, our world is in crisis, it is because we have forgotten how to correspond.” Tim Ingold, Correspondences. Cambridge: Polity, 2021

FS23 - Denkraum #12
Pleasure
Dwelling on Patterns

Pleasure. Often regarded as suspicious in an academic context. We want to explore its potential as an active posture. 

FS23 - Wahlfach (feat. Dept. of the Ongoing)
Architectural Wor(l)ds within the Undercommons

"I believe in the world, and I want to be in it. I want to be in it all the way till the end of it because I believe I believe in another world in the world and I want to be in that."

FS23 - Master thesis
The Price of History (pt.2)
(Un)listing Zurich (or elsewhere)

Retake. What do you choose: to preserve energy or history? Will the next generation agree with your choice or regret your blindness?

FS23 - Geocentric Driftings #2 (feat. Dept. of the Ongoing)
Sardinia
The Geological Way of Life

"What if culture was nature all along?" Vicky Kirby

FS23 - Wahlfach (feat. Dept. of the Ongoing)
Unmasking Space
For and by Students

Acknowledging the plurality of learning forms, voices, and methods already present within student communities.

HS22 - Denkraum #11
Disobedience
Dwelling on Standards

Disobedience. The conscious refusal to act or behave as told or taught. The deliberate decision not to follow the rules, laws or standards explicitly or implicitly prescribed by authority. 

HS22 - Geocentric Driftings #1 (feat. Dept. of the Ongoing)
Italy
Close Encounters of the Geological Kind

"What if culture was nature all along?" Vicky Kirby

HS22 - Master Thesis
The Cost of History
(Un)listing Zurich

What do you choose: to preserve energy or history? Will the next generation agree with your choice or regret your blindness?

FS22 - Denkraum #10
Doubt
Building Values

Doubt. Doubt has, one could say, a dubious reputation. It prevents action, postpones decisions, puts everything off. Yet, we believe doubt can be a fruitful strategy.

FS22 - Master Thesis
Beyond Type (#2)
The Zürich Undercommons

We hold that an in-depth study of, with and through the undercommons can offer us clues to design according to different values than those that result in the generic ‘types’ of neighbourhoods, buildings and spaces that continue to emerge all over our cities.

FS22 - Encounters #3
The Word for World is Forest

Through walking, discussing, cooking, eating and dreaming collectively, we open up, occupy and embody a space of encounter between Western and Amazonian worldviews. 

HS21 - Denkraum #9
Trust
Building Values

Trust. A firm belief in the reliability, truth, or capacity of someone or something. A belief in the self, but also in the other. Can one trust in something one does not yet fully understand? 

HS21 - Encounters #2
Trust
Building Out Loud!

Space is tested, conversations take place in wood, iron and cardboard. Building Out Loud! as a method of thinking through making.

HS21 - Master Thesis
Beyond Type (#1)
The Zürich Undercommons

We hold that an in-depth study of, with and through the undercommons can offer us clues to design according to different values than those that result in the generic ‘types’ of neighbourhoods, buildings and spaces that continue to emerge all over our cities.

FS21 - Denkraum #8
Let's Walk About Form

How can we reassert that form does matter? That form is actually about life, and about community, about all the things that the form enables around and within itself?

HS20 - Denkraum #7
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

In the tradition of flaneurs and strollers, we develop a walking practice, a habit of observing a street, over and over again, by day, by night, learning to discover the hidden qualities of the everyday, and make the familiar strange again.

FS20 - Denkraum #6
Multiplicity
Building Material

Multiplicity refers to a plurality of facets, implications and ramifications any question, even seemingly simple, can have. This layered reality, if fully embraced, verges on hyper-complexity, but can also be considered a productive entanglement, a richness.

HS19 - Now and Then #3
Sicily
Writing an Island

Sicily. The island has been a much coveted centre of the region for millennia: a crossing point between Africa and Europe, between Eastern and Western Mediterranean.

HS19 - Denkraum #5
Empathy
Building double

Empathy is the ability to project oneself into someone else’s position and take their perspective for a while. An understanding based on the temporary weakening of the limit between oneself and ‘the other’.

HS18 - Now and Then #2
Marrakesh
Scenography of a city

Marrakesh. Layer after layer, a complex ground has been assembled, serving as a base for a country currently contemplating its diverse heritage: the Arab, the Berber, the European within.

FS19 - Denkraum #4
Ambiguity
Building Giotto

Ambiguity. The capacity of an individual object or idea to be perceived in multiple ways. A status which can be seen as unclear and confusing, or as valuable in its complexity and richness.

FS18 - Now and Then #1
Athens
(New) beginnings

Athens. In a city where the—literally—towering bygone days are always looming above the city, we wish to look at the present condition of Greece in the light of its past.

HS18 - Denkraum #3
Consistency
Building constraints

Consistency. This semester we will adopt the attitude of consistency. We will explore how we could actually free architecture by tightening its rules even more.

FS 18 - Denkraum #2
Exactitude
Building character

Exactitude. An attitude orienting choices towards decisiveness, a posture in which everything is weighed, measured, examined and determined.

HS17 - Denkraum #1
Optimism
Building Europe

Optimism. Can we use this term without feeling embarrassed? It seems naive and light-hearted. Can it be appropriate today? We believe so.
 

Chair of
Affective Architectures

Professur An Fonteyne
ONA - G23
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
CH-8050 Zürich
studiofonteyne@arch.ethz.ch

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