ITN ‘Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing’ convenes a three-day International Conference at ETH Zürich (CH) between 19 and 21 June 2023, that aims to explore tacit knowledge in architecture culture. During the 'object session' Lineages on 20 June Sofie De Caigny and Tine Poot (Flanders Architecture Institute) will present "a Studio for Orbanism: the living archive of Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office as a source of commons for unsolicited architecture practice”.
The conference will foster scientific exchange through lectures and debates, and will encompass “paper sessions” and “object sessions”, focussing on a wider range of objects of tacit knowledge such as scale models, mock-ups, plans, drawings, details, letters, digital-born objects, etc., that will be presented in the Exhibition Unausgesprochenes Wissen/Unspoken Knowledge/Le (savoir) non-dit.
Tacit knowledge is a key characteristic of architecture culture. It plays a central role in the conception, design, construction and appropriation of buildings and cities. It characterizes architectural education, distinguishes the cultures of design offices and typifies the collaborations between different actors, including craftsmen, engineers and architects.
Despite this central role that tacit knowledge assumes in architecture culture, our understanding of it remains limited. Research into tacit architectural knowledge has only recently gained momentum and its specificities still need further exploration. Questions as: What are the roles of tacit knowledge in architecture culture?, How does it complement other forms of knowledge?, and how does it construct cooperative communities across disciplines? still await more nuanced answers.
Monday 19 June 2023
11:00 – 12:45
Registration desk open
12:45 – 13:15
Welcome and introduction by Tom Avermaete & Janina Gosseye
13:15 – 14:15
Opening lecture by Elke Krasny
Moderated by Helena Mattsson
With Françoise Fromonot, respondent
14:30 – 17:00
Paper session NATURE(S)
Chaired by Caendia Wijnbelt, Paula Strunden & Jhono Bennett
“Uncommoning: artistic knowledge in architecture”, Valerie Hoberg
“Body of knowledge | Knowing bodies”, Katharina Voigt
“Busy body: living and working in urban renewal neighbourhoods”, Soscha Monteiro
“Improvised architectural responses to the changing climate; making, sharing and communicating design processes in rural Bangladesh”, Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows
“ID – Integrated processes of reading and creating post-objects in digital design”, Angeliki-Sofia Mantikou and Athanasios Farangas
17:30 – 19:00
Tacit Knowledge in Architecture
Book presentation by the TACK ESRs
Moderated by Margitta Buchert & Klaske Havik
With Wivina Demeester & Christoph Grafe, respondents
19:30 – 20:30
“Unausgesprochenes Wissen/Unspoken Knowledge/Le (savoir) non-dit”
Exhibition opening with a word by Tom Avermaete & Janina Gosseye
Statements by Angelo Lunati, Mara Trübenbach, Elli Mosayebi, Kees Kaan
20:30 – 22:00
Apéritif
Tuesday 20 June 2023
9:30 – 11:15
Object session SITE
Chaired by Hamish Lonergan, Caendia Wijnbelt & Ionas Sklavounos
“Chozos, houses of nomadic shepherds”, Markus Vogl, Alba Balmaseda Domínguez, Kyra Bullert & Špela Setzen
“Exkursionszettel”, Johanna Just
“Unpacking Hermia”, Mara Trübenbach
“Embodied knowledge: Eilfried Huth’s Eschensiedlung in Deutschlandsberg, Styria, 1972–1992”, Monika Platzer
“City as Forest”, Verena Brehm
“Reflections on the working process with clay models in early design phases”, Klas Ruin & Ola Broms Wessel
“Cylinders of soap, mud, and pottery: on cultures of making beyond architecture”, Nadi Abusaada & Wesam Al Asali
12:00 – 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 14:15
Keynote lecture by Harry Collins
Moderated by Lara Schrijver
With Caroline van Eck, respondent
14:30 – 17:00
Paper session VECTORS
Chaired by Eric Crevels, Anna-Livia Vørsel & Mara Trübenbach
“(Un)Programming the factory: weaving panopticon stories”, Fernando Ferreira
“Constructing tacit planning knowledge: political commitment and architectural practice”, Elettra Carnelli
“Rooms: architectural model-making as ethnographic research”, Ecaterina Stefanescu
“Embodiment takes command: re-enacting Hannie and Aldo van Eyck’s homelife”, Alejandro Campos
“Revealing the tacit: a critical spatial practice based on walking and re/presenting”, Nilsu Altunok
17:45 – 19:00
Object session LINEAGES
Chaired by Paula Strunden & Ionas Sklavounos
“a Studio for Orbanism: the living archive of Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office as a source of commons for unsolicited architecture practice”, Sofie de Caigny & Tine Poot
“Tesseln and Bâtons à marques: early records of customary law”, Nicole de Lalouvière
“Architectural photography as conduit for tacit knowledge: the Heinrich Helfenstein estate at the gta Archive”, Irina Davidovici and Ziu Bruckmann
“Forêt DesCartes”, Filippo Cattapan
“Navigating, performing and book making”, Eva Sommeregger
20:00 – 22:00
Conference dinner
Wednesday 21 June 2023
9:30 – 12:00
Paper session ACTORS
Chaired by Claudia Mainardi, Filippo Cattapan & Hamish Lonergan
“Paperwork and wordcraft: institutionality at IAUS”, Alex Maymind
“Understanding the roles of tacit knowledge in the collaboration between AEC: a case study approach”, Laurens Bulckaen
“Architecture, design and judgment”, Hans Teerds
“In quest of meaning: revisiting the discourse around ‘non-pedigreed’ architecture”, Vasileios Chanis
“Dissemination of architectural culture: a view on Turkish architects’ journeys in the pre-digital age”, Ceren Hamiloglu
12:00 – 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 14:15
TACK Web-publication presentation by Helen Thomas
With Gaia Caramellino, respondent
14:30 – 15:45
Object session SHAPERS
Chaired by Eric Crevels, Mara Trübenbach & Ionas Sklavounos
“Tacit(t)acts”, Katharina Kasinger
“Infra-thin magick: an extended reality (XR) ceremony”, Paula Strunden
“Material chariots”, Paul Vermeulen
“From copper wire to spline. Reciprocal relationships of the Analogue and the Digital”, Holger Hoffmann
“Concrete column, Pirelli Learning Centre”, Angelo Lunati
16:00 – 17:30
Roundtable and concluding discussion
Moderated by Jennifer Mack & Angelika Schnell
With Paula Strunden, Mara Trünbenbach, Hamish Lonergan & Ionas Sklavounos, session reporters, and with Boris Brorman Jensen, respondents
19 to 21.06.2023
ETH Zurich
