Critical and Clinical
Cartographies
Two-day Conference TU Delft 13-14 November 2014
The critical […] and the
clinical […] may be destined to enter into a new relationship of mutual
learning. […] In place of a dialectic which all too readily perceives the link
between opposites, we should aim for a critical and clinical appraisal able to
reveal the truly differential mechanisms as well as the artistic originalities.
(Deleuze, 1967)
Host
Theory Section and Hyperbody, Department of Architecture,
Faculty
of Architecture and the Built Environment,
TU
Delft, The Netherlands
Organising
Committee
Heidi Sohn, Henriette
Bier, Andrej Radman, Stavros Kousoulas and Jasper Schaap.
Admission Free
Location
Day
One: Legermuseum, Korte Geer 1, Delft.
Day
Two: Berlagezaal, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment,
Julianalaan 134, Delft.
(Please
see the map of Delft on page 7)
Submission
Send
your titled abstract (max. 250 words) with five key words, your name,
contact
information and institutional affiliation to AT-MSc-BK@tudelft.nl
before
October 15, 2014 (e-mail subject: 3Cconference).
Scientific
Committee
Heidi
Sohn, Henriette Bier, Andrej Radman, Patrick Healy and Stavros Kousoulas
Publication
Eds. Andrej Radman and Heidi Sohn, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam
Speakers
Jenny Dankelman,
Christian Girard, Arie Graafland, Keith
Evan Green,
N. Katherine
Hayles, Frans C. T. van der Helm, Kas
Oosterhuis, Antoine Picon,
Rachel Prentice, Sjoerd van Tuinen.
((( Call For
Papers
The
ambition of the 3C conference is to rethink medical and design pedagogies in
the context of digital technologies. Cyber-physical technologies, a current
locus of architectural and medical practices, assist the shift from the
physical body to embodiment. Long after
its impact on medical practices, digitalisation further challenges the
ecological, economic and aesthetic habits of the architectural milieu.
Will
the practice of cartography help in exploring relations between the human body
as an organism and the machine technologies used both in (medical) care and
(architectural) design? Can we map the
ever-shifting thresholds between the organic and the inorganic, the innate and
the acquired?
We
invite research that approaches the development of diverse cartographic
experimentations which will not render the visible, but render visible.
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How has the concept of EMBODIMENT, or thinking par le milieu, mutated
under the exponential proliferation of digital TECHNOLOGY?
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What is the impact of the ‘digital turn’ on the contemporary medical and
architectural education and/or practice?
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How does the ‘posthuman turn’ influence the possible convergence of medical and
architectural education and/or practice?
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How has the biopolitical concept of CARE mutated under the proliferation of
digital TECHNOLOGY?
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What is the role of digital simulations in medical and architectural education
and/or practice?
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What is the role of robotics in medical and architectural education and/or
practice?
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How has the concept of CARE mutated under the growth of DESIGN culture based on
the nature-culture continuum?
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What are the main ethical and/or political issues in medical and architectural
research given the nature-nurture continuum?
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How could medical research contribute to architectural design and how could
design, in turn, contribute to the improvement of health care?
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How has the concept of EMBODIMENT mutated under the growth of DESIGN
culture?
Submission
Send
your titled abstract (max. 250 words) with five key words, your name, contact
information and institutional affiliation to AT-MSc-BK@tudelft.nl before October
15, 2014 (e-mail subject: 3Cconference).
((( Outline
The
conference on Embodiment and Technology and Care and
Design is organised by the Theory Section and Hyperbody of the TU Delft
Architecture Department, in cooperation with Industrial Design Designing
Health Research programme, and the Bio Mechatronics and Bio Robotics
Section of the Department of Bio Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft.
What
we will be exploring is the relation between the human body as an organism and
the machine technologies used in medical care. In other words we will engage in
the practice of cartography in order to map the ever-shifting thresholds
between the organic and the inorganic, the innate and the acquired. In short, a
condition “that is no wider than what it conditions, that changes itself with
the conditioned and determines itself in each case along with what it
determines.” This is the cornerstone of the Deleuzian concept of plasticity.
Medical
knowledge has advanced rapidly over the past century and it continues to
progress at an unprecedented speed. The developments in the medical sciences relate
to the more theoretical discourses on ‘man and nature’ in the (new) humanities
at large. The two terms are not as innocent as they might seem and we propose
to approach them both critically and clinically. The encounter
comes under the aspects of symptomatology or the study of signs, etiology
or the search for causes, and therapy or the development and application
of treatment.
While
etiology and therapeutics are integral parts of medicine, symptomatology could
be said to belong as much to design as it does to medicine. The task of the
designer is to produce ‘pre-medical’ variation on the one hand and to select
and synthesize ‘sub-medical’ variants on the other so that she may participate
in the construction of new possibilities of life. A new mode of existence
entails making life something more than personal and liberating it from what
imprisons it. This is the question of health.
The
four panels during the two days will
provide for different points of entry to the problem of the body and its
milieux.
((( Programme
DAY ONE 13
November 2014
< Legermuseum, Korte Geer 1, Delft>
09:30 Coffee
10:00-10:15 Opening
Heidi Sohn (TU Delft)
10.15-10.30 Opening Henriette
Bier
(Hyperbody, TUDelft)
10:30-11:00 Introduction Arie Graafland
(HK
University & Anhalt)
11:00 Panel One
EMBODIMENT /TECHNOLOGY
Chair Andrej Radman (TU Delft)
11:00-12:00 Antoine Picon (Harvard)
12:00-13:00 Christian
Girard
(École Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture Paris Malaquais)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panel Two
TECHNOLOGY
/CARE
Chair Arie Graafland
14:00-15:00 Rachel Prentice
(Cornell University)
15:00-16:00 Jenny
Dankelman
(TU Delft)
16:00 Coffee
Break
Chair Henriette Bier
16:30-17:00 Kas
Oosterhuis
(TU Delft)
17:00-17:30 Keith
Evan Green
(Clemson University)
17:30-18:00 Debate
DAY TWO 14
November 2014
09:00 Coffee
09:30 Panel Three
CARE
/DESIGN (PhD Open Call)
Chair Stavros Kousoulas Keith
Evan Green
(TUD) (Clemson
U)
09.30-10:00 Presentation 1A Presentation 1B
10:00-10:30 Presentation 2A Presentation 2B
10:30-11:00 Presentation 3A Presentation 3B
11:00 Coffee Break
12:00-12:30 Presentation 4
12:30-13:00 Presentation 5
13:00-13:30 Presentation 6
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Panel Four
DESIGN /EMBODIMENT
Chair Heidi Sohn (TU Delft)
14:30-15:30 Sjoerd
van Tuinen
(Erasmus University
Rotterdam)
15:30-16:30 Frans
C. T. van der Helm
(TU Delft)
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00-18:15 Closing Lecture
N. Katherine Hayles
(Duke
University)
18:15-19:00 Reception
((( Keynotes
N. Katherine Hayles, Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University, she holds
advanced degrees in both chemistry and English. Her interests include digital
humanities; electronic literature, science and technology, and critical theory.
(Author and Director) teaches and writes on the relations of literature,
science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her print book, How
We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, was published by
the University of Chicago Press in spring 2012. Her other books include How
We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics,
which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for
1998-99, and Writing Machines, which won the Suzanne Langer Award
for Outstanding Scholarship. She is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
in the Program in Literature at Duke University, and Distinguished
Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles
Employing advanced information technologies,
particularly robotics, Keith Evan Green
investigates how architecture can behave more like living things in response to
human needs and opportunities. Supported by the National Science Foundation,
Green's cross-College, trans-disciplinary teams develop, prototype and evaluate
"intelligent environments" for an increasingly digital society. Green
is cross-appointed as Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer
Engineering, and serves as Director of the Clemson University Institute for
Intelligent Materials, Systems & Environments [iMSE] (www.CU-iMSE.org), a novel research unit partnering
Architecture, Materials Science & Engineering, and Electrical &
Computer Engineering.
Antoine Picon is
the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology
and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the GSD. He teaches
courses in the history and theory of architecture and technology. Trained as an
engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural
and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. His French
Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment(1988; English
translation, 1992) is a synthetic study of the disciplinary "deep
structures" of architecture, garden design, and engineering in the
eighteenth century, and their transformations as new issues of territorial
management and infrastructure-systems planning were confronted. Whereas Claude
Perrault (1613-1688) ou la Curiosité d'un classique (1988) traces the
origin of these changes at the end of the seventeenth century, L'Invention
de l’Ingénieur Moderne, L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851 (1992)
envisages their full development from the mid-eighteenth century to the 1850s.
Picon has also worked on the relations between society, technology and utopia.
This is in particular the theme of Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison,
Imaginaire, et Utopie (2002), a detailed study of the Saint-Simonian
movement that played a seminal role in the emergence of industrial modernity.
Picon’s most recent book,Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction
for the Design Profession (2010) offers a comprehensive overview and
discussion of the changes brought by the computer to the theory and practice of
architecture.
Christian Girard is an architect and theoretician
practising in Paris. He received his Doctorate in philosophy from the
Université Paris I Sorbonne in 1983. Girard was Professeur d’Architecture at
École d`Architecture Paris-Villemin(1993-1999) and served as Chair from 1996 to
1998. He is a founding member of the École Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture Paris Malaquais, which opened in 2000, where he is Professor and
head of the Digital Knowledge Department. He holds an Habilitation à
Diriger des Recherches from Université Paris 8, Philosophy (2012). Works
and projects from Atelier d’Architecture Christian Girard have been exhibited
in different museums and galleries. Both his practice projects and his critical
writings have been published in Europe and worldwide.
Jenny Dankelman, professor at TU Delft, She
obtained her degree in Mathematics, with a specialisation in System and Control
Engineering at the University of Groningen. Her PhD degree on the dynamics of
the coronary circulation was obtained at the Man-Machine Systems Group, Delft
University of Technology (DUT). This work was performed in close co-operation
with the department of Medical Physics of the Academic Medical Centre
Amsterdam. She continued her research at the Man-Machine Systems group and in
2001 she became professor in Minimally Invasive Technology. In 2007 she became
head of the Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventional Techniques (MISIT)
group. Since 2010 she is head of the Department of BioMechanical Engineering of
the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE) of the DUT.
Rachel Prentice
is an anthropologist of medicine, technology, and the body. Her interests focus
on opening up the assumptions and contradictions contained in 21st century
North American biomedicine. Her recently completed project is an ethnographic
examination of anatomy and surgery teaching and the rise of simulators and
other technologies for teaching and practice. Professor Prentice documents how
physicians in training come to embody biomedical techniques, perceptions,
judgments, and ethics, learning deeply held medical values while learning to
practice medicine.
Kas Oosterhuis is professor at
the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as well
as director of Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design
and Engineering. His teaching and research is in the areas of interactive
architecture, real time behaviour of buildings and environments, living
building concepts, collaborative design, file to factory production and
parametric design. Born in 1951 in Amersfoort, Kas Oosterhuis studied
architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Afterwards, he taught
as unit master at the AA in London. From there, he worked and lived
one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris,
together with visual artist Ilona Lenard. In 1989, he founded Kas
Oosterhuis Architekten in Rotterdam (renamed to Oosterhuis Lénárd, or
ONL, in 2004). Since 2000, Oosterhuis has been professor of digital design
methods at the Delft University of Technology.
Sjoerd van Tuinen, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Man and Culture at the Faculty
of Philosophy. Van Tuinen obtained his first Master’s degree in Sociology
(2002), with a specialization in the Sociology of Culture, and his second
Master’s degree in Philosophy (cum laude, 2003), with a specialization in
Philosophical Anthropology. In 2009 he received a PhD in Philosophy from Ghent
University for his dissertation entitled ‘Mannerism in Philosophy: A Study
of Deleuze's Development of Monadology into Nomadology, of Leibnizian Approaches
to the Problem of Constitution, and of Deleuze’s Concept of Mannerism’.
In 2008/2009 he worked as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences of Maastricht University. His research interests are in
speculative philosophy, aesthetics and social and political theory. He has
authored Sloterdijk. Binnenstebuiten denken (Kampen: Klement,
2004) and edited several books, including Deleuze Compendium (Amsterdam:
Boom, 2009), Die Vermessung des Ungeheuren. Philosophie nach Peter
Sloterdijk (Muenchen: Fink, 2009), Deleuze and The Fold. A Critical
Reader (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and De nieuwe Franse filosofie. Denkers en
thema's voor de 21e eeuw (Amsterdam: Boom, 2011).
Frans C. T. van der Helm is professor
in Biomechatronics and Bio-robotics, Delft University of Technology, and also
adjunct-professor at the University of Twente, university Leiden, Northwestern
University (Chicago) and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland). He has a
MSc in Human Movement Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1985), and a PhD
in Mechanical Engineering (Delft University of Technology, 1991). He was member
of the board of the International Society of Biomechanics (2005-2009), and
participated in the board of the Technical Group of Computer Simulation (TGCS)
and the International Shoulder Group (ISG). He is one of programme leaders in
the Medical Delta, the collaboration between Leiden Unversity Medical Center
(LUMC), Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam and TU Delft. He is Principal Investigator
in the TREND research consortium (2004-2011), investigating Complex Regional
Pain Syndrome as a neurological disorder, the NeuroSIPE (System Identification
and Parameter Estimation in Neurophysiological systems) program and H-Haptics
(Human centered Haptics) program, sponsored by the Dutch National Science
Foundation. In 2012 he received an ERC grant for a research project ‘4D EEG’,
improving temporal and spatial resolution of EEG source localization. He has
published over 150 papers in international journals on topics as biomechanics
of the upper and lower extremity, neuromuscular control, eye biomechanics,
pelvic floor biomechanics, human motion control, posture stability, etc.
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