BEING — Artefact House

All this feeling. All this sensing. All this experience. All this expression. What are we going to do with all this being?

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ARTEFACT HOUSE

An Architecture-is-More Studio Experience

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Phase One BEING

Prompt 1: Matter Matters
Prompt 2: Mixed Matter

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Before architecture becomes drawings, models, or buildings, it is first lived. It is experienced through the body, the senses, memory, emotion, and attention. We are always already in relationship with space, material, light, sound, and others - long before we attempt to shape them. Phase One asks you to slow down and become aware of these relationships.

This phase is about sensitization. It is about learning to notice how the built environment touches you and how you, in turn, touch the world. Architecture is not something that exists “out there,” separate from us; it is a relational field that emerges between inner experience and outer conditions. BEING invites you to attend to that field. It asks you to cultivate awareness of how space, material, texture, scale, and atmosphere shape feeling, behavior, and meaning - and how your own values, sensitivities, and ways of perceiving shape how you encounter architecture.

Architecture is never neutral. It always carries values, whether your conscious of them or not. BEING helps you begin to recognize the values embedded in the spaces you inhabit, and to reflect on the values you carry into your own work.

Phase One introduces the idea of praxis: the ongoing movement between reflection and action. You will observe, document, write, draw, photograph, and make. These acts are not separate from thinking; they are forms of thinking. Through them, you will begin to translate lived experience into material gestures and spatial relationships. Reflection informs making, and making becomes a way of reflecting back on experience...

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