From Object to Experience

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

doi:10.5040/9781350059559

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“…Immersion is an emerging area of research that crosses digital design, mixed reality environments, theatre, games design and spatial practice (Alston 2016;Mallgrave 2018;Scholz and Smith 2016;White 2012). Within the domain of heritage, 'immersive experiences' may encompass multimedia exhibitions, virtual and augmented reality technologies, physical installations and themed participatory events.…”

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Designing ‘Critical’ Heritage Experiences: Immersion, Enchantment and Autonomy

Sterling

2020

Archaeology International

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This article investigates the critical potential of newly emerging approaches to heritage experience design. Moving away from a familiar critique of heritage experiences as inauthentic or overly commercial, I consider three aspects of the experiential that might (re)shape critical engagements with the past in the present. Building on the work of Kidd ( 2018 ), the first engages with the growing trend for ‘immersive’ experiences in museums and heritage sites. The second draws on Perry’s notion of archaeological ‘enchantment’ (2019) as a new ‘moral model’ for the field. The third applies Bishop’s ( 2012 ) reading of artistic ‘autonomy’ to specially designed heritage experiences. These concepts are then explored in relation to Critical Heritage Studies and tested against four micro case studies that engage in different ways with the experience of heritage. The theorisation put forward here serves as a point of departure for the two-year research project New Trajectories in Curatorial Experience Design (Feb 19–Jan 21), which aims to document and analyse emerging trends in experiential design within the heritage sector. In particular, this position paper highlights specific points of intervention where new forms of critical-creative practice might open up heritage interpretation to alternative experiential strategies and outcomes.

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Designing ‘Critical’ Heritage Experiences: Immersion, Enchantment and Autonomy

Sterling

2020

Archaeology International

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“…Pallasmaa has contributed volumes to understanding the importance of a multi-sensory, hands-on methods of teaching and making [3,4]. Mallgrave suggests that the architectural design studio should not be focused on the development of formal concepts but an arena for rigorous, interdisciplinary research [5]. While Pérez-Gómez has emphasised the importance of a humanistic, poetic and literary complement to the standard technological emphasis in design education.…”

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How 4E cognition changes architectural design education

Robinson

2022

Archit. Struct. Constr.

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Advances in cognitive science have important if unexplored implications for the design of the built environment. These findings have yet to be introduced, much less applied in architectural education. Architectural education must change not only to meet the urgent demands of the climate crisis and environmental sustainability, but also to actively promote human and more than human health and well being. Research from the cognitive and behavioural sciences has much to contribute to this mandate. This paper proposes practical ways that the findings of 4E cognition-which holds that cognition is embodied, embedded, enacted and extended-can be integrated in educational settings through embodied and immersive teaching, indepth cross-disciplinary research and experimental making and evaluation.

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“…Harry Francis Mallgrave’s (2018) recent book, From Object to Experience , has caused me to further ponder the shift in thinking from architecture as the object to architecture as the experience. This means thinking of architecture from the perspective of being inside it.…”

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“…Suggesting that our experience is more than the conventional five senses, Mallgrave (2018) wrote, “…we experience architecture at a visceral level; our organism responds immediately and unconsciously to the overall texture and mood of the place” (p. xii).The literature currently emanating from circles in anthropology, philosophy, aesthetics, biology, and neurosciences is pointing to a new way of thinking about ourselves and, by extension, how we might design our habitats. Perhaps the most consequential lesson of these insights is that we should center our design efforts less on the formalist “objects” of linguistic expression and more on the deeply rooted dimensions of human “experience” —that is how we might align practice with the primal needs and great complexities of the human organism (Mallgrave, 2018, p. 2).When I think of a hospital that successfully promotes human experience, I am reminded of the University Medical Center Groningen, in the Netherlands, by Wyze Patijn and Team 4. It is built as multiple structures around the former town streets and has wide pedestrian malls with skylights that can be opened in good weather for natural air.…”

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“…The literature currently emanating from circles in anthropology, philosophy, aesthetics, biology, and neurosciences is pointing to a new way of thinking about ourselves and, by extension, how we might design our habitats. Perhaps the most consequential lesson of these insights is that we should center our design efforts less on the formalist “objects” of linguistic expression and more on the deeply rooted dimensions of human “experience” —that is how we might align practice with the primal needs and great complexities of the human organism (Mallgrave, 2018, p. 2).…”

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