Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Entretien avec Henri Lefèbvre


Interview with Henri Lefèbvre (French language, 35 min.) who briefly explains his thoughts on the urban question and dwelling, and his vision of space.

From the series URBANOSE, chapter 15. © L'Office National du Film du Canada, 1972

This video inaugurates the integration of Space Frames blog and youtube channel.
In this very first occasion we "frame" the vision of a thinker as recorded in a succinct speech.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

About Space Frames

Space Frames is a cross-platform transdisciplinary exercise intending a phenomenological deconstruction (Abau) of our perception of space, comprehended as the existential support of our being-in-the-world, our dwelling.
Throughout the successive assemblage (Verbindung) of disjointed representations of life and built environment in different media, the notion of dwelling will be disclosed by itself so as to permit its better understanding.

Cinema will initially have a prominent, nearly ubiquitous place here, as it can be considered one of the most truthful renditions of architecture into media, just second to corporeal experience.
Besides the critical analysis of architectural and anthropological depictions in films, other human expressions such as sounds and music, dances, books and written pieces (thoughts), sports and the arts and crafts in general, will be illuminated under the frame of its spatial gist.
Blockbuster movies and buildings are not into consideration in this space.  The frame ought to be used to look through it, not just to be displayed alone, devoid of meaning.

Although this is a mostly personal project, its open presentation might be of interest for the public development of transdisciplinarity between the humanities and may eventually become open to different collaborations and approaches.