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National Symposium on Deleuze Scholarship #2 - 29 May 2013
Asignifying Semiotics: Or How to Paint Pink on Pink
The second one-day Symposium continues to assess the state of Deleuze scholarship in The Lowlands, with a strong emphasis on new directions of study and new generations of scholars operating under the ‘Affective Turn'.
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SpatialThinking 2 - Call for papers, extended deadline 31st of July 2012
The Sublteties of Architectural Perception
What roles do consciousness and feeling play in the experience of architectural space?
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Consciousness is one of the most astounding faculties of the human brain - physical matter creating the immaterial realities which we humans experience as the world. Researching consciousness is one of the greatest challenges for modern science. Spatial Thinking2 embraces this challenge in view of architectural relevance and by addressing human consciousness, inevitably needs to focus on all facets of the human mind.
Clearly an exclusively scientific and materialistic approach towards an encompassing explanatory model is insufficient to explicate the complex phenomenon of the relationship between human (and self) and world.
Complementing the experimental strand followed by empirical research, a philosophical school of thought aiming for a new epistemological debate has evolved. Neurophilosophy integrates neuroscientific data and furnishes its philosophical theories with empirical results. Does the neurophilosophical approach hold value for an architectural context and what can cognitive neuroscience contribute to architectural discourse?
Spatial Thinking2 aims to discuss both theoretical philosophies and empirical experimentations.
