Symposia
Hines Symposium
Material Light::Light Material
This symposium, convened by Michelle Addington, will challenge the increasing normalization of homogeneous environments through an exploration of the behavior of light and its interaction with human perception. The design disciplines have approached light through the design of lighting, i.e., light as determined by tangible artifacts that over-privileges planar materials. By assuming that lighting is the resultant of constituent properties and surfaces, this approach neglects the contingency of perception. Light, however, is both an instrumental means and a performative end and, as such, the most strategic use of materials would be as discretionary interventions at the micron scale to facilitate the movement of light. Light is at the nexus of the physical and the physiological, the material and the virtual, the formal and the phenomenal. How do we invert our normative approach and design what we see by designing what we can’t see?
Symposium program
Friday, April 7, 2017
Afternoon session Hastings Hall, 2:00 p.m.
Michelle Addington, Yale University Nasser Abulhasan and Joaquin Perez-Goicoechea, AGi Architects Marilyne Andersen, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Martina Decker, New Jersey Institute of Technology Katherine Stege, Yale University
Keynote address Kazuyo Sejima, SANAA “Environment and architecture” Hastings Hall, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Morning session Hastings Hall, 9:30 a.m.
Kasper Guldager Jensen, 3XN Anna Dyson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Billie Faircloth, Kieran Timberlake Dakota Cooley, Yale University Mark Loeffler, Atelier Ten Eero Puurunen, Yale University
Afternoon session Hastings Hall, 1:30 p.m.
Sheila Kennedy, Kennedy & Violich Architecture Richard Prum, Yale University Maria Aiolova, Terreform ONE Misha Semenov, Yale University Jennifer Tipton, Yale University James Carpenter, James Carpenter Design Associates Michael Young, The Cooper Union Tess McNamara, Yale University Deborah Berke, Yale University
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Image by Kevin Huang.
Image by Kevin Huang.
Image by Kevin Huang.
Image by Francesca Carney.
Image by Francesca Carney.
Image by Francesca Carney.
Image by Francesca Carney.
