Abstract
Learning is a life-long process of growth and transformation through personal experience. Learning, like creation, takes place in relation. Life happens in the interval of matter. In the magnetic field of an active void— the space-time interval of change — a new form of life is created. Intention is to explore the incentive for knowledge production dynamics in the education of architects through a lens of relational phenomena. The key stimulus for production of knowledge is a transformative encounter with the dissimilar ‘Other’. The process of learning architecture is examined through the phenomenology of perception as the epistemologically most suitable apparatus. Experience of the inside-outside relation in spatial perception of architecture is compared with the one in psychoanalytical dynamics. Winnicott’s seminal concept of ‘transitional space’ is juxtaposed with a dynamic experience of transgressing porous architectural boundaries — both being analogs of the learning process.
Highlights
THE WORLD AND IIn a culture of interconnectedness and change, architectural education is a complex experimental process
In one of the essays on architectural education posted in his famous blog, Lebbeus Woods (Woods, 2015) writes about the relationship between teachers and students as “equal partners” in that their roles depend upon each other
Phenomenology of the inside–outside relation in spatial perception of architecture is compared to the one in psycho‐ analytical dynamics
Summary
In a culture of interconnectedness and change, architectural education is a complex experimental process. Cultural differences I encountered and absorbed as a child enhanced my social awareness of ‘the other’, the capacity for comprehending and learning from that other. As a teenager I moved to the US to finish high school It was an invaluable liberating experience; I started looking at reality from a completely different perspective. Very soon, when the Balkan socio-political turmoil broke into a homeland war, all of a sudden, we woke up in a different country, in a different political and economic system Such critical and unstable life conditions demand of people to develop critical consciousness. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within He dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”
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