The Knight's Move: Paul Shepheard
21 September 2011, 8 pm
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Language: English
Entrance fee: € 5,- (via transfer to ING-account 605409 of Stroom Den Haag stating the name of the lecture)
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Paul Shepheard is a writer living in London, England. He is qualified as an architect but since the publication of 'What is Architecture? An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines' by the MIT Press in 1994 has gradually shifted the emphasis of his activities to writing and lecturing. He has two other books with the MIT Press, 'The Cultivated Wilderness', about landscape, 1997, and 'Artificial Love' about architecture and machines, 2003. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London, the University of Texas at Austin and the Academie Van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam.
'Infrastructure: default/poetic' (working title)
Paul Shepheard writes: "The
working title of this talk is 'Infrastructure: default/poetic'. I first
started thinking about this subject at the seminar 'A Wider View' in
Apeldoorn in 2008. Now it has become part of my continuing enquiries
into the structures of the material world.
A 'default' is an orthodox
position, and I start with the idea that infrastucture defaults are
usually either profit or history, though we talk about utility most of
the time. When I suggest 'poetic', I am trying to show that something
else lies beneath these rationalisations: after all, infrastructure does
mean 'the structure that lies beneath'.
Anyone who uses the word
'poetic' labours under the shadow of the great phenomenological work
'The Poetics Of Space'; with this lecture I shall also be trying to
wriggle out of that shadow."
More details at www.paulshepheard.com
Paul Shepheard recently contributed to the book 'Warten Auf Den
Fluss' about the contribution of Het Observatorium to 'Emscherkunst 2010' (Klartext Verlag, 2011).
The Knight's Move
‘The Knight's Move' is a series of lectures by eminent
international speakers who stand out by their unusual, enlightening and
inspirational visions concerning the city, urbanity, the public domain,
and community. Just as the knight moves in an atypical and unusual way
across the chessboard, Stroom Den Haag likewise wants to cut across all
disciplines and thus stimulate rethinking the city.
Media partner of this series of lectures is: De Groene Amsterdammer. The Knight's Move is also made possible by the Netherlands Architecture Fund.
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'The Knight's Move' 2009-present
- Wednesday 21 Sep '11 8 pm
- Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: € 5,- (via transfer to ING-account 605409 of Stroom Den Haag stating the name of the lecture)
