Coal, Bones, Knife

Can conventions of architectural tools and drawings reveal themselves and their blind spots if we drag them into the field in large formats far away from the drafting table?

The large rolls of paper and the textile are difficult to handle and force us to be focused and present. We fumble our way forward with these cumbersome, oversized items. We can’t use a strategy but develop our tactics along the way. The method is vague by intent, and the physical task is pressing and requires collaboration. Can we absorb some of the many layers and history of the Viking Ship Hall in drawings and in our collective movements?

Can we transport and present some of these findings through a performative presentation elsewhere? Do we discover something else when approaching the material from within rather than above? The conventional procedures of architectural production are highly effective, but our era requires doubt, uncertainty, and attentiveness as alternatives to the highly effective and damaging production methods architecture is tied to today.

Programmes

Taking Place, Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Conservation, Art and Architecture and Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability (Institute of Architecture and Culture)

Internal participants

Students from Taking Place, Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Conservation, Art and Architecture and Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability

Exteral partner

The Viking Ship Museum