Bartlett Research Conversations: Elin Eyborg Lund

Attending Spaces: Movement Performances as Activators in the Architectural Process

Speaker: Elin Eyborg Lund
 
Panel: Prof Yeoryia Manolopoulou (Chair) and Dr Tim Waterman

Abstract

How can performance use specific situations and places to focus an architectural designer’s emphasis on attentional practice? And what happens if we regard architectural design as a process rather than an end goal? Rooted in Elin’s work as an architect and performance maker, which enacts the ways the built environment grows beyond the control of the designer, her practice-based research aims to advance the relationship between site-specific movement performances and the architectural design process. Elin explores this by using task-making as a choreographic method and using props as scenographic tools. This research aims to investigate how a multifaceted architectural design will evolve from an ability to respond with open and sensitive interactions to the surrounding environment.

About The Bartlett Research Conversations

The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Research Conversations seminars comprise work-in-progress and upgrade presentations by students undertaking the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design and MPhil/PhD Architectural and Urban History and Theory. All current UCL staff and students are welcome to attend.

Held regularly throughout the academic year, the seminars are attended by the programme directors, Professor Jonathan Hill and Professor Sophia Psarra, PhD Coordinators, Dr. Nina Vollenbröker and Dr Sophie Read, and other PhD supervisors.

Image credit: Elin Eyborg Lund, 2500 Bricks, 2019