Marcus Weisen

The Meaning of the Archaic in Architecture : Juhani Pallasmaa in conversation with Marcus Weisen

L'Archaïque et ses Possibles : Architecture et Philosophie , 2020

This conversation in English between Juhani Pallasmaa and Marcus Weisen concludes the conference ... more This conversation in English between Juhani Pallasmaa and Marcus Weisen concludes the conference publication “L’Archaïque et ses possibles: architecture et philosophie” (Genève, MétisPresses, 2020) held in 2018 at the Cité de l’Architecture in Paris. The conference linked the resurgence of the archaic in architecture with “new contemporary circumstances of uncertainty and disorientation which re-enforce divisions between the various biological, mental, social, symbolic and cultural dimensions of inhabiting”. In this conversation, Pallasmaa talks about the loss of “contact with a deeper echo in human mental life” in the “ever growing aesthetization in the arts, architectural design, social behaviour and politics”. The conversation explores the still present evolutionary past in the human constitution, little studied in architecture and archaic dimensions of the experience of buildings by Alvar Aalto. A section of the conversation is devoted to Pallasmaa’s approach to sensitive architectural education, supportive of creativity and seeking connection with this “deeper echo” in embodied memory, experience and imagination. The conversation roots in concrete situated experiences.

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In Praise of Lived Architectural Encounter

Intertwining 03 Weaving Body Context, 2021

This article is a poetic and existential enquiry into moments of architectural encounter in Peter... more This article is a poetic and existential enquiry into moments of architectural encounter in Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba Museum in Cologne described by interviewees. The micro-phenomenology interview, was applied. It supports interviewees call up past lived experiences of short duration (seconds to minutes) — some of which took place below the threshold of consciousness — in fine-grained detail. These narratives of experience bear witness to a rekindled intimacy between self and place, largely lost in architecture. They underline Zumthor's unusual skill in meeting the "quiet expectancy" of visitors (Zumthor/Lending, 2018) to be reconnected to self and place, and the relevance and pertinence of Juhani Pallasmaa's notion of of the power of "primary architectural images" such as windows and stairs to be attractors of pre-reflective experiences.

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Barrierefreiheit in Museen: ein englisches Gruppenbild

transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2007

Cornucopia of health--widening the contribution of museums, libraries and archives

Health information and libraries journal, 2005

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Ethics of dust: visual essay on the artistic works by Jorge Otero-Pailos

The Journal of Architecture

The Sipapu Project: Towards a micro-phenomenology of creation

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Museos y la discapacidad visual

Museos Abiertos a Todos Los Sentidos Acoger Mejor a Las Personas Minusvalidas 1994 Isbn 84 87277 40 3 Pags 103 106, 1994

HIV-1 Nef-mediated CD4 downmodulation involves various host factors. We investigated the importan... more HIV-1 Nef-mediated CD4 downmodulation involves various host factors. We investigated the importance of AP-1, AP-2, AP-3, V1H-ATPase, ␤-COP, and ACOT8 for CD4 downmodulation in HIV-1-infected short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-expressing CD4 ؉ T cells and characterized direct interaction with Nef by Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). Binding of lentiviral Nefs to CD4 and AP-2 was conserved, and only AP-2 knockdown impaired Nef-mediated CD4 downmodulation from primary T cells. Altogether, among the factors tested, AP-2 is the most important player for Nef-mediated CD4 downmodulation.

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Oxford unseen: cultural holidays for the blind

British Journal of Visual Impairment, 1987

... can be found at: British Journal of Visual Impairment Additional services and information for... more ... can be found at: British Journal of Visual Impairment Additional services and information for ... Although it is widely known for its visual beauty, no one would question that it is only ... the Blind, the South Regional Association for the Blind, the Oxford Polytechnic, the Museum of Oxford ...

Digital access to culture

Journal of Assistive Technologies, 2012

PurposeThe Jodi Awards exist to promote digital access to culture. This paper aims to give some b... more PurposeThe Jodi Awards exist to promote digital access to culture. This paper aims to give some background to the Awards and to profile the 2011 winner and commendation.Design/methodology/approachThe Jodi Awards are annual awards given to celebrate the best examples of using technology to make culture and cultural institutions accessible to people with a disability.FindingsMuch has already been achieved in using technology to widen access to museums, galleries and heritage venues but there is clear potential for more development, given the appropriate political will and policy change.Originality/valueThe Jodi Awards are unique in celebrating the use of technology in this way.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?

British Journal of Visual Impairment, 1988

... can be found at: British Journal of Visual Impairment Additional services and information for... more ... can be found at: British Journal of Visual Impairment Additional services and information for ... talents of these students, that we will eventually be in a position to explore fully the limits and possibilities of non visual and low ... &#x27;An Eye for Art&#x27; (Gunnersbury Park Museum, London, 19 ...

How Accessible Are Museums Today?

Touch in Museums

This chapter looks at the wider European social and cultural policy context of making objects ava... more

Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience

Dimensions

Editorial Summary Entitled »Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience«, Ma... more Editorial Summary Entitled »Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience«, Marcus Weisen’s contribution explores the investigation of pre-reflexive ways of knowing, sensory thought, and the embodied mind. He introduces the micro-phenomenological interview as a successful methodology to exploit immanent, non-conscious aspects of architectural experience. He emphasizes the relevance of investigating the individual, subjective perspective in architectural research, proposing the first-person description of experience as a starting point from which to derive insights into overarching, essential principles of lived experiences of, and encounters with, architectural spaces. Tracing the elusive, embodied dimensions of architectural experience, he aims for an »embodied rationalism« in architectural research. [Uta Graff]

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Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience

Dimensions

Editorial Summary Entitled »Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience«, Ma... more Editorial Summary Entitled »Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience«, Marcus Weisen’s contribution explores the investigation of pre-reflexive ways of knowing, sensory thought, and the embodied mind. He introduces the micro-phenomenological interview as a successful methodology to exploit immanent, non-conscious aspects of architectural experience. He emphasizes the relevance of investigating the individual, subjective perspective in architectural research, proposing the first-person description of experience as a starting point from which to derive insights into overarching, essential principles of lived experiences of, and encounters with, architectural spaces. Tracing the elusive, embodied dimensions of architectural experience, he aims for an »embodied rationalism« in architectural research. [Uta Graff]

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Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience

Dimensions

Editorial Summary Entitled »Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience«, Ma... more Editorial Summary Entitled »Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience«, Marcus Weisen’s contribution explores the investigation of pre-reflexive ways of knowing, sensory thought, and the embodied mind. He introduces the micro-phenomenological interview as a successful methodology to exploit immanent, non-conscious aspects of architectural experience. He emphasizes the relevance of investigating the individual, subjective perspective in architectural research, proposing the first-person description of experience as a starting point from which to derive insights into overarching, essential principles of lived experiences of, and encounters with, architectural spaces. Tracing the elusive, embodied dimensions of architectural experience, he aims for an »embodied rationalism« in architectural research. [Uta Graff]

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Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Encounter: Experiential research at Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba Museum in dialogue with Juhani Pallasmaa’s architectural phenomenology

Thèse de Doctorat, 2023

This PhD studies what people feel, sense and experience at Kolumba Museum (2007) by Peter Zumthor... more This PhD studies what people feel, sense and experience at Kolumba Museum (2007) by Peter Zumthor. We interviewed twenty visitors with the micro-phenomenological interview method. It supports interviewees become conscious of experiences below the threshold of consciousness. They described e.g. experiences of joy, improved wellbeing and ‘‘a feeling like in nature’’, which are hardly discussed in architectural theory. They described moving experiences of becoming aware of themselves, and of being part of the place, in an intertwinement with it. We also included descriptions of our own experiences.

The findings show how skillful the architect was in allowing such experiences. They show the pertinence of Juhani Pallasmaa’s architectural thought that to be healthy, buildings need to provide nurturing unconscious and pre-reflective experiences. Recommendations are made for architectural education to engage students as experiencers, so as to better design for human need and experience.

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