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Susanne Hauser: The Ends of Design
The Ends of Design
(p. 330 – 351)

Susanne Hauser

The Ends of Design

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  • theory of architecture
  • artistic practice
  • aesthetics
  • Think Art
  • architecture

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Susanne Hauser

Susanne Hauser has been a professor of art and cultural history in the architecture programme at Berlin University of the Arts since 2005. Her research and teaching focusses on the history and theory of the built environment with a special interest in urban development and architectural design processes. Currently she is conducting research on the concepts and roles of ‚sites‘ in urban transformation processes reacting to climate change. As a member of the International Research Centre Intervening Arts (CRC 1512) she explores the properties and options of architecture as intervening art.
Alex Arteaga (ed.): Architectures of Embodiment

This book was originated within the research environment Architecture of Embodiment, which inquires into architecture from an enactivist perspective and through aesthetic practices. This research environment does not primarily aim to formulate answers to its main research question—how does architecture condition the emergence of sense?—but to provide the adequate conceptual, methodological, and communicative conditions to address it. Ultimately, it aims to destabilize its objects of research in order to disclose new intelligibilities of the issues under inquiry. In this sense, Architecture of Embodiment intends to fulfil a fundamental cognitive function of research through aesthetic practices. The pluralized word “architectures” in the title of this book refers to conceptual rather than material constructions relating to fundamental aspects of architecture and research.

 

Architectures of Embodiment is a constellation of coexisting autonomous artifacts: texts by Alex Arteaga, Mika Elo, Ana García Varas, Lidia Gasperoni, Jonathan Hale, Susanne Hauser, Dieter Mersch and Gerard Vilar in dialogue with one another through comments and comments on the comments. It is conceived as a dialogical research dispositive: an invitation to participate in an open ended process of research within a growing ecology of research practices.