“We need to think with sensations in our muscles.”
Rena Czaplinska-Archer was invited as a Key Note Speaker at the Conference Healthy Houses Bratislava May 2011.
The way we practice architecture today is increasingly based on a virtual reality of computer screen images, which leads us away from a bodily experience. In his book Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa warns that “human behaviour and construction have become dangerously detached from their ecological context” and wants us to reawaken our sensory awareness and reignite our architectural design intuition.
Green and sustainable design talks about the protection of natural resources, about designing in harmony with nature. We are nature too. Before we start designing we study and observe the natural and built environment. We must not forget to engage our senses and learn to listen with our bodies as well.
Meeting members of Body Conscious Design:
Left to right: Prof. Jader Tolja (Italy), Dr. Rena Czaplinska-Archer (Australia), Prof. Veronika Kotradyova (FA STU Slovakia), Nattawa Kamklai, (Thailand) – all members of Body Conscious Design.
Meeting Prof. Galen Cranz (Berkeley USA), the founder of Body Conscious Design during her visit to Sydney in August 2011:
Prof. Galen Cranz (Berkeley USA), the founder of Body Conscious Design.