SPACES BUILDINGS MAKE

Introduction

Aoife Mac Namara ed., Phase 2, London: Frameworks Press, 2007.
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Spaces Buildings Make is an interdisciplinary research project concerned with understanding how practice-based research in the visual, performing and electronic arts can open up new approaches to understanding how, and in what ways, knowledge about architecture and the built environment can be generated and accessed.

The design of the project is organised around the assumption that, in the context of contemporary visual and spatial culture, the idea that contemporary art, performance and electronic arts practices can precipitate transformations in the environment and its perceptions has become quite generally accepted. Consequently, it can be argued that such practices make an active contribution to the ways in which the significance of the built environment can be interrogated and researched.

Following from these arguments, this project aims to position a series of interdisciplinary practices at the centre of a purpose built art and design education site and an environment already dedicated to research and production in art, design and electronic arts.

An aim of the project is to enable contemporary practice-based researchers to draw on this important environment and reconfigure it as an archive available for future research in the field.