KTISMAjournal Call for Submissions | Issue #5: Lick Your Buildings
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Jan 30, 20159 PMEDT
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"The tactile sense connects us with time and tradition: through impressions of touch we shake the hands of countless generations. A pebble polished by waves is pleasurable to the hand, not only because of its soothing shape, but because it expresses the slow process of its formation; a perfect pebble on the palm materializes duration, it is time turned into shape."
– Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin
We experience the world through our bodies. Our seemingly independent sensory systems work in unison to facilitate our perception of time and space. An expanding array of technologies allows for the creation and experience of the physical realm, yet thus far has emphasized vision over the other senses. Decades before the Digital Age, Eileen Gray noted that “it seems as though the house were designed for the pleasure of the eye, rather than the well being of the individual.” In architecture, this fixation on superficiality limits the possibilities for an embodied experience through full sensory stimulation.
What implications does ocularcentrism have on our relationship with the constructed environment? How do we continue to innovate while maintaining a connection to “materialize[d] duration”?
KTISMA is currently accepting design projects, critical articles, and artwork investigating sensory stimulation in the built environment and the ways in which this informs experience.
http://ktismajournal.com/SUBMISSONS
UPDATE: Submissions are now being accepted through January 30, 2015.
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