The SHARE meetings are bi-monthly seminars created, coordinated, and held by doctoral students enrolled in the third cycle of studies at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho / Lab2PT. Besides being an opportunity for doctorate students to meet, each session enables a doctoral student to present the progress of their research and receive contributions from their peers.

 

 

#40 SHARE.EAAD Tiago Ascensão | Readymade in Architecture

This session is part of the winter season and counts with the presentation by doctoral student Tiago Ascensão.

 

Abstract:
The research proposes to test the specific possibility of architecture to solve the necessities, keeping the physical reality of the space, without constructing. The necessary transformation of the existing is equated through a process of re- signification of reality, exploring the artistic idea of ready-made as a possibility of architectural design. The project is used as a process of intellectual construction of
the existing reality, in detriment of physical construction. By exploring these processes as a answer, we seek to contribute to its normalisation and recognition in the range of possibilities of architecture, demonstrating this operative modality as a disciplinary practice, integrated in a production system. The aim is to question the limits of artistic and authorial intervention, redefining the limits of "authorship" when applied to these processes, in the identification and analysis of new explorations of the artistic dimension of the architectural project.

 

Biography:
Tiago Ascensão is a PhD student at the Escola de Arquitetura, Arte e Design da Universidade do Minho and member of the research group Lab2PT. Master in Architecture by FAUP, he also studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin and at the Technische Universität Berlin. He is co-founder of ORA Collective, a practice that emphasizes reality through ephemeral installations. He was editor an the project “Dédalo 2017, Processos de Criatividade. sujeito – disciplina – circunstância” and participated in the project “Prática(s) de Arquitetura: projeto – investigação – escrita”. He belongs to the curatorial team of the project “RECLAIM, REPAIR, REGENERATE – Towards a Constellation of Protocols”, one of the three curatorial teams shortlisted in the competition for the Portuguese Representation at the 19 th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025.

 

 

+ info: https://shareeaad.cargo.site/

 

Online Session, via Zoom (ID 979 9919 0565): HERE

Free admission.

 

Promoted by SHARE. EAAD – Lab2PT/UMinho, EAAD/UMinho

 

Image: “mesa-colagem” montagem do autor de fotografias de mesa de trabalho, 2024.