Event overview
Buildings as psychosocial assemblages: a psychosocial mapping of political architecture - La Siege du PCF/Espace Niemeyer
Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley
Prepared in collaboration with Sophie Warren and Nigel Williams
Respondent: Ghalya Saadawi (Visual Cultures)
La Siege du PCF, now also known as Espace Niemeyer, is an iconic building in Paris designed by world famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1960s to be the new French Communist Party HQ. A team made up of an architect, an artist, a psychosocial researcher and a psychotherapist have taken this building as a case study for an innovative framing of architecture as a psychosocial subject affected by and in turn affecting the human psyche and the social environment at both conscious and unconscious levels. The research has involved a number of different types of mapping: mapping previous ownership and uses of the site; mapping key influences and significant figures and events. The framing has adopted and adapted concepts from continental philosophy and psychoanalysis to create a psychosocial/art/architectural-based transdisciplinary methodology including visual, spatial, performative and participatory psychosocial method innovations.
Authors details:
Lita Crociani-Windland is a senior lecturer Sociology and Psychosocial Studies, University of the West of England. Lita is an Association for Psychosocial Studies executive board member and the Co-chair Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
Jonathan Mosley is conceptual artist/architect, Associate Professor of Architecture and Experimental Practice University of the West of England
Sophie Warren is a conceptual artist
Nigel Williams is a Research Fellow at the University of the West of England and a psychotherapist in private practice
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| 9 Mar 2023 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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