De nieuwe gebaren van de Architect: een dramaturgische aanpak voor maakprocessen in relatie

Human beings ('spatial practitioners') and more-than-human beings ('material resources') have been increasingly outpaced by the rhythms and gestures of capitalist material cultures. The anthropocentric narratives that scaffold these cultures have: (1) untaught our making bodies to correspond with more-than-human bodies and (2) decreased our critical abilities to engage gesturally. The environmental crisis in spatial practice can therefore be considered as a crisis of gestures. By revisiting our old gestures of making, tensions can be felt that can teach us to formulate new gestures of making. Therefore, we need to increase our gestural criticality by (1) thinking through the body and (2) training a gestural awareness. This will allow (3) for alternative narratives to emerge. Correspondingly we need research gestures that are (1) relationally sensible for more-than-human gesturalities and (2) allow for a plural understanding of more-than-human bodies. Through drawing and writing (autoethnographics) alongside the work of TAAT collective (in Vilnius LT, Vorselaar BE and Aberystwyth UK), gestures of making are studied in their ability to increase correspondence between Earth-beings. How do we train our bodies to make with other bodies by following their rhythms? How can rivers and plants inform or even lead the making process? How do drawing and writing generate alternative narratives? TAAT's five step ecodramaturgy, operated through embodied exercises (scores), will guide the emergence of new gestures of making, in which gestural criticality is increased, aimed at restoring correspondence between Earth-beings. The development of a series of calendars visualises the situated and rhythmical engagement in this research in each space-time development, gathering the collected exercises. From here, a pedagogical program (operated by a scorebook) will be shared to inform other critical practices.