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Archive-Ruins
Method for Affective Historiography of Wadi Salib
Wadi Salib, a ruined neighborhood in Haifa, is a dense palimpsest of forced displacement, urban neglect, and contested redevelopment. Once home to Palestinian residents and later to Jewish Moroccan immigrants, it bears the material traces of successive expulsions and demolitions after 1948 and during later modernization campaigns. This chapter argues that encountering Wadi Salib’s ruins produces a distinctive mode of historical knowledge grounded in affect: the bodily, precognitive intensity through which loss, ambiguity, and unrealized futures register in the present. I propose an “affective historiography” that brings together two modalities, ruin affect and archive affect. Ruin affect arises from the atmospheric force of decay and temporal indeterminacy. Archive affect emerges in confronting fragmented, biased, or absent records, including “archives of feeling” in oral testimony and activist collections. Methodologically, the project combines 3D scanning, archival photographs, oral histories, and a custom small language model that extracts spatial references from manuscripts, enabling their reassembly into geolocated fragments. These datasets are linked through a relational graph and staged in web-based XR tours that align narrated testimony with scanned architectural elements. Rather than restoring a single narrative, the interface cultivates embodied encounters with multiple, competing pasts, surfacing suppressed histories, and modeling historiography as a situated, sensory, and ethically charged practice.
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Wadi Salib, a ruined neighborhood in Haifa, is a dense palimpsest of forced displacement, urban neglect, and contested redevelopment. Once home to Palestinian residents and later to Jewish Moroccan immigrants, it bears the material traces of successive expulsions and demolitions after 1948 and during later modernization campaigns. This chapter argues that encountering Wadi Salib’s ruins produces a distinctive mode of historical knowledge grounded in affect: the bodily, precognitive intensity through which loss, ambiguity, and unrealized futures register in the present. I propose an “affective historiography” that brings together two modalities, ruin affect and archive affect. Ruin affect arises from the atmospheric force of decay and temporal indeterminacy. Archive affect emerges in confronting fragmented, biased, or absent records, including “archives of feeling” in oral testimony and activist collections. Methodologically, the project combines 3D scanning, archival photographs, oral histories, and a custom small language model that extracts spatial references from manuscripts, enabling their reassembly into geolocated fragments. These datasets are linked through a relational graph and staged in web-based XR tours that align narrated testimony with scanned architectural elements. Rather than restoring a single narrative, the interface cultivates embodied encounters with multiple, competing pasts, surfacing suppressed histories, and modeling historiography as a situated, sensory, and ethically charged practice.
Miradas cruzadas
Estudio de casos sobre hábitat colectivo como método de investigación
Research and teaching residencies for faculty members offer a valuable opportunity to foster institutional collaboration and to exchange diverse perspectives and methodological approaches.The course Housing Studies: An Open Intersectional Archive, developed at the Faculty of Architecture of TUDelft during the 2024–2025 academic year, serves as the catalyst for the innovation currently being implemented in the Master's Degree in Habitat Innovation at the School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de València for the 2025–2026 academic year. Through a critical review of the course’s objectives, methodology, outcomes, and assessment strategies, this reflection seeks to identify the key components of the pedagogical approach and its adaptation to a specialized academic context. The aim is to foster research grounded in Research by Design, articulated through the analysis of case studies.
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Research and teaching residencies for faculty members offer a valuable opportunity to foster institutional collaboration and to exchange diverse perspectives and methodological approaches.The course Housing Studies: An Open Intersectional Archive, developed at the Faculty of Architecture of TUDelft during the 2024–2025 academic year, serves as the catalyst for the innovation currently being implemented in the Master's Degree in Habitat Innovation at the School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de València for the 2025–2026 academic year. Through a critical review of the course’s objectives, methodology, outcomes, and assessment strategies, this reflection seeks to identify the key components of the pedagogical approach and its adaptation to a specialized academic context. The aim is to foster research grounded in Research by Design, articulated through the analysis of case studies.
Tree Mediators
Digital Narration of Arboreal Heritage
We present a methodology for digitally narrating the heritage of trees by integrating tangible and intangible elements into immersive virtual environments. Current methods for documenting tree heritage often focus on either the biological traits of a tree or its cultural aspects, with limited attempts to synthesize both. Our approach harnesses multimedia to reveal the many dimensions of a heritage tree, resulting in what we term a "Tree Mediator"—a dynamic, interactive model that bridges the ecological and cultural narratives of arboreal heritage. The methodology comprises five stages: tree selection, data collection, data processing, virtual environment development, and interactive tree narration. This framework incorporates tools such as 3D scanning, archival research, and gaming engine-based environments to create immersive, multi-dimensional representations of heritage trees. The methodology was tested on several heritage trees in a Mediterranean landscape, with three examples discussed in detail. The results demonstrate that the proposed integration of digital tools offers a novel way to document and experience the complex significance of heritage trees, fostering new modes of interaction with these living monuments.
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We present a methodology for digitally narrating the heritage of trees by integrating tangible and intangible elements into immersive virtual environments. Current methods for documenting tree heritage often focus on either the biological traits of a tree or its cultural aspects, with limited attempts to synthesize both. Our approach harnesses multimedia to reveal the many dimensions of a heritage tree, resulting in what we term a "Tree Mediator"—a dynamic, interactive model that bridges the ecological and cultural narratives of arboreal heritage. The methodology comprises five stages: tree selection, data collection, data processing, virtual environment development, and interactive tree narration. This framework incorporates tools such as 3D scanning, archival research, and gaming engine-based environments to create immersive, multi-dimensional representations of heritage trees. The methodology was tested on several heritage trees in a Mediterranean landscape, with three examples discussed in detail. The results demonstrate that the proposed integration of digital tools offers a novel way to document and experience the complex significance of heritage trees, fostering new modes of interaction with these living monuments.
Venice in Conversation
Installation at the Biennale Architettura 2025
Our age of archival excesses is made palpable by infinite datasets that underlie generative AI. Venice in Conversation critiques this superabundance by orchestrating a conversation between avatars of historical and contemporary figures about real and generated Venices. With each changing image, Venice appears as both fantastical and realistic, and forever elusive.
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Our age of archival excesses is made palpable by infinite datasets that underlie generative AI. Venice in Conversation critiques this superabundance by orchestrating a conversation between avatars of historical and contemporary figures about real and generated Venices. With each changing image, Venice appears as both fantastical and realistic, and forever elusive.
A series of experimental experiences brings projects from the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning to life through virtual reality. Using VR technology, students from TU Delft’s Virtual Architecture Museum research and design studio, have investigated the relationship between spatial design, media and historiography – the study of written history. The presentation is based on student work from the MSc 2 studio Virtual architecture Museum of TU Delft, supervised by Dirk van den Heuvel and Eytan Mann, supported by the BK VR Lab and Hans Hoogenboom
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A series of experimental experiences brings projects from the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning to life through virtual reality. Using VR technology, students from TU Delft’s Virtual Architecture Museum research and design studio, have investigated the relationship between spatial design, media and historiography – the study of written history. The presentation is based on student work from the MSc 2 studio Virtual architecture Museum of TU Delft, supervised by Dirk van den Heuvel and Eytan Mann, supported by the BK VR Lab and Hans Hoogenboom