Under-ground riddles
loving chaosmic flowers
I.M.I. Muis (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
R.R.J. van de Pas – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
H. Sohn – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
P.H.M. Jennen – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
R.J. Nottrot – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Education and Student Affairs)
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Abstract
Grounded on the work of French psycho-analyst and activist Félix Guattari (1930-1992) and his attention to the practice of architecture, the seeds of curiosity of this research were planted in questioning the value ecosophical and ethico-aesthetic practices could have in relation to architecture and what it could mean to trade the position of the Dutch/European architect under today’s conditions. Through a neo-materialistic and posthumanistic framework, these curiosities have grown into chaosmic flowers by means of linking-together (mapping) trans-disciplinary under-standings on how to trans-form the mentality under-lying the etho-political grounds an architect acts-with and how to train an eco-logical response-ability towards heterogeneous worldings; different styles of living and dying: the under-ground(ing) riddles of relational architectural existence. This research resulted in a reseach-design tool and a project surrounding the collective milieu of Maashaven, Rotterdam (NLD) where the small design interventions attempt to empower new activities and positive ecological relations.