Climatic Heterotopias as Spaces of Inclusion

This book explores, discusses and considers spatial research and its relevant pedagogic perspectives on the crossings, interactions and transformations of contemporary territorialities. The book addresses the issue of conceiving "translocal" spaces of inclusion within the framework of contemporary imposed nomadism and climate change. The concept of "climatic heterotopias" is an original, elegant concept, introduced into the pedagogy of architecture to develop teaching which aims to bring together the architectural substance and this real social need that aims to mitigate the spatial effects of climate change. Climatic Heterotopias as Spaces of Inclusion promotes the use of spatial theory and philosophy as the tools to build a strong architectural concept. The purpose of the individual contributions in the book is to introspectively explain the original concept of "climatic heterotopias". An overview is given of an innovative, penetrating pedagogic praxis intended to enhance intuition by transforming the architectural design studio into an interface where research is incorporated into everyday architectural conceptual practice, through interaction and openness. This book is a dynamic and implicit dialogue between the tutor and the learners which shapes, little by little, an alternative spatial narrative throughout architectural theory and design.

Preface ix Chapter 1. Climatic Heterotopias Architectural Design Studio 1 Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS 1.1. Reinventing the political dimension of space throughout pedagogy 1 1.2. Reinventing an introspective pedagogy to enhance the architectural conscience of the learners 3 1.3. Tarrying with the Castoriadian “radical imaginary” 4 1.4. Creation of an alternative pedagogical praxis: development of the “climatic heterotopia” notion within a global climate regime. 5 1.5. Reinventing the “glocal” dimension of space through a concrete exercise of “translocal” space creation 7 1.6. Pedagogical program, content and constraints of the “climatic heterotopias” architectural design studio 9 1.7. Intellectual outputs of the “climatic heterotopias” architectural design studio 11 1.8. Synoptic overview of the “climatic heterotopia” according to the students’ essays 12 Chapter 2. Of Other Climates: Glocal Climatic Constructal Heterotopias 23 Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS Chapter 3. Redefine the Contemporary Spatio-social Mentalities 41 Carole BEAUFUMÉ 3.1. Change the mentalities: the first step of a sustainable transition 45 3.2. My climatic heterotopia: an economical, ecological and social experiment 47 Chapter 4. Redefine the Body as the Physical Constitution of the Human Being 51 Claire AUBRY Chapter 5. The Pause or Dreaming in the Woods 61 Estelle AURAY Chapter 6. A Territory of One’s Own 69 Fleur LAGARRIGUE Chapter 7. The Hegelian Dimension of Climate as a Feeling Atmosphere 75 Milan ENGSTRÖM Chapter 8. Rhythm as the Tool to Create Heterochrony and Innovative Territorialities 83 Jonas KAMMERER Chapter 9. Story for an Illusory Hope Against an Absurd Life 91 Bérénice VALLANCE Chapter 10. The Fluidic Climatic Heterotopia – Fractures, Flows, Chaos, Composition 103 Vincent PAPAZIAN 10.1. The infinite fracture – anything is but continuous 103 10.2. The world seen as fluxes: interconnected “climatic heterotopias” 106 10.3. Praising the overload: climatic heterotopia of movement and chaos 107 10.4. Composition 109 Chapter 11. Transmission 113 Mélodie PEZET Chapter 12. Introspection 121 Aurore PEILLET Chapter 13. Sew Up the Urban Fabric: The Architectural Project 129 Claire AUBRY, Estelle AURAY, Carole BEAUFUMÉ, Milan ENGSTRÖM, Jonas KAMMERER, Fleur LAGARRIGUE, Vincent PAPAZIAN, Aurore PEILLET, Mélodie PEZET, Bérénice VALLANCE and Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS Chapter 14. The Auto-poetic Spirit of a Creative Learning Society Within a Multifaceted Context of Crises 157 Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS References 161 List of Authors 167 Index 169