Projects
Architecture and the Machininc Unconscious
Our responses to architecture have a cultural dimension, but our cultures are ways of dealing with our instincts--inherited from millions of years of evolution. Modern humans have been around for tens of thousands of years, identifiable buildings for only about 10,000 years, since the global warming that brought the Ice Age to an end. This project draws together some insights from the recent literature of evolutionary psychology and the schizoanalysis of Deleuze and Guattari in trying to understand how we unconsciously interact with one another in and through buildings. Most of what we do, we do unconsciously. What can we learn from our animal-becomings? -- from burrowing, nest-building, the construction work of ants and beavers, and the territorializing effects of music.
Key References: Andrew Ballantyne, Deleuze and Guattari for Architects (Routledge, 2007)
ARC People: Andrew Ballantyne