Phytology is described by its users and keepers as a
cultural institute, a bat paradise, a garden, a medicinal field, a community space, and much more.
Existing
without a purpose built architecture (except the fence) Phytology is a great example for how users of a place construct and develop spaces which have
multiple functions and
complex spatial configurations.
This
lunch time talk introduces three speakers who work with the concept of
Social Architecture, one that primarily evolves from social and everyday uses, and manifests itself in a number of spatial outcomes, the built one being one of them.
Architect and researcher
Kim Trogal is co-editor
The Social Reproduction of Architecture, recently published by
Routledge, and
researcher Ana Vilencia and artist
Kathrin Böhm are both contributors.
The book will be the starting point for this informal lunch time talk, with the three authors first introducing their ideas and concepts, to then make
connections to the
garden we’ll be sitting in, and how to read and articulate it’s
spatial complexities.
