Interprojects embrace both design-as-research projects and research projects alike. Through the lens of folded time, there is no duality between these two practices. The first meaning of the interproject is “inter-knowing-proposing.” In the interproject, they are one. We know by proposing, and we propose by knowing. It is folded coexistent process in which proposing-knowing is simultaneously present, nourishing both. By so doing, a major non-duality is achieved: the interproject is one with the place or the subject of research. This leads to the second meaning. Interproject means “inter-time” – either “inter-places time” if we are doing a design project or “inter-subject time” if we are doing a research project. This is not recognition of its chronological presence between a past and future. The prefix “inter” opens a more challenging approach. “Inter-time” means the coexistent folded time unbound from past-present-future categories. “Inter” generates this interconnected coexistence. Therefore, the interproject works with a folded time coexistence between interconnected elements in time, either far or close. Furthermore, by being an “inter-time” mechanism, non-duality between place/subject and project is achieved. The interproject only catalyzes the interconnections within the flow of subject/places’ folded time. Lastly, interproject means “in(ter)completeness.” “Inter-time” is always incomplete, and this is its joyful chance aspect. The “ter” refers to “three”: the three simple realities of wabi-sabi that bring a special light to this “incomplete inter-time” project: “nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.” Released from the burden of making a project a ‘final product,' the author was fully free to explore the challenge of the incompleteness drawn in this inter-time connection as a simple dialogical catalyst.
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Time Operations
Cidália Ferreira Silva (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch005
Abstract
This chapter proposes four time operations—gleaning, grounding, stimulating, and transmuting—for practicing time within architecture as an expanded field. By exploring the relationships between the future-past-present through folded time as coexistence and lived time, these time operations unfold the ways to make interprojects for cultural landscape adaptability. First, the background that supports this research is presented, namely, why is it relevant and the main references with which this path was made concrete. Second, the meaning of time is defined as a way to understand what time practice is being deepened. Third, each operation is explored by describing the main features and procedures pertaining to gleaning, grounding, stimulating, and transmuting. Fourth, the chapter discussion continues by revealing the relationships between the operations, namely moving beyond the expected linear succession. The chapter concludes with a hypothesis of further future development as well as the main conclusion and key terms.