Roemer van Toorn: Revolucionarna ljubezen v arhitekturi Line Bo Bardi (Teoretska praksa arhitekture pri delu)

Predavanje bo obravnavalo revolucionarno ljubezen kot politični koncept. Ta koncept zadeva odprto srečanje uživanja življenja v vsej njegovi kompleksnosti in odprtih možnostih – srečanje, ki temelji na ljubezni (dvojem v enem), ki pušča za seboj koncept identitete in družbi omogoča, da vzpostavlja odnose med razlikami, med človeškim in »več kot človeškim«. Zadeva ljubezen do sveta (amor mundi) v njegovi pluralnosti. Resnična strast revolucionarne ljubezni pa je skupna gradnja.

»Prav to odprtje je zares ganljivo,« ugotavljata Anne Dufourmantelle in Antonio Negri, »občutek moči, želja po ustvarjanju. Se pravi, potreba po skupnosti, po delitvi, po sodelovanju. Osebni projekt je hkrati tudi politični projekt. Ni bilo dovolj hoteti svobodo; problem je bil, kako to svobodo narediti produktivno.«

Kako lahko ta politični koncept, ki se ponovno pojavlja tudi v kolonialnih študijah, »prerazporedi čutno« v arhitekturi – izhajajoč iz idej Jacquesa Rancièrja – je eno od ključnih vprašanj, ki jih bo predavanje raziskalo, in sicer na primeru dela arhitektke Line Bo Bardi. Posebej se bo posvetilo vidiku njenega dela, ki je izjemen, ki je bil pred svojim časom in je bil vse do nedavnega prezrt – specifičnemu načinu srečanja človeškega in »več kot človeškega«. Predavanje bo to razsežnost razvilo tudi v smislu moči miline v arhitekturi, estetike gostoljubnosti.

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In this talk, Roemer van Toorn will talk about Revolutionary Love as political concept. Revolutionary Love is an open entreaty to enjoy life in all its complexity and possibility—one based on love (a twoness) moving away from identity, which would allow a society to relate despite the differences therein, between the human and more-than-human. It is about a love for the world (Amur Mundi) in all its plurality. Its genuine passion is a shared construction.

“It is precisely its open character that is so moving,” say Anne Dufourmantelle and Antonio Negri, “a feeling of strength, a need to create. In other words, a need for communality, sharing, cooperating. So the personal project is also a political project. It is not enough to want freedom, the point is to make freedom productive.”

How this political concept, which we also see reemerging in colonial studies, can “redistribute the sensible” in architecture (building on the ideas of Jacques Ranciere) is one of the key questions the talk will explore by looking at the architecture of the Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992). The way the human and more-than-human meet in her work is outstanding, ahead of its time, and until recently overlooked by many. And it is here that my concept of the power of gentleness in architecture, an aesthetics of hospitality, is also at play.

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Roemer van Toorn je profesor arhitekturne teorije ter direktor doktorskega študija in vodja raziskovalne skupine Making Architecture Politically na arhitekturni šoli Univerze Umeå na Švedskem. Med letoma 1993 in 2010 je vodil program Zgodovina in teorija ter bil vodja založništva publikacij na inštitutu Berlage na Nizozemskem. Bil je tudi gostujoči profesor na Šoli za oblikovanje na TU v Delftu in na Univerzi v Berlinu, poleg predavateljske dejavnosti pa hkrati deluje tudi kot fotograf, raziskovalec in pisec. Je avtor besedil Radical Swedes, Towards a Cosmo-Political Outlook, The Power of Gentleness in Architecture in Making Architecture Politically, From Fresh Conservatism to Aesthetics as Form of Politics.

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Roemer van Toorn is professor of Architecture Theory, director of Doctoral Studies, and Head of the research group Making Architecture Politically at the UMA School of Architecture, Umeå University, Sweden. From 1993 till 2010 he ran the History and Theory program and was Head of Publications at the Berlage Institute, the Netherlands. He has served as guest professor at the School of Design, TU Delft, and at the University of Berlin, while at the same time pursuing a career as an international lecturer, photographer, researcher, and writer. Most recently he is the author of Radical Swedes, Towards a Cosmo-Political Outlook, The Power of Gentleness in Architecture, and Making Architecture Politically, From Fresh Conservatism to Aesthetics as Form of Politics.

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Predavanje bo v angleščini. / Lecture is in English.