UG6
Calibrating
_Stefan Lengen & Ben Spong
This year UG06 will explore the notion of ‘calibrating’ and continue our interest in the latent qualities of rural and urban landscapes. We pursue architectures as ‘tuning instruments’: tuning is experimenting, maintaining, innovating, embracing transition and transformation.
To calibrate is to position and adjust relative to an-other. Processes of calibration are often reductive in nature, tending towards minimising the difference between
participants in exchange for mechanical or empirical certainty. Such reduction has extreme utility in the sciences but undermines the radical potential for calibration within architecture. UG06 will explore such capacities through experimental tactics that aim to maintain the difference empiricism would do without - a place for architecture to act.
We see the act of calibrating as a design method for constructing new spatial possibilities between landscape and proposition. We will encourage site-specific calibrations and collaborations tuned to the sensibilities and localities of place; Productive architectures that listen and work with landscapes rather than fight the inevitability.
of time.