Thursday / January 29, 2015 / 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Eric Ellingsen: Species of Space
SAIC, 280 South Columbus Drive, Room 203
Architect, landscape architect, and poet Eric Ellingsen will discuss his work and the relationship of architecture and poetry through projects addressing site, human behavior, and culture. Eric's practice centers in space activism. The heart of his work involves how learning learns across different creative practices.
Eric describes the program as follows: “The lecture will be a small performance of turning things around while talking about constraints and techniques. We will talk about twisted systems, like rope, like public space, ecologies of perception, education, language, typologies of self-stabilizing things, of forms which structure and strengthen themselves by moving in opposite directions. A less elusive schizophrenia. We will make small perceptional experiments together. We will read some poems.”
This program is the second presentation of the 2015 William H. Bronson & Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lectureship in Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, hosted by the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The programs are free to the public, and registration is not required.
