Perceiving Academy
Perceiving Academy are longer education experiments devoted to collective-learning curriculums. Lasting anywhere between 1-week to1-month+. These academies are based on interdisciplinary collaborations and institutional partnerships, sometimes falling under the category of residencies. These residencies and commissions take on average 1-2 years to design and enact. Ever since the late 19th century, art & design (landscape architecture, architecture, theater, graphic, industrial design) curriculum experiments drive global living-city innovation models by taking novel local learning approaches. Each PerceivingAcademy prototypes and re-positions new art & design education laboratories and curriculum development with local partners, experts, and participants interested in being in project-based dialogue and sympathy with the new wave of outside art & design living-learning public-research models evolving allover the world.
Each Perceiving Academy engages outdoor & indoor relationships between buildings, landscapes, and cities. Research concepts that often drive each academies structure: division, divinity, water infrastructure, public spaces, seeing & hearing impaired utility systems, and local food and farming. Each academy engages a similar social method based on a multi-modal perceptual lexicon of walks, found-object builds, drawings as performative scores. The scores can be engaged in different manners during the academy for informal actions and micro-performances, or lead to more ambitious builds in public spaces depending on the site-specific academy, participants, and partnering organizations. Perceiving Academy’s unique drawing method stems from archeological excavation field surveying & object drawing techniques that involve walking and measure in the landscape. Perceptual exercises and interspecies engagement pairs different senses to place as a vibrating eco-temporal materialities full of emotions, symbolism, stereotypes, folklore and local meaning, historic reputation, and rumor. Every pipe has a reputation on the street. Perceiving Academy focuses on our everyday relationship with water and wetness. Soft-wired spiritualities, stories and taboos, intersect with the hard-wired city-engineering meeting your bathroom hot& cold taps.
If your organization or community are interested in commissioning a Perceiving Academy in your city, please reach out. A living-person from Cinland’s Design Wing will respond.
