Choreography of the Dissolved Space: A Design for Spatial Perception

Exercise: Imagination Objects

My work, 'Choreography of the Dissolved Space: A Design for Spatial Perception', explores the spaces in which we move every day. The aim is to sensitise people, both those who regularly engage with architecture and those who do not, to become more aware of our built environment.
This approach involves a series of exercises designed to encourage participants to place themselves in a new context with their surroundings and thereby train their own perception.

I analysed how movement can affect this perception, examining dance as a medium for conceptualising perception. The aim is to encourage a critical attitude towards the existing urban and spatial structures opening up these spaces for negotiation by all.

For example, the 'Imagination Objects’ exercise aims to develop various methods to optimise the body's self-perception and its ability to react to other bodies, both moving and immobile.

In this exercises, not only a relational space is created, but also an architecture that is appropriate to the circumstances. This architecture is characterised by a physical experience and at the same time as a mental structure. The temporary architectures based on imaginary images, which are projected into the urban space through imaginary constructions become, in reality, an architecture of disappearance, in which the next movement has already begun before the previous one has been fully completed.

Installation: dissolved space

The conclusions drawn from the findings were translated into the form of an artistic-architectural installation whose most important value was the physical experience. Within the framework of the installation, a space of negotiation was created that confronts visitors with a series of material layers. This space is called 'dissolved space’. The choreography of the 'dissolved space’ centres on a space that exists beyond traditional architectural boundaries. This space is not only physical, but rather a poetic manifestation of the infinite options that arise in every moment of interaction. Here, space and movement merge into a single, ever-changing entity - a fluid, expanding territory that is constantly being recreated in its form and essence.

The arrangement of the thresholds is of decisive importance in shaping the quality of the spatial experience. They are the rhythmic element of this design, they vary in their spacing, creating different architectural situations that decisively influence the visitors‘ experience of movement. The installation invites visitors to move between narrow, almost claustrophobic passages in which the proximity and narrowness of the fabric panels create an intimate and personal experience. These thresholds function like walls that are simultaneously constricting and permeable, forcing the viewer to confront their own presence in the space and the physical limits of their own body. These dense areas contrast with expansive planes that can be grasped more as spatial elements. They invite reflection on the given and stimulate a more conscious confrontation with it.

Installation: dissolved space

Photography and Text by Marian Willing