Hailed as "a stunning intellectual experiment", Dubai Design Week with Emirates Literature Foundation presents Dubai’s LabLitArch, a 20-hour workshop for literature and architecture students, writers and architects, examining how architectural projects have clear parallels with creative writing
Dubai Design Week, in collaboration with the Emirates Literature Foundation, presents the Laboratory of Literature Architecture (LabLitArch), a cross-disciplinary workshop adapted for literature and architecture students, as well as emerging and established writers and architects.
Conceived by architect and writer Professor Matteo Pericoli, the workshop examines how every architectural project consists of a supporting structure, hierarchies of space and function, intertwining narratives, sequences, surprises and suspensions - elements that have clear parallels with the creative writing process.
Professor Pericoli will host the 20-hour workshop at d3 on five consecutive days, and participants are invited to learn how to design and build an architectural model, based on the structure of a literary piece.
About The Laboratory of Literary Architecture
How many times have we paused while reading a book and had the feeling that we were inside a structure built either knowingly or unknowingly, by the writer? Not simply the ability to visualize the locations or architectural settings described in the text, but rather the sense of being immersed in a literary space designed by someone else.
With The Paris Review calling it "...one of the strangest and most interesting classes I'd ever seen", and IL magazine calling it "a stunning intellectual experiment", the goal of LabLitArch is to dig deep into a given text in order to recognize and communicate its architectural and structural essence as each participant perceives it.
By analyzing and focusing on the core elements of a given text, participants will be able to determine their role and importance in relationship to the overall structure. These concepts will then be translated into an architectural model that is not a literal representation of the text (ie. a three-dimensional description of the spaces or locations described in the text), but rather a literary representation, which expresses the essential ideas of the text’s structure in spatial form.
Once completed, the final project will allow the viewer – when experiencing the architectural model – to perceive the emotions and sensations of the story’s intangible structure, without necessarily knowing what it is.
For further information, please visit LabLitArch.com
Participation Fee: 500 AED. Seats are limited and pre-registration is required.
To apply, please send your CV and Paragraph of Intent (not exceeding 200 words) to [email protected] by Monday, October 17. Selected participants will be contacted by Tuesday, October 18, and notified of the payment process due to be completed by Thursday, October 20.