This seminar explores the historical and philosophical relatio nship between theories of emergence and architectural composition. Both theoretical fields arose as part of conditions of amplified discursive change, playing the role of mediating internal conflicts within turbulent states of affairs. Philosophically, both theoretical fields draw attention to the fold of thinking feeling or embodied abstraction. The nature and development of this emergence-compositional fold is explored for what it might indicate about the state of play of architectural composition in contemporary architecture.

The subject will be approached through a mix of reading, writing, discussion and small design/making exercises. As such "theory" will bein formed by processe s of making. In other words, the process of investigation will aim to draw attention to the fold of thinking-feeling. Final papers will involve these material investigations and maybe used to develop deep articulations of material being explored in realted design studios.

This seminar will operate as beneficial adjuncts to the "Plasticity" upper pool studio and the Minfie/Ednie-Brown pre-major studio.