The spatial engenderment of everyday reading: teaching practice in the Chinese village of Shi-shan-xia, Lishui town

摘要

During this research-led teaching and design project, everyday reading becomes a core model for thinking. The design project aims for a wide range of recognition, reflection, and critique of spatial renovation in the practices of the village. From the observation of the object to the systematic-object, and from place association to the text-based image representation, the abstraction and embodiment of everyday life appears to be another configuration of everyday experience that bears the cognitive interpretation of material, social, order, and space within and beyond everyday life. The new space arouses people's memory in their own life to construct a consensual spatial system. Therefore, the transformation from everyday life to spatial configuration shows the significance of everyday information in the discourse of architecture, and the alienation of everyday life gradually becomes an indispensable topic and method for spatial engendering leading to another everyday life.