I curated this seminar with my colleague Josh Silver (University of Manchester) and our esteemed guest speaker Professor Jonathan Hale (University of Nottingham) as part of the MARG Spring Seminar series.

What might architectural researchers and practitioners find in common among media of design practice, envelopes of armored vehicles, and bodily sensibilities? In an era of advanced technical thought and objects (after Simondon, 2017), the notion of the architectural gains a new and expansive scope beyond the figures of the building and the designer. It evolves as a type of association (Yaneva, 2010, 2021) connecting hybrids through translation (after Latour, 2005). This seminar introduces and discusses the notion of translating architecturally as a capacity for generating affective, sensing, and embodied (Hale, 2020) architectural associations within and beyond the practice of architecture. A translating capacity that is not possible without technology and its milieux.

• Hale, J. (2020) ‘The “Tectonic Sensibility” in Architecture: From the Pre-Human to the Post-Human.’ Nottingham French Studies. Edinburgh University Press, 59(3) pp. 350–367.
• Latour, B. (2005) Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simondon, G. (2017) On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. 1st edition, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal Publishing.
• Yaneva, A. (2010) ‘The “Architectural” as a Type of Connector: A Realist Approach to Architecture.’ Perspecta, 42 pp. 141–145.
• Yaneva, A. (2021) Bruno Latour for Architects. London: Routledge.

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