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SUMMARY:Of Knots and Blocks: Dwelling in Smooth Space - Professor Timothy 
 Ingold\, Anthropology\, University of Aberdeen
DTSTART:20141211T161500Z
DTEND:20141211T180000Z
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CONTACT:Ave Lauren
DESCRIPTION:Modern thinking about architecture\, landscape\, language and 
 mind has been dominated by the related metaphors of the building block\, t
 he chain and the container. These metaphors lead us to think of a world wh
 ich is not so much woven from ever ravelling and unravelling strands as as
 sembled from pre-cut pieces. Here I argue for the power of an alternative 
 metaphor\, the knot. In a world where things are continually coming into b
 eing through processes of growth and movement – that is\, in a world of 
 life – knotting\, I contend\, is the fundamental principle of coherence.
  It is the way forms are held together and kept in place within what would
  otherwise be a formless and inchoate flux. Is there a connection between 
 thinking-though-knotting and an understanding of the inhabited world as th
 e interpenetration of earth below and sky above\, rather than as a homogen
 eous ground upon which the architectures of the environment are erected?
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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