Lecture + Conference: Forming Feeling: an integral approach
Mark delivered a public lecture July 8, on the topic of “Forming Feeling: an integral approach”, introducing new work from his current book project (co-authored with Prof. Gail Brager, UC Berkeley.
Lecture video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt_r6jzvmr4&list=PLupJvAA-uIP4lpqUQ_S5CIyaFrl-138Yq&index=7
Mark serves as Fulbright Specialist in Venice
Mark served as a Fulbright Specialist for six weeks during June and Juky of 2022. He consulted with the Infrastruttura di Ricerca Integral Design Environment—IR.IDE (Infrastructure for Research in Integral Design Environments) — in the Dipartmento di Culture del Progetto (Department of the Culture of the Project) at the Università Iuav di Venezia (Iuav University Venice).
Mark collaborated with Prof. Margherita Vanore and her staff in the Laboratorio de Progettazione PRIDE (Design Laboratory Pro Research in Integral Design Environment).
The invited project was called "Activating Integral Design Environments” and addressed their multi-disciplinary, multi-scalar design research using the integral model. More about the integral approach is covered in depth in the book, edited by Susanne Bennett, Integral Sustainable Design: transformative perspectives. Iuav is a premier Italian design university focusing on art and design at all scales. The Fulbright Specialist program is designed for mid and senior career faculty that can not necessarily spend a full 6 months or year abroad.
Mark offered three guest seminars in the Vanore workshop, of W.A.VE. (Workshop Architecture Venice), which this year has 1200 students total. The seminars were on the topics: 1) Integral distinctions framing quality campus design, 2) Microclimates in-between buildings, 3) Designing to include human experience. He am also actied as an invited critic for WAVE and for several IUAV Masters projects.
He consulted and collaborated with the IR.IDE –PRIDE lab on developing a database of research projects from several years and toward an exhibit of the work with an integral framing. One part of the project was to collaborate with Vanore and others at Iuav to initiate an international Integral Design Network of academics, researchers and practitioners. Mark looks forward to future collaborations and exchanges with Iuav.
EXHIBIT: Capturing the Human Experience in Place:
Exhibit viewed from A&A Atrium.
Click for Time-Lapse
Architectural and Landscape Photography in Greece: Capturing the Human Experience in Place
Exhibit in 103 Gallery, Art & Architecture Building, 1705 Volunteer Blvd., University of Tennessee, KNoxville, October 28–November 22, 2019.. Designed by students Juliana Rogers and Corley Cotler, the show displays a 40-ft long wall of prints and two HD monitors of digital stills and time-lapse works from the UT mini-term course. Faculty sponsor is Mark DeKay. The course was led by Prof. Mark DeKay, Susanne Bennett and Greek photographer Pygmalion Karatzas.
Students produced a time-lapse video of the exhibit.
See course web site here.
Dodho Magazine feature on the course.
Greece Photo Course Covered in Online Features
Dodho Magazine cover
The UT mintierm course led by Mark DeKay, Susanne Bennett and Pygmalion Karatzas is featured in two online articles. Both include coverage for he course, behind the scenes images and images produced by students.
Dodho Magazine: is based in Spain and focuses on artistic photography. Founded by photographer Maximo Panes and edited by Maria Oliva, it features works from around the world from all photographic genres.
The course was also featured on Archisearch.gr— an architectural e-zine based in Greece.
See course web site here.
DeKay among inaugural Consortium of Integral Scholars
Professor of Architecture Mark DeKay is one of two architects among the 36 inaugural members of the newly-founded International Consortium of Integral Scholars. Integral Theory uses pluralistic perspectives and methods to understand complex phenomena in many disciplines, from medicine to business to design. The Consortium is intended to identify and network expertise among Integral Scholars in an effort to support each other’s theoretical clarity, research design, and the sharing of resources. Additional missions include supporting the efforts of graduate student researchers utilizing Integral Theory and the promotion of academic and research conferences.
The group is chaired by clinical psychologist Tom Habib, and includes scholars from 16 countries, such as philosopher Ken Wilber, psychiatrist Roger Walsh, developmental theorist Susanne Cook-Greuter and Integral European Conference director Bence Ganti. The group's first meeting will be in May 2020 at the Integral European Conference in Hungary.
Human Inhabitation of Architectural Spaces
Funded by the 2018 Faculty Research Grant Scheme, the team of Roetzel, DeKay, Sakai Kidd, Zinkiewicz and Klas created the project "An Integral Sustainable Design Approach to Human Inhabitation of Architectural Spaces." The team ran a successful data collection workshop in March 2018 with Mark Dekay and Susanne Bennett, who joined the School as visiting scholars. This allowed the Deakin-based project team from the School of Architecture and Built Environment as well as the School of Psychology to collaborate with Mark on this project.
The data collection workshop involved the recording of participants' subjective experiences of an architectural space using wearable cameras, measurements of indoor environmental parameters, semi-structured interviews and architectural analysis of the case study spaces. The data analysis is in progress and outcomes so far are preliminary results, and includes a first proposal for an all quadrant all levels (AQAL) approach to human inhabitation of architectural spaces, subsequently presented at the Integral European Conference in May 2018 in Hungary.
Best [Creative] Academic Paper Award
Mark DeKay's paper, "Designing Relationships to Nature: Five Narratives to Solve the Climate Crisis," won the Best Academic Paper Award for creativity at the Integral European Conference 2018 in Siofok, Hungary. The full paper is available on Academia.edu. The primary investigation of the paper is the question: How can architects address climate change by designing to place people into rich and significant relationships with Nature? The point is that we experience Nature mostly via buildings, where we spend 90% of our time. If people experience Nature and natural forces in buildings more profoundly, they can develop a relationship with Nature that leads to caring for it. There are many multiple world views operating simultaneously, and each sees Nature differently. The architecture that connects people to Nature will exhibit their varying world views.
Best Academic Paper [Applied Theory] Award
Our team's paper, “An Integral Sustainable Design Approach to Human Inhabitation of Architectural Spaces: Theory and Project Design,” was presented at the Integral European Conference 2018 in Siofok, Hungary and won the Best Academic Paper Award for Applied Theory. The full paper can be found on Academia.edu. Authors include UT Professor Mark DeKay, Astrid Roetzel, Akari Nakai Kidd, Lucy Zinkiewicz and Anna Klas all from Deakin University in Geelong, Australia. This paper presents an integrally‐informed, Wilber‐influenced approach to expanding the study of occupant behaviour beyond building science. This research project develops an integral methodology for transdisciplinary inquiry of occupants' experience and action in architectural space, with regard to their experience of nature and natural forces. Each of he four major perspectives has two research questions; each question is a method from architectural design, building science, cultural theory, place phenomenology or social psychology. Our hypothesis is that spatial‐temporal patterns can serve as an integrating frame among diverse perspectives.
Mark DeKay honored with University of Tennessee Chancellor's Research and Creative Achievement Award
Prof. Mark DeKay
Given to senior faculty in recognition of excellence in research, scholarship and creative achievement. The purpose of these awards is to recognize tenured faculty members who have received national and/or international recognition in their field, to stimulate research and creative achievement and to emphasize that faculty research and creative achievement are integral to the mission of the University of Tennessee.
Read the full announcement here.