Empathic Imagination: A talk by Juhani Pallasmaa at Bengal Architecture Symposium

Juhani Pallasmaa's lecture at the Bengal Architecture Symposium - 2: Doshi/Pallasmaa: Two Talks and a Conversation at the KIB Auditorium on November 15th, 2016.
Introduction by: Marina Tabassum.
Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, professor emeritus, Helsinki. Practiced design first in collaboration with other architects, and in 1983-2012 through his office in Helsinki. He has held positions, such as Rector of the Institute of Industrial Design Helsinki, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, and Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and several visiting professorships in the USA, and taught and lectured in numerous universities in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury 2008-2014. Pallasmaa has published 50 books and 400 essays, articles and prefaces, and his writings have been translated into 35 languages. His widely known books include: The Embodied Image, The Thinking Hand, The Architecture of Image: existential space in cinema, and The Eyes of the Skin. He is honorary member of SAFA, AIA and RIBA, Academician of the International Academy of Architecture, and has received numerous Finnish and international awards and five Honorary Doctorates.
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Originally recorded on November 15th, 2016 at Krishibid Institution Auditorium, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Organized by Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements bengal.institute with the help of Bengal Foundation bengalfoundatio...
©Bengal Foundation 2016

[@essentitatas4112]

I would like to thank the Bengal Institute with deep and sincere appreciation for documenting and allowing us - though worlds away- to access such a thought provoking lecture.

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Thank you for watching.

[@piginus2]

30:00 Connection between Architecture and human perception 19:00 Consciousness and architecture

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39:00 "Perception of any kind is not an automatic process, it is always a creative act, we create what we see"

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44:50 "With personal certainty, it is not possible to invent meaning. Meaning has to be grounded on what is, in the cultural and biological heritage that we have"

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49:00 "We should get rid of the architecture that says , real architecture says "

[@romiladaisy9088]

Where can we find the list of books he suggested in the video?

[@haoruchen4216]

I’m surprised to hear he’s not a theocratic writer but an architect

[@Xavyer13]

I can't believe that he said: "i want to say with personal certainty that it is not possible to invent meaning. Meaning, by a philosophical definition, has to be grounded in what is, that means in the cultural and then biological heritage that we have" and then proceeded to explain that a painting is not a mixture of paint blobs on a in a canvas (which would actually be what IS the painting physically and therefore the ground from which meaning should arise) Being that emergence impossible, evidently, we do seem to convey meaning to things, even to random phenomena such as apophenia and pareidolia, mainly because they need to become linguistic when they enter the imaginative realm (which is contrary to both the Real and Symbolic realm, in lacanian terms)

[@schamon13]

Could you expand a bit more on this sentiment you shared?

[@peterlukacs2373]

what you quoted, for me only reads as saying that a machine or a jellyfish will never get any meaning out of a painting unless the machine or the jellyfish itself also operates on the ground of "what is, that means in the cultural, then biological heritage that we have". What do you think?

[@thombuscarmondy7048]

anybody got the sparknotes version of this? i don't have the ability to watch this entire thing

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bengal.institute/event/bengal-architecture-symposium-02-two-talks-and-a-conversation-juhani-pallasmaa/

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For more details read this publication: bengal.institute/publication/vas-03-is-here-for-online-reading-3/

[@aditidhavle]

what was the name of his professor at the University of Helenski? didn’t catch the name (@ 15:20)

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Aulis Blomstedt

[@villevmakela]

Where is the empathy in this? Or the people?

[@btbike_24]

TLDR: try and create architecture for living/ old guy uses medieval images compared to barren modern images without people to "prove his point" LOL

[@peterlukacs2373]

one can certainly "rebrand" the pictures shown in a cynical manner. Still, one is also able to go out to the streets and take a look at how people and buildings interact nowadays. Perhaps even take notes about one's findings. What do you think?

[@Yamama0247]

Someone get this man an inhaler

[@falguninimje7019]

he's easy to listen to at 1.5x