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    Course Description

    • REQUIREMENTS AND PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

      The course was directed to European students of last three years of architectural and fine arts degree, without any special prior requirements or skills.

       

      GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECT

      "Working With Hands" was an intensive course within the context of A.T.H.E.N.S (Advanced high education network) autumn announcement and was held at the School of Architecture of Madrid during the third week of November 2011. More than thirty hours a group of twenty students, coming from different European universities, along with six, Spanish and Greek, teachers, developed an innovative learning experience with both practical and theoretical sessions, all of them taught in English. “Hands” were taken as the starting point to carry out certain “defamiliarization” processes that concluded in new ways of acquiring knowledge.

       

      OBJETIVES: KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

      The main objective of the course was to propose new strategies for promoting creativity in learning through singular practices. The common thread of these experiences were “hands” that were placed at the center of human activity, from the daily survival level to the artistic one, being contemplated as makers, models, mediums and instruments of art.

      This goal, aimed to force comprehension and analysis of everyday reality, through progressive approaches of “estrangement”.

      A metaphorical course with an open issue without a direct utility - taking the human body as the starting point to deal with items that emphasize similarities and differences and opens space to reflections about diversity, community and cartography.

       
      TEACHING MATERIAL

      The teaching material candidates worked with was related to all aspects of our hands. Philosophical and scientific texts were given, as well as visual references like images and videos of several artists. New images and new videos of all students modeling, painting, acting, knitting, and making all actions were produced in which clay, wool, papers, instruments like castanets and other were used.

       

      EVALUATION ACTIVIVTIES OR PRACTICAL TASKS

      All the activities of the course were in a continuous schedule designed to make any evaluation system through individual tasks not necessary. The attendance and the completion of the course was enough for the student to be qualified depending on the level of his or her involvement on the course.

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    Syllabus

    • 1. Presentation of the participants by using their hands.

      2. Awareness about the world around us through touching and hearing.

      3. Cooperation of participants each other through games with their hands.

      4. Hand movemenst for communication, and awareness of their forming abilities.

      5. Generation of objects, drawings, sculptures, choreagraphies and spaces by hands their own, or hands and matter, in small or large scale, working on individual or colletive projects.

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    Bibliography

      • B-B-001. VVAA , Gesture and the nature of lenguaje, D.Armstrong, W. Stokoe, S. Wilcox, Oxford University Press, 1995. 
      • B-B-002. BACHELARD, G.  La tierra en lo ensueños de la voluntad, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1994.
      • B-B-003. DAVIS, F. La comunicación no verbal. Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2000. 
      • B-B-004.  DERRIDÁ, Jaques Le Toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy Galileé, Paris, 2000. Deconstruction and Philosophy The University of Chicago Press, 1987 (Cap. Geschlecht II, Heidegger´s Hand.
      • B-B-005. DONALD, Mac C. Silent Language, Butterworth, London, 1975. 
      • B-B-006. FOCILLON, H. Elogio de la mano ed. Xarait, Madrid,1983. 
      • B-B-007. GIBSON, James. J. The Senses considered as perceptual Systems Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1966. 
      • B-B-008. MANZINI,  Ezio, Artefactos, Hacia una ecología del ambiente artificial Ed. Celeste Ediciones y Experimenta Ediciones de Diseño. Madrid, 1992. 
      • B-B-009. MILLER, D.  The Power of Making, Exposition Catalogue “The Power of Making” at Victoria and Albert Museum, 2011. 
      • B-B-010. NANCY, J. No li me tangere Trotta, Madrid, 2006. (Cap. Las manos) Le sense du Monde Ed. Galileé, Paris, 1996. ( Cap. El Tacto ) . 
      • B-B-011. PALLASMA, J.  Los ojos de la piel Gustavo Gili, SL Barcelona, España, 2010. 
      • B-B-012. PALLASMA, J. Thinking Hand  DD Wiley, 2009. 
      • B-B-013. PATERSON, M. The Senses of Touch. Haptics, Affects and Technologies ed.BERG, Nueva York, 2007. 
      • B-B-014. POIZNER H. KLIMA E. and BELLUGI U., What the Hands Reveal About the Brain, MIT Press, 1990. 
      • B-B-015. SACKS, O. Seeing Voices. A Journey to the World of Deaf, HarperPerennial, New York, 1990. 
      • B-B-016. SARAMAGO, J. Ensayo sobre la ceguerra, Punto de Lectura, 2010. 
      • B-B-017. SCHINCA, M. Expresión Corporal, Secretaría de Educación Pública, 2008.  
      • B-B-018. SEGUI, J. Dibujar Proyectar XXXVII Cuerpo Manos 1&2,  Instituto Juan de Herrera, Madrid, 2012.  
      • B-B-019. SHKLOVSKI, V. Art as Technique, David Lodge, ed., Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (London: Longmans,1988).  
      • B-B-020. SENNET, R  El Artesano Anagrama, Barcelona, 2009 ( Cap.V La Mano).  
      • B-B-021. TAFURI, M. Formalismo y vanguardia entre la NEP y el primer plan Quinquenal, en Jean-Louis Cohen, Constructivismo ruso : sobre la arquitectura en las vanguardias ruso-soviéticas hacia 1917, Barcelona: Ediciones del Serbal, 1994.  
      • B-B-022. TRACHANA A. Pequeña Guía del Uso Creativo de las Manos,  Instituto Juan de Herrera, Madrid, 2012 (En proceso de edición).  
      • B-B-023. WARBURG, A.  Atlas Mnemosine, Akal, Madrid, 2010.  
      • B-B-024. WILSON, F. R. La mano: de cómo su uso configura el cerebro, el lenguaje y la cultura humana Tusquets, Barcelona, 2002.  
       
      Articles
      • B-B-025. “Fet a Má”, International Workshop COAC Barcelona 2011. Authors: Josefina Flores, Efi Giannopoulou, Anthi Kosma, Lola Martínez, Katerina Psegiannaki, Tania Ugena. 
      • B-B-026. Las Manos. La liberación de las manos para la creatividad y la innovación.  revista Creatividad y Sociedad,  nº 18 http://www.creatividadysociedad.com/ Authors: Angelique Trachana. 
      • B-B-027. Manual o Digital. Arquitectura, Experiencia del Cuerpo y Código Digital Congreso Ties 2012 (III Congreso Europeo de Tecnologías de la Información en la Educación y en la Sociedad: Una Visión Crítica de Barcelona (1-3/2/2012) Actas: Páginas 151-152,  ISSN: 978-84-96398-50-4 Autora: Angelique Trachana.  
      • B-B-028. Manual o Digital. Fundamentos Antropológicos del Dibujar y Construir Modelos Arquitectónicos, revista EGA nº 19,  ISNN: 1133-6137, pp. 288-297. Autora: Angelique Trachana.  
      • B-B-029. Taller de acciones lúdicas y educativas en torno a lo arquitectónico.Para una sociedad del futuro. International Workshop COAC Barcelona 2012. Authors: Almudena de Benito y Atxu Amann.  
      • B-B-030. Working With Hands. Surprised with the common, accustomed to the strange, II International Encounter On Arts Education Porto 2012. Authors: Atxu Amann, Efi Giannopoulou, Anthi Kosma, Lola Martínez, Katerina Psegiannaki, Tania Ugena.  
       
      Artists
      • B-B-031. Man Ray, “Space Writing”.   
      • B-B-032. August Rodin, “Hand clenched “, 1888.   
      • B-B-033. Alberto Giacometti, “Caresse”, 1932.   
      • B-B-034. Julio Gonzalez, “Hand Up”.   
      • B-B-035. Mimmo Paladino Dono I, 1998.   
      • B-B-036. Gary Hill,  “Hand Heart”.   
      • B-B-037. Jose de Ribera, “Tacto” 1632.   
      • B-B-038. Jacobo Castellano, ”Ring en Manos” 2011 .   
      • B-B-039. Richard Serra, Hands Scraping .   
      • B-B-040. Richard Serra, Hand Catching Lead.   
       
       
      Musicians





      Choreographers







      Merce Cunningham mocap (from OpenEnded Group) from Golan Levin on Vimeo.



      Filmography
      • B-B-041. Tim Burton, “Edward Scissorshand” .    
      • B-B-042. Wim Wenders , “Pina Bausch The Movie”.    
      • B-B-043. Jiri Trinka, “The hand”.    
      • B-B-044. The Beast With Five Fingers, 1946.    
      • B-B-045. The Hand,1981.    
      • B-B-046. The Crawling Hand, 1963.    
      • B-B-047. Idle Hands,1999.    
      • B-B-048. Akira Yoshida, Electra the Hand.    
      • B-B-049. Marvel Comics, X-Men Origin, Wolverine.    
      • B-B-050. Charles Addams, The addams Family. 

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    Visual References

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    Lecture Notes

    • Hands In Sculpture (PDF)

      Comic And Cinema (PDF)

      Hands In Prado (PDF)

      Learning to think (PDF)

      Sign Languaje (PDF)

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    Class material

    • Introduction | Schedule | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Lectures References (PDF)
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    Authors of material