Book: The Role of Material Evidence in Architectural Research (2011)

The staging evolves new social and interpersonal relations with those on the other side, and develops new modalities of conversation specific to the possibilities and constraints of the media connection.

The staging of these conditions as a participatory event allows experiential evidence to be investigated as an actual experiential account.

STAGING EXPERIENCE OF LIGHT WITH METHODS OF ENGAGEMENT The sensation of light as an architectural form is inherently difficult and complex to grasp. The following is an example of methods of engagement as experiential evidence which uses human relationships as a formal instant choreography of analytic behaviour. The interesting point here is to investigate how the sensation of light evolves from the process of lived experience and how specified procedures formalise these sensations into evidence.

The experiential method in the light investigations stage analytic collective operations, which enhance the participant’s capacity to qualify and articulate the sensation of light. For a team of researchers systematic experiential investigations are staged, using methods that correlate between the sensed, the experienced, and the observed. The staging procedures allow for analysis through conversation from different perspectives into the same experiential moment, and develop an enhanced sensibility towards lighting as architectural shapes, evolved from experiential activities and formed into experiential accounts.

The experiential evidence is generated from these analytic events, with groups of participants being enabled to negotiate their mutual observation as relational operations, in situations that explicitly stage how the different roles and observer positions are structured relationally. The method enables a formal externalisation of otherwise private and individual experiences into a collective investigation qualified within a cooperative structure of relational operations.

The strategic method developed enables a structure of engagement by which a group can share a first-person experience and explore this same experience from different positions as a comparative qualitative investigation. This method operates with a selection of observer roles and is specific in the 89