Katherine Bash

Over the past several years, I have been developing a set of Tools for Observation that function by creating conditions that amplify one’s innate capacity to perceive. These are part of a qualitative methodology for revealing poetics and complexities of the interaction of person and environment. They can reveal multiple interactions of site and perception, new openings and new poetries. They also provoke a dialogic process, both internal and external, by raising questions and revealing cognitive dynamics of turning space into place. They inspire examination of the nuances of inhabiting the world and provoke a re-envisioning of the spaces in which dwelling takes place.These tools play a role in answering several longer lines of inquiry:

What is the relationship between place and consciousness?

How does language create a feedback system with the built environment, each constructing and being constructed by the other?

How does naming establish conditions to perceive?

How can the Tools for Observation establish conditions to perceive and allow maximum intuition about the complexities of a site?

Katherine E. Bash

	Katherine E. Bash
Born in Midland in 1975 Education: University of Texas at Austin, MFA, 2004 University of Texas at Austin, BA, 1997 Currently enrolled in PhD program at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London Lives and works in London Founder and Principle Investigator of the Itinerant Laboratory for Perceptual Inquiry.
Over the past several years, I have been developing a set of Tools for Observation that function by creating conditions that amplify one’s innate capacity to perceive. These are part of a qualitative methodology for revealing poetics and complexities of the interaction of person and environment. They can reveal multiple interactions of site and perception, new openings and new poetries. They also provoke a dialogic process, both internal and external, by raising questions and revealing cognitive dynamics of turning space into place. They inspire examination of the nuances of inhabiting the world and provoke a re-envisioning of the spaces in which dwelling takes place.These tools play a role in answering several longer lines of inquiry: What is the relationship between place and consciousness? How does language create a feedback system with the built environment, each constructing and being constructed by the other? How does naming establish conditions to perceive? How can the Tools for Observation establish conditions to perceive and allow maximum intuition about the complexities of a site? Katherine E. Bash
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