Each Place its Face

A house has the face of a pig, a robot, a dragon, a rabbit… We have this innate ability to recognize elements that adorn our face in symmetries found in constructions: eyes, nose, mouth, ears… There’s an instinct to attribute identity to buildings and create actors for the narrative of our surroundings. In this workshop, we will explore these relations of image and meaning and identify correspondences: windows that are eyes through which the house lurks from within, a roof that is a hat and covers an attic that is a head…