Autonomous detailing

Tutor
Tutor website: Curdin Tones

Title
Autonomous detailing

Participation
Individual

Context
The scale of the detail.

Autonomous detailing means taking care of the consequences your concepts demand, in the most radical and sensitive way.

Detailing is affective it’s about being touched
Detailing is narrative it’s about telling histories
Detailing is conceptual it’s about logical consequences
Detailing is spiritual it’s about devotion
Detailing is practical it’s about finding solutions

Detailing requires a certain focus, a preparedness to look closer and actually start taking care without losing sight of its relational function. Detailing means taking care of the concepts at hand and the sensuous and logical consequences for how the materials should meet, the atmospheres need to collide, or how spaces have to intersect.

Educational philosophy
As a teacher, I am searching for conditions that empower students to fully use their own capacity to think and to develop collectivity. Students also learn and grow from participating in talks that do not concern their own project. For that reason, group discussions play an essential role in my classes.

Applying techniques that promote thinking together, instead of discussing opinions or positions, collective thinking and experiencing can activate all participants and lead to the discovery of more perspectives.

Methodology
Education preferably starts with an interest a student might have. Details are designed by desire. Taking care of details requires working with the desire of how things should be. Therefore it’s important to start this course from a personal point of view.

Details can be substantial and rigid. They are the result of taking a conceptual road all the way, following its demanding logic to the outmost resolution. The student learns to take serious what he or she encounters in a personal and creative process, to start using it in a consistent way.

Assignment
When does a space touch you through its detailing? Describe observations and collect images and material studies. These short texts function as a point of departure leading towards a personal research and a project to be executed.