Author(s): Meni Rosenberg & David Behar
This paper introduces Focusing Aided Design, FAD. It is based on our research, which has been investigating case studies of architects who integrate Focusing in their practice. Focusing effectively enables the moving back and forth between the pre-reflective order of felt embodied experiencing, and the conceptual, rational order of our ordinary mode of operation. It is essentially a flexible and iterative protocol of investigation. Our findings suggest that FAD may offer a significant upgrade to the ‘operating system’ of the human ‘black box’ of architectural practice, expanding and ‘sculpting the architect’s mind’ to improve efficacy. Our findings also suggest that introducing FAD to the studio as well as to professional practice is a tangible step. This paper thus proposes FAD as a practical gateway towards a conscious shift, NOW, expanding and upgrading how we actually do what we do as architects, thus also how we educate and initiate becoming architects.
Volume Editors
Amy Larimer, Deborah Berke, Diana Lin, Drew Krafcik, John Barton & Sunil Bald
ISBN
978-1-944214-24-1