Shared Housing
Los Angeles. 2022
Harvard GSD Thesis, Elizabeth Whittaker
Empathetic Encounters aims at developing a house/
housing project as a present-tense environment filled
with immanent experiences of empathy. The search is not
precisely “humanist” nor “post-humanist,” but to reinvestigate human subjectivity through re-program, re-form,
and re-technologize our objective environment.
To live collectively is to manifest the tension between man and man, objects and objects. Your shirt, my mug, your sleeping, my writing...among the idiosyncratic and the collective, architecture meet human in the middle. In an unstable dialogue of gravity, tension, permanence and fluidity, a place called home awaits fulfillment - its encounters contain swift, deep, and timeless moments.
To live collectively is to manifest the tension between man and man, objects and objects. Your shirt, my mug, your sleeping, my writing...among the idiosyncratic and the collective, architecture meet human in the middle. In an unstable dialogue of gravity, tension, permanence and fluidity, a place called home awaits fulfillment - its encounters contain swift, deep, and timeless moments.
共情的邂逅 是一个共居住宅项目。它制造出一个“现在时”的环境，在其中充满了内生的共情体验。这一探索并非纯粹"人类主义 "或 "后人类主义"的，而是希望通过对我们周遭客体性环境在功能、形式和技术上的重置， 从而对人的主体性进行重新探讨。
共同生活凸显出人与人、物与物之间的张力。你的衬衫，我的马克杯，你睡觉，我写作......在特异性和公共性之间，建筑在中途与人碰撞。在重力、张力、永久性和流动性的对话中，被称为 "家 "的场所等待被充盈——与它的相遇快速、深刻而永恒。
共同生活凸显出人与人、物与物之间的张力。你的衬衫，我的马克杯，你睡觉，我写作......在特异性和公共性之间，建筑在中途与人碰撞。在重力、张力、永久性和流动性的对话中，被称为 "家 "的场所等待被充盈——与它的相遇快速、深刻而永恒。
Empathy (Einfühlung)
traces the object from
the inside (the object’s
center) to the outside
(the object’s form)”
Empathy is the process in which people project their emotions, ideas or memories onto objects. The English term was translated from German Einfühlung, literally “feeling into.” a concept coined in the 19th century by philosopher Robert Vischer, in his doctoral thesis On the Optical Sense of Form: A Contribution to Aesthetics.
For Vischer, Einfühlung theory explains the principles of art reading triggering emotions and bodily perceptions. This concept is to be distinguished from the concept of Mitfühlung (Sympathy), literally “feeling with”, which addresses mirroring the feelings of a peer human.
- Robert Vischer
Empathy is the process in which people project their emotions, ideas or memories onto objects. The English term was translated from German Einfühlung, literally “feeling into.” a concept coined in the 19th century by philosopher Robert Vischer, in his doctoral thesis On the Optical Sense of Form: A Contribution to Aesthetics.
For Vischer, Einfühlung theory explains the principles of art reading triggering emotions and bodily perceptions. This concept is to be distinguished from the concept of Mitfühlung (Sympathy), literally “feeling with”, which addresses mirroring the feelings of a peer human.
移情（Einfühlung）对客体的追溯，从其内部（客体的中心）到其外部 (客体的形式)"。
共情是人们将自己的情感、想法或记忆投射到外部客体上的过程。英语“Empathy”一词翻译自德语Einfühlung，字面意思为 "将感觉投入到"，在19世纪由哲学家罗伯特•费舍尔在他的博士论文《论形式的光感：对美学的贡献》中提出。共情理论解释了观察者从艺术作品中引发的情绪、和身体性感受。共情与同情（Mitfühlung）被明确的区分开来——Mitfühlung意为 "同情"，它专指人对其他人的情绪的镜像模拟。
- 罗伯特•费舍尔
共情是人们将自己的情感、想法或记忆投射到外部客体上的过程。英语“Empathy”一词翻译自德语Einfühlung，字面意思为 "将感觉投入到"，在19世纪由哲学家罗伯特•费舍尔在他的博士论文《论形式的光感：对美学的贡献》中提出。共情理论解释了观察者从艺术作品中引发的情绪、和身体性感受。共情与同情（Mitfühlung）被明确的区分开来——Mitfühlung意为 "同情"，它专指人对其他人的情绪的镜像模拟。
“If faced with a rock, for instance, one should stare deep into the place where its rockness begins to form. Then the observer should keep looking until his own center starts to sink with the stony weight of the rock forming inside him, too...To observe with empathy, one sees not only with the eyes but with the skin.”
– Rachel Corbett
"比如，当面对一块岩石的时候，人们应该深深凝视它的岩石性开始形成的地方。而后观察者要一直看，直到他自己的中心也开始因岩石在他体内形成的重量而下沉......要用共情去观察，就不仅要用眼睛看，还要用皮肤看。"
- 雷切尔-科贝特
If we could give life, give living freedom
Our desire shall be returned to the formless
For it is warmth, breeze, and clean water that I wish
In the chimney, window, and glass from your hands
I’ll return, and see the miracle occurs:
Close ended projection opens,
(architecture meets human in the middle)
you re-encounter what has existed before
its codes emptied, forms uncanny
In the constellation of intimate banality, something
anew at every moment, every glance
from your eyes your body to the stony surface
A recognition, an awaking, a discovery.
Elsewhere, off-site
Empathy rests in both parts of an encounter. One
and the other.
Platitudes of feeling, in-feeling, Einfühlung
Yielding, touching, supporting
Rock, paper, scissors
Forces of gravity, and the repelling counterforces too
Acting among our indissolvable cores and our collected spirits
Allowing us to chase the limitless, in our limited waking hours of life.
“it was a banal beauty that arrested him”
Vestige of previous lives falls in line with tomorrow’s shadow by coincidence
Our desire shall be returned to the formless
For it is warmth, breeze, and clean water that I wish
In the chimney, window, and glass from your hands
I’ll return, and see the miracle occurs:
Close ended projection opens,
(architecture meets human in the middle)
you re-encounter what has existed before
its codes emptied, forms uncanny
In the constellation of intimate banality, something
anew at every moment, every glance
from your eyes your body to the stony surface
A recognition, an awaking, a discovery.
Elsewhere, off-site
Empathy rests in both parts of an encounter. One
and the other.
Platitudes of feeling, in-feeling, Einfühlung
Yielding, touching, supporting
Rock, paper, scissors
Forces of gravity, and the repelling counterforces too
Acting among our indissolvable cores and our collected spirits
Allowing us to chase the limitless, in our limited waking hours of life.
“it was a banal beauty that arrested him”
Vestige of previous lives falls in line with tomorrow’s shadow by coincidence
