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What if a building was explored as a psychological subject, with its own desires, hopes, fears and longings?
What if architecture was put on the couch, to undergo psychoanalytical therapy?
What conscious and unconscious impulses would be uncovered?
PSYCHOSTRUCTURES seeks to understand and enhance our collective relationship with architecture. We are a transdisciplinary collaboration, a coalescing of psychology, psycho-social studies, conceptual art and architecture. We have developed innovative techniques that explore the psychology of buildings and the communities of users they serve. We work with organisations and their diverse publics to understand the shared and individual psychological responses to architectural structures. And to explore the affective conscious and unconscious qualities of the buildings themselves.
We specialise in psychological profiling of public, museum and political buildings, seminal or extraordinary pieces of architecture, loved or unloved structures. We can focus on single buildings or generate a psychological profile of a city through its significant structures. We produce bespoke research, exhibitable through artworks. Each subject building enters a growing repository of significant buildings.
We have evolved an approach to architecture that softens the rigid distinctions between human and nonhuman, between material and immaterial.
We enable buildings and their inhabitants to speak - to vocalise experiences, desires and dreams.
Our unique offer is based on our transdisciplinary approach to buildings and their entanglement with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of organisations. Our approach aims to help clients understand and address problems and issues that may arise from different aspects of the occupation, operation and perception of their architecture.
We can provide a range of services ranging from discrete, short interventions to complex investigation of a building’s history and its continued influence on current use, to address issues and enhance the psychological and wellbeing impact of the building on its users. Please contact us for an initial conversation.
Psychostructures engages with architecture, grasping a futureality that speaks of kinship, solidarity and feeling between the human and non-human world.
For further information on our research approach please see one of our published academic papers here