The TACK Conference and TACK Exhibition took place between 19-21 June 2023 in Zürich

After three intensive years of research and exchanges, the TACK project reached its last big milestone: the TACK Conference welcomed 150 people at ETH Zürich to discuss tacit knowledge in architecture and its various forms. In three paper sessions and three object sessions the characters, roles and modes of architectural tacit knowledge were explored. Highlights were the two keynote lectures by Elke Krasny and Harry Collins, the book presentation by the 10 TACK PhD candidates, as well as the presentation of the TACK Publishing Platform by Helen Thomas.

During the TACK Conference, the TACK Exhibition “Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit”, curated by Tom Avermaete and Janina Gosseye, took successfully place in the Archena at ETH Zürich.  41 objects from 41 contributors illuminated how tacit, ‘unspoken knowledge’ operates in architecture and, particularly, how material vectors, such as drawings, plans and models, can mediate tacit knowledge. “Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit” will live on as an online exhibition until 2027, which you can visit here (insert link).In the upcoming weeks, the exhibition and conference materials will be made available on our TACK publishing platform.

All conference speakers are invited to submit their full papers for the TACK digital platform (with doi) until 20thJuly 2023.

We warmly thank all participants for making the conference and exhibition a huge success and a dignified finale to the TACK project.

Helen Thomas spotted that TACK gets quoted in an article by William Mann. You can read the article here:
https://architecturefoundation.org.uk/supporters-column-william-mann