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SUMMARY:Hilde Heynen: Reset Modernity ? / EDAR
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DESCRIPTION:Hilde Heynen\nReset Modernity? Challenges and Issues for Archi
 tectural Culture Today\n\nAccording to Bruno Latour\, we need a serious re
 set of our understanding of modernity. The Anthropocene\, and the ecologic
 al crisis that results from it\, puts into question humankind’s relation
  with the earth. Architecture is\, arguably\, at the heart of these consid
 erations\, since it is thoroughly involved in the making and remaking of o
 ur human world. This lecture will rely on this perspective to frame the ma
 jor challenges that architectural culture is faced with today – sustaina
 bility\, inclusivity\, democracy.  It will ask whether and how these iss
 ues are dealt with in contemporary architectural discourses and practices.
  Elements from recent Venice Biennales will be used as reference points to
  gauge current concerns and strategies.\n\nHilde Heynen is a professor of 
 architectural history at the KU Leuven in Belgium. Her research focus
 es on issues of modernity\, modernism and gender in architecture. In Arch
 itecture and Modernity. A Critique (MIT Press\, 1999) she investigated th
 e relationship between architecture\, modernity and dwelling\, arguing tha
 t critical theories such as those of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno of
 fer crucial insights when revisiting the Modern Movement. More recently sh
 e engaged with the intersection between architecture and gender studies\, 
 which resulted in the volume Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions
  of Gender in Modern Architecture (co-edited with Gülsüm Baydar\; Routl
 edge\, 2005). Her most recent books are both co-edited volumes:  The Fig
 ure of Knowledge. Conditioning Architectural Theory\, 1960s-1990s (with Se
 bastiaan Loosen and Rajesh Heynickx) and Making Home(s) in Displacement. 
 Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice (with Luce Beeckmans\, Alessan
 dra Gola and Ashika Singh)\, both open access volumes with Leuven Universi
 ty Press.\n\nThe spring series of SCHOLARS in Transition\, entitled Conte
 mporary Modernity\, aims at revisiting notions\, works\, architects\, and 
 authors of XXth Century Modernism. The debates will focus on the timeless 
 aspiration of 'being modern'\, as it simply means ‘being contemporary’
  – matching the characteristics of the era you live in. Is today the adj
 ective ‘modern’ an historical category to be referred to a past era? O
 r\, on the contrary\, do our interpretations echo our contemporary concern
 s about architecture and\, more widely\, our built environment?
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