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SUMMARY:10th Rencontres de l'EDAR: Autonomy and Abstraction
DTSTART:20260512T083000
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DESCRIPTION:Les Rencontres de l'EDAR is the annual meeting of the Doctoral
  program in Architecture and Sciences of the City\, aimed at gathering the
  entire EDAR community. Its 10th edition\, organized in collaboration with
  the Institute of Architecture\, will be entitled Autonomy and Abstraction
  and will deal two fundamental dimensions of scholarly inquiry. The two 
 days event\, open to the public\, will be structured in the form of themat
 ic sessions alternating with keynotes and round tables.\n\nAbstraction wil
 l be approached in its classical philosophical meaning\, consistent with t
 he view that understanding requires the mind to grasp the universal apart 
 from the particulars in which it is embodied. In this sense\, abstraction 
 is the mental operation through which the essential structure of a subject
  is drawn out from its contingent features\, allowing researchers to disce
 rn the general principles that render their object intelligible. This conc
 eptual withdrawal does not negate the concrete but clarifies what endures 
 beyond the variability of specific instances.\n\nAutonomy will be presente
 d as a distinct yet complementary notion: the capacity of a discipline to 
 reflect upon itself through its own internal laws and modes of reasoning. 
 It entails a temporary suspension of external frameworks so that the disci
 pline may be understood from within\, according to the coherence of its co
 ncepts and the logic that shapes its questions. While abstraction deals wi
 th the apprehension of universal principles\, autonomy has to do with the 
 conditions under which these principles operate within a disciplinary hori
 zon.\n\nOnce defined as separate notions\, abstraction and autonomy will b
 e brought into constructive relation\, for both require a measured intelle
 ctual distance that enables the essential to be articulated. In this conte
 xt\, participants will be invited to suspend\, for a moment\, the temporal
  and spatial dimensions that ordinarily situate their work\, in order to c
 oncentrate on the internal logics that define it. The possibility of abstr
 action and autonomy will be explored not as a doctrine but as an open inte
 rpretative field through which doctoral researchers may examine their subj
 ects at the level of foundational assumptions and operative laws.\n\nThese
  Rencontres will emphasise that both abstraction and autonomy admit multip
 le interpretations\, each opening further avenues for reflection. Their pl
 urality will form the ground of the collective discussion. Participants wi
 ll therefore be encouraged not only to explore but to present the internal
  laws and guiding principles that structure their research\, testing how t
 heir projects appear when considered within a horizon freed\, temporarily\
 , from external contingencies.
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