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SUMMARY:Affirming Actions Symposium
DTSTART:20210529T090000
DTEND:20210529T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T211036Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Lilitt Bollinger (Nuglar)\, Comunal (Mexico City)\,  Sophie
  Delhay (Paris)\,  Angela Deuber (Zürich)\,  Carla Juaçaba (Rio de 
 Janeiro\, London)\,    Mijong (Sion)\,  Rozana Montiel   (Mexico Cit
 y)\,  Salima Naji (Tiznit)\, Hannah Robertson (Melbourne)\, Claudia  
 Rodríguez (MexicoCity)\, Marina  Tabassum (Dakha)\,       Kerstin
  Thompson (Melbourne)\,  Elisa Valero (Granada)\,  Xu Tiantian (Beiji
 ng)\,  Denise Scott Brown (Philadelphia).\nCan we look at the results of 
 design activity as the articulation of polity concerns or the affirmation 
 of specific stances that use constructions as platforms for ideas and sys
 tems of values with collective import?\n\nMore directly\, can architecture
  convey operative positions about what is relevant in the world today?\n\n
 At a time of environmental\, technological and economic upheavals\, a ques
 tion such as this has the power to coalesce newfound interest in architect
 s’ practices and the forms they may take vis-à-vis the challenges we fa
 ce. \n\nAre there models of practice that could be seen more contemporary
  than others in light of their capacity to interpret perils and possibilit
 ies of our times?\nIf so\, are these models a continuation of established 
 trajectories of architectural professionalism or do they imply a break wit
 h the past and the emergence of new actors?\n\nTo elucidate these issues\,
  the Institute of Architecture and the City has organised a day of debate 
 amongst architects who have all shown a resolve to engage with building as
  both an expressive and a strategic medium. In the process\, they have man
 aged to combine resourcefulness and poetry\, pragmatism and scholarship. B
 y virtue of their quality\, many of their projects affirm the power of arc
 hitectural agency even in conditions of limited means.\nAt the same time\,
  the industriousness underlying the work suggests both the need and the re
 levance of carrying out disciplined reflection (when not outright research
 ) in areas that are strategic\, yet traditionally tangential\, to the task
  of the architect as conventionally understood.\n\nThe event\, to be held 
 in the auditorium of the Rolex Learning Centre in celebration of its tenth
  anniversary\, on 29 May 2021\, from 9h00 to 19h00\, is envisaged as a ser
 ies of seven 60-minute thematic discussions\, each involving two architect
 s\, either in presence or on line\, and recent graduates acting as facilit
 ators in presence. Each discussion is structured around a topic\, chosen a
 s an opportunity for the invited guests to articulate some of the importan
 t aspects informing their architectural positions - initially by making a 
 short but focused presentation of their work\, and then by engaging in a p
 anel discussion.\nThe program will conclude with a conversation with Denis
 e Scott Brown\, on line from Philadelphia\, about her current and future p
 rojects.\n\n 
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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