Programme

Monday             25th May 2015                                                                                      

Venue:               Minto House: LR1, ESALA, 20-22 Chambers Street           

12:00-13:00         Sign-in / Registration

13:00-13:15        Opening Remarks: Dorian Wiszniewski, PhD

13:15-14:45        Session 1: Space of Communicatively

Doreen Massey’s Spaces of Multiplicity _Richard Bower, PhD, Plymouth University [UK]

Alterity and the Ideal: Within and Beyond Form in Art and Architecture_Brian Gassom, PhD, Gray School of Art, Robert Gordon University [UK]

What is Educational Space?_Emile Bojesen, PhD, University of Winchester [UK]

 14:45-15:00        Coffee Break

 15:00-16:30        AoA Research Workshop I                                               

The Time of Light: Utopian Photo-conceptualism in the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark_Anthony Abiragi, PhD, University of Colorado [USA]

Performative Architectures: How to Sing in Public_Helen Statford, University of Sheffield [UK]

The Piratical Stance: the possibility for a piratical stance_Valeria Federighi, Politecnico Torino, Italy [EU]

16:45-17:30         Session 2: Conceptualizing Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices & Narratives

Utopia as Method: The Unlikely Prospect of a Counter-Hegemonic Architecture_Nathaniel Coleman, PhD, University of Newcastle, [UK]

Beyond Dualism: non-instrumental architecture_Malcolm Miles, PhD, Plymouth University [UK]

Urbanism of Alterity: a topological analysis_Luz Navarro-Eslava, WSA, Cardiff University [UK]

18:00-19:30          AoA Casual Prix Fixe Dinner, £20, plus a small booking [optional]

19:30-21:00          Keynote_Simon Critchley: Memory Theatre                                                              

Special Venue:    Scottish Storytelling Centre, The Netherbow Theatre

Tuesday               26th May 2015                                                                                  

Venue:                  Minto House: LR1, ESALA, 20-22 Chambers Street

9:00-10:00            Keynote_Dorian Wiszniewski: Architecture: Alterity of An Ethics of Visuality

10:15-11:50           Session 3: Unveiling the Political: Process, Identity and Alterity

ALT-Spaces: On Textures of Spatial Alterity_Thomas Mical, PhD, University of South Australia [AU]

Socio-spatial Identity and Conflict in Contemporary Brussels_Katherine Prater, University of Cambridge [UK]

Hedonistic Urbanism as the Alterity of Postwar Beirut_Liz Martin-Malikian, University of Edinburgh [UK]

Bodies and the Ethno[flow]: Transnational Migrations of commodified flesh_Armando Montilla, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona [EU]

12:00-13:00            Lunch Break 13:15-15:00           

AoA Research Workshop II    

Self-organized Architecture and the Superhistorical City_Clara Archibugi and Clemens Nocker, Sapienza University of Rome [EU]

Folkcodes and the Urban Legendary: Michael Sorkin, the Congress for New Urbanism and American Alterity in the 1990s_Andrew Santa Lucia, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago [USA]

Exploring Habitability: Skateboarding As ‘Rogue Architecture’_Tiphaine Kazi-Tani, Research Associate, CoDesign Lab, Telecom ParisTech [France]

Beyond Building Objects: Social Transformative Potential of Hybrid Architectural Intervention_Xiang Ren, University of Sheffield [UK]  

15:30-17:00            Keynote_Michael Jenson: Mapping the Global Architecture of Alterity

Special Venue:     Anatomical Lecture Theatre, Door 3 Medical School, Teviot Pl

17:30-19:00            Session 4: Global Architect of Alterity                                                                        

Back-to-Session/Research Worskhop Venue: Minto House: LR1

Finding Self in the Other: Japanese-ness in western architecture_by Bob Brown,  Plymouth University [UK]

“We don’t want a multi-cultural minaret, we want an Islamic minaret”, negotiating the past in the production of contemporary Muslim architecture in Britain_by Shahed Salem, RIBA, University of Westminster [UK]

Aldo Rossi’s Analogical City: Multitude and the Soul of the City_Cameron McEwan, PhD, University of Dundee [UK]

dinner on your own

Wednesday             27th May 2015                                                                                   

Venue:                     Minto House: LR1, ESALA, 20-22 Chamber Street                       

9:00-10:45               AoA Research Workshop 3

Shared Architecture, Social Practice and Intergroup-mixing on Belfast_Clare Mullholland, Queen’s University Belfast [UK]

Chinese Formal and Informal Urbanism: Socio-Spatial Practices of Alterity in Urban Villages_Litao Zhou and Dr. Tatjana Schneider, University of Sheffield, [UK]

The Small Public: Sites, Subjectivities and Scales of Alterity_Sze Y. Goh, Goldsmiths, University of London [UK]

Ephemeral Urban Cultures: the night markets of Taiwan_Justin Chung, Plymouth University [UK]

11:00-12:30            Session 5: Conceptualizing Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices & Narratives

Azadi Square: Deciphering ecological systems / frameworks + sites of morphing_Sundas Shadid and Javaria Shadid, Illinois Institute of Technology [USA]

Remediating the social through protest architecture: tAIt and St Peter’s square in Rome_Fabrizio Gesuelli, University of Edinburgh [UK]

The Self-othering event of object qualities and architecture as a mutable interface._Trevor Patt, Ecole Polytech Lausanne, Paris [EU]

12:30-13:00            Coffee Break

13:00-14:00            Closing Lecture: Mark Dorrian_What’s Interesting?  

14:10-14:30             Closing Remarks