Conference Program

Friday, October 8th, 2004
     
9:30
  Welcome by Jonathan Mekinda
 9:45
  Opening Remarks by Dr. David Brownlee and Dr. Detlef Mertins
10:30
  Space Making and Social Meaning:
- Theorizing Social Space: Aldo van Eyck and the Realm of the “In-between”
- The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Tabula Rasa
- The New, the Old, the Modern: Socialist Architecture in Romania, 1960 to 1970
- The Child at CIAM: The Negotiation of Agency and Control in Postwar Architectural Discourse


1:00
  Lunch

3:00


 
New Technologies, New Techniques
- Welcome to the Machine: Art and Technological Society in Post-War Europe
- A “Regional Multi-National?” The Design Geography of Europe
- Realism “Through the Immaterial”
- May 1968 and the Question of the Image
- Out of the Studio and Into the Factory: The Rise of Panel-Technology in 1950s Czechoslovakia

6:00
7:30
  Reception
Dinner for participants
     
Saturday, October 9th, 2004
9:30



  Urban Interventions
- Blow-Up
- Townscape in Context
- Positioning Wolf Vostell
- The Architectural Arms Race Across the Berlin Wall


12:00
  Lunch
     
2:30




  Memory and Recovery
- Of Spectres, Cinders and Ruins: Matter and Memory in Post-War Franced
- The Problem of Memory in Situationist Artwork and Painting
- Luigi Nono’s Intolleranza 1960
- A Surplus of Memory: Envisioning the Future of Old Warsaw


5:30
6:00
  Closing Remarks by Dr. David Leatherbarrow
Thanks by Jonathan Mekinda
     
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