This symposium will explore how the structural instabilities of the 21st century are legible in histories of architecture and related spatio-political disciplines, insofar as they engage questions of economy, gender, race, and environmental change. Co-sponsored by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.
Symposium Convened By
Schedule
Daniel A. Barber, Associate Professor, Graduate Architecture, PennDesign Sophie Hochhäusl, Assistant Professor, Graduate Architecture, PennDesign and 2017-2018 Frieda L. Miller Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Eduardo Rega Calvo, Lecturer, Graduate Architecture, PennDesign Naomi Waltham-Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Penn Arts & Sciences
Program
Schedule
Thursday, April 5, 2018
10:30am
Welcome and Introduction
11:00am - 1:15pm
Panel 1
Peg Rawes, Barlett School of Architecture, University College London Insecure Predictions: Buckminster Fuller's Energy Slave Maps
Jason Rebillot, Woodbury University Manzini's Dilemma
Whitney Moon, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Rise and Fall of the Atomic Energy Commission Pavilion
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Panel 2
Paulo Tavares, University of Brasilia Containing Poverty: Architecture between Environmentalism, Development and Counterinsurgency
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Harvard University and Rachel Lee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Léopold Lambert, Editor-in-Chief of The Funambulist The Architecture of the Colonial Continuum
Ginger Nolan, University of Basel Self-Help Technics: Bricolage and the Management of Neo-Liberal Uncertainty
6:00pm
Keynote
Felicity Scott, Columbia University GSAPP Productive Vulnerabilities
Friday, April 6, 2018
10:00am - 12:15pm
Panel 3
Elisavet Hasa, Royal College of Art The Rise of Solidarity Movements and the Architecture of Collective Equipment in Athens during the Years of Crisis
Susanne Schindler, ETH Zurich The Model Cities Program: Productive Instabilities
Maros Krivy, University of Cambridge and Estonian Academy of the Arts Urban Complexity: A Fad?
1:00pm - 3:15pm
Panel 4
Megan Eardley, Princeton University The Mine, the Surveyor, and the Production of Apartheid's Boomtowns
Nikki Moore, Rice University For Bread, Peace and Economic Expansion: Robert Malthus and the Architecture of the Green Revolution
Fabrizio Ballabio, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of York Measures of security: Ferdinando Fuga’s Reali Granili and the politics of grain provision in Eighteenth Century Naples.
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Panel 5
Mark Wasiuta, Columbia University and Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Columbia University Unstable Control
Samia Henni, Princeton University Planning Instabilities: Monnet, Marshall, and Constantine Plans
5:30pm
Concluding Remarks
Brett Steele, Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture