PAST TALKS 2024
10 January 2024
12pm EST/6pm CET
DocTalks x qswg
Session 3
Queer Ecological Architecture
Luna Lana
Monash University (M.A.D.A) Australia
***
Dissenting Domesticities at Casa Samambaia:
Lota Macedo and Elizabeth Bishop
Marianna Parmanhani
Universidade de São Paulo & Arquitetura Bicha
***
Graphite Gay Bars:
The Eliciting Potential of Drawing
Rían Kearney
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
16 January 2023
Lightning Talks
Navigating the what-what:
Southern approaches to South African urban design
Jhono Bennett
The Bartlett UCL
***
Differential impacts of sea level rise
in Lagos’ newly developed region Eko Atlantic City
Sherry Aine Te
Columbia GSAPP
23 January 2024
Lightning Talks
Respondent:
Ilkay Tanrisever
Romero Schaefle Partner Architekten, Zurich
Tracing Potential in Water
Blanca Garcia Gardelegui
Independent Researcher and Architect
***
Vulnerable Heritage: the undeniable value of past craftsmanship in Romanian villages and the biodiversity-friendly architecture
Maria Nitulescu
Independent Researcher, Artist and Curator
***
Veil Reveal
Kshitija Mruthyunjaya
Independent Researcher and Architect
Ingrid Halland
Architecture historian and art critic
30 January 2024
Lightning Talks
Respondent: Savia Palate, Cyprus University
Designing Wellness:
Epidemics and the Shaping
of Modern Architecture in Iran
Kamyar Salavati
PhD, University of Exeter
***
Climatopia:
Evaluating Radical Designs
for the Climate Crisis
Alizé Carrère
PhD, University of Miami
***
Points Noirs
Milena Charbit
Cergy Paris Université / École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles
Deborah Feldman
Laboratoire Architectue Anthropologie LAVUE
Baptiste Potier
Architect
8 February 2024
Usus, Fructus, Abusus
Alena Beth Rieger
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
***
The “Frankenstein PC:” Practices of Preserving
and Erasing the Digital in Architecture
Joshua Silver
The University of Manchester,
Manchester Architectural Research Group (MARG)
15 February 2024
DocTalks x CCA
Session 1
Representation/Coloniality
Ariel Richards, Lu Zhang, Chenchen Yan
***
Political Economy
Alejandro Saldaña Perales, Duy Mac, Romain David
22 February 2024
DocTalks x CCA
Session 2
Housing
Eun-Jeong Kim, Melanie R. Ball, Inês Leonor Nunes
***
Environment Making
Sophie Higgerson, Laura Pannekoek, Justine Holzman, Anna Renken
29 February 2024
DocTalks x qswg
Session 4
Parallel Domesticities
Evan Pavka
Toronto Metropolitan University
***
A Canon of Queer Domesticity:
Design Fabulations
Daniel Ovalle Costal
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
***
Sex Objects and Performing Envelopment: Exploring Queer Spatial Fluidity in Dance Spaces through Nonhuman Mobility and Experimenting Relationalities
Menghang Wu
Ohio State University, USA
9 April 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 1
Environmental Design
and the Civilian Conservation Corps,
1933–42
James Fortuna
University of St. Andrews
***
The transformation of a natural
to a built environment for the working class
between the 19th and 20th centuries in Madrid:
«Esto no es fantasear.
Esa Ciudad Lineal, [..]
no es, no, una utopía»
Alice Pozzati
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
(Columbia University)
25 April 2024
Modern Indian Architecture and the emergence
of a Post-Independence discourse:
The case of Design (1957-1988)
Pappal Suneja
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
30 April 2024
Collective Mentality and Architectural Space:
The Narrative of Cannon and Square
in the Development of the ‘Cannon Square’ in Qajar Iran
Mahnam Najafi
Shahid Beheshti University
***
An Aesthetics of Transgression
– The Picturesque in British Bengal around 1780
Leo Herrmann
University of Stuttgart
7 May 2024
The Grotesque, the Ugly, and the Bizarre:
Fletcherism and Ornamentation Theory in Non-Western Architecture
Farhat Afzal
University of Cincinnati
***
Early Narratives and Enduring Impacts:
Persian Architecture in the World Architectural Histories
Haleh Hajyasini
University of Arts Tehran
14 May 2024
PAN-demonium: Domesticity and Domestication
Laura Mucciolo
La Sapienza University of Rome
***
Housing the Single:
Typological Experimentation, Policies,
and Cultural Models in
Italian Housing Projects and
Domestic Interiors, 1930s-1950s
Michele Rinaldi
Politecnico di Torino + KU Leuven
21 May 2024
“Who were the ‘experts’ here anyway?”:
Care, Architecture, and Terminal Illness
in Oxford, 1978-1995
Fiona Kenney
McGill University School of Architecture
***
Malaria Division of Venezuela
Piergianna Mazzocca
Cornell University
28 May 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 3
Taming the Desert:
The Great Man-Made River Project
and Libya’s Extractive Colonialities
Shehrazade Mahassini
RCA London
***
Conservation Nationalism
Samarth Vachhrajani
Yale University
4 June 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 4
Rice Weeders' landscapes: female work, songs, and protests
in northern Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries
Chiara Toscani
Architectural Association
***
Long Beach is..?
Articulating Place-Based Scenario Planning
for the Climate Emergency
Kira Clingen
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
11 June 2024
The Working Man’s Grand Tour
Sarah Aziz
University of New Mexico and
The Bartlett School of Architecture
***
Landscapes of Migration.
The ‘men for coal’ agreement, mining settlements, and ecology
among the Italian workers of Limburg, Belgium
Jacopo Zani
ETH Zurich LUS
18 June 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 5
Unfolding Spaces: Avant-Garde Environments, Experimental Choreography, and Politics of Space in Milana Broš and Dubravko Detoni's 'La voix du silence' at the 1973 Music Biennale Zagreb
Marjana Krajac
Ohio State University
25 June 2024
From the Fascist Cult of Youth to Neoliberal Privatisation.
The Multilayered Identities of the Fara Holiday Camp for Children
in Chiavari (Genoa)
Federico Camerin
Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
***
The Heritage of Minors, Revisited
Maria Kouvari
ETH Zurich
27 June 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 6
Stage 1: The search for shared materials ecologies
to build Arts Collectives in Malaysia
Clarissa Lim Kye Lee
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Miracles in Europe’s Orchard
Damaso Randulfe
Royal College of Art
***
The City and the River:
Origin and Evolution of Lisbon’s Riverfront
João Cruz
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Urbanas
da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
24 September 2024
Lightning Talks
Global Tools
An Inverse Ergonomics Experiment
Eleonora Antoniadou
Royal College of Art
***
The Zad of Notre-Dame-Des-Landes
Between Spatial Situations
And Affective Conditions
Alberta Piselli
La Sapienza University of Rome
8 October 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
On the border: A story of river commons
Stefano Tornieri
Luleå University of Technology
***
Yam Economies and Settler Improvement across Whadjuk Noongar Country
Sean Thomas Tyler
Estonian Academy of Arts
22 October 2024
Idealizing the Inkas: José
Sabogal to las barriadas
Madeleine Aquilina
University of Michigan
***
Reassembling Landscape Lifecycles
Emilia Hurd, Julia Smachylo
University of Victoria, University of Connecticut
10 January 2024
12pm EST/6pm CET
DocTalks x qswg
Session 3
Queer Ecological Architecture
Luna Lana
Monash University (M.A.D.A) Australia
***
Dissenting Domesticities at Casa Samambaia:
Lota Macedo and Elizabeth Bishop
Marianna Parmanhani
Universidade de São Paulo & Arquitetura Bicha
***
Graphite Gay Bars:
The Eliciting Potential of Drawing
Rían Kearney
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
16 January 2023
Lightning Talks
Navigating the what-what:
Southern approaches to South African urban design
Jhono Bennett
The Bartlett UCL
***
Differential impacts of sea level rise
in Lagos’ newly developed region Eko Atlantic City
Sherry Aine Te
Columbia GSAPP
23 January 2024
Lightning Talks
Respondent:
Ilkay Tanrisever
Romero Schaefle Partner Architekten, Zurich
Tracing Potential in Water
Blanca Garcia Gardelegui
Independent Researcher and Architect
***
Vulnerable Heritage: the undeniable value of past craftsmanship in Romanian villages and the biodiversity-friendly architecture
Maria Nitulescu
Independent Researcher, Artist and Curator
***
Veil Reveal
Kshitija Mruthyunjaya
Independent Researcher and Architect
Ingrid Halland
Architecture historian and art critic
30 January 2024
Lightning Talks
Respondent: Savia Palate, Cyprus University
Designing Wellness:
Epidemics and the Shaping
of Modern Architecture in Iran
Kamyar Salavati
PhD, University of Exeter
***
Climatopia:
Evaluating Radical Designs
for the Climate Crisis
Alizé Carrère
PhD, University of Miami
***
Points Noirs
Milena Charbit
Cergy Paris Université / École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles
Deborah Feldman
Laboratoire Architectue Anthropologie LAVUE
Baptiste Potier
Architect
8 February 2024
Usus, Fructus, Abusus
Alena Beth Rieger
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
***
The “Frankenstein PC:” Practices of Preserving
and Erasing the Digital in Architecture
Joshua Silver
The University of Manchester,
Manchester Architectural Research Group (MARG)
15 February 2024
DocTalks x CCA
Session 1
Representation/Coloniality
Ariel Richards, Lu Zhang, Chenchen Yan
***
Political Economy
Alejandro Saldaña Perales, Duy Mac, Romain David
22 February 2024
DocTalks x CCA
Session 2
Housing
Eun-Jeong Kim, Melanie R. Ball, Inês Leonor Nunes
***
Environment Making
Sophie Higgerson, Laura Pannekoek, Justine Holzman, Anna Renken
29 February 2024
DocTalks x qswg
Session 4
Parallel Domesticities
Evan Pavka
Toronto Metropolitan University
***
A Canon of Queer Domesticity:
Design Fabulations
Daniel Ovalle Costal
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
***
Sex Objects and Performing Envelopment: Exploring Queer Spatial Fluidity in Dance Spaces through Nonhuman Mobility and Experimenting Relationalities
Menghang Wu
Ohio State University, USA
9 April 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 1
Environmental Design
and the Civilian Conservation Corps,
1933–42
James Fortuna
University of St. Andrews
***
The transformation of a natural
to a built environment for the working class
between the 19th and 20th centuries in Madrid:
«Esto no es fantasear.
Esa Ciudad Lineal, [..]
no es, no, una utopía»
Alice Pozzati
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
(Columbia University)
25 April 2024
Modern Indian Architecture and the emergence
of a Post-Independence discourse:
The case of Design (1957-1988)
Pappal Suneja
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
30 April 2024
Collective Mentality and Architectural Space:
The Narrative of Cannon and Square
in the Development of the ‘Cannon Square’ in Qajar Iran
Mahnam Najafi
Shahid Beheshti University
***
An Aesthetics of Transgression
– The Picturesque in British Bengal around 1780
Leo Herrmann
University of Stuttgart
7 May 2024
The Grotesque, the Ugly, and the Bizarre:
Fletcherism and Ornamentation Theory in Non-Western Architecture
Farhat Afzal
University of Cincinnati
***
Early Narratives and Enduring Impacts:
Persian Architecture in the World Architectural Histories
Haleh Hajyasini
University of Arts Tehran
14 May 2024
PAN-demonium: Domesticity and Domestication
Laura Mucciolo
La Sapienza University of Rome
***
Housing the Single:
Typological Experimentation, Policies,
and Cultural Models in
Italian Housing Projects and
Domestic Interiors, 1930s-1950s
Michele Rinaldi
Politecnico di Torino + KU Leuven
21 May 2024
“Who were the ‘experts’ here anyway?”:
Care, Architecture, and Terminal Illness
in Oxford, 1978-1995
Fiona Kenney
McGill University School of Architecture
***
Malaria Division of Venezuela
Piergianna Mazzocca
Cornell University
28 May 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 3
Taming the Desert:
The Great Man-Made River Project
and Libya’s Extractive Colonialities
Shehrazade Mahassini
RCA London
***
Conservation Nationalism
Samarth Vachhrajani
Yale University
4 June 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 4
Rice Weeders' landscapes: female work, songs, and protests
in northern Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries
Chiara Toscani
Architectural Association
***
Long Beach is..?
Articulating Place-Based Scenario Planning
for the Climate Emergency
Kira Clingen
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
11 June 2024
The Working Man’s Grand Tour
Sarah Aziz
University of New Mexico and
The Bartlett School of Architecture
***
Landscapes of Migration.
The ‘men for coal’ agreement, mining settlements, and ecology
among the Italian workers of Limburg, Belgium
Jacopo Zani
ETH Zurich LUS
18 June 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 5
Unfolding Spaces: Avant-Garde Environments, Experimental Choreography, and Politics of Space in Milana Broš and Dubravko Detoni's 'La voix du silence' at the 1973 Music Biennale Zagreb
Marjana Krajac
Ohio State University
25 June 2024
From the Fascist Cult of Youth to Neoliberal Privatisation.
The Multilayered Identities of the Fara Holiday Camp for Children
in Chiavari (Genoa)
Federico Camerin
Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
***
The Heritage of Minors, Revisited
Maria Kouvari
ETH Zurich
27 June 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
Session 6
Stage 1: The search for shared materials ecologies
to build Arts Collectives in Malaysia
Clarissa Lim Kye Lee
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Miracles in Europe’s Orchard
Damaso Randulfe
Royal College of Art
***
The City and the River:
Origin and Evolution of Lisbon’s Riverfront
João Cruz
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Urbanas
da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
24 September 2024
Lightning Talks
Global Tools
An Inverse Ergonomics Experiment
Eleonora Antoniadou
Royal College of Art
***
The Zad of Notre-Dame-Des-Landes
Between Spatial Situations
And Affective Conditions
Alberta Piselli
La Sapienza University of Rome
8 October 2024
DocTalks x MoMA
On the border: A story of river commons
Stefano Tornieri
Luleå University of Technology
***
Yam Economies and Settler Improvement across Whadjuk Noongar Country
Sean Thomas Tyler
Estonian Academy of Arts
22 October 2024
Idealizing the Inkas: José
Sabogal to las barriadas
Madeleine Aquilina
University of Michigan
***
Reassembling Landscape Lifecycles
Emilia Hurd, Julia Smachylo
University of Victoria, University of Connecticut