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

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Dissenting Domesticities at Casa Samambaia:
Lota Macedo and Elizabeth Bishop


Marianna Parmanhani
Universidade de São Paulo & Arquitetura Bicha
 

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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

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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

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Vulnerable Heritage: the undeniable value of past craftsmanship in Romanian villages and the biodiversity-friendly architecture

Maria Nitulescu
Independent Researcher, Artist and Curator

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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
 
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Climatopia:
Evaluating Radical Designs
for the Climate Crisis

Alizé Carrère
PhD, University of Miami

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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

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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

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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
 
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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

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A Canon of Queer Domesticity:
Design Fabulations

Daniel Ovalle Costal
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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


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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

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Reassembling Landscape Lifecycles

Emilia Hurd, Julia Smachylo
University of Victoria, University of Connecticut




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