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
 

***

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

***

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


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




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