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The failures of modernism left cracks that contemporary thinking still grows out of. Which elements of the past should we leave behind, and which should we strategically re-embrace?
The failures of modernism left cracks that contemporary thinking still grows out of. Which elements of the past should we leave behind, and which should we strategically re-embrace?
Location: Auditoriet (Ground floor)
09:15-10:15 (EN)
LAURA MARTÍNEZ DE GUEREÑU | MIES DIDN’T COME HOME THAT NIGHT
Architecture history have been and continues to be dominated by white men, criminally overlooking female figures, who have otherwise left an indelible mark on the field. This includes Mies van der Rohe whose ’partner in crime’, Lily Reich, was never credited for her contribution to the Barcelona Pavilion and other collaborations. Can a forensic conversation on the materialisation of neglected authorship add new perspectives on Mies’s legacy and disappearance?
Laura Martínez de Guereñu (ES): Architect and Tenured Associate Professor, IE University
Moderator: Carolina Dayer (AR): Architect, PhD, and Associate Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture
10:40-11:40 (EN)
ACHILLE MBEMBE | BRUTALISM
Just as Brutalist architecture creates a sense of overwhelming weight and destruction, eminent social and critical theorist Mbembe argues that contemporary capitalism dominates all spheres of existence. Invoking the architectural aesthetic of Brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in demolition and mass production on a planetary scale, how can we repair what is broken, develop a new global consciousness, and reform a community of humans in solidarity with all living things?
Achille Mbembe (CM): Philosopher, Professor in History and Politics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Moderator: Karen Waltorp (DK): Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
13.40 – 14.40 (EN)
KIEL MOE | LESS IS LESS. UNLESS
Architecture today reorganises nature and society in ways that demand attention and new methods of description. In particular, the immense material, energy, and labour involved in building require a new interpretation. While modernism taught us to ask what a building looks like, Moe encourages us to ask what ecological materials and social processes a building sets in motion, before, during, and long after its construction. Can we, through the example of one of the most modern of modern architectures, the Seagram Building, cultivate a broader definition of what architecture is and could be?
Kiel Moe (US): Architect, Researcher, Author, and Forest-Building Ecologist
Moderator: Lasse Lind (DK): Architect, Partner, 3XN/GXN
15:00-16:00 (EN)
MERIEM CHABANI | CITYMAKING FROM A DECOLONIZING POINT OF VIEW
New South stems from the conviction that the South only exists in opposition to a North. In a desire to decolonize architectural discourse and explore its variations, from the suburbs of Algiers to the suburbs of Paris, Chabani seeks to bring excluded voices into spaces where decisions about the city are made. But what does decolonizing architecture mean, and how can it change the way architects work?
Meriem Chabani (FR/DZ): Architect, Founder and Principal, NEW SOUTH
Moderator: Marc-Christoph Wagner (DE): Founding and Managing Editor of Louisiana Channel
