Politics of Design: Programme
Thursday 24 June 2010
12.00pm: Registration and Lunch
1:30pm: Welcome – Simon Guy and Albena Yaneva
1:45pm: Keynote Address
Andrew Barry (Oxford University)
‘Designing politics’
3.00pm Tea/coffee break
3.30pm Parallel Sessions
MEDIATING 1
Chair/Discussant: Andrew Karvonen, MARC
Charles Rice, University of Technology Sydney
‘Atrium effects: John Portman’s Hyatt Regency Atlanta’
Steven Dorrestijn, University of Twente
‘The legacy of utopian design: design to guide and change people’
Bart de Zwart, Eindhoven University of Technology
‘Mapping matters: a tentative outline of the politics of regional design’
ASSEMBLING 1
Chair/Discussant: Albena Yaneva, MARC
Ignacio Farías, Social Science Research Centre Berlin
‘The politicization of architectural practice: governmental and public entanglements’
Tahl Kaminer, Delft School of Design
‘Architectural efficacy: learning from radical sociology’
Cristiano Storni, University of Limerick
‘On the politics of design and designed artifacts: the notion of things and the case of self-monitoring technology’
Robert Schmidt III, Toru Eguchi, and Dan Sage, Loughborough University
‘Who’s got the most pull? – the micro-politics of building design’
5.15pm Tea/coffee break
6.00pm Keynote Address
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Foreign Office Architects and Princeton University
‘The politics of the envelope’
7:15pm Evening Reception and Exhibition
Friday 25 June 2010
9.00am: Parallel Sessions
MEDIATING 2
Chair/Discussant: Simon Guy, MARC
Ulrik Jørgensen, Danish Technical University
‘Healing architecture and design – the politics of new design visions and programs’
Kristine Samson, Roskilde University
‘Performative process designs: The case of The Wharf City’
Marc Tuters, University of Amsterdam
‘Forget psychogeography: locative media as cosmopolitics’
Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster University
‘Design in synthetic biology’
EXPERIMENTING 1
Chair/Discussant: Maria Kaika, MARC and Geography
Uriel Fogué and Fernando D. Rubio, Architecture Agency and CRESC
‘General Vara del Rey Square: an experimental design for the construction of a cosmopolitical ecology’
Denisa Kera, National University of Singapore
‘Cosmopolitical “Kibbutzes”: from early visions of Academy of Games and Pleasures to present day Hackerspaces, DIYbio Labs and Citizen Science Incubators’
Ann Thorpe, Open University
‘Design as political resistance’
10.45am: Tea/coffee break
11.15am: Parallel Sessions
INSCRIBING 1
Chair/Discussant: Magda Sibley, MARC
Ralf Brand, University of Manchester
‘Architectures of (de)radicalisation in Beirut’
Nora Colden, University of Leipzig
‘Unpacking politics in architecture: inscription and de-scription of gender-specific relationships’
Alvise Mattozzi, Iuav University of Venice
‘Semiotics’ role in a non-modern constitution: a case study about design’
EXPERIMENTING 2
Chair/Discussant: Isabelle Doucet, MARC
Kathryn Moore, Birmingham City University
‘Design expertise: connecting aesthetics, tectonics, and culture’
Burak Asiliskender, Erciyes University
‘Re-creating the self and nation in a factory’
Marten Boekelo, University of Amsterdam
‘Boom aesthetics: transformation of an historical neighbourhood in Central Beirut’
Julie Crawshaw, University of Manchester
‘Dirty neighbours: an ANT understanding of the role of artists in the regeneration of Sunderland’
1.00pm: Lunch
2.00pm: Parallel Sessions
INSCRIBING 2
Chair/Discussant: Ralf Brand, MARC
A.M. (Hanneke) Miedema, Wageningen University
‘Opening up engineering design to the politics of sustainable animal husbandry’
Vincent Calay, Université Libre de Bruxelles
‘Building vacuum: the political ghosts of car parking in a Belgian municipality’
Maria Prieto
‘Immaterial architectures for a new material world’
ASSEMBLING 2
Chair/Discussant: Michael Hebbert, MARC and Planning
Florian Kossak and Tatjana Schneider, University of Sheffield
‘Spatial Agency and the Politics of Locality’
Stefan White, Manchester School of Architecture
‘Species of affect: architecture and users’
Jeffrey Chan, University of California-Berkeley
‘The politics of improvisation in planning’
3.45pm: Closing Plenary
4.15pm: Tea/coffee break