THEMATIC INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS (Wednesday June 19, 14.00 to 18.00)
Capturing Urban Emotions
Interest Group ‘Urban Representations’
Considering cities in periods of transformation and change, this workshop analyzes critically the capacity of visual representations of many time periods or geographies to convey the emotions that such challenges evoke: hope and anticipation, but also fear, prejudice and anxiety. Short, focused presentations will meaningfully relate research to the expression of emotion through urban representations. What emotions have prompted the production of a city image? How does that emotional expression reflect, deny, overlook, or resist biases, distortions, and manipulations? What values or motivations animate the emotional content of the image and how has that affected its form and use? To what extent can the image, whether map, perspectival view, painting, photo, film, etc. be used to understand the identity of the city?
Coordinators
Miriam Paeslack, Freek Schmidt, Nancy Stieber, and Ines Tolic
Contributors
Barenscott, Dorothy
Deriu, Davide
Goljan, Negar
Grossman, Heather
Kaymaz, Elif
Lawrence, Amanda R.
Marq, Constance
Maulsby, Lucy
Mignardi, Lorenzo
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Media and Objects of the Home
Interest group ‘Building Word Image’
Histories of the modern home can be written through the transformations of its material components: architectural elements, such as the door, the window or the chimney, but also furniture, like desks and sofas, appliances and electronics from sinks to televisions, and even specific items of clothing, like aprons and pyjamas, specifically designed, appropriated or reinvented for domestic use. At the same time, since the rise of mass production and consumption, the increased availability of such domestic objects has also determined the appearance of specific forms of mass media, like retailers’ catalogues, home magazines, guidebooks, cookbooks, fashion magazines, which have circulated, facilitated and codified their economic, cultural and social commodification. Through processes of mediatisation, it has been possible to suggest and enforce living habits, gender roles, spatial layouts, social codes, economic status and cultural paradigms that, at least to some degree, are still operative today. The Interest Group ‘Building Word Image’ contributes to the ongoing revision of modern histories within architectural history. It examines questions of modernity and modernization by exploring lesser-known narratives surrounding objects and media that can shed light on various domestic issues; from gender roles and family values on an interior scale to broader topics such as citizenship and urban life. For the EAHN meeting in 2024, ‘Building Word Image’ continues its ongoing thematic discussion on ‘Mediatising the Domestic’ by welcoming international speakers to reflect on original material histories through modern and contemporary media.
Coordinators
Gregorio Astengo and Rebecca Carrai
Contributors
Joana Albernaz Delgado
Antonio Cantero
Alborz Dianat
Yosuke Nakamoto
Jesse O’Neill
Kamyar Salavati
Witinan Watanasap
Zhengfeng Wang
Sarah Wheat
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ACTIVISM! The political dimension of heritage in the post-communist world
Interest group ‘Eastern Europe’
The new millennium’s heritage (architectural, but not only) discourse has reassessed its arguments, replacing at its core the notion of identity. Critically reconsidered or hastily embraced with a political agenda, this has become once more a significant element of debate in deciding what heritage is, who it belongs to and who has the right to claim and contest it. In the former communist bloc, these two positionings are perpetually negotiated, adding further layers of complexity and contingency. Our focus here is particularly on the critical reassessment of identity in the post-communist world, which has added a nuanced understanding of heritage as legacy. That is, buildings or ensembles which do not necessarily aim to be seen as monuments and be inscribed in lists or registers, but which, however, encapsulate the memory of a community and its everyday life. Hence, these sites become frequently acknowledged, perceived as “iconic” for different reasons and “heritagized” from below – through urban community activism in various scopes and forms, which has emerged as a dynamic dialogue between local identities and communities, heritage professionals, and political actors.
This workshop focuses on the activism related to these processes and debates and its role in both redefining the terms of heritage and (re)fueling a political involvement with the concerned collectivities. What connections exist between activism, community, and heritage? How do post-socialist processes align and correspond with similar events in other parts of the globe? What role does heritage activism play in shaping a (new) political consciousness, and how do urban movements emerge in various scales and forms as a means of reclaiming a sense of belonging? How do heritagization and activism intersect, and how does activism reaffirm, reinterpret (perhaps even reject) already designated heritage?
Coordinators
Maja Babić, Jovana Janinović, Abigail Karas, and Carmen Popescu
Contributors
Jasna Galjer
Ana Miljacki
Anabela Angelovska and Alice Detjen
Qendresa Ajeti
Iris Giannakopoulou Karamouzi
Emine Seda Kayim
Irina Tulbure, Diana Mihnea
Andy Lee
Maryia Rusak
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ERC WORKSHOP (Friday 21 June, 13.00-15.00)
Supporting your Research with the ERC – ERC information session
For the past 17 years, the European Research Council (ERC) has supported excellent, investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of scholarship through a competitive peer review process based on scientific excellence as the only selection criterion. ERC calls are open to researchers from around the world who plan to carry out their research project at a host institution in an EU Member State or in a country associated to the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
The session will provide an overview of ERC funding opportunities, the evaluation procedure and criteria, and general advice on preparing a successful proposal. Participants will also gain insights into the application process, project implementation and the impact an ERC grant can have on one’s academic career from the perspective of ERC grantees.
Speakers
Dr Aneta Krzemień Barkley, Scientific Officer, European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA)
Dr Kalliopi Amygdalou, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Principal Investigator of HOMEACROSS: Space, memory and the legacy of the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey
Dr Anne Hultzsch, ETH Zurich, Principal Investigator of WOWA: Women Writing Architecture: Female Experiences of the Built, 1700-1900
Dr Ricardo Costa Agarez, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Principal Investigator of ReARQ.IB: Built Environment Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable Communities: Understanding Everyday Modern Architecture and Urban Design in the Iberian Peninsula, 1939-1985