THEMATIC INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS (Wednesday, 19 June, 11.00 to 18.00) and ERC WORKSHOP (Friday, 21 June, 13.00 to 15.00)
*a session with all interest group coordinators will take place from 11.00 to 11.30
Interest Group ‘Urban Representations’
Interest group ‘Building Word Image’
Interest group ‘Eastern Europe’
Interest group ‘Contemporary History’
Interest group ‘Architecture History and Digital Humanities’ and Interest group ‘Housing’
Interest group ‘Postmodern’ with interest group ‘Environment’ (joint event)
Interest group ‘Women and Gender’
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Capturing Urban Emotions (19 June, room A101, 14.00-18.00)
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
Negar Goljan, Elif Kaymaz, Heather Grossman, Dorothy Barenscott, Lorenzo Mignardi, Lucy Maulsby with Amanda R. Lawrence and Davide Deriu
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Media and Objects of the Home (19 June, room A106, 15.00-18.00)
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, Alborz Dianat, Yosuke Nakamoto, Jesse O’Neill, Kamyar Salavati, Witinan Watanasap, Zhengfeng Wang and Sarah Wheat
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ACTIVISM! The political dimension of heritage in the post-communist world (19 June, room A002, 11.30-18.00)
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, Qendresa Ajeti, Iris Giannakopoulou Karamouzi, Emine Seda Kayim, Irina Tulbure, Diana Mihnea, Andy Lee and Maryia Rusak
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Critical Storytelling (19 June, room A104, 16.00-18.00)
Interest group ‘Contemporary History’
Climate change. War. Populism. Housing shortages. Forced migrations. Environmental injustice. Construction emissions. How do and should architectural historians engage with this present? Environmental and social issues of the present are interlinked with histories of the material past. In this meeting of the Contemporary History interest group, we will discuss the politics of time and share experiences of research on contemporary topics through “critical storytelling.” What is the role of history (and the historian) in confronting present-day crises? What kind of unique challenges do historians of the present face? What might we expect to encounter in the future? What new tools, networks, methods, and topics might we require?
Coordinators
Jennifer Mack, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita and Helena Mattsson
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Architecture History and Digital Humanities: An Introduction (19 June, room A008, 11.30-18.00)
Interest group ‘Architecture History and Digital Humanities’
Presentation and debate on the possible lines of work of this recently created interest group, whose aim is to discuss the conceptual and methodological possibilities offered by new technologies for documenting, archiving and researching the built environment. Conference members and participants are invited to contribute with a presentation of their fields of work. Please send a show of interest to nicolas.marine@upm.es and aryael@technion.ac.il
Coordinators
Nicolás Mariné and Yael Alwel
Contributors
Fabio Gigone and Angela Gigliotti
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Future Perspectives in Housing History (19 June, room A008, 11.30-18.00)
Interest group ‘Housing’
In recent years, housing history has proven to be a fruitful field of exchange between scholars with different competencies, as well as an exceptional testing ground to experiment with practices and methodologies of historical inquiry. Housing histories offer an observation point to discuss some of the new research trends that are currently reshaping historical studies on architecture, cities, and the built environment.
The meeting will discuss specific areas of methodological innovation that housing histories have explored, raising a common question about how architectural histories can experiment with forms of innovation that challenge established procedures and pursue a new degree of social effectiveness. Participants will briefly present their own approach to the historical study of modern dwelling landscapes, testing a variety of questions, approaches and instruments, and showing how these can be used within the context of a specific case study. The meeting will be devoted to the discussion on the future activities of the Interest Group, and on how to continue the decade-long conversation between its members, who have been involved in a number of collaborative research projects and teaching seminars over the past decade.
Coordinators
Filippo de Pieri and Gaia Caramellino
Contributors
Ricardo Agarez, Miles Glendinning, Konstantina Kalfa and Dana Vais
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Architecture and the Environment: Awareness and Action in the Postmodern Period (19 June, room A104, 14.00-16.00)
Interest group ‘Postmodern’ with interest group ‘Environent’ (joint event)
Increased exposure to rapid climate change, and the industrial production of toxic materials have compelled architectural historians in recent years to reevaluate modernist ideas about the relationship between “architecture” and “the environment.” Critically engaging historiographies and methodological frameworks developed by scholars of the so-called Modern Movement, new literature demands that we more fully account for the material and conceptual co-production of architectural and environmental conditions, as well as their relationship to evolving forms of government, and imperial techniques for managing the relationship between territories, populations, and resources. This roundtable seeks to open up new avenues for research and debate, as it asks how, and to what extent, architectural and environmental thinking changed as critics declared the death of modern architecture in the 1970s. Members of two EAHN Interest groups (Architecture & Environment, and the Postmodernism Interest Group) will present short case studies on themes ranging from climate, energy, and questions of autonomy, to technopolics and/in postmodernism, and the changing relationship between capital and extraction. These will be the occasion to explore and question particular shifts in attitudes in the postmodern period.
Coordinators
Dalal Alsayer, Megan Eardley, Véronique Patteeuw and Léa-Catherine Szacka
Contributors
Paul Bouet, Jiat-Hwee Chang, Maroš Krivý, Sonali Dhanpal, Daniel Barber, Claire Zimmerman and Patience Musasa.
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Interest group ‘Women and Gender’ (19 June, room A101, 13.30-14.30)
Coordinators
Luca Csepely-Knorr and Svava Riesto
The meeting aims to create a curiosity-driven, respectful, and generous forum for all who are interested in exchanging knowledge and learning alongside one another. The focus of the forum will be gender and women in architecture and design in our cities and landscapes. In it, we will foster dialogue, test new ideas and get to know each other. We will begin by a roundtable with presentations by researchers who are doing a PhD, post-doctoral project or other ‘early career stage’ research. The roundtable is public and will be followed by a workshop whose goal is to stimulate shared thinking about ways to cross-fertilize emerging topics, methods, and theories across different researchers and academic environments. This workshop is called Show and share and if you have recently published a book or other publication on women and gender in architectural history, then please bring it to show it to other attendees, or just come to listen and be part of the conversation. We will also discuss ideas for activities in the interest group between the EAHN-conferences.
Programme
11:30 Welcome by Luca Csepely-Knorr and Svava Riesto
11:45-13:00 Roundtable Women and Gender in Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design –rethinking theories, methods and historiographies
This session is open to all who are interested. Researchers who are working on a postdoctoral project, PhD project or similar will present learnings and reflections from their work and bring in prompts for a discussion on the theories, methods and historiographical approaches that are used in research on women and gender in architecture, landscape and urban design. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion.
Speakers:
Anne Pind (University of Copenhagen/Royal Danish Academy), Joy Burgess (Manchester School of Architecture), Sean Yuxiang Li (University of Copenhagen/Royal Danish Academy), Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk (ETH Zürich), Carla Peca (ETH Zürich), Camilla Allen (The University of Sheffield), Claire Downey (The University of Limerick), Despoina Zavraka (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
13:00-13:45 Lunch break
13:45-14:30 Workshop Show and share your writings on women and gender in architecture, landscape and urban design
This workshop is open to all and aims at being a forum for knowledge-sharing and mutual inspiration. Please bring your most recent book or other publication that addresses topics of women and gender in architectural, urban or landscape history. Bring it as a physical artifact or print in one copy and we will do an informal workshop. Please know that you are of course welcome to join if you haven’t published on this topic, but you are interested in what is being written in this field and joining the discussion.
14:30-14:40 Break
14:40-15:00 Discussion of ideas and activities in the interest group between now and the next EAHN conference
15:00 After the meeting: Networking, drinks etc. (venue to be announced on site)
If you have any questions or you have ideas for the interest group, please feel free to write to Luca Csepely-Knorr L.Csepely-Knorr@liverpool.ac.uk and Svava Riesto svri@ign.ku.dk
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ERC WORKSHOP
Supporting your research with the ERC – ERC information session (21 June, K Hall, 13.00-15.00)
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
Aneta Krzemień Barkley, Scientific Officer, European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA)
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
Anne Hultzsch, ETH Zurich, Principal Investigator of WOWA: Women Writing Architecture: Female Experiences of the Built, 1700-1900
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