Ethics and Aesthetics of Architecture and the Environment:
Architecture Strand Session Schedule
THREAD 1: Ethico-Aesthetic
Sessions: A1, A3, A5, A9, A11
Chairs (5): Fran Speed / tba/ Vassilis Ganiatsas / Anna-Lena Carlsson / Rumiko Handa
THREAD 2: Everyday
Sessions: A4, A8, A12
Chairs (3): Jessica J. Lee / Kevin Barden / Brian Elliott
THREAD 3: Phenomenology
Sessions: A2, A7
Chairs (2): Jonathan Powers / tba
THREAD 4: Culture and Politic
Sessions: A6, A10
Chairs (2): Lara Schrijver / Rick Fox
[A1] Ethico – Aesthetic / Culture lab / Space 7
Chair: TBA
Fran Speed, Independent Scholar, UK – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: an ethico-aesthetic understanding of architecture and the environment
Carolyn Fahey, University of Michigan, USA – Intention and Architecture
Wolfram Bergande, Weimar University, Germany – The Pleasure and Pain of an Archaic Alliance: on the atopy of subjectivity in occidental architecture- and beyond
Deborah Fausch, Washington University – St. Louis, USA – Aesthetics and Ethics of Everyday Experience
[A2 ] Phenomenology / Claremont tower / 3rd floor / Planning studio
Chair: TBA
Michael Young, HYPERLINK “http://www.ieu.edu.tr/” Izmir University of Economics, Turkey – Architecture of the Two
Mina Yaney, Technical University of Vienna, Austria – Becoming Skin: Cultivating Interfaciality
Anna-Lena Carlsson & Jennie Andersson Schaeffer, Mälardalen University, Sweden – Enacted Creative Spaces: the aesthetic and the poietic elements of embedded, recorded and enacted forms of information in manufacturing industrial environments
[A3] Ethico-Aesthetic / Culture Lab/ SPACE 7
Chair: Rumiko Handa, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA
Emmanuel Petit, Yale University, USA – Ethics versus Aesthetics: Stanley Tigerman
Rick Fox, Stratos Form, USA – Architectural Aesthetics in Jacques Tati’s Playtime and Mon Oncle: towards somatic implacement
David Wang, Washington State University, USA – Kant on Dwelling
Laura Gioeni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy – Sub Specie Aeternitatis -
techno-utopian projects of the 60s and 70s
[A4] Everyday / Claremont Tower / 4th floor / Exhibition Space
Chair: Jessica J. Lee, York University, Canada
Thirayu Jumsai na Ayudhya, Queensland University of Technology, Australia – Architectural Aesthetic Appreciation in the Context of the ‘Everyday’
Felipe Loureiro, Independent Scholar, Brazil – The Transcendence of Architecture: searching for common-ground in architectural experiences
Derya Yorgancioglu, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Turkey – Turgut Cansever’s Ideas on Architecture: an ontological and ethical inquiry in twentieth century Turkish architecture
[A5] Ethico-Aesthetic / Claremont tower / 3rd floor / Planning Studio
Chair: Fran Speed, Independent Scholar, UK
Lara Schrijver, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands – The Ethical Dimension in Architecture: a constant variable
Jonathan Powers, McGill University, Canada – Pleasure, the Will, and the Genesis of Architecture in Filarete’s Libro Architettonico
Stephen Wischer, North Dakota State University, USA – Ethics and Hermeneutics beyond Formal Aesthetics: Anselm Kiefer’s art and the architectural artefact
thurs
[A6] Culture and Politic / Culture Lab / SPACE 4/5
Chair: Rick Fox, Stratos Form, USA
Cristian Hainic, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania – Humans and Monuments: appreciating the human nature of architectural objects
Bela Kerekgyarto, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary – Monumentalism, Integrity and Authenticity: aesthetic and moral aspects in the writings of Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos
Thomas Chung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong – Commemorating a ‘Picture of Peace’: framing architecture and urban space in Hiroshima
[A7] Phenomenology / Culture lab / SPACE 7
Chair: Jonathan Powers, McGill University, Canada
Jason D. Bailey, Iowa State University, USA – Touch /The Ideal Allusion
Andrea Jelic, University of Rome, Italy – Architecture [Mis]Represented: architectural image of self-referential architecture [against] architecture in a dialogue with phenomenal reality
Tolulope Onabolu, University of Edinburgh, UK – Surfaces of Interiority: the folds in the soul
[A8] Everyday / Culture Lab / SPACE 7
Chair: Kevin Barden, Feldman Architecture, USA
Parul Kiri Roy, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India – The Ritualistic and the Habitual Space: architecture of Santiniketan
Antony Radford, University of Adelaide, Australia – A Little Bit Awkward: bringing the background forward
Ben Sweeting & Thomas-Bernard Kenniff, Bartlett, UK – There Is No Alibi in [Designing]: responsibility and dialogue in the design process
Graham Owen, University of Toronto, Canada – “Down these mean streets a man must go”: ethics in the shadow of aesthetics
[A9] Ethico-Aesthetic / Culture Lab / SPACE 4/5
Chair: Vassilis Ganiatsas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Nathaniel Coleman, Newcastle University, UK – Is Beauty Still Relevant? Is Art? Is Architecture?
Rita Risser, University of British Columbia, Canada – Perfectionism and the built environment
Alexandra Stara, Kingston University, UK – Architecture’s Sensible Character or Wittgenstein’s Missing Preposition
Stefan Koller, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands – Architects on Value: reducing ethics to aesthetics?
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[A10] Culture and Politic / Culture Lab / SPACE 4
Chair: Lara Schrijver, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Francesco Vitale, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy – Jaques Derrida and the Architecture to Come
Peter Mortenbock, Goldsmiths, UK & Helge Mooshammer, Technical University of Vienna, Austria – The Architectural Aesthetics of Counter-Terrorism
[A11] Ethico-Aesthetic / Culture Lab / SPACE 5
Chair: Anna-Lena Carlsson, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Kevin Barden, Feldman Architecture, USA – Architecture of True Ideas
Negin Djavaherian, McGill University, Canada – Architectural Ethics and Aesthetics of Orghast
Vassilis Ganiatsas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece – My End Is In My Beginning: aesthetics within ethics of architectural design
Dario Negueruela del Castillo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain – Architecture and the Built Environment as an Ethical and Aesthetical Cognitive Process in Complex Ecosystems
[A12] Everyday / Culture Lab / SPACE 7
Chair: Brian Elliott, Portland State University, USA
Rumiko Handa, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA – Architecture of the Everyday: theorizing the performance of the incomplete, imperfect, and impermanent
Jessica J. Lee, York University, Canada – Home Environmentalism: Domestic aesthetics and ethical action
Nola Semczyszyn, Franklin & Marshall College, USA – The Aesthetics and Ethics of Representing the Natural World
David Garrard, English Heritage, UK – “In a World Laid Waste by Technique…”: modernity and the problem of ugliness
Ethics and Aesthetics of Architecture and the Environment:
Landscape Strand Session Schedule
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[L1] Beauty & Morality / Culture lab / SPACE 4
Chair: Vera Vicenzotti, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Ian Thompson, Newcastle University, UK – Landscape, Imagination and Morality
David Cooper, Durham University, UK – Human Landscapes, Virtue and Beauty
Isis Brook, Writtle College, UK – Do We Have Ethical and Aesthetic Obligations to Respect Landscapes?
[L2] Aesthetics and Identity / Architecture Building / CRIT 1
Chair: Ron Henderson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Michael Rios, University of California at Davis, USA – Marginality, Aesthetics and the Prospects for Placemaking
Julia Sulina, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia – Differences in Landscape Appreciation in Pilot Study of Place Attachment and Collective Identity
[L3] Controlled and Uncontrolled Environments / Architecture Building / Graduate Work Space
Chair: Rudi van Etteger, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Elizabeth Cavaliere, Concordia University, Canada – Flooded Focus: the construction and evaluation of photographic meaning in Alexander Henderson’s 1869 Snow and Flood album
Meredith Miller, University of Michigan, USA – Interior Landscapes as Recursive Natures
Rodrigo de la O, Esculea Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain – Looking for Environmental Aesthetics: gardens in the techno-utopian projects of the 60s and 70s
[L4] Local Distinctiveness and the Vernacular/ Culture lab / SPACE 4
Chair: Marie Ülber, University of Weimar, Germany
Lindsay Knapp, Independent Scholar, USA – Aesthetics of Locale: the use of vernacular aesthetic to enhance residential landscape design and preserve the intangibilities of place
Ron Henderson, Pennsylvania State University, USA – The Gravity of Desire
Lei Lixi, Xiangfan University, CH – Mountain-Water City
[L5] Designed Landscapes / Architecture Building / CRIT 1
Chair: Jonathan Maskit, Denison University, USA
Thomas Heyd, University of Victoria, Canada – Aesthetics and Ethics of Botanic Gardens Considered as Micro-landscapes
Angie McDonald, University of Falmouth, UK – Resilient Places? The Restorative Paradigm and the Maggie’s Centre Gardens
Rudi van Etteger, Wageningen University, Netherlands – Premeditated Landscapes: the appreciation of intentionally aesthetic, designed landscapes
[L6] Sustainability, Climate and Justice/ Architecture Building / Graduate Work Space
Chair: Isis Brook, Writtle College, UK
Moirika Reker, Artist, Portugal – “Listen, a wind died. Do you not realize that we are gardeners and not flowers?”
Saskia Vermeylen, Lancaster University, UK and Dan van der Horst, Birmingham University, UK – Landscape and the Aesthetic Justice of Low Carbon Technologies
Daniela Perrotti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy – Agricultural Ethics and Multifunctionality: which role for agro-energy production in the context of sustainable rural development?
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[L7] Art and Aesthetics / Architecture Building / CRIT 1
Chair: David Cooper, Durham University, UK
Marie Ülber, University of Weimar, Germany – Landscape Aesthetics in Relation to Nature and Culture (Böhme’s New Aesthetics)
[L8] Representing Landscapes / Architecture Building / Graduate Work Space
Chair: Ian Thompson, Newcastle University, UK
Jonathan Maskit, Denison University, USA – Natural, Human and Painted Landscapes
Raffele Pe, Royal College of Art, UK – Environmental Sensing and the Notion of Landscape from Mental Framing to Spatial Embodiment
Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, USA – Seeing Ethically: beauty and morality in Victorian ideas about nature
[L9] Urbanisms / Architecture Building / CRIT 1
Chair: Michael Rios, University of California at Davis, USA
Vera Vicenzotti, Technical University of Munich, Germany – The ‘Machinic Landscape’ Comments on the Ethical and Aesthetic Dimensions of a Key Concept in Landscape Urbanism
Daniel Coombes, Independent Scholar, New Zealand – From the Visual to the Aesthetic
[L10] Environmental Ethics / Architecture Building / Graduate Work Space
Chair: tba
Richard Kyte, Viterbo University, USA – Love, Land and the Ethics of Place
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, City College of New York, USA – De-Domestication and the Wild: the ethical use of large feral herbivores for grassland restoration
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[L11] Miscellaneous / Architecture Building / CRIT 1
Chair: Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Tiina Tuulik, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia – How Do We Bury Our Dead?
Trine Riel, Denmark – Are Toxins Evil? Ethics and affects (a video-essay)
Ethics and Aesthetics of Architecture and the Environment:
Professional Practice Workshop
Session Schedule
THREAD 1: Individual and Practice
Session: P1
Chair: Tom Spector
THREAD 2: Institution and Practice
Session: P2
Chair: Tom Spector
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[P1] Individual and Practice Culture Lab / SPACE 5
Chair: Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University, USA
Peter Olshavsky, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA – Ethics of Ubu: self-effacement and the architectural task
Richard Bower, University of Plymouth, UK – What ever happened to ‘Lefebvrean’ Architecture?
Lisa Landrum, University of Manitoba, Canada – Animating Ornaments and Illuminating Asides in the Art of Building: how experience impacts the aesthetics of architecture
[P2] Institution and Practice Culture Lab / SPACE 5
Chair: Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University, USA
Iradj Moeini, Bartlett, UK – On Environmentally-Responsive Design; a Début de Siècle meta-ethics
Martin Düchs, Technical University of Munich, Germany – In Search of Architectural Ethics: “Quans on n’a pas de caractère, il faut bien se donner une method”
Nicholas Coetzer, University of Cape Town, South Africa – Assembling an Armature for Ubuntu; an architecture for “the people”
