Program
Co-directors:
Snjezana Prijic Samarzija, University of Rijeka
Jörg H. Gleiter, Technical University Berlin
Petar Bojanic, University of Belgrade / CAS SEE University of Rijeka
Vladan Djokic, University of Belgrade
Focal Theme:
Throughout the history of philosophy, architecture has been widely referred to as a metaphor for conscious action and logical construction. For Aristotle the work of the master builder served as a metaphor for his philosophy of action, while Nietzsche used the metaphor of a “shaking tower of concepts” to visualize and make more comprehensible the precarious state of metaphysics. Yet architecture means much more to philosophy and critical thought than what the explanatory use of architectural imagery evokes. It was Kant who went beyond metaphor by claiming “architectonics is the art of systems”. As such, architecture is not only a cultural practice based on knowledge but moreover a cultural practice that serves the production of philosophical knowledge.
This course focuses on the double bind of architecture as a material practice and an agent of knowledge production. We will discuss the importance of architecture in the formation of thought. It will draw attention to architecture as a cultural practice between intellectual reason and sensual reason. It was Nietzsche who already emphasized the close interrelation between philosophy and architecture and insisted on the philosopher’s need for appropriate spaces for thinking. He held that after the death of God “we need some recognition of what above all is lacking in our big cities: quiet and wide, expansive places for reflection. Places with long, high-ceilinged cloisters for bad or all too sunny weather”.
Participants:
Prof. Joerg Gleiter, Prof. Snjezana Prijic Samarzija, Prof. Petar Bojanic, Prof. Vladan Djokic, Prof. Zoran Lazovic, Prof. Ludger Schwarte, Prof. Carla Danani, Prof. Giusi Struimmello, Prof. Katharina Borsi, Dr. Sanja Bojanic, Dr. Luka Skansi, Dr. Mateja Kurir Borovčić Kasper Lægring, Roberto Bonturi, Fabiana Sforza, Jelena Radosavljević, Miloš Kostić, Madeleine Jessica Kennedy, Jovana Timotijević, Jovana Stojković, Hana Samaržija, Juan Almarza Anwandter, Stefana Dilova, Mirza Vranjakovic, Julian Franke, Sandra Meireis, Andrea Weigt, Theresa Rauch and Adria Daraban.
Seminars will start at 10.00 am in the morning with open end in the evening.
In order to leave enough time for the intellectual exchange presentations shall be limited to 20 minutes (students MA/BA) and 30 minutes all others.
The presentations will be followed by 30 minutes respectively 40 minutes of discussion.
An individually assigned moderator/commentator will help to guide through the discussions.
Timetable
Monday, 11th September 2017
| 10.00-11.00 | Welcome and registrations
Venue: IUC – Ul. don Frana Bulica 4, 20000, Dubrovnik 11.00-12.00 | Welcome address of Directors of the Course Presentation of all participants; setting the daily schedule |
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| Time | Title | Lecturer |
| 12.00
13.00 |
Opening session: Introduction to the course | Prof. Joerg Gleiter |
| 13.00
14.30 |
Lunch | |
| 14.30
15.30 |
Spaces of Reflection – where does philosophy take place? | Prof. Ludger Schwarte
Comments: Prof. Snjezana Prijic Samarzija |
| 15.30
16.30 |
Pages for thinking. From Corviale to “sensible wisdom” …. in a too short step. | Prof. Carla Danani
Comments: Prof. Giusi Struimmello |
| 16.30
17.00 |
Pause | |
| 17.00
18.00 |
Epistemic Implications of Neuroarchitecture | Hana Samarzija
Comments: Prof. Carla Danani |
Tuesday, 12th September 2017
| Time | Title | Lecturer |
| 10.00
11.00 |
The Acts of Project(ion) | Prof. Petar Bojanic
Comments: Prof. Joerg Gleiter |
| 11.00
12.00 |
A new rational aesthetic: notes on the culture of space | Dr. Luka Skansi
Comments: Prof. Ludger Schwarte |
| 12.00
13.00 |
Architecture, Space and Alienation: between Adorno and Lefebvre | Dr. Mateja Kurir Borovcic
Comments: Dr. Luka Skansi |
| 13.00
15.00 |
Lunch | |
| 15.00
16.00 |
Drawing the Knowledge of Urbanism | Prof. Katharina Borsi
Comments: Prof. Joerg Gleiter |
| 16.00
16.15 |
Pause | |
| 16.15
17.15 |
Knowledge Fields: Between Scientific and Design-Based Knowledge | Prof. Vladan Djokic
Comments: Prof. Ludger Schwarte |
| 17.15
18.15 |
Representations of the fragmentary in architecture | Adria Daraban
Comments: Sandra Meireis |
Wednesday, 13th September 2017
| 14.00
15.30 |
Reading Laboratory | |
| Time | Title | Lecturer |
| 15.30
16.30 |
Between Being and Becoming: towards a metaphysical reading of architectural signs | Juan Almarza Anwandter
Comments: Prof. Joerg Gleiter |
| 16.30
17.30 |
Nietzsche’s thoughts about Architecture | Mirza Vranjakovic
Comments: Prof. Giusi Struimmello |
| 17.30
18.00 |
Pause | |
| 18.00
19.00 |
Diagrams in Architecture: Agents of knowledge production? | Julian Franke
Comments: Prof. Joerg Gleiter |
Thursday, 14th September 2017
| Time | Title | Lecturer |
| 10.00
10.45 |
Mythologisations of Contemporary Belgradian Architecture | Prof. Zoran Lazovic
Comments: Milos Kostic |
| 10.45
11.30 |
Self-Managing Socialism and Urban Planning – The Case Study of General Plan of Belgrade 1972 | Jelena Radosavljevic
Comments: Prof. Vladan Djokic |
| 11.30
12.00 |
Pause | |
| 12.00
13.00 |
Exhibitions as Philosophy? | Madeleine Kennedy
Comments: Hana Samarzija |
| 13.00
14.30 |
Lunch | |
| 14.30
15.30 |
Exploring Ideas in your Senses. The capacity of imagination after Immanuel Kant explored in Oswald M. Ungers “City Metaphors” | Andrea Weigt
Comments: Prof. Carla Danani |
| 15.30
16.00 |
Pause | |
| 16.00
17.00 |
Semiotics of Architectural: Detail between Rationalization and Representation of Architecture | Milos Kostic
Comments: Prof. Giusi Struimmello |
| 17.00
18.00 |
The Perception of Space on the Base of Atmospheres | Theresa Rauch
Comments: Prof. Joerg Gleiter |
Friday, 15th September 2017
| Time | Title | Lecturer |
| 10.00
11.00 |
Nelson Goodman, Exemplification and Critiques of Modernist Architecture | Kasper Laegring
Comments: Sandra Meireis |
| 11.00
12.00 |
“Abandoning Home” – aporia of displacement | Jovana Timotijevic
Comments: Prof. Joerg Gleiter |
| 12.00
12.30 |
Pause | |
| 12.30
13.30 |
The Presence in Public Space | Stefana Dilova
Comments: Madeleine Kennedy |
| 13.30
14.00 |
Closing remarks, distribution of certificates | |
