The registration for attending the conference TRANSGRESSION - A NEW PARADIGM? is now opened.
Jointly organized by EAHN (European Architectural History Network) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne (Rennes/ France), the conference is an online event, taking place November 17-19 2021.
For detailed information see below or check the website https://transgression.sciencesconf.org/.
There are no registration fees, but those who want to attend the conference must fill in the form following this link:
https://forms.gle/vnhMBLN7AuZVeCen9.

The link for the online event will be sent to those having registered.

PROGRAM //

Wednesday/ November 17
16:30-19:00
Key-notes: CHRISTOPHE HUTIN (Christophe Hutin Architecture)/ PASCALE JOFFROY (Système B comme bidonville)/ NANCY OTTAVIANO (Quatorze; Quidam Architectes)/ XAVIER WRONA (Est-ce ainsi?; Après la révolution)
Round-table/ Discussing transgressive practices //

Thursday/ November 18
10:30-10:45 Welcome address

10:45-12:30 Session A: Nomos/ state(s) of exception // session chair CARMEN POPESCU (ENSA Bretagne)
- Rachida ABIKCHI (ENSA Paris La Villette), When necessity is the law
- Ana Miriam MACHEDO REBELO (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto / Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal), On the politics of informal dwelling in western urban contexts: contributions from the city of Porto
- Moise KA'ARDI DIKAMDI (University of Maroua, Cameroon), Living in transgression in risk area: a variation of the land tenure standard in the City of Maroua-Cameroon

12:30:-12:45 Break

12:45-14:30 Session B: Disjunctions // session chair LÉA-CATHERINE SZACKA (ETH Zurich)
- Leandro PEREDO (University Paris-Nanterre/ ENSA Paris La Villette), Uses of the right to the city and the normalization of recognition struggles
- Christophe VAN GERREWEY (EPFL, Lausanne), Obliged to be Honourable. The Transgressions of OMA/Rem Koolhaas
- Ole FISCHER (School of Architecture, University of Utah), Transgression – Where Experience and Concept meet? – Tschumi’s “Paradox of Architecture” revisited

14:30-16:30 Lunch break

16:30-18:30 Session C: (Re)signifying // session chair CAN BILSEL (University of San Diego)
- Christian PARRENO (University San Francisco, Quito), Boredom and Transgression in the Experience of Architecture
- Jesse RAFEIRO (Carleton University), Trapping, Dismembering and Crucifying Angels: Tracing the Social Sacred in Hejduk’s Bovisa
- David FRANCO (Clemson University School of Architecture), Informality and dissent. Architectures of self-sufficiency in rural America
- Francesca Romana DELL’AGLIO (Royal College of Art/ Architectural Association, London), TRANSGRESSION MUST BE TELEVISED. Extinction Rebellion and the alternative city

18:30-18:45 Break

18:45-20:30 Key-note: FELICITY SCOTT (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University/ New York), New Rules of the Game

Friday/ November 19
10:00-11:40 Session D: Fluid methods/ fluid city 1 // session chair DENIS BOCQUET (ENSA Strasbourg)
- Patrick DÜBLIN (ETH Zürich), Crossing and placemaking: Dimensions of transgression in the practice of Stalker / Osservatorio Nomade
- Sarah MILLS (Leeds School of Architecture, Leeds Beckett University) & Simon BAKER (Sheffield University), Group Ginger. Transgression and the disjoined nature of architecture
- Louis DESTOMBES (Bellastock/ ENSA Paris La Villette), The architecture of reuse, a normative diversion?

11:40-11:50 break

11:50-13:30 Session D: Fluid methods/ fluid city 2 // session chair DENIS BOCQUET (ENSA Strasbourg)
- Robin LESNÉ (TVES/ University Littoral Côte d’Opale – University of Lille), Towards the recreational city? Playful and transgressive urban leisure to rethink dwelling, city planning and urbanity
- Sony DEVABHAKTUNI (Department of Architecture, University of Hong-Kong), Architectural de-placing. Walking as collaborative transgression
- Javier PAEZ (Junin de Los Andes Hospital, Neuquen/ Argentina), Fluids and Boundaries: Public restrooms and trans population. The hygienic history of a social device and some notes of the Argentinian and Brazilian hygienic development

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:45 Key-note: ACHILE MBEMBE (Wits Institute for Economic and Social Research), title to be announced

16:45 - 17:00 break

17:00-19:45 Session E: (Un)making normativity // session chair GÜLSÜM BAYDAR (Yașar University, Izmir)
- Bengisu DEREBAŞI (METU, Ankara), A Subversive Inquiry into Ordering of Architecture: Error as a Transgressive Tool
- Savia PALATE (University of Cambridge), Space standards for the Adaptable House (1960s, Britain)
- Sergio VILLANUEVA PRESTON (Cornell University), Gay ≠ Queer: Transgressive historiography in the Case of Villa Kenwin
- Gaia CARAMELLINO (Politecnico di Torino), Nicole DE TOGNI, (Politecnico di Milano) Cristiana RENZONI (Politecnico di Milano), Unfolding the plan: between public policies and private initiative in post-war Italian residential landscape
- Jean MAKHLOUTA (University Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), The fluid and the ephemeral as transgression: queer mobilities and space-making in Beirut

20:00-20:30 Wrap-up