Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di architettura
Aerial Spatial Revolution in architecture and urbanism. Online Symposium
Organized by Matteo Vegetti and Christoph Frank
Through interdisciplinary approach, the symposium explores the influence of the conquest of the air – from the first flight experiences to contemporary satellites – on the way of thinking, designing and practising space.
H 9.00-12.30
Welcome address:
Walter Angonese – Academy of Architecture (USI), director
Silvio Seno – DACD (SUPSI), director
Introduction:
Matteo Vegetti (SUPSI, USI)
Christoph Frank (USI–ISA)
Moderator:
Tommaso Morawski – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Speakers:
Marco Solinas – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa
Raumrevolution. On the first planetary spatial revolution
Mark Dorrian – Edinburgh College of Art
Around the new vision
Natalie Roseau – École des Ponts ParisTech
The aerial thought of the large city. Subjectivities of the gaze and the unthinking of anthropization
Marco Rasch – Saxonia-Freiberg-Stiftung
The influence of the photographic birds-eye view on german urbanism
Christoph Frank – Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, USI–ISA
Seen from above, seen from below: towards an iconography of aerial destruction
Respondent:
Emmanuel Alloa – University of Fribourg
H 16.00-19.00
Speakers:
Sebastian Grevsmühl – EHEES-CRH, Paris
From spaceship earth to infrastructures of survival: a historical genealogy of a new scopic regime
Dario Negueruela del Castillo – University of Zurich
The reverse gaze of satellite exploration. The reconstituted face of the earth
Jennifer K. Levasseur – Department of Space History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
An astronaut-eye view of changing urban development
Niccolò Cuppini – SUPSI–DEASS, Lugano
Air as infrastructure. On amazon urbanism
Lisa Parks – University of California, Santa Barbara
Vertical mediation and the current war in yemen
Caren Kaplan – University of California, Davis
Out of the blue: no-fly zones and atmospheric politics
Respondent:
Tristan Weddigen – Director of Bibliotheca Hertziana, University of Zurich
More information and link to the symposium: https://www.arc.usi.ch/en/feeds/12499
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Aerial Spatial Revolution in architecture and urbanism (online, 21 May 22). In: ArtHist.net, 16.05.2022. Letzter Zugriff 25.04.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/36710>.