Conference: Spectres of Time in Space

08/03/2022

Excited to announce our program for the day --

04/03/2022

We are pleased to announce that the Eventbrite registration page for the conference is now live!

Please register through the link below:

"Spectres of Time in Space: Tracing Phantom Temporalities with Architectural Methodologies" Conference + Film Screening

14/12/2021

Final Reminder: Call for abstracts due tomorrow!

11/12/2021

We will conclude the day with a film screening of Dr Iulia Statica's documentary "My Socialist Home" and Dr Tao DuFour's documentary "We Love We Self Up Here". The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, moderated by Professor François Penz, on the merits of film as an architectural methodology.

Professor Penz is an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Architecture and a Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. His AHRC project ‘A Cinematic Musée Imaginaire of Spatial Cultural Differences’ (2017-2020) expanded to China and Japan in particular, many of the ideas developed in his monograph ‘Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture’ (Routledge 2018). He is currently co-editing ‘The Everyday in Visual Culture: Slices of Lives’ (forthcoming 2022) and working on a new monograph ‘The 100 Films That All Architects Should See’ (Routledge 2022/2023).

11/12/2021

Dr Iulia Statica and Dr Tao DuFour will deliver a joint keynote address to conclude the conference and present their recently published and forthcoming books: "Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest" by Dr Iulia Statica (forthcoming 2022) and "Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space" by Dr Tao DuFour (2021)

11/12/2021

The "Spectres of Time in Space" conference will begin with an opening keynote dialogue between Professors AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield) and Shin Egashira (AA)

10/12/2021

Friendly reminder that there are 5 days left to submit your abstracts to [email protected], due 15 December.

We look forward to reviewing the submissions!

10/12/2021

We are excited to announce our fourth keynote speaker: Shin Egashira!

Shin Egashira is an architect, artist, educator and PhD candidate that worked in Tokyo, Beijing and New York before coming to London where he has lived for the past 30 years. From 1990 he has taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and has been Unit Master since 1996. His artwork has been exhibited internationally, with the most recent solo show at Betts Projects in 2019. He has been artist in residency at the Camden Arts Centre in London and Bennington College in Vermont.

Shin has taught many workshops around the world, always looking for a way to teach, learn and practice design that would be impossible to achieve in a professional practice or a university setting. He has been running the Koshirakura Landscape Workshop in Niigata over the last 20+ years and the AA Maeda Workshop in Tokyo, London and Hooke Park for more than a decade. Alongside of the AA Shin is a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Fine Arts, where he teaches once a year.

01/12/2021

Introducing our first opening keynote speaker:

Prof AbdouMaliq Simone
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AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. Key publications include, For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities, Duke University Press, 2004, and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads: Routledge, 2009, Jakarta: Drawing the City Near: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times, Polity (with Edgar Pieterse, Polity 2017), Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance for an Urban South (Polity 2018), and The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture (forthcoming, Duke University Press).

AbdouMaliq Simone

30/11/2021

Introducing our second closing keynote speaker:

Dr Tao DuFour
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Tao DuFour is an assistant professor of architecture at Cornell University. His work investigates questions of embodied spatial experience, intersubjective and intergenerational understandings of architecture, landscape and territory, and the ways in which these both constitute and are embedded in the historicity of environments. His interests are in the phenomenology of perception and corporeity, phenomenological accounts of the experience of spatiality and the "natural" world, and their relationship to ethnographic descriptions of space. DuFour directs the Landscape and Urban Environmentalities Lab (LUE), an interdisciplinary collaborative research group that studies spatial and territorial relationships between cities and their hinterlands, including climate and atmospheres, industrial and agricultural landscapes, infrastructures, greenbelts, and forests. The Lab foregrounds problems of intersubjective and intergenerational environmental experience and imaginaries, employing geospatial mapping and drawing on literary and ethnographic sources and methods, including fieldwork and the use of visual media such as photography and documentary film. DuFour’s current research focuses on the regional context of the Caribbean and Guianas. He holds a BArch from The Cooper Union and an MPhil and PhD in the history and philosophy of architecture from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space.
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We will also be screening Dr. DuFour's film "We Love We Self Up Here" on the day.

29/11/2021

Introducing our first closing keynote speaker:

Dr Iulia Statica
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Iulia Statica is a Lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. Between 2019-21 she was the Marie Curie Research Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her work focuses on the relationship between gender and domesticity in the development and transformation of housing infrastructures and urban landscapes in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Her research interests are in the feminist practices of care, intersectional feminism and urbanism especially as foregrounded comparatively within postsocialist and postcolonial geographies. She employs documentary film as an integral aspect of both research and practice; her documentary — My Socialist Home — was premiered in her exhibition Archiving the Home: Gender and Domesticity in Postsocialist Bucharest in London in 2021. Statica completed her PhD at the Department of Architecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2016, and between 2018-19 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latin American Studies Program, at Cornell University. She is the author of Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest (Routledge, forthcoming 2022).
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We will also be screening Dr Statica's film "My Socialist Home" on the day.

Iulia Statica

23/11/2021

Friendly reminder that abstracts for the "Spectres of Time in Space" conference are due 15 December! All details are on the poster below. Please share widely!

https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/spectres-of-time-in-space