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Draft Programme

Thursday 21 NovemberFriday 22 NovemberSaturday 23 November
09:40 – 17:00
Registration Desk Open
Duke Street Riverside Foyer
08:40 – 17:00
Registration Desk Open
Duke Street Riverside Foyer
08:40 – 17:00
Registration Desk Open
Duke Street Riverside Foyer
09:40 – 10:00
Coffee
Duke Street Riverside Danish Steps
08:40 – 09:10
Coffee
Duke Street Riverside Danish Steps
08:40 – 09:10
Coffee
Duke Street Riverside Danish Steps
10:00 – 10:20
Introduction – Teresa Stoppani
DSR Production Theatre
09:10 – 09:20
Welcome – Ellie Nixon
DSR Danish Steps
09:10 – 09:20
Welcome – George Themistokleous
DSR Production Theatre
10:20 – 12:20
Parallell sessions
DSR and Duke Street

ARCHIVE/D BODIES
DSR Production Theatre
6 papers – Chair TBC

Seedlines / Seedlines
Emma CHEATLE and Angela KYRIACOU PETROU

Heavenly Bodies: techno utopias, domesticity and the colonial project
Luis HERNAN

Stagings of the Body as Temple: American sports in
the modern ‘Near East’
Yasmina EL CHAMI

Traces and Tracing
Naina GUPTA

And the Word Became Flesh: typographic bodies and surfaces in the archives of the convent Santa Maria Maddalena alla Giudecca
Ela EGIDY

Reanimating the Dismembered Body of the Seychelles Archive
Hélène FRICHOT and Mairi O’GORMAN

EARTH BODIES
DS20 Lecture Theatre
5 papers – Chair TBC

Architectural Embodiment in Nature-Culture Heritage Assemblages
Annette SVANEKLINK JAKOBSEN 

Regenerating, Reengineering, Letting Go: Wellington’s ‘Broken Heart’
Crystal Victoria OLIN, James BERGHAN, Ella KNAPTON, Daniel Gordon ADAMS  

Climate ReAssemblies: reconfiguring citizen political agency through
intra-active climate futures

Renata TYSZCZUK, Ashley MASON, Lena DOBROWOLSKA 

The Problem of Bodies on the Beach
Barbara PREZELJ 

Un-earthing Bodies in Cinema
Sarah MILLS


UNSEEN BODIES
DS4
5 papers – Chair TBC

Myths and Politics: gender, racial and social class interrogations of the
body in architectural representation
Yvette PUTRA

Replacement and the Elsewhere Monument: the White Cube
Lusanga at the Giardini della Biennale
Adeyemi AKANDE and Aleks CATINA

Women’s Bodies in Urban Landscapes
Miza MOREAU

Water Body: Displacement of Human and Nonhuman in the Aegean Sea
Deniz YENI and Duygu TÜNTAŞ

Architectural Bodies and Counter Bodies: negotiating representation and spaces of production in the Yenidze Tobacco Factory
Sarah WHEAT


ABERRANT BODIES
DS3
5 papers – Chair TBC
 
Interior/ity camouflage: superficial adaptations of bodies and architectures
Maria GIL ULLDEMOLINS
 
Diffuse Envelopes, Porous (Infra)Structures, Transitional Bodies
Peter ŠENK
 
Entangling Stone-Bodies of an Archaeological Site with Tools,
Stories and Interventions
Öykü ŞIMŞEK
 
Crossing Between Cells: The Body-Houses of Louise Bourgeois and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Maria João SOARES and Luís Carlos BUCHA
 
Healing Bodies in Yoga Spaces
Ufuk SOYÖZ


MATERIAL BODIES
DS1
5 papers – Chair TBC
 
Cancers, Allergies, Mycoses, Viruses, and Autoimmune Diseases:
the maladies of space
Gaetano DRAGO
 
Elemental Captivity: chemical architecture and its
natural and human entanglements
Joana RAFAEL
 
Mouldy Smelling History
Anna Livia VØRSEL
 
Dying Bodies: dying-in-place and design thinking for fragile bodies
Annie BELLAMY and Sam CLARK
 
Eternal Bodies
Jason WIGGIN
09:20 – 11:00
Parallel sessions – 4 papers
DSR and Duke Street

SPATIAL BODIES
DSR Production Theatre
 
Body Space (workshop)
Amy RUSSELL, Aurelian KOCH, Ellie NIXON


HOUSING BODIES
DS20 Lecture Theatre
4 papers – Chair TBC

The Distended Body of Architecture, Punctured
Pari RIAHI

Bodies of Hostility: single people housing and architectural
experimentations in Fascist Italy

Michele RINALDI 

Choreography of bodies and spaces in arrival sequences:
British housing 1750-2020
Luis DIAZ

Moving Bodies and Space Standards
Sam JACOBY and Lucia ALONSO



FEMINIST BODIES II
DS4
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Feminist Approaches to Gender, Body, Matter and Ecologies
Margarita TSOMOU
 
Counterbody
Elin EYBORG LUND and Kirsty BADENOCH
 
Following a Lost Archive: transarchitectonics of Ülker Street in Istanbul
Buse ÖZÇELIK and Aslihan SENEL
 
The Body in Bed, the Body of the Bed, the Bed as a Body
Anne ROMME, Ida FLARUP, Tine BERNSTORFF AAGAARD, Anne PIND, Mathilde Zeuthen LESENECAL, Maria MENGEL


EXPERIMENTAL BODIES
DS3
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
The Vulnerable Body
David LITTLEFIELD and Mathew EMMETT
 
Eyes Without a Face
Valentina NOCE
 
A Matter of Silence
Joanna LOCK
 
Failure to Function
Eliza Cristina PATRASCU
 
 
RELATIONAL BODIES
DS1
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Reciprocal Entanglements of Environmental, Human and Architectural Bodies
Katharina VOIGT
 
Bodies, Breath and Boundaries: artistic research on ‘treescapes’, a participatory
cross-disciplinary inquiry
Jen CLARKE
 
Subterranean Feelings: non-human agencies and architectural ‘re-worlding’ in Northern Sweden
Max WISOTSKY
 
The Living Water Garden: bodily experiences in landscape architecture and a green public sphere in China
Xinrui ZHANG
09:20 – 11:20
Parallel sessions – 5 papers
DSR and Duke Street
 
 
CINEMATIC BODIES
DSR Production Theatre
5 papers – Chair TBC
 
The Risk of Living
Andres HARVEY
 
An Architectural Investigation of the Tectonics of Visual
Comedy in Buster Keaton’s Films
Rui MA
 
Clubs In-between Revolutions: an architectural [hi]story of
clubmania in Tehran, 1963-1979
Saman SEYFF 
 
When Architecture Stops the Wind: indigenous culture in
contemporary spaces
Andrea SOSA FONTAINE and Tyrone FONTAINE

Sensing Environments
Katrin A. SCHAMUN


POLITICAL BODIES II
DS20 Lecture Theatre
5 papers – Chair TBC
 
Becoming Vulnerable in Common: fragility as a resource for
generative urban practices
Emre AKBIL, Melissa HARRISON, Esra CAN
 
Re-designing Infrastructure and Geopolitics: the socialist body and aesthetics of Yugoslav Youth Labour Brigades
Nikolina BOBIC
 
On Rights, In Cities
Lena GALANOPOULOU
 
Son of a Brick! When the lore of the body bypassed facts
at the Det Danske Institut i Rom
Angela GIGLIOTTI
 
Drawing the Terrestrial: mapping together political bodies
and political grounds
Aikaterini ANTONOPOULOU and Sebastián AEDO JURY


POLITICAL BODIES I
DS4
5 papers – Chair TBC
 
Architectures of Elusion: thickening the site of the protest by allegorical narratives of othered beings
Melike BEŞIK and Bihter ALMAÇ
 
Architecture of Border Securitisation through Body Securitisation: immigration removal centres in the United Kingdom and the effects on people detained
Dmitri Hui Ken CHONG

Quadrillage: spatial grids as Foucauldian dispositifs
Cansu CURGEN-GURPINAR
 
Astro sacer: the sacrificial body within the architecture of microgravity environments
Craig McCORMACK
 
Architectures of Mistrust: suspect, sense, regulate, repeat
Dirim DINÇER, Gökçe ÖNAL, Grazia TONA


DISABLED BODIES
DS3
5 papers – Chair TBC
 
A Room Without a View
Teagan DORSCH and Natalie HISLOP
 
Bodies Tell Barriers: architectural representations and visual strategies in the early Finnish disability rights movement
Marja RAUTAHARJU
 
Abnormal Bodies
Pablo REMES LENICOV and Pablo E.M. SZELAGOWSKI
 
Feeling with Crip Time
Helen STRATFORD
 
In/Valid Architectures: specialist school designs and the cultural creation of the deaf body
Nina VOLLENBROKER


MEDIATED BODIES
DS1
5 papers – Chair TBC
 
Self-Portrait with Building: an examination of situated spatial practice, the spatial body, and the bodily space of the architect and photographer
Toby BLACKMAN

Dual Body and Boundary Space: mapping concrete connections with the virtual
Tianyu ZHU

Still Life as Selfhood: contemporary architectural photography and the new minimal self
Chris FERNALD
 
The Built Environment and the Body in Architectural Graphic Novels
Alex FITCH 
 
Sensing and Sensibility: Camille Norment’s Plexus and the Sounding of Occupancy
Jessica MYERS
12:20 – 13:50
Lunch
DSR Foyer
 
Immersive Performance
Kirk Woolford
Havers Road
13:50 – 14:50
Keynote

Susan Kozel
DSR Production Theatre
11:00 – 11:10
Break
DSR and Duke Street
11:20 – 11:30
Break
DSR and Duke Street
14:50 – 15:00
Break
15:00 – 16:40
Parallell sessions – 4 papers
DSR and Duke Street

INSTITUTIONALIZED BODIES
DSR Production Theatre
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Reading Body: notes on performativity of the book space
Paula SZTURC
 
Anybodies Matter: situating the Anybody conference
in Buenos Aires, 1996
Cathelijne NUIJSINK
 
Murakami’s Strange Library: embodied experiences of unknown
and unknowable architecture
Jonathan LASKOVSKY
 
The Practice of Slowness: enhancing Human Centred Design
through slow travel
Yassin NOORADINI, Silvia MICHELI, Dan LUO, Yan LIU


FEMINIST BODIES I
DS20 Lecture Theatre
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Taking Space: public space, the institution and a woman’s body
Sarah ACKLAND
 
Understanding the Politics of Bodies in Small Spaces
Janna LICHTER
 
Reimagining the Modern Iranian Home: how women press redefined domestic spaces and women’s body in Iran (1964-2008)
Neda ABBASIMALEKI, Cagri SANLITURK, Simon RICHARDS
 
Reconfiguring the Female Body
Yali ZHANG


PLAY BODIES
DS4
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Exploring the Playing Body in Isamu Noguchi’s Playgrounds
Gabriela JIMENEZ 
 
Children’s Bodies in Buildings: Narratives of (Dis)embodiment
Maria KOUVARI
 
La Rotonda and I: Remix
Hadas OPHRAT
 
How to Embody a Haunting Architecture: Carlo Scarpa’s vanished Book Pavilion
Alessandro TOLLARI and Alessia PRATI


INFORMATIONAL BODIES
DS3
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Cyborg Situations: media extension for the architect’s body
Sophia BANOU and Matthew HYNAM
 
Applying a Science and Technology Studies Lens to Contemporary Architecture
Anca-Simona HORVATH
 
Keep me! Interstitial Space: gesture as interruption
Xing CHEN
 
Figurations of the Informational Body: a small atlas
Lucía JALÓN OYARZUN and Víctor CANO CIBORRO


INHABITABLE BODIES
DS1
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Bodily Memories: experiencing Walmer Yard through portraits
of the body in space
Laura MARK
 
Photographing Bodies in Conflict: visitors taking pictures
in arts museums and galleries
Chien LEE
 
Embodied Vision
Eleni SOUSONI and Romanos TSOMOS
 
Mutable, Extensible, Implementable Bodies and Architectures
Giuseppina SCAVUZZO and Paola LIMONCIN
11:10 – 12:30
Parallel sessions – 3 papers
DSR and DS
 
 
CHOREOGRAPHIC BODIES
DSR PT

Disrupting Architectural Drawing through Choreographic
Practices (workshop)
Vicky HUNTER, Belinda MITCHELL, Virginia FARMAN


IMMERSIVE BODIES
DS20 Lecture Theatre
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
Wilderness Huts: sheltering bodies for sublime access and responsible recreation
Benjamin J. SMITH
 
Atmospheric Bodies
Izabela WIECZOREK
 
Cabin Fever: bodily and psychic transfigurations in the dehumanizing landscape
Matteo ZAMBON and Jacopo BONAT
 
 
CITIZEN BODIES
DS4
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
Hospitable City
Anna COOKE
 
Diffracting Deliberative-agonistic Spatial Politics
Gustav NIELSEN

Mobile Interiors
Elana van der WATH

 
CONTAINED BODIES
DS3
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
Pathosformel of Architectural Narratives – based on artworks by Dominik Lejman
Agata WIÓRKO da CÂMARA CAEIRO

Underground Shelters: body and space in the age of aerial warfare
Davide DERIU

Ecologies of the Underground: on the agency of materiality and politics
in underground property rights
Alberto REQUES DEL RIO
 
 
WHOSE BODIES?
DS1
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
The Body of Architecture According to Deleuze
Tim GOUGH
 
The Saints’ Bodies as Design Generators of Early Christian Churches in the Eastern Mediterranean
Iuliana Elena GAVRIL
 
Private Public Spaces of Queer Desire
Richard SAWDON SMITH
16:40 – 16:50
Break
DSR and DS
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
DSR Danish Steps
 
Immersive Performance – Kirk Woolford
Bodyscan – Louis Nixon
Havers Road
11:30 – 12:30
Keynote

Lucy Orta
DSR Production Theatre
16:50 – 17:50
Keynote

Andrew Benjamin
DSR Production Theatre

17:50 – 18:00
Welcome
Simon Ofield-Kerr
14:00 – 15:00
Keynote

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
DSR Production Theatre
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
DSR Danish Steps
18:00 – 20:00
Drinks Reception and Exhibition Opening
East Gallery, Cavendish House
 15:00 – 15:10
Break
DSR and DS
13:30 – 14:30
Keynote

Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari
DSR Production Theatre
14:30 – 14:40
Break
DSR and Duke Street
15:10 – 16:50
Parallel sessions
4 papers
DSR and DS
 

QUEER BODIES
DSR Production Theatre
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Queering the Body of Architectural Education
Gem BARTON
 
The House and the Body. Queering architectural pedagogy: Corrado Levi at Politecnico di Milano in the late 1970s
Nesrin ERDOGAN
 
Bawdy Bathrooms: qu(e)erying sex and surveillance at the Hudson’s Bay Company
Aidan FLYNN and Ben LAPIERRE
 
Bodies, Boredom and the Architecture of Home in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Christian PARRENO


INDETERMINATE BODIES
DS20 Lecture Theatre
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Drawing Zero, or the Love of the Artificial Intellectuals
Doreen BERNATH
 
The Reproductive Body: drawing with self-division
Ephraim JORIS
 
Entanglements with Disobedient Bodies
Ivana WINGHAM
 
The Unreliable Body
Nat CHARD


PEDAGOGICAL BODIES
DS4
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
The Body as a Tool in Architectural Pedagogy: Global Tools’
body workshops
Eleonora ANTONIADOU
 
Co-learning for Climate Action: embodied knowledges for political pre-figuration
Andrew R. BELFIELD
 
Contemporary Learning Bodies: reshaping the body of educational spaces
Raffaella CAVALLARO
 
The Body of/in Public Space: experiential pedagogies in Zarqa, Jordan
Hala GHANEM
 
 
FEMINIST BODIES III
DS3
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
A (Dual) Glossary of Tracing Kunstform: Cornice and Dantel
Sezin SARICA
 
Unconfined, Empowered, In Motion: the body as a transformative intersectional device
Nadia BERTOLINO

Forgotten Bodies: women and IKEA’s corporate settings (1960s-80s)
Rebecca CARRAI
 
The Metaphor of the Body as Architecture in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies
Penelope HARALAMBIDOU
 
 
PSYCHOANALYTIC BODIES
DS1
3 papers – Chair TBC

The Worlds of Interiors: embodied retellings of lived experience
in a mental health hospital

Nicola SIMPSON
 
Spatial Psychotherapy: the architect in the clinic of obsessional neurosis
Tim MARTIN
 
‘My Body is My Battleground’: Schreber’s psychosis and the
crisis of architecture
Francesco PROTO
14:40 – 16:00
Parallel sessions – 3 papers
DSR and Duke Street
 
COLONIZED BODIES
DSR Production Theatre
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
Human-Shields of the Invisible
Aya MUSMAR
 
Death or the Ghislin: Colonialism, Cannibalism, and the Palestinian Flesh
Mohamad NAHLEH
 
Face Masks
Nishat AWAN


PHANTASMAGORIC BODIES
DS20 Lecture Theatre
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
Player on the Quantum Stage
Paul GUZZARDO
 
The Quantum Stage: the player’s performance for the observer
Gustavo CARDON and Immanuel LAVERY
 
Glimpsing the Body of Architecture, or the Holes are Always Black
Lorens HOLM
 

NEOLIBERAL BODIES
DS4
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
Edifices and Orifices: grasping political structures through architectural representation
Stephen STEYN and Pieter SWART
 
Chummy Women’s Clubs and Emotional Damage of Bodies in Architecture
Igea TROIANI
 
Body at Work/Play; or, The Coils of a Serpent
Stephen WALKER
 

UTOPIAN BODIES
DS3
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
Queering Great War Island
Marko JOBST
 
Fook Notes 001: What the Fook[?]
Christoffel (Christo) Jacobus MEYER
 
Peripheral Bodies: Frankenstein periphery as a critical framework
Andreas LECHNER and Cameron McEWAN


THEORETICAL BODIES
DS1
3 papers – Chair TBC
 
The Unbodying Project
José VELA CASTILLO 

The Body is the Display: on the architect-performer
Alessandro PASERO 

‘The Call of Things’: the hoarder’s body that [is] matter
Judit PUSZTASZERI 
16:50 – 17:00
Break
DSR and Duke Street
16:00 – 16:10
Break
DSR and Duke Street
17:00 – 17:30

AHRA Presentations

AHRA and Publications
Emma Cheatle, Diana Periton, Jonathan Hale

PhD Reading Group
Khaoula Hannachi, Megan Brien, Soscha Monteiro

DSR Production Theatre
 
1610-1750
Parallel sessions
4 papers
DSR and DS
 

VIRTUAL BODIES
DSR Production Theatre
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Architectures for Unseeable Bodies
Kirk WOOLFORD
 
Histories of Contact
Georgia HABLÜTZEL and Ofri CNAANI
 
Drawing the Invisible: Visualizing Architectural Proxemics
Glen WASH IVANOVIC and Shinya MIYAZAKI
 
Augmented Dreamscapes: architecture, body and theatre
Ulrike KUCH and Oliver PROSKE


 BECOMING BODIES
DS20 Lecture Theatre
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Fluctuating Bodies of Care: nurturing mutual care
among human and non-human bodies
Aslıhan ŞENEL and Bihter ALMAÇ
 
On Hybrid Bodies: critical interfaces that bridge
architecture and cyberspace
Manou van den EYNDE
 
Mimetic Spaces: staging nature at botanical gardens
in Rio de Janeiro, Edinburgh and Berlin
Séverine MARGUIN, Jamie SCOTT BAXTER, Inès GARTLINGER
 
Fertile Matters: women’s worldings in Greece’s
mineral springs, 19th century to today
Lydia XYNOGALA


INTRA-ACTIVE BODIES
DS4
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
A Temporary Architecture: scoring, listening, touch and breath
Ben McDONNELL
 
The Status of the Body in Purist Plasticity
Marko RISTIĆ
 
Blurring Bodies in Construction: women builders andmakeshift environments in
Istanbul Zeytinburnu 1950s-1960s
Arzu KUSASLAN

Body Matterings of Choreographic Things
Oren LIEBERMAN
 
Embodied Materials: integrating six viewpoints methodology into the architectural design process
Carina ROSE and Veronika MAYERBOECK
 
 
AGENTIAL BODIES
DS3
4 papers – Chair TBC

Collective Housing for Prisoners
Elena MARTINEZ MILLANA
 
Dynamic Interactions: the fluid nature of space-bodies
Esra YÜKSEK
 
Bodies, Buildings and the Meaningful Experience of Space: the case of Nicosia, Cyprus
Christina Kleanthous PAPADEMETRIOU

Educated Bodies: three recent pedagogical experiences in architectural education
Endriana AUDISHO and Urtzi GRAU
 
 
ONTOLOGICAL BODIES
DS1
4 papers – Chair TBC
 
Structuring Arenas for the Organism-That-Persons
Jonathan HALE
 
Melancholic Embodiment
Sylwia Janka POLTORAK
 
Beyond The Evental: body, architecture and culture in the Sharjah
Architectural Triennale 2023
Jasmine SHAHIN
 
From Object to Bodies: redefining architectural agency
Jennifer RAUM
 
17:30 – 18:30
Keynote

Meredith TenHoor
DSR Production Theatre
17:50 – 18:00
Break
DSR and Duke Street
19:00 – 21:00
Conference Dinner
Yalm
18:00 – 18:30
Closing remarks
Ben Stopher
with convenors and guests
DSR Production Theatre

Conference Events

EXHIBITION @ East Gallery, Cavendish House

Laura Wilson, Gutted

Opening: Thu 21 November 24, from 18:00

Performance: Sat 23 November 2024

PERFORMANCE @ Immersive Visualisation and Simulation Lab, Havers Road:

Kirk Woolford, Jinn Ginnaye: Palmyra

Presentation: Thu 21 November 24 12:20, Friday 22 November 12:30

Opening Hours: Thursday 12:20 – 16:30, Friday 12:30 – 16:30, Saturday closed, Sunday closed