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3-4 May 2024 - Kickoff meeting, Mendrisio (CH)
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Jannuary 2024 - Call for open positions
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Call AeroPlanning: PhD student in the History of Architecture and Urbanism (100%)
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Call AeroPlanning: Postdoc or Scientific Collaborator (100%)
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Call AeroPolitics: PhD student in philosophy (100%)
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21/05/2022 - Symposium online
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. The general framework is based on the concept of “Raumrevolution” (Spatial Revolution) introduced by the jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt in Land and Sea (1941), but then implicitly present also in other authors (e.g. Wölfflin, Panofsky, Giedion, Koyré, and Kern).
A spatial revolution is a historical change that transforms the relationship between man and space at all levels. It involves the living environments in which subjects act, communicate and represent their world. The most profound spatial revolutions are those caused by the irruption of a new element (in our case: airspace and extraterrestrial space). In these cases, all spatial relations are modified, and thus inaugurate a general change that affects both the uses of space and its understanding. Is it therefore possible to talk about an aerial spatial revolution in architecture and urbanism and trace a history that shows the lines of development, the disconnections and the repercussions in political and social terms? How did the conquest of the third dimension produce new spatial experiences, aesthetic languages, and spatial intelligence in architecture and urbanism?
Ultimately the symposium analyses the relationship between aerial technologies for representing space and how space has been – and still is – conceived and designed.
USI-SUPSI
Organized by Matteo Vegetti and Christoph Frank
Coordinated by Fabrizia Bandi (USI, UNIMI)
21/05/2022
H 9.00-12.30
Welcome address
Walter Angonese - Director of the Academy of Architecture (USI)
Silvio Seno - Director of DACD (SUPSI)
Introduction
Matteo Vegetti - SUPSI, USI
Christoph Frank - USI-ISA
Moderator
Tommaso Morawski - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Speakers
Marco Solinas
Raumrevolution. On the first planetary spatial revolution
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa
Mark Dorrian
Around the New Vision
Edinburgh College of Art
Natalie Roseau
The aerial thought of the large city
École des Ponts ParisTech
Marco Rasch
The influence of the photographic birds-eye view on German urbanism
Saxonia-Freiberg-Stiftung
Christoph Frank
Seen from Above, Seen from Below: Towards an Iconography of Aerial Destruction
Academy of Architecture (USI-ISA), Mendrisio
Respondent
Emmanuel Alloa
University of Fribourg
H 16.00-19.00
Speakers
Sebastian Grevsmühl
From spaceship Earth to infrastructures of survival: a historical genealogy of a new scopic regime
CNRS-EHESS, Paris
Dario Negueruela Del Castillo
The reverse gaze of satellite exploration - the reconstituted face of the earth
University of Zurich
Niccolò Cuppini
Air as Infrastructure. On Amazon Urbanism
SUPSI-DEASS, Lugano
Jennifer K. Levasseur
An Astronaut-Eye View of Changing Urban Development
Department of Space History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
Lisa Parks
Vertical Mediation and the Current War in Yemen
University of California, Santa Barbara
Caren Kaplan
Out of the Blue: No-Fly Zones and Atmospheric Politics
University of California, Davis
Respondent
Tristan Weddigen
Director of Bibliotheca Hertziana, University of Zurich