WHEN 16-17 November 2023
WHERE Ibrahim Ahmed Room, Reed Hall, the University of Exeter
What happens to the notion of internationalism when we rethink it through the prism of architecture and experience? The workshop brings together a group of outstanding researchers and intellectuals at the cross-disciplinary encounter of environmental and architectural humanities and social sciences, to extend the existing boundaries in debates and thinking about the multi-faceted history of internationalism and architecture.
By thinking about the relationship between architecture and internationalisms as a dynamic process, the workshop invites new thinking about the place of architecture in the history of internationalism. The workshop is part of the Healthscapes Lab event series and is organised by Dr Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi at the University of Frankfurt um Maine and Dr Maziyar Ghiabi at the University of Exeter. It is supported by Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
14:00-14:15 – Introduction
14:15-16:15 – Architecture and Internationalism
Chair: Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Sonali Dhanpal, Princeton University
TBC
Maja Lorbek, Vienna University of Technology
Yugoslav School Reform 1953-1965: Exploring the Material and Spatial Base of New Education
Dalal Mused Alsayer, Kuwait University
Architects, Engineers, Firms: Building Kuwait’s Architectural Modernism
Pooja Sastry, University College Dublin
“Ordering the life of the state”: Affluent women and craft industries in 1930s British India
16:15-16:30 – Coffee break
16:30-17:30 – Commentary
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
09:00-11:00 – Architecture through Internationalism
Chair: Maziyar Ghiabi, the University of Exeter
Yasmina El Chami, University of Sheffield
Architectures of Informal Empire: American Campus-building in the ‘Near East’
Sneha Krishnan, University of Oxford
Unhomely Intimacy
Michał Murawski, University College London
Amputated Architectures of Trans-Socialist Friendship
Olga Touloumi, Bard College
The Global Interior, or an Architecture for Institutional Internationalism
11:00-11:15 – Coffee break
11:15-12:15 – Commentary
Nikolay Erofeev, University of Kassel
12:15-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-14:00 – Final commentary
Mercedes Volait, the French National Centre for Scientific Research