Program
Day 1 – Thursday, 5 November
13h Welcome
13.30 Panel 1: Environmental Matters
Juliana Yat Shun Kei, University of Liverpool, UK:
The Environmental Metaphors between Architecture and Ecology c.1965
Christian Vöhringer, Universität Stuttgart, Germany:
Ahh, Landschaft! Metaphorical uses of landscape in office, work and research environments
14.45 Break
15h Panel 2: Organic Urbanisms
Lina Dima, University of Thessaly, Greece:
Organic City. Modern Aspects of the Biological Metaphor in Architecture and Urbanism
Alejandro Campos, TU Delft, Netherlands:
Analogy versus Metaphor. Aldo van Eyck’s poetic images in-between fields
16.15 Break
16.45 Social Event
Day 2 – Friday, 6 November
12.50 Short welcome to second day
13h Panel 3: Metaphor as Method
Avishek Ray, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India:
The Highway as a Metaphor. COVID Pandemic and the Politics of Mobility
Peng Xue, University of Edinburgh, UK:
From Metaphor to Paradigm: The Apocryphal Stories of the Mustard Seed Garden Reveals Dashilar as Heterotopic Urbanism
14.15 Break
14.30 Panel 4: Knowledge Foundations
Michael Friedman, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany:
Changes of the Architectural Metaphor in Mathematics during the 19th and the 20th century
Michael Faciejew, Princeton University, USA:
The Documentation Center: A Material Genealogy of ‘Information Architecture’
15.45 Break
16.15 Panel 5: Metaphorical Frameworks
Inés Toscano, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany:
Metaphors at the Top! Denise Scott Brown’s Speculative Feminist Analysis of the Sociology of Architecture
Ingrid Quintana-Guerrero, University of Los Andes, Colombia:
Inmundo: Architectural Metaphors from the Edge of the World
Day 3 – Saturday, 7 November
11.50 Short welcome to third day
12h Panel 6: Memories of Space
Nadia Falfoul, University of Kairouan, Tunisia:
Disturbing Scenes: Architecture as Metaphor in Women’s Stories
Juno Hoay-Fern Ooi, University of Malaya, Malaysia:
Architecture as Political Spectre: The Rangoon University Student Union (RUSU) Building
13.15 Break
13.30 Panel 7: Constructive Metaphors
Konrad Matyjaszek, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland:
Concrete Abstractions: Production of Working Architectural Metaphors in the Design Practice of Warsaw’s Socialist Realism (1949-1956)
Mokọ́ládé Johnson, University of Lagos, Nigeria:
Yorùbá Metaphor in Contemporary Public Realm Architecture
Devika Prakash, TU München, Germany:
The Metaphorical ‘Co-Construction’ of the Smart City: Studying urban future as envisioned by India’s Smart Cities Mission
15h Break
15.30 Closing Remarks