CONFERENCE - OPEN CLASS

“THINKING IN CONVERSATION: REFRAIMING THE ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE IN RELATION TO THE CONTEMPORARY MEDIA” WITH KATARINA ANDJELKOVIC

March 17 | 16h30 - 18h00 | (Wednesday) - Library Auditorium, FAUP - Zoom Video Conference | Open Class

The Conference - Open Class “Thinking in Conversation” with Katarina Andjelkovic will take place in the Auditorium of the Library of FAUP on the 17 of March, at 16:30, following the set of prior sessions of the Cycle of Conferences and Debates Architecture, Art and Image (AAI), with the moderation of Pedro Leão Neto and open to the whole academic community of U. Porto, with a special focus for the students of the Photography of Architecture, City and Territory (FACT) curricular units of the 2nd Cycle and Computer Aided Architectural Design Communication and Photography (CAAD I and II) of the 1st Cycle of FAUP.

Katarina Andjelkovic is a theorist, practicing architect, researcher and a painter, who will be presenting “Thinking in Conversation: Reframing architectural discourse in relation to the contemporary media” that will consist in a broad reflection and debate around the experimental practice that combines intellectual practices (reading texts and constructing narratives) with artistic practices (photography and image). Katarina will rely on her significant experience on courses that deal with photography as an image-making practice, with an awareness of the newly extended field of image-making strategies and digital technologies used in photography.

The event (face-to-face and online), is open to students, teachers and researchers from U.Porto, and face-to-face assistance is reserved for students enrolled in the curricular units of 'Architecture, City and Territory Photography' and 'CAAD I and II Photography'

Framework

This AAI cycle of conferences, classes and debates around the universe of Architecture, Art and Image has the institutional support of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), the Rectory of the University of Porto and scopio Editions, being the responsibility of its organization the Centre of Studies of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) through its research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI).

These sessions are public and open to society, as well as to the academic community, allowing several authors to talk about their projects, with special focus on the themes of photography and architecture that are of great interest for the research project Visual Spaces of Change (VSC), AAC No. 02/SAICT/2017 (ref. POCI-01-0145 - FEDER - 030605), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, I. P.).

For the digital assistance, the Zoom platform will be used.

> Link to the Conference via Zoom

Time: Mar 17, 2021 04:30 PM Lisbon

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/85300059285

The possibility of attending this conference in person will depend on the evolution of the current epidemiological situation and the orientations of the health authorities of Portugal.

Biographies

Katarina Andjelkovic

Katarina Andjelkovic, with a Ph.D., M.Arch.Eng., is a theorist, practicing architect, researcher and a painter. In Spring semester 2021, Katarina is a main instructor of the HAND-DRAWING COURSE: THE FACE[S] OF ARCHITECTURE in New York City. She served as a Visiting Professor, Chair of Creative Architecture, at the University of Oklahoma U.S.A., Institute of Form Theory and History in Oslo, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape in Oslo, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture, and guest-lectured at Master Studies of TU Delft - Faculty of architecture and the built environment, Doctoral studies of AHO - Oslo School of architecture and design and Bachelor studies of ITU - Istanbul Technical University. She lectures internationally at conferences in modern aesthetics of architecture, film-philosophy, new media and the city, drawing research and visual culture in more than 26 countries in Europe, United Kingdom, North America and Canada. Katarina has published her research widely in international journals (Web of Science) and won numerous awards for her architecture design and urban design competitions. She is a full author of the Preliminary Architectural Design, a national project supported by the government of Serbia. She won the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce Award for Best Master Thesis defended at Universities in Serbia in all disciplines. Katarina has published two monographs; an upcoming book chapter and several journal articles with Intellect UK. Andjelkovic exhibited her artwork at many international architectural, fine arts and photography exhibitions, including group exhibitions at Pall Mall Gallery in London, Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, MAAT Museum in Lisbon, International Biennial of Illustration in Belgrade, TU Delft in the Netherlands, the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the National Museum in Belgrade, Gallery Singidunum in Belgrade, the Gallery of the Central Military Club, Suluj Gallery.

Pedro Leão Neto

Pedro Leão Neto is an Assistant Professor at FAUP since 2002 in the area of Architecture Communication and Photography being the head ofthe courses “Computer Architecture Aided Design” (CAAD) and “Photography of Architecture, City and Territory” (FACT). He coordinates the Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) research group, integrated in FAUP´s R&D centre Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU), is director of the Cultural Association Cityscopio since 2010, as well as the founder and editorial coordinator of scopio Editions and its open platform scopionetwork, which is AAI´s research-based editorial project focused on Documentary and Artistic Photography related with Architecture, City and Territory. In the last 5 years he has been Editor-in-chief of Sophia peer review Journal specifically designed to address theoretical work on Architecture, Art and Image, which is now in its 6th edition.

Principal researcher (PR) of several national and international projects public funded,he iscurrently thePrincipal Investigator (PI) of the project of Scientific Research and Technological Development (IC&DT) Visual Spaces of Change (VSC). VSC aims tocreatea network of public and collective spaces capable of catalyzing emerging dynamics of urban change in the Metropolitan Region of Porto, with a significant component of contemporary photography combined with mapping and information technologies.

Programme subject to change (without prior notice)

FAUP does not issue online attendance statements for the event.