Symposium 'Under the Landscape'
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From the rhetoric of global organisations to social media imagery, and from the Venice Biennale to tourism advertising campaigns, 'landscape' travels across different spheres of culture, interconnecting notions of beauty and survival, heritage and leisure, natural resources and identities, making it increasingly imperative to critically examine this growing topicality and ubiquity. What lies 'under' the landscape?
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4+1 Keynote Lectures
June 26 and 29, Tomato Industrial Museum 'D. Nomikos'
The Symposium kicks off with the lectures of five key-note speakers from the fields of social anthropology and cultural geography, landscape architecture and philosophy of architecture, whose work defines the international state of the art around architecture and landscape.
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✧ June 26, 09:00 - 16:00
TERESA GALI-IZARD
Landscape architect and Professor in ETH Zurich
She is the founder of the award-winning studio Arquitectura Agronomia, together with Jordi Nebot, and she has completed projects in Europe and Latin America. She has taught in Harvard Graduate School of Design, and she is the writer of The same landscapes: Ideas and interpretations (Gustavo Gili, 2006). In her research, she studies the formation of Mediterranean landscape systems. Her practice explores possibilities of coexistence between species and processes; every landscape is then designed as a complex, dynamic ecosystem.
KARSTEN HARRIES
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in Yale University
He is a thinker in the fields of modern philosophy, and theory of art and architecture. Among his work, The Ethical Function of Architecture (1998) traces the historical transformations of ideas around the cultural role of architecture and art, throughout modernity. His view on the tension between the ‘ethical’ and the ‘aesthetic’ understanding of this role is proposed to be seen as a key concept to approach the complex theme of the landscape.
JANE MAH HUTTON
Landscape architect, teaching at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Her research focuses on the expanded relationships of the act of building – examining the movement of materials as they pass from production landscapes (plantations, quarries, factories) through designed constructions (buildings, landscapes, infrastructure), to care and maintenance (labour practices) through demolition and disposal or re-use, matters that are also substantially explored in her book Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements. Examining the socially and ecologically harmful legacies of colonial capitalist land development, this research aims to strengthen connections between material practices and land relations, in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
KENNETH OLWIG
Professor Emeritus of Landscape Planning in the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
He has studied the concept of landscape in different cultural contexts, and its relationships with justice and governance. In his seminal article Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape (1996) he is advocating for a ‘substantive’ landscape, which comes in contrast with the ‘apparent’ one. This, and other influential essays, are included in the recently published collection The meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment, and Justice (Routledge, 2019).
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✧ June 29, 18:00 - 20:00
TIM INGOLD
Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Aberdeen
His pioneering approach to material culture, through the overlaps of archaeology and anthropology, architecture and art, has made him one of the most prominent voices internationally around the studies of 'making'. In his work, issues of embodied perception and skilled practice are explored within both social and environmental contexts, yielding a situated and relational understanding of the (more-than-human) world. At the same time, his studies specifically around the question of landscape have been highly influential, receiving international and interdisciplinary acknowledgement.
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Symposium 'Under the Landscape' is funded by:
The JM Kaplan Fund
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The Headley Trust
AEGEAS Non-Profit Civil Company
Cyclades Preservation Fund
Local businesses
‘Agrilia’ Secluded Cave House - Lava Oia’s - Kristy Cave House - Old Oia Houses - Pelican Hotel - Santo Caves -
Bioclimatic Cave House - Evizorzia Villas - Merovigla - Oia’s Sunset - Caliva - Sunset View - Mulberry House -
Andronis Arcadia - Archipel Mansion - Santorini Tennis Club - Santorini’s Finest Collection
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