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Generosity Haelioni Generosity: a conference at the Welsh School of Architecture 27-29 June 2018 Abstracts | Crynodebau Editors: Michael Corr | Charles Drozynski Edmund Green | Stephen Kite Mhairi McVicar | Zöe Berman Generosity Cynhadledd Conference Haelioni 27-29 June 2018 27-29 Mehefin 2018 a Generosity An international conference at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, Wales, UK 27-29 June 2018 GENEROSITY is associated with the act of giving or sharing more than is necessary, with gifting, with bravery, with notions of a benefactor and a recipient, and with a quality of being plentiful or expansive. From an architectural perspective, interpretations are many and various. Alberto Pérez- Gómez writes of poïesis in architecture as ‘signifying the sort of technical making proper to humans: a poetic making in the sense that it always aimed at more than preserving life.’ Eileen Grey is more explicit, stating that ‘a house is not a machine-à-habiter. It is man’s […] continuation, his spreading out, his spiritual emanation.’ George Bataille, meanwhile, suggests that ‘everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation…’ Generosity: Abstracts Editors: Mhairi McVicar, Zöe Berman, Michael Corr, Charles Drozynski, Edmund Green, Stephen Kite With thanks to Joanna Abbott, Sarah Duke, Samantha Emmott, Samantha Johnson, Helen Jones, Katrina Lewis ISBN:978-1-899895-27-4 First published 2018 by Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University Copyright 2018 Abstract Authors The right of the authors of the individual abstracts to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998. b 1 From a stance of celebrating and questioning architecture’s potential for generosity, this call for papers invites academics and creative practitioners to explore ways in WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE - DAY 1 which architecture aspires to, or may be expected to, give more than is necessary. 08.30 Registration, coffee and tea This could be considered within the current economic context of austerity or within the 0.930 Keynote Address (Birt Acres): Nathalie Weadick (Irish Architecture Foundation) Reciprocity - What’s in it for me? broader historic context of a discipline often working in frameworks focused on cost 10.30 Coffee and tea and quantitative measurement. Reflections are welcomed which critically examine 11.00 Parallel paper sessions themes of GENEROSITY as related to architecture and related fields, whether they SESSION 1 (ROOM 2.32) SESSION 2 (ROOM 1.40) SESSION 3 (ROOM 1.50) be from a conceptual or theoretical position, embedded in everyday processes and Creative placemaking, change The generosity of telling and Reframing spatial practices - expectations of practice, or from considerations of procurement, regulation, and policy. + the necessity of generosity the generosity of listening Federico Wulff Barreiro (WSA) Oscar Brito Ronit Eisenbach (Maryland) Elena Hannah Durham (Cullinan Studio, González (Central St Martins) Themes include: Lombardo (IULM Milano) Oxford Brookes University) Generosity of creative The lost soundscape of Just architecture - Making, Generosity and Delight Generosity of Spirit co-production - Robin Hood Gardens participation and empowerment Architects have long argued that good design Architecture is regularly criticised for being elitist, Emma Price & Jo Breckon Hannah Durham (Cullinan Studio, Ambrose Gillickw, Lee Ivett (GSA) demands qualitative as well as quantitative and overly focussed on a tiny fraction of the global (Studio Response) Oxford Brookes University) appreciation, and goes beyond the scale of a space population. Architects like Dominic Stevens and Will the machines be generous? The generosity of gold prizes Transformative agency of architecture or materials specifications etc. With time, attitudes Alejandro Aravena have exploited the facility to Dan Cash (Max Fordham) and gift-giving in architecture in peacebuilding to measuring value and good practice are re- share open-access information over the internet, Dr Liz Walder FRSA (WSA) Esra Can (Sheffield University) articulated and new forms of generosity arise. This providing housing designs or templates as freely Generosity through Co-design Heritage gives back Illegal architecture? theme calls for papers that explore how the concept available, open-source resources. While it is unclear Phoebe Crisman (University of Lui Tam (WSA) Juan Fernando Usubillaga (WSA) of generosity is achieved and how it changes in what impact these ‘gifts’ will have on the global Virginia, Crisman+Petrus Architects) the built environment, whether this be through an housing crisis, they are indicative of a generosity of 08.30 Registration, coffee and tea exploration of new forms of communicative value, spirit that has potential to reach the furthest corners 0.930 Keynote Address (Birt Acres): Nath design of ornament, or other, alternative means of of the planet. We invite papers that explore issues SESSION 4 (ROOM 2.32) SESSION 5 (ROOM 1.40) SESSION 6 (ROOM 1.50) measuring such a construct. of ownership in design, or that identify and evaluate architecture or designers working outside of Generosity, guardianship and Vessels and landscapes House as emotion machine ‘noncapitalist’ operations - a special reciprocity Giorgia Cesaro (Università Iuav di Venezia) Generosity and Procurement established boundaries or conventional definitions. Cathy Smith (UNSW - Harvard GSD) Christopher Platt, GSA, studioKAP The Artistic Directors for the 16th International architects Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2018) have Generation Generosity A creative, self-built approach Planting trees Of being an actor or an audience announced that the festival will be concerned with Against a backdrop of socio-political uncertainty, to surplus land Michael Corr (WSA) Nooridayu Ahmad (WSA) William Hodgson, Bartlett (UCL) ‘generosity, thoughtfulness and a desire to engage’. many young practitioners are responding directly to civic and social issues through self-initiated When cities are ungenerous, Immanent gifts A conversation Between architecture, Meanwhile, the British Council call for proposals should architects become Lily Chi (Cornell University) dance and landscape - Rennie Tang (2017) questioned: “How can British architecture projects and research. Debates around architectural politicians? Ron Dulaney Jr. (West (California Polytechnic University) demonstrate ‘generosity and thoughtfulness’ education, the value of practice based learning Virginia University) towards its users, citizens and the public?” If and the impact of tuition fees have contributed to 15.30 Registration, coffee and tea the state of the built environment is governed by a surge in self-directed projects amongst young 16.00 Parallel paper sessions developer’ appetites and procurement processes, practitioners. Such projects are often nimble, SESSION 7 (ROOM 2.32) SESSION 8 (ROOM 1.40) SESSION 9 (ROOM 1.50) how might generosity be better embedded in independently instigated and exploratory. We the commissioning, delivery or ownership of invite papers from postgraduates, young creative Indifference as a form of A critical examination of Can architecture offer a poetic generosity - Lacaton & Vassal an ecological aesthetic in possibility towards mental health? - architecture and public space? practitioners, tutors, and early career academics, Antonio Lavarello architecture - Andrea Wheeler Irini Barbero (WSA) to celebrate ideas that represent communality, (Università di Genova) (Iowa State University) Generosity and Participation reciprocal care and giving. Portico “Rewild my street” - Siân Generosity and care in architecture In the vacuum of public sector inactivity, architects Sophie Hamer, Portico.space Moxon, (London Metropolitan Shelly Cohen (Tel Aviv University) (among others) have been called upon to support University) community-led development, regeneration and Commitment to place - Time School practice - Romina Canna Creation of a public space invention. Such projects often follow unconventional and generosity in architecture (IE School of Architecture Dr. Saima Gulzar (University of Zoë Berman (WSA, Reading, and Design, d-Lab Director) Management and Technology, Lahore- programmes, and redefine the role of the architect Studio Berman) Pakistan) – as facilitator, mediator or advisor. Papers are invited which critique the opportunities, risks and 17.30 BUS TO SENEDD leaving from front entry of Bute Building implications of generosity in co-production and 18.00 Drinks reception at Senedd, Cardiff Bay participatory design. 18.30 Welcoming remarks from Assembly Member Vaughan Gething KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Sophie Howe, Wales’ Future Generations Commissioner for The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2 3 THURSDAY 28TH JUNE - DAY 1 FRIDAY 29TH JUNE - DAY 1 08.30 Registration, coffee and tea 08.30 Registration, coffee and tea 0.930 Keynote Address (Birt Acres): Dr. Chris L. Smith (The University of Sydney) Generosity 09.30 Workshop sessions and architecture’s wide-open spaces? 10.30 Coffee and tea 11.00 Parallel paper sessions SESSION 16 SESSION 17 SESSION 18 (0.43a) (LONG TABLE, 2ND FLR) (GRANGETOWN) SESSION 10 (ROOM 2.32) SESSION 11 (ROOM 1.40) SESSION 12 (ROOM 1.50) Generosity and participation - The next step, defining value in Design through collaboration, learn through Architecture Sans Frontières UK pursuit of quality - Mhairi McVicar, building - CA.UK.IN Complex oscillations
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