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DSD INFORMATION MEETING
Spring 2012 Graduation Program
The Delft School of Design will open two studios this Spring 2012 Semester: Architecture Thinking and the 'Athens' Urban Asymmetries studio.
If you are interested in joining the DSD MSc 3/4 Program please come to our Information meeting:
Monday 28 November 2011
Faculty of Architecture, Room P, 12.30 pm.
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Symposium
X Agendas for Architecture.
Border Conditions Symposium: X Agendas for Architecture.
Date:
Thursday October 20, 2011.
Venue:
OOST-SERRE
Faculty of Architecture
Delft University of Technology
Julianalaan 134 Delft
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MärklinWorld
Die Welt aus Sicht von 40 Künstlern A Model of the World by 40 Artists Modellen van de wereld door 40 kunstenaars
Exhibition and Symposium (September 24 2011)
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GRADUATE SEMINAR on Gilles Deleuze and Cultural Studies
Academic year 2011-2012
Tuesday afternoons, 14.00-17.00
Location: Stijlkamer van Ravensteijn , Kromme Nieuwe Gracht 80, Utrecht University
Organised by the OSL (Onderzoekschool Literatuurwetenschap) with the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University
Chaired by Professor Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) and Professor Anneke Smelik (Radboud University Nijmegen)
The seminar consists of six sessions in English which will run throughout the academic year 2011-12 in Utrecht. Research masters and PhD students, as well as staff members, are welcome to participate. Students can get credits for their participation by attending regularly and writing a final paper. Each session of the three-hour seminar will consist of an in-depth reading of a text by Gilles Deleuze (with or without Felix Guattari), sometimes alongside secondary texts by other theorists or philosophers. This year the theme will be Deleuze's ‘aesthetics' from the angle of cultural studies. A Thousand Plateaus will be the guideline reference text throughout the seminar.
Participants are expected to acquire the literature themselves, but wherever possible we will make pdf files available.
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DSD book launch colloquium
ON THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ROLES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
- Date: 4th May 2011, 13:30,
- Venue: Zaal K (under the orange tribune).
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Participants: Wouter Davidts (Modern and Contemporary Art, VU), Joseph Früchtl (Faculty of Philosophy, UvA), Jane Rendell (Department of Architecture, The Bartlett).
In his essay ‘The Author as Producer', Walter Benjamin contrasted art which is politically committed with the idea that a work of artistic quality requires disengagement. Despite the decades which have elapsed since the essay was written, and despite several onslaughts by artists on the bastions of aesthetic dogma, the inability to resolve the conflict of engagement-disengagement remains a thorn in the side of art, as Jacques Rancière's recent intervention in the debate suggests.
This aporia has played out quite differently in architecture. As a form of art which is typically seen by the public as a form of service, social responsibility is a demand architecture has often faced; yet the idea of subjugation to a compromised society has also encouraged reactions, whether in the form of radical architecture which attempted to intervene in the political or social spheres, or in the form of an autonomous architecture which emphasizes its disciplinary singularity and shuns a direct relation to social or political issues and practices.
The tensions between the acceptance of a limited role for art and architecture in society and rebelling against such a condition, between a desire for commitment and an ingrained idea of aesthetic disengagement, stand at the centre of this Delft School of Design colloquium. On the Social and Political Roles of Art and Architecture, offers an opportunity to engage with contemporary critique emanating from art theory and philosophy, critique which has implications for architecture as well. - Date: 4th May 2011, 13:30,
