Thinking the Contemporary Landscape (Hanover, 20-22 Jun 2013)Hanover, June 20 - 22, 2013
Deadline: May 10, 2013
International Conference
THINKING THE CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE - POSITIONS & OPPOSITIONS
20-22 June 2013 Herrenhausen Castle, Hanover, Germany
Landscape finds its roots in the Old Dutch word "Landskip", which
designates a stretch of cultivated land. Similarly, paysage in French
stems from the Latin word "pagus", meaning peasant, which designates an
extent of land made by that same person. In other words landscape is
the belaboured making of humans, and has nothing to do with the ideal
of an untouched wilderness.
This plain definition of the word can help
frame a potential for discussion with respect to a long standing
tradition of form-giving on the land. It is essentially by questioning
and bringing symbolic expressions of nature back into focus that
landscape will resolve the inherent contradiction of its being, namely
that of offering the promise of a wilderness where there is none. In
light of this situation, it is interesting to discuss what constitutes
the immanence of landscape in our age, to better understand the
assigned role of design disciplines. The conference entitled "Thinking
the Contemporary Landscape", which will be held in Herrenhausen in June
2013 under the auspices of the Volkswagen Foundation, is looking for a
critical debate about the contemporary intelligence of landscape at a
time of relentless conceptual oscillation and uncertainty. We invite
outstanding thinkers and actors gravitating around this subject to
share their thoughts and convictions with us, to help shed light on a
multitude of issues, on one of the most ill-defined concepts of our
age; call it landscape if you will.
Lectures and discussions will gravitate around the following three main topics:
Science and Memory –
Deadline: May 10, 2013
International Conference
THINKING THE CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE - POSITIONS & OPPOSITIONS
20-22 June 2013 Herrenhausen Castle, Hanover, Germany
Landscape finds its roots in the Old Dutch word "Landskip", which
designates a stretch of cultivated land. Similarly, paysage in French
stems from the Latin word "pagus", meaning peasant, which designates an
extent of land made by that same person. In other words landscape is
the belaboured making of humans, and has nothing to do with the ideal
of an untouched wilderness.
This plain definition of the word can help
frame a potential for discussion with respect to a long standing
tradition of form-giving on the land. It is essentially by questioning
and bringing symbolic expressions of nature back into focus that
landscape will resolve the inherent contradiction of its being, namely
that of offering the promise of a wilderness where there is none. In
light of this situation, it is interesting to discuss what constitutes
the immanence of landscape in our age, to better understand the
assigned role of design disciplines. The conference entitled "Thinking
the Contemporary Landscape", which will be held in Herrenhausen in June
2013 under the auspices of the Volkswagen Foundation, is looking for a
critical debate about the contemporary intelligence of landscape at a
time of relentless conceptual oscillation and uncertainty. We invite
outstanding thinkers and actors gravitating around this subject to
share their thoughts and convictions with us, to help shed light on a
multitude of issues, on one of the most ill-defined concepts of our
age; call it landscape if you will.
Lectures and discussions will gravitate around the following three main topics:
Science and Memory –
Power and Terrain –
Method and Design
Confirmed speakers:
James Corner, Georges Descombes, Anette Freytag, Adriaan Geuze,
Christophe Girot, Kathryn Gustafson, Kristina Hill, David
Leatherbarrow, Vittoria Di Palma, Saskia Sassen, Hille von Seggern,
Charles Waldheim, Kongjian Yu
Commentators:
Barry Bergdoll, Sonja Dümpelmann, Dorothée Imbert, Michael Jakob,
Sébastien Marot, Alessandra Ponte, Jörg Rekittke
Moderators:
Stanislaus Fung, Albert Kirchengast, Martin Prominski, Bianca Maria
Rinaldi, Antje Stokman
Organisation:
Chair of Professor Christophe Girot, Institute of Landscape
Architecture, ETH Zurich
Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany
Registration: landscape@volkswagenstiftung.de (restricted number of places, no participation fees)
Confirmed speakers:
James Corner, Georges Descombes, Anette Freytag, Adriaan Geuze,
Christophe Girot, Kathryn Gustafson, Kristina Hill, David
Leatherbarrow, Vittoria Di Palma, Saskia Sassen, Hille von Seggern,
Charles Waldheim, Kongjian Yu
Commentators:
Barry Bergdoll, Sonja Dümpelmann, Dorothée Imbert, Michael Jakob,
Sébastien Marot, Alessandra Ponte, Jörg Rekittke
Moderators:
Stanislaus Fung, Albert Kirchengast, Martin Prominski, Bianca Maria
Rinaldi, Antje Stokman
Organisation:
Chair of Professor Christophe Girot, Institute of Landscape
Architecture, ETH Zurich
Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany
Registration: landscape@volkswagenstiftung.de (restricted number of places, no participation fees)
Dr. EMAD HANI ISMAEEL
Ph.D. in Technologies for the Exploitation
of the Cultural Heritage .
Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Architecture
College of Engineering , University of Mosul
Mosul - Iraq .
E-mail: emadhanee@yahoo.com
Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/emadhanee/
Tel : +964 (0)770 164 93 74
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