The international research project TRANSGRESSING THE NORMED SPACE (France/ Italy/ Romania/ Turkey/ United States) will hold its second workshop CONCEPTS/FIELDS/TOOLS in Rennes, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne, from the 12th to the 14th of December.

It will be preceded by three lectures discussing normativity and transgression.

DECEMBER 12
Graduate Seminar, Professor PhD/HDR (ENSAB Rennes) Carmen Popescu: SPACE! SPACE?

9:30 INTRO
Lectures:

  • 9:45-10:45 Isabelle Gournay, Associate Professor PhD (University of Maryland College): “Community, Culture. Cooperation. Spatiality in Greenbelt, a New Deal model town
  • 10:45-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-12:00 Gülsüm Baydar, Professor PhD (Yașar University, Department of Architecture, Izmir): Regeneration and/of homelessness
  • 12:00-13:00 Can Bilsel, Professor PhD (University of San Diego, Department of Art, Architecture and Art History): Learning from Charlottesville: Monuments, Iconicity, and Race

Workshop 2. Transgressing the Normed Space
14:30-16:30 Fieldtrip Rennes: La Courrouze district

DECEMBER 13
Workshop 2. Transgressing the Normed Space

CONCEPTS/ FIELDS/ TOOLS
9:30-9:45 WELCOME ADDRESS 
Marie-Christine Renard, Director of École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne
Carmen Popescu, coordinator of the project TNS

9:45-11:15 DEALING WITH CONCEPTS

  • Can Bilsel, Professor PhD (University of San Diego, Department of Art, Architecture and Art History): Transgression/ Proportionality. Mass Murder/ Collateral Damage
  • Carmen Popescu, Professor PhD/ HDR (ENSAB, Rennes): On Space/ and Limits
  • Celia Ghyka, Associate professor (University of Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion MIncu”, Bucharest)/ Irina Tulbure, Associate professor (University of Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion MIncu”, Bucharest)/ via Skype: Potential typologies for appropriation (of the normed space and architecture)

11:15-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-13:00 TWO ‘OUTSIDE’ CASE STUDIES
Sarhat Petrosyan, PhD, founder and director of URBANLAB (Yerevan): Expanded Housing of Yerevan
Michal Janak, PhD candidate (Faculty of Architecture, Slovakian Technical University, Bratislava): Ruzova Dolina district, Bratislava

13:00-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
visit of the ENSAB with Laetitia Bouvier, Adjunct Director Research and Academic Programs

14:30-16:00 THREE MORE CASE STUDIES

  • Gaia Caramellino, Assistant Professor PhD (Politecnico Milano) / Nicole de Togni, Assistant Professor PhD (Politecnico Milano) / Cristina Renzoni, Assistant Professor PhD (Politecnico Milano): The “agreed” city. Negotiating post-war city inside and outside regulative planning/ methodological aspects and historiographical concerns
  • Șebnem Yucel, Associate Professor PhD (Yasar University, Department of Architecture, Izmir)/ Kivanc Kilinc, Assistant Professor PhD (Department of Architecture and Design at the American University, Beirut), for the Turkish Team: Social Housing Projects in Izmir (1970s): Cumhuriyet Mahallesi, Esentepe, Gaziemir
  • Nadia Sbiti, Associate Professor (ENSAB, Rennes): Transgression or Appropriation? Two neighbourhood in Rennes La Courrouze and Bernard-Duval: shaping public space through participative actions

16:00-16:15 COFFEE BREAK

16:15-17:30 DIGITAL TOOLS
Gülsüm Baydar, Professor PhD (Yașar University, Department of Architecture, Izmir): Digital tools as means of (architectural) analysis

17:30-18:30 TECHNICALITIES

DECEMBER 14
Workshop 2. Transgressing the Normed Space

9:30-11:30 Visit of the Projects Hotel, Rennes