Online Symposium organised by Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di architettura

Through interdisciplinary approach, the symposium explores the influence of the conquest of the air – from the first flight experiences to contemporary satellites – on the way of thinking, designing and practising space.

Organized by Matteo Vegetti and Christoph Frank

H 9.00-12.30
Welcome address:
Walter Angonese – Academy of Architecture (USI), director
Silvio Seno – DACD (SUPSI), director

Introduction:
Matteo Vegetti (SUPSI, USI)
Christoph Frank (USI–ISA)

Moderator: Tommaso Morawski – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Speakers:

  • Marco Solinas – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa
    Raumrevolution. On the first planetary spatial revolution
  • Mark Dorrian – Edinburgh College of Art
    Around the new vision
  • Natalie Roseau – École des Ponts ParisTech
    The aerial thought of the large city. Subjectivities of the gaze and the unthinking of anthropization
  • Marco Rasch – Saxonia-Freiberg-Stiftung
    The influence of the photographic birds-eye view on german urbanism
  • Christoph Frank – Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, USI–ISA
    Seen from above, seen from below: towards an iconography of aerial destruction

Respondent: Emmanuel Alloa – University of Fribourg

H 16.00-19.00

Speakers:

  • Sebastian Grevsmühl – EHEES-CRH, Paris
    From spaceship earth to infrastructures of survival: a historical genealogy of a new scopic regime
  • Dario Negueruela del Castillo – University of Zurich
    The reverse gaze of satellite exploration. The reconstituted face of the earth
  • Jennifer K. Levasseur – Department of Space History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
    An astronaut-eye view of changing urban development
  • Niccolò Cuppini – SUPSI–DEASS, Lugano
    Air as infrastructure. On amazon urbanism
  • Lisa Parks – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Vertical mediation and the current war in yemen
  • Caren Kaplan – University of California, Davis
    Out of the blue: no-fly zones and atmospheric politics

Respondent: Tristan Weddigen – Director of Bibliotheca Hertziana, University of Zurich