International Symposium On Power in Architecture #3
Symposium ON POWER IN ARCHITECTURE #3: a psychoanalytical and poststructuralist perspective
26 September 2019, 10:00–16:00, MAO – Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana
Speakers: Andrew Ballantyne, Elke Krasny, Nadir Lahiji, Robert Pfaller, Douglas Spencer
Pre-event: Architecture and Ideology, discussion
25 September 2019, 18:00, Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana
Speakers: Andrew Ballantyne, Nadir Lahiji, Elke Krasny, Robert Pfaller
After focusing on the materialistic and the phenomenological philosophical perspective, the third and last edition of the symposia series On Power in Architecture focuses on the psychoanalytical and poststructuralist perspective of reflecting on the relation between power and architecture. The third international symposium will bring together renowned philosophers and theorists who will think about the specific intertwinement between power and architecture in contemporary neoliberalism.
Andrew Ballantyne, Elke Krasny, Nadir Lahiji, Robert Pfaller, and Douglas Spencer will talk about micropolitics and architecture, phantasmagoria and capitalist pleasure, iconic shifts in architecture in the 1980s and ’90s, the intertwinement of postmodernist aesthetics and neoliberalism, and the possibilities of an alternative view of power in architecture as the power of capital and the power for capital.
The programme is organized by Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory in collaboration with Mateja Kurir and is supported by MAO, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, and ERSTE Foundation.
The programme will be in English. Entry is free of charge.
symposium programME
Pre-event, Wednesday, 25 September 2019, 18:00, Faculty of Architecture
Discussion: ARCHITECTURE AND IDEOLOGY
What is the relationship between architecture and ideology? How and why does architecture perform as ideology? Andrew Ballantyne, Nadir Lahiji, Elke Krasny, and Robert Pfaller will present their views on this complex intertwinement. The discussion will be moderated by Mateja Kurir.
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 10:00–16:00, MAO
Symposium: ON POWER IN ARCHITECTURE #3
10:00–10:15 Opening remarks by Mateja Kurir, The Architecture of Neoliberal Desctruction
10:15–11:00 Andrew Ballantyne, Micropolitics and Architecture
11:00–11:45 Elke Krasny, Iconic Moves: Regeneration + Reproduction
11:45–12:30 Nadir Lahiji: Phantasmagoria of the “One Divided in Two”: Architecture and the Capitalist Enjoyment
12:30–13:15 Discussion
13:15–14:00 Break
14:00–14:45 Robert Pfaller, Postmodern Aesthetics and Neoliberal Politics: A Relationship between Ornament and Crime
14:45–15:30 Douglas Spencer, Architecture and the Subject of Capital: A Critique of Symptomatics and Spectacle
15.30–16.00 Discussion
More information on the speakers and abstracts of their lectures are available here.