Call for Papers: “Dealing with risks, Architecture and Philosophy”

International Symposium, organized by GERPHAU Lab (philosophy, architecture, urban world, EA 7486 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette) and the ARENA Association. Paris, 11-12 March 2021 No one knows what the real consequences for habitat, climate change and the degradation of the biosphere will be in the next fifteen, thirty or fifty years. But the disasters are already there. Whole neighborhoods collapse and their inhabitants are drowned, burned, swept away, suffocated by physical phenomena that clash with human settlements. New threats are intensifying. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also highlights the toxic synergies that are woven between pressures on natural…

2021 Annual Conference Association for Art History. Call for Papers: “Surrealism in 1960s and 1970s Latin America”

“But what is the story of all of the Americas if not the chronicle of the marvelous and the real?”, wrote Cuban author Alejo Carpentier in the preface of The Kingdom of This World ([New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux], 2017: [page: xx]). This rhetorical question firmly resonates when studying Surrealism in Latin America. Scholars have given significant attention to the idea of the marvellous in visual arts and literature to define the inventions and reinventions of Surrealism in the New World. However, we could also rethink the marvellous in relation to the utopian impulse and discourses that have shaped the…

2021 Annual Conference Association for Art History. Call for Papers: “Contemporary Art, Health and Medicine”

This panel explores the proliferation of artistic practices addressing medical and health-related subjects, both within and outside of traditional systems of art production and display. As well as the increasing prevalence of medical themes in the work of individual artists, contemporary art is now called on to interpret, communicate and produce health-related knowledge in academic research, medical museums and medical environments. The intersections between contemporary art and medicine have received little critical attention (to date, most work on art and medicine has focused on the 19th and early 20th centuries). As Jordanova notes, “we lack a basic map” of “the…

Webinars “Arquitetura e Transculturação: conexões transatlânticas | 2020” [“The Architecture and Transculturation: transatlantic connections | 2020]

Professora Ana Tostões, chair of docomomo International, participated on the initiative “Architecture and Transculturation event: transatlantic connections | 2020” of LoCAU (Laboratory of Criticism in Architecture, Urbanism and Urbanization) and, in this edition, in partnership with the PhD in Architecture and CITUA (Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (IST-UL). These webinars aim to promote and disseminate the debate on a thematic of transculturation in Architecture and Urbanism between Brazil, Europe and Africa. There will be five webinars, with speakers from Brazil, Europe and Africa. The webinars will take place every Thursday from…

BORDERS Festival 2020

ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with Venice Events and ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is proud to announce BORDERS FESTIVAL 2020 that will be held in Venice at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space and at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, from July 23 to August 21, 2020, with the participation of more than 120 artists from more than 30 countries. The openings will take place on the 23rd of July at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space and on the 24th of July at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello and they will last all day long, by appointment only. Here below all info to book your visit. OPENING July 23, 2020 THE…

Edinburgh Congress 2020 – Current Practices & Challenges in Built Heritage Conservation

The International Institute of Conservation’s (IIC) Edinburgh Congress “Practices and Challenges in Built Heritage Conservation” will take place online from 2 – 6 November 2020 – with opportunities for real world meet ups and livestreamed tours of remarkable built heritage across Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage site and surrounding areas. The program bridges the divide between built heritage and conservation around the world – with international sessions on the Mackintosh Building and Burrell Collection as well as examples of wall paintings at the Fengguo Temple in Yixian, China, to preservation strategies for painted tombs at El-Kurru, Sudan. Registrations from £35 for…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will be promoted a wide and informed debate in which citizens and specialists…

“Keeping It Modern” Getty Foundation distinguishes FAUP project for Álvaro Siza’s Swimming Pools

Docomomo International is glad to inform that the project by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), which counted with the participation of Professor Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, coordinated by Teresa Cunha Ferreira and directed to the study of management and conservation of the Piscina de Marés complex, in Leça da Palmeira, designed by Álvaro Siza between 1960 and 1973, just guaranteed a financing of 100 thousand euros under the “Keeping It Modern” program, promoted by the prestigious Getty Foundation (USA). This is the first time that a work located in Portugal has been distinguished…

Tertulias Cycle of GPHUC-UnB

Docomomo International is plesead to announce the Tertulias Cycle of GPHUC-UnB, organized by the Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Urbanismo e da Cidade (GPHUC-UnB) [Research Group on History of Urbanism and the City], to take place between 7th of July and 28th of August 2020. Program 07/10/2020, 17h (Brasília time) Prof. Dr. Renato Rego. Theme: “New Cities in Brazil in the 20th Century and Contemporary Urbanism” (Link to enter the Youtube meeting – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q4delwociM) 07/17/2020, 17h (Brasília time) Profa. Dr. Ana María Rigotti. Theme: “Le Corbusier and the plan director for Buenos Aires (1929/1937/1939/1947) – the future as a…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], with the participation of Professor Ana Tostões, chair of docomomo International and coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will…