International conference and exhibition | SOPHIA #6 - Visual Spaces of Change | Photographic documentation of environmental transformations

21st may 2021, Friday, 9h30 - 13h00 | 14h00-18h30
22nd may 2021, Saturday10h00-13h00
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The International Conference for SOPHIA #6 will continuity the annual cycle of international forums on a specific theme.

Sophia Journal´s International Conference will present a live and video conference programme organized by CEAU / FAUP in partnership with other institutions and the event will be held online and access to the Conference Room will only be possible to the organising team.

Encompassing a rich and diverse programme around: (i) roundtables for each panel concerning a focused topic coming from Sophia´s comprehensive call; (ii) presentation of articles submitted; (iii) the opening of Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations exhibition using the VSC Mobile Projector.

The contents of the exhibition will also be online and the exhibition experience is registered purely for research purposes, being analysed in the context of the ongoing Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations articles and research.

The global objective of these international forums is to promote the reflection and debate on the universes of architecture, art and image, addressing various issues transversal to the worlds of photography and architecture, exploring how the image can be a means to cross borders and shift boundaries between different disciplinary areas.

Programme

Friday, 21^st may 2021

9h30  Opening Session

João Pedro Xavier — Dean FAUP
Pedro Leão Neto — Wilfried Wang

10h00  Panel 1 | Chairs / moderators — Carolina Leite + Carlos Machado e Moura

Carolina Leite | Digital spectacle and its impact on architecture and the architectural image 
Carlos Machado e Moura | Photographic narratives of urban transformations

10h30  Vítor Alves | Copy/Paste: for today we save JPEG’s and browse PNG’s

10h45  Marcin Piekałkiewicz | Production of space in the photographic work of Naoya Hatakeyama

11h00  Giuseppe Resta | Landscape transformations in Albania. A photographic survey on the traces of Italian travellers in the Balkans

11h15  Luciano Bernardino da Costa | Verticalization: Photographic Explorations of Complex Urban Phenomena

11h30  Jazmin Charalambous | How can photography reveal the effects of corporatisation on public spaces in London, and further, how can it contribute to the creation of proposals that intervene in this process? (Wembley Park)

11h45  Roundtable discussion #1

12h30  Break | Lunch

14h00  Keynote Lecture

Jesus Vassallo | Epics in the Everyday

14h45  Panel 2 | Chairs / moderators — Carlos Machado e Moura

15h00  Paulo Catrica, Rui Mendes | Models, Plans, Clusters & Pine Trees: Vila Nova de Santo André 1971-2021

15h15  Haode Sun, Visual Misalignment | Faster Modernity and Slower Modernity: Photographic Documentation of Contemporary Urban Transformation in Shanghai

15h30  Beatriz Duarte | Experimental persistence of change: a collage of palimpsestic temporalities of the Thermoelectric Power Station of Freixo (Campanhã, Porto)

15h45  Chloé Darmon | Archiving the abandoned washhouses of Oporto following the paths of washerwomen: a history of a women’s practice in the modern urban space

16h00  Roundtable discussion #2

16h30  Break 

16h35  Panel 3 | Chairs / moderators — Jorge Marum | Photographing the altered identity of landscapes

16h50  Alla Lafonina, Vera Laponkina | Sacred place

17h05  Luca Donner, Francesca Sorcinelli | Replacing urban identity: the disappearance of Sha’biya Al Safa Neighbourhood 

17h20  Yara A. Khalf, Ahmed El Antably, Mona A. Abdelwahab | A Walk Through Urban Decay: Is Al-Hattaba Worth Saving?

17h35  Ana Roberti, Helena Santos, Daniel Brandão | From intimacy to urban landscape: images of the transformations of the Rainha Dona Leonor social housing

17h50  Gil Mualem-Doron | Present Absentees

18h05  Roundtable discussion #3

Saturday, 22^nd may 2021

11h00  Roundtable discussion #4 | Chair / moderator — Wilfried Wang

Photographic documentation of environmental transformations: Visual Essays

Inaki Bergera
Pedro Leão Neto

12h30 Closing session

Organization

Executive committee
Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP) - Wilfried Wang (UTSoA)

Programming
Carolina Leite (CEAU / FAUP)
Carlos Machado e Moura (CEAU / FAUP)
Jorge Marum (CIAUD-UBI)
Leonor Matos Silva (Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL)
Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI)
Pedro Leão Neto (CEAU / FAUP)
Wilfried Wang (UTSoA)

Organization and production
Miguel Santos (AAI / FAUP / VSC)
Sara Mota (scopio Editions)
Frederico Martinho (AAI / FAUP / VSC)

Communication
FAUP / CEAU and Sophia Journal / scopio Editions

Scientific committee
Álvaro Domingues (FAUP/ CEAU)
Ana Janeiro
Andreia Oliveira
Eduarda Neves (ESAP)
Fernando Zaparaín (GIR UVa | ESPACIAR)
Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro (FBAUP / i2ADS)
Gisela Lameira (FAUP/ CEAU)
Isa Clara Neves (CES / CEAU / FAUP)
Iñaki Bergera (Arquitectura / UNIZAR)
João Carlos Ferreira (UFP - AAI / CEAU / FAUP)
Jorge Marum (UBI - AAI / CEAU)
José Alberto Lage (FAUP/ CEAU)
José Carneiro (FBAUP / i2ADS)
José Maças de Carvalho (DARQ)
José Manuel Barbosa (FAUP / FBAUP / i2ADS)
Jorge Jular (GIR UVa | ESPACIAR)
Margarida Medeiros (FCSH)
Mário Mesquita (FAUP / FBAUP / i2ADS)
Mark Durden (USW / eCDR)
Miguel Leal (FBAUP / i2ADS)
Olívia da Silva (P.PORTO / ESMAD)
Rui Lourosa (ESAP)
Susana Lourenço Marques (FBAUP / i2ADS)
Susana Ventura (FAUP / CEAU)
Teresa Ferreira (FAUP/ CEAU)
Victor dos Reis (FBAUL)

Conference team
Carolina Leite (CEAU / FAUP)
Carlos Machado e Moura (CEAU / FAUP)
Jorge Marum (CIAUD-UBI)
Leonor Matos Silva (Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL)
Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI)
Pedro Leão Neto (CEAU / FAUP)
Wilfried Wang (UTSoA)
Frederico Martinho (AAI / FAUP / VSC)
João Carlos Ferreira (UFP - AAI / CEAU / FAUP)
Miguel Santos (AAI / CEAU / FAUP)
Sara Lino (scopio Edition)

Artistic director
Né Santelmo

Print and Webdesign
Sara Lino (scopio Edition)

Exhibition photographic projects
Curated by Visual Spaces of Change

Frederico Martinho (AAI / FAUP / VSC)
Miguel Santos (AAI / FAUP / VSC)
Sara Mota (scopio Editions)

Publicity Support
U. Porto - Casa Comum
Fundação Marques da Silva 
Ordem dos Arquitectos - Secção Regional Norte (OASRN)

Mais informações em: 

Projecto Visual Spaces of Change

Sophia Journal

Grupo de investigação 'Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem — AAI  CEAU.FAUP

SCOPIO Network

More informations: 

Projecto Visual Spaces of Change

Sophia Journal

Reserach group Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem — AAI  CEAU.FAUP

SCOPIO Network

The conference will be in English, without simultaneous translation.
Subject to change without prior notice.
Photographs and/or video will be taken during the event.

FAUP doesn't issues certificate of attendance for this event.