CALL FOR PRESENTERS

Programme Description
The Archosophy Sessions are an ongoing informal event, endorsed by Vancouver's emerging urban thinking-acting collective, Urbanarium.  They are moments where/when philosophy becomes woven together with architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, geography and the many spatial practices sitting between these 'big' disciplines. It is to extract the sophia of architecture and design, and to extract the architectonics of philosophy - hence Archo-sophy.

Philosophical questions will be asked of the spatial practices, and spatial questions will be asked of philosophy. Philosophy becomes spatial; spatial practices reveal their philosophical dimension. These sessions will take place monthly at different venues across Vancouver.

In terms of education value, this is an opportunity for practitioners, academics and students to present, in an informal setting, their explorations on the varied spatial, socio-cultural, economic, human and non-human relations that constitute city-building. Each session may start with a brief presentation on range of topics (critiques of capitalism, staging post-colonial interventions, debating religious- and science-biases, finding the ethical in the moral, etc) to spark lively dialogues on dynamic, intelligent and progressive city-building and city-thinking.

Venue

The sessions are held on the weekends/ evenings, approximately every other month at:

• Cafes (and other semi-public spaces)
• Academic Institutions meeting rooms (e.g. UBC, SFU, ECUAD, etc.)
• Design firm meeting room

Location for each session will be announced via email and social media.


Curation Outline

 With regards to time limit and dialogue, we will have two to three presentations per session, approximately 10 to 20 minutes each. The presentations can take the form of:

• Short papers tying a philosophical theme to the built environment
• Slideshows outlining design and/or policy works in relation to a philosophical theme
• Workshops where the participants break into groups to debate how a philosophical theme might explicate the built environment
• Combination of the above

Contact

archosophyvancouver@gmail.com
facebook.com/archosophyvancouver

This series is affiliated with the Urbanarium.