SYMPOSIUM: How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible? New York, 16 November 2019

Symposium: How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible? New York, 16 November 2019

The Architecture Exchange has organized a one-day symposium, How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?, in which four architectural theorists (Peggy Deamer, Anthony Vidler, Michael Young and Joan Ockman) will reflect together with Jacques Rancière on the implications of his work for architecture. The symposium will take place on Saturday, November 16th, 11:00 – 17:30 at The Cooper Union, in the new building at 41 Cooper Square. The event is free and doors will open half an hour before.
Program: 11:00 – 17:30
11:00 – 11:30 Joseph Bedford, Architecture’s Distribution of the Sensible
11:30 – 12:00 Peggy Deamer, The (Working) Subject of Architecture
12:00 – 12:30 Anthony Vidler (pre-recorded), Partage de l’utopie
12:30 – 14:00 Break
14:00 – 14:30 Michael Young, The Interruption of the Image
14:30 – 15:00 Joan Ockman, An Apparatus for Emancipated Spectatorship
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Jacques Rancière, response and presentation
16:30 – 17:30 Roundtable Discussion, + Q & A
More information is available at this link: architecture.exchange/exchange/ranciere
The Symposium poster can be downloaded here.

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