CICA’s International Conference Territoriality and Temporality in Architecture

CICA 2025 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Territoriality and Temporality in Architecture

HYBRID FORMAT
ZOOM
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Room 706, Yale School of Architecture, 180 York St, New Haven, CT, USA

SCHEDULE
DAY 1 A BUILDING’S LIFE
Saturday, October 18th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)

10:00 – 10:05 Welcome
10:05 – 10:10 Opening remarks: Jaime Solares Carmona, Giovanna Renzetti, Wilfried Wang
10:10 – 10:50 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Anne Lacaton (France)
10:50 – 11:00 RESPONSE: Wilfried Wang
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 11:20 PAPERS PRESENTATIONS
CHAIR: Morten Birk Jørgensen

11:20 – 11:40 Karin Ke | Spatial Palimpsest & Repositories: Rotations in the Bourse de Commerce

Paris, France

11:40 – 12:00 Claudia Oliva Saavedra | Unfinished Territories: Subaltern Temporalities in the Ruin of Hospital
Ochagavía – Santiago, Chile
12:00 – 12:20 Aniruddh Sharan | Grey Matters: Speculating the future of ageing Modernism

Delhi, India

12:20 – 12:40 Kadu Tomita, Inês Moreira | The Stonemason’s Cooperative: an Accidental Monument

Porto, Portugal
12:40 – 13:00 Discussion

DAY 2 CONTESTED TERRITORIES
Sunday, October 19th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)

10:00 – 10:05 Welcome
10:05 – 10:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE

AbdouMaliq Simone (United Kingdom)
10:45 – 10:55 RESPONSE: Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
10:55 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 11:15 PAPERS PRESENTATIONS
CHAIR: Teresa Stoppani

11:15 – 11:35 Santiago Echarri Cotler | The Afterlife of Infrastructure: The Puerta de Salida del Gran Canal and the
Temporalities of Water Management
Mexico City, Mexico

11:35 – 11:55 Devin Jernigan | Circus Territory Under Negotiation: Spatial Conflict and Internal Distance in the 1917
Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth Complaints Book

USA

11:55 – 12:15 Pablo Meninato | UCSD-ALACRÁN Community Station: A New Paradigm for Socially Driven Projects

Tijuana, Mexico

12:15 – 12:35 Yeimy Walker | Temporal and Territorial Dialogues: The Center for Memory, Peace, and Reconciliation

Bogotá, Colombia
12:35 – 13:00 Discussion

DAY 3 MAKING PLACE
Saturday, October 25th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)

10:00 – 10:05 Welcome
10:05 – 10:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Rozana Montiel (Mexico)
10:45 – 10:55 RESPONSE: Mariana Wilderom
10:55 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 11:15 PAPERS PRESENTATIONS
CHAIR: Carlos Eduardo Dias Comas

11:15 – 11:35 Anna Mocellini | The Project as “Event”: Imaginary and the Nomadic Architecture of the Nave Centre

Santiago, Chile

11:35 – 11:55 Christine Mahler, Pedro Henrique D’Ávila | The Square, the Void and the Architecture: The
Intervention in the Archbishop’s House

Mariana, Brazil

11:55 – 12:15 Jiaqi Wang, Tian Pan | Be Water, My Friend: A “Hydrological” Reading of the West Village Yard

Chengdu, China

12:15 – 12:35 Nicholas Thomas Lee | Sættedammen: the world’s first modern co-housing project

Copenhagen, Denmark
12:35 – 13:00 Discussion

DAY 4 MATTERS OF TIME
Sunday, October 26th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)*
*please be aware of the time change due to the end of daylight saving time in Europe.

10:00 – 10:05 Welcome
10:05 – 10:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Marina Tabassum (Bangladesh)
10:45 – 10:55 RESPONSE: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
10:55 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 11:15 PAPERS PRESENTATIONS
CHAIR: Pierre-Alain Croset

11:15 – 11:35 Tristan Denis | Accidents and Dependencies: The Museo del Clima in Lleida

Lleida, Spain

11:35 – 11:55 Xiang Ren | Ningbo History Museum: The Tile-Pan, the Territory and the Fragments of Time

Zhejiang, China

11:55 – 12:15 Anjali Sreekumar | Sympoiesis and its Temporal Boundaries through the case of Laurie Baker Center

Trivandrum, India

12:15 – 12:35 Hao Wang | Movement Platforms: Alcázar Genil Station

Granada, Spain
12:35 – 13:00 Discussion

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