Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ph.D. But Were Afraid to Ask!
Speaker: Dr. Alberto Franchini
In our upcoming PhD Seminar Session, we will host Dr. Alberto Franchini, who will share insights from his PhD experience.
Alberto Franchini has been a research associate at the Chair of Modern Heritage Conservation since February 2024. His research focuses on understanding the user's role in the design and modification of the built heritage. From 2021 to 2023, he was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Architecture Museum of TUM. From 2019 to 2021, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Archive of the Modern (USI), and from 2020 to 2022, he held teaching positions at Milan Polytechnic. He received his PhD in History of Architecture and Urban Planning from the IUAV University of Venice in 2019 with a thesis on Giancarlo De Carlo (awarded the L'ERMA-C Prize and published in 2020).
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Language: Englisch
Place: Seminar Room 0340B
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Territorial Food Planning for Sustainable and Just Agri-Food Systems
Speaker: Dr. José Luis Vicente-Vicente
Dr. José Luis Vicente-Vicente is a postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), although he has developed the majority of his research career in Germany, at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). His research is focused on (re)territorialisation of agri-food systems. He works on both, the production and consumption sides. He works with farmers in developing diversified agroecology-based systems. He also works in (re)connecting consumers and producers through innovating systems such as food hubs (LebensMittelPunkte) and cooperative supermarkets in alternative food networks. He collaborates with international organisations, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as an expert reviewer.
Abstract: The globalised agri-food system plays a key role in the current socio-ecological crisis. Furthermore, this globalised system is highly vulnerable to climatic and logistics shocks. A new agri-food system is, therefore, needed. How can we build a territorialised agri-food system? Deep changes are needed in both, the way we produce and the way we consume. Changing the agricultural landscapes to create highly diversified agricultural systems and creating spaces in the city to (re)connect people with food are key elements for this change. Territorial food planning combines urban, landscape and regional planning to create territorialised agri-food systems following the principles of sustainable and just food systems.
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 a.m.
Language: English
Room: 0340B
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Comb Sisters
Architecture of a Women’s Collective
Duration: December 3 – 15, 2024| Opening: December 3, 2024 at 6 p.m.
From December 3 to 15, 2024, the Architecture Museum der TUM will present in Pavilion 333 the exhibition “Comb Sisters: Architecture of a Women's Collective”, based on the research of Master's graduate Yingjia Tan. The exhibition explores the radical communal architecture of the Comb Sisters, a 19th century women's collective in the Canton Delta that pioneered female autonomy. Archival maps, historical documents and the results of three months of field research, including photographs of abandoned communal houses and interviews with the last generation of Comb Sisters will be exposed. This exhibition is an extension of Yingjia Tan's master's thesis, which was supervised by Prof. Lepik at the Chair of Architectural History and Curatorial Practice at TUM.
The exhibition will be accompanied by the following events:
Opening: December 3, 2024, 6:00 pm
Parity Jour Fixe: December 12, 6:00 pm
Finissage: December 15, 3:00 pm
About the Comb Sisters: In the 19th century, numerous women in the Canton Delta of Southern China chose to remain unmarried. Empowered by their involvement in the thriving silk industry, they rejected the traditional submissive roles of wives and the constraints of a patriarchal feudal system. These women adopted the practice of “Combing Up”- a cultural ritual symbolizing their initiation: an unmarried, celibate, economically sufficient woman who lived communally with other women.
Entrance fee:
The exhibition is free of charge.
When:
03 - 15 DECEMBER
Mon-Fri: 2 - 7 p.m.
Sat-Sun: 12 - 6 p.m.
Where:
Pavillon 333
at the east side of the Pinakothek der Moderne
Türkenstraße 15
80333 Munich
How This Tiny Country Feeds the World.
How This Tiny Country Feeds the World.
Speaker: Dr. Víctor Muñoz Sanz TU Delft
Víctor Muñoz Sanz is an assistant professor of urban design at TU Delft, where he conceptualizes, leads, and develops critical research on the architecture and urbanism of the past, present and future of work. He is the author of the book Una Rápida Compañera (2024), and co-editor of Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture (2020), Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny (2022), and Automated Landscapes (2023). Víctor qualified as an architect at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, 2006), and holds a master of architecture in urban design, with distinction, from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011), and a PhD cum laude in architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2016).
Abstract: From its celebration as the mirror of the future of food production, Dutch agriculture and farming is under increasing scrutiny. The reliance on fossil fuels and the poor conditions of temporary labour define indoor horticulture, while animal farming is in the political spotlight for its adverse effects on nature, especially in the context of the nitrogen crisis. This presentation shares results from research conducted across the projects Automated Landscapes, Towards a Media Archeology of Indoor Horticulture, and Cowborgs in the Polder project. These endeavours are critically examining the techno-scientific systems entangled with human and more-than-human life in the Dutch countryside, aiming to complicate the understanding of the crisis around its model. Drawing on historical research, document analysis, fieldwork, expert interviews, and architectural drawing, the presentation highlights how genetics, digital technologies, robotics, building technologies, and policy are linked to the modification, damage, remediation and reimagination of Dutch landscapes.
Date: Wednesday, Oktober 30, 2024
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Language: English
Location:
Room: 0340B
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Food & Health: Science & Systems for a Healthy Sustainable Future
… with a perspective on
Food meets Space Nutrition meets Architecture
Speaker: Dr. Martin Kussmann
Head of Knowledge & Innovation
Kompetenzzentrum für Ernährung (KErn)
Humanity in the Anthropocene is facing two enormous challenges: sustainable generation and consumption of energy and food. The green revolution and modern agriculture have written an unprecedented success story: over the last 60 years, the world’s population almost tripled from three to eight billion, yet the still regrettable number of undernourished people remained constant at 800 million. However, this achievement has come at a high price of climate change, biodiversity loss and compromised land and water quality. Hence, “business as usual” is not an option as we are currently consuming approximately 1.5 “earth GDPs” per year.
Food systems lie at the center of solutions to these sustainability challenges. Systems science and thinking are therefore emerging in the agricultural, food, nutrition and health sectors. We need integrated healthy and sustainable solutions “from seed to fork” along the value chain from agriculture via raw material processing, food production and retail, food technology, nutrition science and consumer insights. After all, our answers must not only be healthy and sustainable but also affordable, convenient and attractive to be accepted by consumers and eventually make a real difference at scale and on time.
So, where does food meet space and nutrition meet architecture Architecture designs and plans infrastructure where people live, eat, work and travel? These built environments have great impact on human and planetary health as they co determine quality and availability of food, nutrition and health care. Food meets architecture in kitchens, restaurants, catering supermarkets, farms, as well as food processing and production facilities. These interfaces are of utmost relevance to a highly urbanized world population where the majority lives in metropolitan hubs with many million inhabitants. Both food and architectural solutions must therefore acknowledge these realities and circumstances: for global scale and relevance, we must bring good food into big cities in a sustainable fashion. Architecture furthermore can connect environment and infrastructure: photovoltaics on agriculturally used fields and urban farming are such hybrid models of combined and more sustainable use of energy, natural products, and settlements.
Date: Wednesday, Oktober 23, 2024
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 pm + Q&A
Language: English
Location:
Room: 0340B
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Winter semester 24/25: PhD Seminar #2
This seminar discusses current research topics and academic studies in architectural history and curatorial practice. In this context, the chair's doctoral candidates present their research and participate in the discussion.
This course is intended to provide a flexible framework that supports and enriches the individual doctoral research conducted by PhD candidates. During their assigned seminar dates, participants are expected to present the current status of their research or pose questions in their specific field. Following the presentation, a discussion session with the lecturer will take place. Furthermore, for the course, we invite lecturers and guest speakers to discuss specialized historical and scientific work methods.
When:
Wednesdays, 16:30 - 18:15
Where:
Room: 0340B
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Schedule:
04.12.2024, Natália Correia Brandão PhD cand.
11.12.2024, Guest lecture: Dr. Alberto Franchini
18.12.2024, Bahar Gökçen Kumsar PhD cand.
08.01.2025, Sina Zarei PhD cand.
15.01.2025, Anna Gonchar PhD cand.
22.01.2025, Zeynep Ece Şahin PhD cand.
29.01.2025, Qendresa Ajeti PhD cand.
05.02.2025, Marziyeh Bazyar PhD cand.
Presentation at European Architectural History Network - EAHN 2024 Conference in Athens
Our PhD Candidate Qëndresa Ajeti, participated in the European Architectural History Network - EAHN 2024 Conference in Athens from 19-23 June 2024 with the presentation titled Activism and Heritage Production in Post-socialist Kosovo: The Case of Former Department Store “Germia”
Since the collapse of the Yugoslav socialist state system in the early 1990s, the countries that were once part of it have undergone a complicated process of social, economic and political transformation. The new political scene in Kosovo, has brought the legacy of architecture built during former Yugoslavia to the forefront of an ongoing debate about its valuation and classification as heritage. In recent years, many social movements are playing an important role in shaping cultural identities and narratives for this contentious legacy to the society and political actors in Kosovo, through different tactics of mobilization. This research aims to fill the gap in literature by exploring the implications of social movement involvement in heritage activism, including its impact on identity formation, intergroup relations, and political processes, through the case study “Ish-Germia”(Prishtina). The objective is to explore the evolution of the urban activism over thirty years in the perception of this building, by analysing the heritagisation process of it, where intersect activists, community, political actors and international institutions.
Participation in the International Conference titled Architecture and Coastal Tourism (1960-1980): fragility between Historical Studies and New Scenario at Politecnico di Milano
Our PhD Candidate, Qëndresa Ajeti, participated in the International Conference titled Architecture and Coastal Tourism (1960-1980): fragility between Historical Studies and New Scenario that took place at the Mantova Campus-Politecnico di Milano on 21,22 May 2024. Her presentation is titled Coastal Area of Malinska: From socialist past to western capitalism.
The construction of the Adriatic Highway along the coastline of Former Yugoslavia in 1954 marks an important step of Yugoslav authorities attempt to create a cohesive territory from previously disconnected fragments of coastline. After the breakup with the Soviet Union in 1948 the country was left with a fragile economy, that oriented the authorities towards tourism as a beneficial economic resource and possibility to attract west investments in Yugoslavia. The case study of this research, Malinska, a little town in the island of Krk in Croatia became a successful holiday place during the 70s, that attracted western investments and tourists.
This study aims to explore the shift that happened to this little town through the political and economic changes the country experienced itself, from the socialist past to the western capitalism. A focal point of the study will be Holudovo Palace hotel. The hotel that was once one of the most extravagant and aesthetic touristic complexes in Yugoslavia, that became a ruin and vandalized complex nowadays.
"On Repair/Green-building: IBA Berlin
84/87 as Live Eco-exhibition"
Jan. 11, 13:15h / Theresianum, Hörsaal 0506
"Venice Biennale 1968-1976: From Protest to Revolution"
Dec. 14, 13:15h / Theresianum, Hörsaal 0506
"A Method of Work: CIAM's exhibitions, 1929-1935"
Nov 16, 13:15h / Theresianum, Hörsaal 0506
Staging Architecture and Urban Design
under the NS-Regime
Nov 9, 13:15h / Theresianum, Hörsaal 0506
"The influence of architectural design of informal learning spaces on collaborative problem solving: A study using the example of the "White Hall" at the Technical University of Munich."
First supervisor: Prof. Sarah Hofer, LMU
Co-supervisor: Prof. Andres Lepik, TUM
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 12:00 pm.
Location: TUM Stammgelände Zentral, Thierschbau, Seminarraum, 0340B.
13. June 2023
10:00 - 15:45 [Hybrid]
Lecture Series: Cultural Heritage, History and Criticism
Seminar "Architecture on Paper"
Seminar "AJA II"
Exhibition Workshop "The Gift of Architecture"
Seminar "Auf dem Weg zu einer kommenden Baukunst"
Seminar "Decolonize Venice Architecture Biennale! "
in der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing.
Mit Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete, ETH Zürich und Prof. Dr. Anna-Maria Meister, TU Darmstadt als Gastkritiker.
Ein Event im Rahmen vom Seminar “Partizipation - Architektur als offener Diskurs” im WS 22/23
25. Oktober 2022
9:00 - 17:45 Uhr, hybrid
“Empowering Student Positions”
Chair of Unlearning
12. Oktober 2022, 18 Uhr
Vorhoelzer Forum
“Architektur als Erinnerungsträger“
“Exhibiting ‘Healing Architecture’”
“Partizipation - Architektur als offener Diskurs”
"Podcast - Infrastruktur der Daten”
“Architekturausstellungen”
“AJA 2022”