Programme (IM)MATERIAL - Architectural Memory in the Post-Digital AgeProgramme (IM)MATERIAL - Architectural Memory in the Post-Digital Age

10:00 Doors open

10:30 Welcome

10:45 Session I: Softer Wares, moderated by Agostino Nicki

• 'Software Cathedrals as a Site of Cultural and Computational Loss for Architecture' by Nadja Gaudillière-Jami (Institute for Architecture and Technology, Royal Danish Academy)
• 'Placeholder: A Study of the Cell and its Role as an ‘Empty’ Set in Computer-Based Workflows at SOM' by Aaron Tobey (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• 'Transparent Files: On Architectural Documents that Persist, but do not Stick' by Matīss Groskaufmanis (TU Delft)
• 'What the Blob Remembers: MAD, Shanshui, and the Post-Digital Landscape' by Matthew Allen (Washington University)

13:15 Session II: Archives of Institutes and Offices, moderated by Ludo Groen

• 'Matter and Memory, An Auto-Ethnography: Preserving and Reviving Digital Design Histories at the Flanders Architecture Institute' by Janno Martens (KU Leuven) and Wim Lowet (VAi)
• 'Files that Flicker: Excavating Digital Fragments and Reanimating Hadid’s Proto-Digital Archive' by Laura Nica (University of Westminster)
• 'Scales of (Im)material Practice: Curating Born-Digital Architecture Archives' by Eliza Pertigkiozoglou (University of Toronto)
• 'The Bjarke Ingels Group Archives: Metadata, Curation, and Intelligent Archives' by Rita Fernandes (Bjarke Ingels Group) and Julie May (Bjarke Ingels Group)

15:15 Session III: Materiality Engagements, moderated by Stavros Kousoulas

• 'A Model Full of Scribbles: Architectural Memory at the Threshold of Precision' by Amelyn Ng (Columbia University GSAPP)
• 'get_fullbrick( ) – WAIT FOR $IN[33]: Revisiting Archival Materials of Early Digital Fabrication' by Adrian Pöllinger (ETH Zürich), Laurence Crouzet (ETH Zürich) and Silke Langenberg (ETH Zürich)
• 'Situating a Fluid Archive: A Study on Virtual Memory Layers of an Abandoned Factory' by Ben Drusinsky (TH Köln), Jens Fehrenbacher (TH Köln), Marco Hemmerling (TH Köln) and Lasse Scherffig (TH Köln)
• 'Becoming Marble, Becoming Data: The Persistence of Materiality in the Post-Digital Archive' by Angelos Chiotis (KTH, TU Delft)

17:00 Data Refinery Lab

10:30 Doors open

11:00 Welcome

11:15 Session IV: Memory Recover, moderated by Dirk van den Heuvel

• 'Beyond the Survey: 3D Scanning as Counter-Archival Practice' by Maya Alam (Bergische University Wuppertal) and Daniele Profeta (Syracuse University)
• 'Dirty Archives: Administrative Archives and the Post-Digital Memory of Tel Aviv-Yafo' by Elad Horn (TU Delft)
• 'The Database as Counter-Archive: Revealing the Layered History of Architectural Magazines' by Phoebus Panigyrakis (Independent Scholar)
• 'Virtual Architecture of Loss: The Digitalisation of Memory and the Domestic Demolition' by Stefania Rasile (ETH Zürich) and Silke Langenberg (ETH Zürich)

13:45 Session V: Counter-Archiving, moderated by Stef Dingen

• 'Reproducing Biases into the Digital? Reflections on Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of (Eco-)Architectural Sources' by Elettra Carnelli (ZHAW), Julia Krasselt (ZHAW), Jana von Wyl (ETH Zürich, ZHAW) and Andri Gerber (ZHAW)
• 'Independent Architectural Counter-Archive Practice: Between Media Fluidity and Institutional Precarity' by Lucas De Mello Reitz (Royal College of Art, Kingston School of Art)
• 'Sovereign Spatial Interfaces and Infrastructures: Spatial Essayism and Navigable Virtual Archiving through Volumetric Sreaming and Discursive Platform-Making' by Anna Pompermaier (University of Innsbruck, Me AndOther Me) and Cenk Güzelis (University of Innsbruck, Me AndOther Me)
• 'Do Architects Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Manou Van den Eynde (KU Leuven)

15:45 Session VI: Retrieving Fragments, moderated by Eytan Mann

• 'Digital Damnatio Memoriae: Daemon Loci in the Post-Digital Archive' by Andreea-Ioana Ionescu (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism)
• 'Digital Platforms as Cognitive Infrastructures: Spatial Logistics of Organisation and Epistemics of Wandering in Contemporary Digtial Environments of Architectural Knowledge' by Mariabruna Fabrizi (ENSA Paris-Est)
• Spatially De-Sensationalising YFFCC100M: An Embodied Intervention into Big Data, Machine Learning, and Magical Images' by Will Allstetter (Massachusets Institute of Technology)
• 'Unwelcome Archival Entities: Challenging Sources for Architectural Research at the SAAI' by Joshua Silver (SAAI Archive for Architectue and Engineering, Karlsrüher Institut für Technologie)

17:15 Closing Remarks

19:00 Keynote by Space Popular