Programme Staying with Modernity? (Dis)Entangling Coloniality and ArchitectureProgramme Staying with Modernity? (Dis)Entangling Coloniality and Architecture

9.00 – Doors open

9.15 – Welcome

• Dick van Gameren, dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Delft University of Technology) en Dirk van den Heuvel, head of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre (Nieuwe Instituut, Delft University of Technology)

9.30-11.00 – Session I: Welfare State Projections, moderated by Alejandro Campos Uribe

• 'Paulista Architecture and Ambivalent Modernity: Brazilian Dictatorship and National Representation in Osaka, 1970' by Victor Próspero (University of São Paulo, Princeton University)
• 'Western-based or Decolonised Welfare Planning? Ulrik Plesner’s Town Design for the Mahaweli Development Programme in Sri Lanka, 1982-1987' by Dorian Bianco (Centre André Chastel, Sorbonne Université)
• 'Architecture of the "Property State": Public Ownership of Land and the Production of the Mdoern Built Environment in Postindependence Singapore' by Jacob Meyers (Delft University of Technology)
• 'Subverting the University Archive: A Decolonial Revision of Miesian Modernism' by Leen Katrib (University of Kentucky)
• Q&A

11.30-13.00 – Session II: Coloniality at Home, moderated by Paula Lacombe Montes

• 'Dissecting the Colonial House' by Paoletta Holst (Ghent University)
• 'Writing Domesticity: Historicising Two Silenced Stories of Modernisation by Iranian Women Writers' by Ehssan Hanif (Cornell University)
• 'The Elephant in the Room: Sourcing the Planter’s Chair' by Rachel Lee (Delft University of Technology) and Sarita Sundar (Hanno)
• 'Haik-scape: An Urban "Fabric" to Unveil Eastern and Western Colonisation of the Feminine Space and Intimacy in Algiers' by Yasmine Dahim and Cansu Curgen-Gurpinar (Loughborough University School of Architecture)
• Q&A

14.00-15.30 – Session III: Education as Mission, moderated by Fatma Tanış

• 'Yarning and the Country Sphere: Modernity and Decolonising Architectural Education in Australia' by Michael Mossman, Genevieve Murray, Abraham Bradfield and Jennifer Barrett (University of Sydney)
• 'Euclid in Ivory Coast: Architecture and Modern Education as Swiss Export, 1975-1976' by Sebastiaan Loosen (ETH Zürich)
• 'Disentangling Modernity and Colonialism: The St. Joseph Mission School in Ngasobil, Senegal' by Alican Taylan (Cornell University)
• '"What Holland Can Offer": Samuel van Embden and the Knowledge Exchange on University Campus Designs, 1947-1976' by Esther Gramsbergen and Yağız Söylev (Delft University of Technology)
• Q&A

16.00-17.30 – Session IV: Neo-Colonial Practices, moderated by Elena Martínez Millana

• 'Town & City Properties: From Colonial Rubber Plantation to the World’s Largest Property Developer' by Alistair Kefford (Leiden University)
• 'OMA 199X: Neo-Avant-Garde and the Afterlives of the Development Era' by Romain David (Harvard University)
• 'Planners Get Their Way – and Newry? The Persistence of Colonial Attitudes in the North of Ireland' by Colm mac Aoidh (Hasselt University)
• 'Towards a Planetary History of Architecture: Notes from Golęczewo and Kamĩrĩĩthũ' by Kenny Cupers (University of Basel)
• Q&A

9.30 – Doors open

9.45 – Welcome

• Aric Chen, general and artistic director of Nieuwe Instituut

10.00-11.00 – Special session Nieuwe Instituut

• 'Working with the Dutch National Architecture Collection', by Hetty Berens and Setareh Noorani (Nieuwe Instituut)

11.30-13.00 – Session VI: Extraction Infrastructures, moderated by Meghan Ho-Tong

• 'Sweetened Territories: The Umbgrove Commissie and the Impact of the Dutch Colonial Sugar Industry on the Javanese Countryside, 1808-1930' by Sandro Armanda (KU Leuven)
• '"Filling" and "Enactment" Drainage and Conservancy Schemes: Discourse of Contained Waters in Dacca, Colonial East Bengal' by Labib Hossain (Cornell University)
• 'The Architect + The Farmer: Disentangling Expertise as a Mechanism of South Asian Migration' by Priyanka Sen (Cornell University)
• 'Growing for Gold: Colonial Tree Planting on the Witwatersrand Goldfields, 1892-1923' by Serah Calitz (Delft University of Technology)
• Q&A

14.00-15.30 – Session VII: Heritage Stories, moderated by Eytan Mann

• 'Monument of Public Memory: Rereading the Uganda National Cultural Centre and Theatre' by Anna Kintsurashvili (Independent Scholar)
• 'Reassessing the Architectural Heritage of Banda Aceh: Colonial Legacies and Modernist Narratives' by Azhiemi Iqbal (Umeå University)
• 'Redrawing Narratives of Modernist Architecture in India: A Tryst in the Courtroom' by Elizabeth Thomas and Neelakantan Keshavan (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)
• 'Reframing the Indian-Modern Vision: Post the Colossal Loss of the Hall of Nations and Other Modern Icons that Wait Their End' by Shruti Hussain (Independent Scholar)
• Q&A

16.00-17.30 – Session VIII: Archiving Ethics, moderated by Dirk van den Heuvel

• '"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly": Colonial Hybridities in the gta Archive Collections' by Irina Davidovici and Sabine Straüli (gta Archive, ETH Zürich)
• 'In (Dis)Use: Nigerian Modernism in Retrospect' by Abdullah Ogunsetan (Omi Collective, University of Lagos)
• 'Against Colonial Architectural Logic: Reading "Unformalisation" from Archives of Formalisation' by Kuukuwa Manful (Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan)
• 'Digging and Processing: Addressing Archival Justice in Global South Research' by Hannah le Roux (Sheffield University) and Nokubekezela Mchunu (Independent Scholar)
• Q&A

18.00-19.00 – Keynote: In conversation with Rolando Vázques