Conference Trans_Thinking the City: Architecture in Mind

by M&C

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31 October 2008 - 01 November 2008 | 09:00 o'clock - 18:00 o'clock
location: Faculteit Bouwkunde, Julianalaan 132, Auditorium B


Theme (to be presented and discussed) 

  • The Social Mind 
  • Cognitive Capitalism
  • Deleuze and the Brain
  • Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades
  • New Spatial Practices, The World is Flat
  • Brain and Culture; Brain and Culture
  • Non Linear Dynamic Systems in the Brain
  • Readiness Potential
  • Architecture and Attention
  • Post-Phenomena and Persuasion 

Colloquium participants

  • Andreas Angelidakis - Can architecture save you from Facebook fatique?
    Principal, Angelidakis Studio
  • Yann M. Boutang - Mutations in Contemporary urban space and the cognitive turning point of capitalism
    Professor in Economy, Compiègene University, France, Director of the journal Multitudes
  • Jordan Crandall  - Rediness and Expectation
    Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego
  • Keller Easterling – Estrastatecraft
    Associate Professor of Architecture, Yale University School of Architecture
  • Scott Kelso - Metastable Mind: The complementary nature of coordination dynamics
    Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science at Florida Atlantic University. Founder and Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
  • Marcus Miessen - The uninvited outsider
    Director of Studio Miessen, London Berlin. Director, AA Winter School Middle East, Visiting Professorship in Shiraz Iran
  • Abdul-Karim Mustapha - Closing Remarks
    Co-editor: The Philosophy of Antonio Negri, (Pluto Press); editorial member of Rethinking Marxism and Multitude.
  • Warren Neidich - Neuopower: post-phenomenon and persuasion
    Visiting Artist and Research Fellow Center for Cognition, Computation and Culture, Goldsmiths College London
  • John Protevi - Deleuze and the brain: ontology and neuropolitics
    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
    Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University
  • Bruce Wexler - Brain and culture: shaping the environments that shape our brains
    Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School,  Director Neurocognitive Research Laboratory,
    Connecticut Mental Health Center
  • Charles Wolfe - The social mind
    ARC Research Fellow, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney

Registration
This colloquium is open to the public, to register to attend please send an email to:
dsd-bk@tudelft.nl  - placing ‘Register: Trans Thinking: Architecture in Mind’ in the subject line.

Program (PDF, 671 KB)

Further information
For further information please visit the DSD website: www.dsd.tudelft.nl