Private Vices or Virtues? Architects in Search of Aesthetics of Resistance

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM — On 20 and 21 July 2017, Isabelle Doucet, Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester (UK) and Janina Gosseye, Research Fellow at the UQ School of Architecture, organized a two-day symposium at the UQ School of Architecture, which focused on the aesthetics of resistance through the analysis of architects’ own homes. This…

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Alternative Facts: Towards a Theorisation of Oral History in Architecture

DOCTORAL WORKSHOP — In July 2017, Janina Gosseye was invited to organise of a one-week doctoral workshop at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal. This doctoral workshop, which Janina co-organised together with Naomi Stead, focused on the method of oral history in architectural research, and consisted of reading sessions, practical exercises and public…

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The Shopping Centre, 1943 – 2013: The Rise and Demise of a Ubiquitous Collective Architecture

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE — This international conference was co-convened by Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete in June 2015 at the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). The conference aimed for a fine-grained, region-specific reading of the shopping centre type, as well for a reassessment of the shopping centre’s vital characteristics and crucial contributions to post-war built…

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Lost in Conversation: Constructing the Oral History of Modern Architecture

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM — ‘Lost in conversation: Constructing the oral history of modern architecture’, was the title of a one-day symposium organised at the University of Queensland in November 2013, and chaired by Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat. The call for papers posited that ‘[e]ven though this novel research method [oral history]…

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