ICAM23 Conference Program

The programme schedule listed here may be subject to minor changes. * indicates events included in the Partner Ticket.

Monday, 19 October: Pre-Conference Tour

• Topkapı Palace and Harem
• Istanbul Archaeological Museum

Lunch is included in the pre-conference ticket. Price 220 EUR

Tuesday, 20 October: Conference Day 1

• Registration*
• Welcome Notes*

Opening lecture: “State and Skyline: Public Space and Architecture in Illiberal Times,” – Bülent Batuman (Associate Professor of Architecture, Bilkent University)

• General Assembly

Coffee Break

Session: Architecture of Loss – Chaired by Avianti Armand (Co-founders/Co-directors, Arsitektur Indonesia) and Setiadi Sopandi (Co-founders/Co-directors, Arsitektur Indonesia)

• “Fragile Modernities: Nature, Materials, and Loss in Turkish Interiors,” Deniz Hasırcı (Professor, İzmir University of Economics)
• “The Return of the Vernacular,” Evangelos Kotsioris (Director, Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment; Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• “Seeing What We Are Losing: Re-thinking the Framework for Understanding and Preserving Arsitektur Nusantara,” Varani Kosasih and Yori Antar (Co-Founders, Uma Nusantara Foundation)
• “Enter: Truus Schröder, Architect,” Catja Edens (PhD Researcher, Antwerp University)
• “The Absent Archive: Disaster Memory and the Missing Histories of Türkiye’s Earthquakes,” Ipek Türeli (Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice; Associate Professor, McGill University)
• “Memory Production after Loss: Kampung Kunir and the Erasure of an Urban Palimpsest,” Khusnul Hanifati (Assistant Professor, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
  

Lunch: Lunch at SALT Galata
Not included in the partner ticket.

Tour: Salt Galata and Archive Tour*

Keynote Speeches

● “The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture: Designing with Records and Stories,” Sevince Bayrak (Architect, SO? Architecture & Ideas; Associate Professor, MEF University)
● “Tracing Loss Through Architecture: Istanbul’s Non-Muslim Built Environment,” Firuzan Melike Sümertaş (Architectural Historian, Independent Researcher)

Free Time

Evening: Welcome Reception*

Wednesday, 21 October: Conference Day 2

Site Visits*

• Kuzguncuk
• Müze Gazhane

Lunch: Lunch near Müze Gazhane*

Session: Curatorial Negotiations, Collection Experiments – Chaired by Carlos Mínguez Carrasco (Chief Curator, ArkDes)

• “Building from Within,” Béatrice Grenier (Director of Strategic Projects and International Programs, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain)
• “The Immersive Collection Gallery: Matching the Digital and the Physical World,” Stefanie Korrel (Curator of Collections, Nieuwe Instituut) and Clara Haardt (Curator/Archivist of Collections, Nieuwe Instituut)
• “Fictions of Immunity: Liminal States of Conservation,” Maite Borjabad (Independent Curator, Spain)
• “An Archive Among Friends: La Escuelita Collection (1976–1983),” Isabella Moretti (Director of Archivo Di Tella Arquitectura, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
• “Reconstructing Wenche Selmer,” Martin Braathen and Joakim Skajaa (Senior Curators, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway)

Free Time

Lightning Session – Chaired by Birgitte Sauge (Senior Curator Architecture, The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Norway) / Walk-in Cinema, Salt Beyoğlu

Evening: Exhibition Tour & Drinks @Salt Beyoğlu*

The Lightning Session and evening event are open to invited guests

Thursday, 22 October: Conference Day 3

Site Visits*

• Taksim
• Atatürk Cultural Center
• ITU Faculty of Architecture (Taşkışla)
• Hilton

Lunch: Lunch near Hilton*

Forum

• Forum is an open space offered to all conference participants for discussion and networking around topics outside the main sessions.

Please contact Antonella Alici a.alici@staff.univpm.it for regional meetings or proposals.

Coffee Break

Session: Invisible Tensions: Between Digital and Digitized Architecture – Chaired by Orkun Dayıoğlu (Archivist, Salt)

• “Unexpected Alliances: Shaping a New Digital Stewardship,” Ania Molenda (Curator of Collections, Nieuwe Instituut)
• “Making the Internet Forever: Preserving Online Architectural Culture,” Katrien Weyns (Head of Collection, Flemish Architecture Institute)
• “Digital Twin as Virtual Archiving Tool,” Manon Janssens (Associate Director, Head of Exhibitions & Archive, Zaha Hadid Architects)
  

CIAM Roundtable

Free Time

Evening: Dinner*

Friday, 23 October: Conference Day 4

Site Visits*

• Rami Library
• İMÇ (Istanbul Textile Traders’ Market)

Lunch: Lunch near İMÇ*

Session: Pedagogical Practices: How to Get Architecture Outside of Museums and Archives? – Chaired by Sara Meunier (Head of Education, arc en rêve centre d’architecture)

• “Architecture as Field Practice: Activating the Built Environment Beyond the Institution,” Katarzyna Nestorowicz (Specialists of Communication and Promotion, National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Warsaw)
• “Exhibiting Education: Museums, School Infrastructures, and the Making of Public Things,” Theodossis Issaias (Curator, Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art; Professor of Practice, Carnegie Mellon University)
• “Playing Architecture: Participatory Approaches to Architectural Literacy at the DAM,” Confiyet Aydin (Deputy Head of Education, Deutsches Architekturmuseum)
• “Palladio Without Walls: How We Can Still Learn from a 500-Year-Old Architect—Ages 3 to 99,” Ilaria Abbondandolo (Senior Curator, Palladio Museum)
• “Reimagining Community Architecture/Diverse Past and Near Future,” Emilie Retailleau (Curator, Public, Canadian Centre for Architecture)
  

General Assembly II

Coffee Break

Session: Building Responsive Repositories: Architectural Resonances in Africa, West and Central Asia, and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean – Chaired by Setareh Noorani (Researcher, Nieuwe Instituut)

• “The Entangled Archive: Towards a Networked, Responsive Repository,” Edward Bottoms (Head of Archives, Architectural Association, London) and Angus Taylor (Architect, Independent Researcher)
• “The Archive and Cultural Heritage: Not Just Repositories of Documents and Stones, the Case of RIWAQ Centre,” Marah Khalaf (Archivist, RIWAQ – Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah) and Hiba Omari (Development Officer, RIWAQ – Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah)
• “The Archive and Cultural Heritage: Not Just Repositories of Documents and Stones, the Case of RIWAQ Centre,” Marah Khalaf (Archivist, RIWAQ – Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah) and Hiba Omari (Development Officer, RIWAQ – Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah)
• “Non-Aligned Modernisms: Three Exhibitions at MoMA,” Martino Stierli (The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• “A Journey into Architecture Archives,” George Arbid (Director, Arab Center for Architecture, Beirut)
  

Closing

Optional Program

• Studio Visits (with prior registration)*

Note: Sessions will take place at the Auditorium at Salt Galata unless otherwise stated.

Saturday, 24 October: Post-Conference Recommendations

Free access to partner museums.

* indicates events included in the Partner Ticket.