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Section of Urban Design/Transitional Territories Lecture Series—After Territory—Session 3
Within the framework of:
TUDelft
Section of Urban Design
Delta Urbanism Research Group
Graduation Studio—Transitional Territories
Section of Landscape Architecture
Graduation Studio—Water Landscapes of Crisis and Hope
Special session curated by:
Nikos Katsikis, Victor Muñoz Sanz and Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Section of Urban Design—TUDelft
The Transitional Territories lecture series explores the agency of design as a mode of investigation and reflexive transformation of the ever-changing interrelations between natural processes, societal practices, and (geo)political frameworks.
The 2022-2023 edition marks the end of a cycle of investigations of the Transitional Territories research group and graduation studio on the Inland-Seaward topic. Jointly with the Water Landscapes of Crisis and Hope Studio and under the provocative title After Territory it aims to bring together perspectives from urban and landscape theory, critical media, and design to explore spatial approaches and concepts that can help decipher material processes of anthropogenic transformation of the earth across scales. The series aspires to offer critical insightsinto the state and agency of the territorial project within the pressing context of the climate crisis and the associated social and ecological tensions.
This special session – May 12th 2023 – aims to unpack relationships between climate, capitalism, and the global hinterland question.
Program
2023 sessions
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Session 3 – Special Session
12 May 2023
16:00—19:00 CET
TU Delft | BK-Berlagezaal 1&2
Milica Topalovic
Stephan Petermann
Dehlia Hannah
Jeff Diamanti
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Milica Topalovic
After Monoculture: Repair in Agriterritories
Milica Topalović is Associate Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. Her work is concerned with territories beyond-the-city and transformation processes they are exposed to, through the movement of capital, social restructuring, and environmental change. With Architecture of Territory group she undertook a range of territorial studies around the world, in remote regions, resource hinterlands, and countrysides, in an effort to decenter and ecologize architect’s approaches to the city, the urban, and urbanization.
Her work has been published in various international journals and books, including Harvard Design Magazine, New Geographies, and Architectural Design. She has coauthoredBelgrade. Formal Informal (2012), The Inevitable Specificity of Cities (2015), and Constructed Land. Singapore 1924–2012 (2014). A book Extended Urbanisation. Territories, Processes, Struggles coedited with Christian Schmid is forthcoming (2023).
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Stephan Petermann
Dirty hands
Stephan Petermann holds a Master’s degree in the History of Architecture and the Theory of Building Preservation from the Utrecht University (2001-2007) and studied Architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology (2001-2005). From 2006 onwards he was a long-term collaborator of Rem Koolhaas assisting him with research, strategy, editing and curation. He was an associate at OMA’s thinktank AMO from 2010 until 2019. In 2019 he founded MANN with Marieke van den Heuvel. In the Fall of 2022 with Ruth Baumeister and Marieke van den Heuvel he published Back to the Office with NAI010 Publishers. Back to the Office explores 50 once iconic and revolutionary office buildings and what is left of them after years of use. The research extends our understanding of sustainable building use over time.
Since 2019 he is a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts’ Visual Arts Innovation Center in Beijing. In 2019 he founded MANN, a research and creative design consultancy in Amsterdam working with a variety of private clients and public organizations on strategy, concept and content development in real estate development, food and agriculture, and technology. In February 2020 he presented Chinese Villages: A new Era as part of the Countryside.The Future exhibition by Rem Koolhaas/AMO at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York done as a result of a four-year collaboration with the CAFA Visual Arts Innovation Center in Beijing looking at the future of the Chinese countryside. Since the Summer of 2021 he is the editor-in-chief of VOLUME, a magazine devoted to architecture, design and anything else that comes in its path. He has published in various magazines including Vrij Nederland, Domus. NRC, and Architectural Design. He is an advisor to various organizations including the Dutch Culture Council and the Internationale Bau Austellung in Thüringen, Germany. He is a member of the board of Nethwork and the Sikkens Foundation. He taught at various design schools including Harvard Graduate School for Design, Aarhus School of Architecture, Design Academy Eindhoven and Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. His work has been recognized by The New York Times, Financial Times and Xinhua Press, amongst others.
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Dehlia Hannah
Plant Criticism
Dehlia Hannah is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art & The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Mads Øvlisen Fellow, Art and Natural Science, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Affiliated Researcher, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University.
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Jeff Diamanti
Inorganic Capital
Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. His first book, Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Bloomsbury 2021) tracks the political and media ecology of fossil fuels across the extractive and logistical spaces that connect remote territories like Greenland to the economies of North America and Western Europe. His new research, Bloom Ecologies details the return to natural philosophy in the marine and atmospheric sciences studying the interactive dynamics of the cryosphere and hydrosphere in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean.
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Session 1
16 March 2023
17:00—19:00 CET
TU Delft | BK-Hall F
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Session 2 / One-Day Exhibition and Symposium ‘Territory as a Project’
14 April 2023
Symposium Session
13:30—18:30 CET
TU Delft | BK-Berlagezaal 1&2
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Session 3
12 May 2023
16:00—19:00 CET
TU Delft | BK-Berlagezaal 1&2
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Session 4 / Final Studio Exhibition and Symposium
22 June 2023
Symposium Session
15:30—18:30 CET
TU Delft | BK-Berlagezaal 1&2
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