International Conference ARCHITECTURE [IN] ]OUT[ POLITICS

Architecture is a political inscription: construction is dependent on the economic capacity of those commissioning the construction; forms convey models of behaviour and formulate desire; power needs to make itself represented and recognise itself as being represented. Architects’ actions are also politically determined and only robust regimes are able to sustain large-scale experiments. Any model of democratic (or democratising) architecture can originate in contexts of abundance or scarcity. Architecture is a socialising operation. Consequently, it affirms democraticIdeas of a supportive, inclusive and fair world. The conference architecture [in] ]out[ politics is emerging as an opportunity to consider and discuss architecture as a guiding instrument of democratic processes and as a temporal and spatial sign of their potentialities. Architecture and politics are, per se, argument and process, broad and open. This conference discusses them in a cross-disciplinary, interdependent manner, in which critical reflection is circumscribed by a framework that is centred on four vectors: politics, citizenship, ambiguity, and apparatus. Through these vectors, an analysis will be carried out of the way that architectural practices operate as manifesto, place, factuality, and function. POLITICS Andrea Cavaletti (Keynote), Markus Miessen, Ricardo Carvalho, Jeffrey Inaba (Moderator) CITIZENSHIP Reinhold Martin (Keynote), Jorge M. Jáuregui, Antanas Mockus, J.A. Bandeirinha, Yona Friedman, Joaquim Moreno (Moderator) AMBIGUITY Sarah Whiting (Keynote), Pier Vittorio Aureli, Rem Koolhaas, Jorge Carvalho (Moderator) APPARATUS Monique Eleb (Keynote), Jonathan Hill, Santiago Cirugeda, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pedro Bandeira (Moderator)