From Multicultural to Pluriversal.

van den Heuvel, D. (Member of programme committee)

Public Building and Housing Design

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

Co-organiser role, and moderator role of the concluding discussion, summarizing the talks and ideas expressed at the colloquium.

Period	22 Sept 2022
Event type	Seminar
Location	Leiden, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Modern Architecture
Architectural Theory
Architectural History
Post-colonial studies
decolonialiality

Documents & Links

This seminar focuses on the intertwined discourse of modern architecture, the constructed notion of modernity, and colonialism in relation to vernacular architecture and ethnographic collections. With contributions from art scholars, anthropologists, researchers, and architecture historians, the colloquium interrogates the ways in which non-Western symbolism and iconography from art and architecture were incorporated into Western architectural thinking during the second half of the twentieth century. This seminar aims to unpack 'modern' architecture's unavoidable connections with questions of colonialism and coloniality, and seeks to explore how cross-cultural interactions might be approached today.