7th SOPHIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
LANDSCAPES OF CARE: THE EMERGENCE OF LANDSCAPES OF CARE IN UNSTABLE TERRITORIES
1. Armin Linke, Lake Assal, extraction of salt, Djibouti, Africa, 2012. Courtesy Armin Linke and Vistamare / Vistamarestudio, Pescara / Milano.
The current 7th Sophia International Conference, organised by CEAU / FAUP, is the direct result of the Call for Papers of the upcoming 7th issue of Sophia Journal and the first volume within a new cycle of the Sophia Journal dedicated to Landscapes of Care. After a selection of the best papers and visual essays submitted to our Call, the results will be presented during an Online Conference, on the 29th of September, organised in two panels, discussing landscapes of extraction, wastelands, desert landscapes as heritage, geological boundaries and political borders, arctic expeditions, among other stimulating issues central to discuss what we have proposed in our Call. The Online Conference also counts with three presentations by invited keynote speakers: Armin Linke, Marco Ferrari + Elisa Pasqual (Studio Folder), and Elsa Brès. Each presentation is followed by a generous time for discussion between all the participants to fulfil what has been one of the major objectives of these Conferences.
To celebrate the rich and diverse program of the current issue of this year's Sophia International Conference, the organisation committee proposes a live screening of films during the afternoon of the 28th of September, followed by a round-table with Margarida Mendes (TBC), Jorge Leandro Rosa, and Pedro Bandeira. The films are Subir e Sumir (2021), by Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela; Forest Mind (2021), by Ursula Biemann; Sweat (2020), by Elsa Brès; and Salarium (2017), by Sasha Litvinsteva in collaboration with Daniel Mann. This parallel event is an in-person event, open to all which should propel a large number of topics to be further discussed and developed on the next day, during the online conference.
The general objective of these Conferences is to promote the reflection and debate on the universes of Architecture, Art and Image, addressing various issues transversal to the worlds of Photography and Architecture, exploring how the image can be a means to cross borders and shift boundaries between different disciplinary areas.
For more detailed information, please consult the program.
EXECUTIVE COMMITEE
Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP)
Susana Ventura (FAUP / CEAU)
Andreia Alves de Oliveira (Photographer, PhD)
PROGRAMMING
Susana Ventura
Andreia Alves de Oliveira
INVITED ARTISTS | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Armin Linke
Elsa Brès
Elisa Pasqual
Marco Ferrari
ORGANIZATION AND PRODUCTION
Diana Senra
Sara Lino
COMMUNICATION
FAUP / CEAU and Sophia Journal / scopio Editions
DATE
28 and 29 September 2022
PLACE
The Conference will be held in person at FAUP (Auditório Fernando Távora) on the 28th of September and online via zoom on the 29th of September
Zoom Link
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/89009331832?pwd=EncaL2AKR9R4Xp8TTCi0_6fuE4rvG9.1
ID: 890 0933 1832
Password: 400033
LANDSCAPES OF CARE: THE EMERGENCE OF LANDSCAPES OF CARE IN UNSTABLE TERRITORIES
For the 7th issue of Sophia Journal and first issue in the cycle, we focused on the emergence of landscapes of care in unstable territories. These territories may be, but are not exclusive to: the desert, the icy lands, the rainy forests; territories within uncertain boundaries, e.g. between land and water; territories inhabited by native communities; territories that dramatically alter their configuration due to extreme weather conditions and scarce resources, or which natural resources are violently exploited and violated. Such territories hold vital information about patterns of resistance, flexibility, transformation and metamorphosis, enlightening the problems of vulnerability and resilience in the unforeseen future while opening up new perspectives of design, including new ways of poetically inhabiting the world as a place of encounter between species (following Haraway’s motto “staying with the trouble” and Guattari’s demand: “We need new social and aesthetic practices, new practices of the Self in relation to the other, to the foreign, the stranger”), protecting the ecosystems and understanding architecture, more than the distribution of spaces, as the distribution of the sensible.
The Sophia Journal International Conference will present a live and videoconference program organised by CEAU / FAUP and the event will encompass a rich and diverse program meaning: (i) Live screening of films related with Sophia´s comprehensive call and a round-table with invited authors; (ii) Online Conference with presentation of articles and visual essays structured in two panels for discussion.
The global objective of these international forums is to promote the reflection and debate on the universes of Architecture, Art and Image, addressing various issues transversal to the worlds of Photography and Architecture, exploring how the image can be a means to cross borders and shift boundaries between different disciplinary areas.