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International Competitions and Architectural Quality in the Planetary Age
http://www.crc.umontreal.ca/index.php?id=141&lang=en

International symposium jointly organised by: 
the Research Chair on Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture (C.R.C, http://www.crc.umontreal.ca) 
and the Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle de l’Université de Montréal (L.E.A.P, http://www.leap.umontreal.ca). 
This gathering is jointly directed by Professors Jean-Pierre Chupin (C.R.C) et Georges Adamczyk (L.E.A.P).
This symposium will bring together architects, town planners, geographers, researchers and competition experts of 15 American and European countries.
The lectures will be presented in English. Translation in French will only be provided during the question period.

Dates Friday16 and Saturday 17 March 2012

Venue Université de Montréal, Faculté de l’aménagement Auditoriums  1120 and 3110 2940,  chemin de la Côte Sainte-Catherine Montréal QC  H3T 1B9

Program The symposium program is available on the website of the Research  Chair on Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture.

Registration The number of seats being limited, registration is mandatory.
 Please register by sending an email to: 
 leap.labo@gmail.com, subject : “registration international competitions  symposium 2012” that includes your name, e-mail , institution.

 The entrance is free for students and professors of the Université de Montréal (registration nonetheless mandatory). (Symposium registration fee to be confirmed for professionals only).

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International Competitions and Architectural Quality  in the Planetary Age

Montreal 2012 conference 

Organised by the

Université de Montréal Research Chair on Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture (CRC)
www.crc.montreal.ca

and the

Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle (LEAP) 
Université de Montréal / Faculté de l’aménagement / École d’architecture
www.leap.umontreal.ca

Date: Friday March 16 to Saturday March 17

For further information please refer to the detailed program

Schoepfer, I, Zweifel, C, Paisiou, S 2011 ‘”I Would Never Live in this Neighbourhood, I Don’t Want an Apartment with Creaking Floors” - Images of Built Space in Residential Choices’, Ultima Thule: Journal of Architectural Imagination, vol. 1, no. 1.

http://www.ultimathule.com.au/index.php/ultima/issue/view/2/showToc

Recent years have witnessed an increasing internationalization of claims as well as claimants with respect to social protest as a result of various notions of globalization and the spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) (Tilly and Wood, 2009). In this contribution, we will show how the rise of ICT goes along with a shift from a society of discipline to a society of control (Deleuze, 1992), or, more precisely, a superimposition of these two modes of power (cf. Savat, 2009b) and how this calls for a re-conception of space as an apparatus of control (cf. Agamben, 2001).

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Prof. Iain Munro, University of Innsbruck (Visiting Professor) &
Prof. Van Wezemael

Venue:    University of Fribourg, Geography building, Ch. du Musée 4, room: will be announced via moodle

Congratulations to Sofia Paisiou and Jan Silberberger who successfully defended their PhDs under the supervision of Prof. Van Wezemael on September 14/15!!

The event starts at 13h45 and ends at 17h45.
The entrance is free, but registration is demanded before 1.9.2011.
The number of participants is limited.

For further information see Invitation Closing Event Competition ReseARCH UniFR