From September 5th to 9th, 2018 in Ascona, Ticino
The Braillard Architects Foundation inaugurates its collaboration with the Eranos Foundation within the framework of conferences that the latter organises each year in Ascona, Ticino, with subjects tackling the great questions of our time with philosophy.
The 2018 edition of Eranos Tagungen addresses the concepts of space and place, to then question their relationship to thoughts, creativity and reflection, in our current critical and transitional era.
- If reflection and creativity are resources not just for an instrumental relationship to the world, but also for a deeper relationship with things and with ourselves, which spatial qualities (physical and mental) allow them to develop fully?
- Which spatial conditions, necessarily related to time, are conducive to the productivity of the mind?
- What is the influence of public and private space, of landscaped and built space, including “natural” space, on the spirit and its development?
- Do living spaces as they are organised today – and the temporal dimension which characterises them – still allow us to nourish thoughts that are at the height of our concerns, our search for meaning, our current condition in the Anthropocene era?
Programme
Wednesday September 5th
- Introduction – Fabio Merlini, Eranos Foundation and Panos Mantziaras, Braillard Architects Foundation
- “Space and relations. Human space in the age of lost boundaries” – Adriano Fabris, University of Pisa
Thursday September 6th
- “Nietzsche and Klages on the architecture of the mind: making space for the soul” – Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow
- “geolocating the anthropocene: masculinity, pharmacology, extinction” – Étienne Turpin, anexact office, Berlin/Jakarta
Friday September 7th
- “The places of thinking in the ancient world: Plato and the other philosophers” – Franco Ferrari, University of Salerno
- “New landscapes in contemporary German poetry” – Amelia Valtolina, University of Bergamo
Saturday September 8th
- “20e – 21e siècles. De la ville enchantée à la métropole désenchantée” (20th-21st centuries. From enchanted city to disenchanted metropolis) – Yannis Tsiomis, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
- “La mesure de la terre” (Measuring Earth) – Valery Afanassiev, Bierges, Belgium
Sunday September 9th
- Doctoral seminar coordinated by Franco Giudice, University of Bergamo
- Conclusion – Fabio Merlini, Eranos Foundation
In collaboration with the Research Doctorate in Transcultural Humanist Studies, University of Bergamo, and the Research Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Pisa and University of Florence.
