Technics//
Memory//
History//and the Architecture of



Program//

Friday//
25.11.2011

School of Architecture + Design

4.00pm - 4.15pm  Opening Address//

4.15pm - 5.45pm Frame//
  Stuart King: 
  The Landscapes of Tasmanian Architectural History 
  Nicole Sully: 
  Destruction of the Dialectics of Memory:    
  Reimagining and Re-remembering the Works of   
  Minoru Yamasaki
  Hannah Lewi: 
  “Deranging Oneself in Someone Else’s House”

5.45pm - 6.15pm Interstices 12// 
  Journal launch and Cocktails
  School of Architecture + Design Foyer

6.15pm - 7.30pm  Key Speaker//
  Rory Spence Lecture Theatre (School of Architecture + Design)

  Alessandra Ponte: 
  The Archives of the Planet: Cinema, Photography and   
  Memory, 1908-1931

Interstices//
Under Construction Symposium

University of Tasmania Launceston
25-27.11.2011

01. 02.



Saturday//
26.11.2011

School of Visual + Performing Arts
  School of Architecture + Design 

  John Roberts:
  The Ruins are Wonderful so Why Worry? Ruins as Historical
  ‘Image-Objects’ for Aalto and Utzon 

2.30pm - 3.00pm  Afternoon Tea//
  School of Architecture + Design Foyer
3.00pm - 4.30pm Session 1//Spirit
  Seminar Room Level 1 (School of Architecture + Design)
  Anuradha Chatterjee: 
  Birth, Death, and Rebirth: Reconstruction of Architecture in  
  Ruskin’s Writings
  Hayley Wright: 
  Catastrophic Facadism: The Authentic Imitation
  Fiona Gray: 
  Paper and Fire: The Images and Ashes of Rudolf Steiner’s  
  Architecture

3.00pm - 5.00pm  Session 2//Icon
  Seminar Room Level 2 (School of Architecture + Design)
  Iman Al-Attar: 
  Between the ‘represented’ and ‘representing’: The Crisis of  
  Urban History and the Techniques of Historiography
  Tania Davidge: 
  Catastrophe and Memorialisation: Reflecting on the   
  Architectural After-effects of September 11
  James Lewis: 
  Understanding the Iconic Icon
  Tanja Poppelreuter
  Mneme of Space

5.00pm - 5.30pm Drinks//
  School of Architecture + Design Foyer

5.30pm - 6.30pm Key Speaker//
  Rory Spence Lecture Theatre (School of Architecture + Design)
  Peg Rawes: 
  Spinoza’s Geometric Ecology

Saturday//
26.11.2011

School of Visual + Performing Arts
School of Architecture + Design

9.00am - 10.30am Landscape// 
  School of Visual + Performing Arts Foyer
  Gini Lee: 
  Re-enacting Stonescapes: Territories under Construction  
  Brought to Presence
  Linda Marie Walker: 
  Untitled Procedures (Working Title)
  Jacqueline Power: 
  Intertwined: Ring Trees in Wadi Wadi Country

10.30am - 11.00am Morning Tea//
  School of Architecture + Design Foyer
 

11.00am - 12.00pm Key Speaker//
  Rory Spence Lecture Theatre (School of Architecture + Design) 
  Jeff Malpas: 
  Building Memory

12.00pm - 1.00pm Lunch//
  School of Architecture + Design Foyer

1.00pm - 2.30pm Session 1//Cinema
  Seminar Room Level 1 (School of Architecture + Design)
  Micheal Tawa: 
  To be two. Interstice and Deconstitution in Cinema and  
  Architecture.
  Jane Madsen: 
  The Space of Collapse: A Two Part Terrain
  Nikos Papastergiadis:
  Transnational Public Spheres: Large Screens and Aesthetic  
  Cosmopolitanism

1.00pm - 2.30pm Session 2//Psyche
  Seminar Room Level 2 (School of Architecture + Design)
  Jen Brown: 
  Projecting Brisbane: lines of F/light in the 2011 post-flood  
  Festival
  Simon Bourke:
  Interstices and the Aerial Viewpoint: Reconstructing the  
  complexity of the ‘normal’ experience

03. 04.



05. 06.

Sunday//
27.11.2011

Nualla O’Flaherty Theatre, 
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

School of Visual + Performing Arts

9.00am - 10.30m  ‘Domestic’//
  Sean Pickersgill: 
  A Memory of Entropy: Architecture in Tarkovsky’s Stalker
  Sandra Löschke: 
  Techniques of Display:  On Constructing and Mediating  
  Cultural and Aesthetic Values in Exhibition Environments 
  Kirsty Volz: 
  The French Polisher and the Unsentimental Interior

10.30am - 11.00am  Morning Tea//
  School of Visual + Performing Arts Foyer 

11.00am - 12.00pm Key Speaker//
  Karen Burns: 
  Signs, Symptoms and the Index: Depicting Past and Present
  at Purrumbete, 1901-02

12.00pm - 1.00pm Lunch//
  School of Visual + Performing Arts Foyer 

1.00pm - 2.00pm Key Speaker//
  William Taylor
  Architectural Typologies and the Mnemotechnics of   
  Rebuilding in Recent Post-Disaster Scenarios

2.00pm - 3.00pm  Plenary Session//