Launching and presentation of Sophia Journal - OASRN

 
 
 

Launching and presentation of Sophia Journal Vol. 8 No. 1: Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage

MARCH 20, 2024 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00pm | Portuguese Association of Architects – North Regional Section (OASRN)

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Sophia Journal Vol. 8 No. 1 | Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage

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The launching and presentation of Sophia Journal Vol. 8 No. 1 | Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage will take place on March 20, 2024, 6:00pm, at the OASRN's headquarters. The event is under the responsibility of the Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) group, integrated in the R&D Centre for the Study of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) at FAUP in partnership with Portuguese Association of Architects – North Regional Chapter (OASRN).

After the official opening of the session by OASRN, the presentation of Sophia Journal publication and scopio Editorial project will be the responsibility of Pedro Leão Neto (Editor-in-Chief of the publication), who will then give the floor to Hugh Campbell (UCD) who will be moderating the following informal roundtable with all the remaining Editors: Igea Troiani (LSBU), João Leal (P.PORTO / ESMAD), Mark Durden (USW/eCDR), Rikke Munck Petersen (UCPH) and Teresa Ferreira (FAUP/CEAU).

Hugh Campbell is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. His research focuses on modern and contemporary architectural production, on the relationship between photography, architecture and built space, and on the visual culture of cities. He is on the steering group of the AHRA and on the board of Places Journal, to which he is a regular contributor.

The book launch and following roundtable will be held in simultaneously online and in person, and you can join this online launch and round-table by accessing the following link: https://youtu.be/….

The launch and presentations will be conducted in English.

Sede da Secção Regional Norte da Ordem dos Arquitectos Rua Álvares Cabral, 144 – Porto


Issue description

Sophia’s third cycle main theme is “Landscapes of Care” with an overall interest around contemporary photography on how architecture can help a broken planet. It intends to understand how the photographic/imagery universe can be explored as a meaningful instrument of research about the multifaceted complex socioeconomic, political, historical, technical and ecological dimensions of architecture, city and territory that testify, question or emerge from relationships of care.
The concept “landscapes of care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study coming from health geography to the arts and architecture. Taking this notion to the universe of architecture we would like to understand architecture, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms, constituted by multifaceted landscapes with complex social and organisational spatialities which embody the difference and the other, the strange, the unfamiliar, the indigenous, the human and the non-human.

Sophia Journal Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage addresses contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture understood in a wide sense can help to heal a broken planet. The concept of “Landscapes of Care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts, architecture and heritage preservation. It is used here in order to understand and document modern architecture, building, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms, as well as heritage resources for global sustainability. Modern architecture is a ‘heritage at risk’ as it belongs to a recent past that has not yet been sufficiently recognised by the authorities, scholars and general public. Our aim is to explore the ways in which photography and film can be used as meaningful instruments of research into the socioeconomic, political, historical, technical and ecological dimensions of modern architecture, city and territory.

Editorial Team
Hugh Campbell (UCD)
Igea Troiani (LSBU)
João Leal (P.PORTO / ESMAD)
Mark Durden (USW/eCDR)
Rikke Munck Petersen (UCPH)
Teresa Ferreira (FAUP/CEAU) 

Editor-in-Chief
Pedro Leão Neto

About the Journal

Sophia Journal is an international academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with the association Cityscopio and their publishing imprint scopio Editions.

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https://www.agenda-porto.pt/evento/sophia-journal/
https://ordemdosarquitectos.org/sr_norte/agenda/lancamento-sophia-journal-vol8
https://sigarra.up.pt/faup/pt/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=81383
https://ceau.arq.up.pt/en/highlights/events/lancamento-e-apresentacao-de-sophia-journal-vol-8-no-1