Launching and presentation of the 6th Edition of Sophia Journal - 'Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations
April 21st, 2022 (THURSDAY), 6:30pm | ORDEM DOS ARQUITECTOS SECÇÃO REGIONAL NORTE (OASRN)
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The launching and presentation of the 6th edition of the Sophia Journal - 'Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations' will take place on April 21, 2022, 6:30pm, at the OASRN's headquarters. The event is part of the research project funded by the FCT - Visual Spaces of Change (VSC) - 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.
The event will be attended by Maria Conceição Figueiredo Melo (President of OASRN) who will open the table. The presentation of the publication will be the responsibility of Bruno de Campos Baldaia (Vice-President of OASRN), who will then give the floor to Pedro Leão Neto (Director of the publication) who will be moderating the following debate. Wilfred Wang (Guest Editor of the 6th edition of Sophia Journal) will be the first to intervene with the keynote address Image and Conscience after which all who have integrated the Editorial team of this 6th edition will take part.
The architect Wilfried Wang is a member of CICA and the author of diverse essays, monographs and topographs on the architecture of the twentieth century, being the Guest Editor of the 6th issue of Sophia Journal. The other members of the Editorial Team were Jorge Marum (CIAUD-UBI), Leonor Matos Silva (Dinâmia'CET, ISCTE-IUL), Carolina Leite (CEAU / FAUP), Carlos Machado e Moura (CEAU / FAUP) and Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI), being Pedro Leão Neto the Editor-in-chief of the publication.
The book launch and following debate will be held in person, being the keynote address Image and Conscience by Wilfried Wang held online. You can join this online keynote address by accessing the following link: https://youtu.be/zyQl4jKF9TI
The launch and presentations will be conducted in Portuguese.
Sede da Secção Regional Norte da Ordem dos Arquitectos Rua Álvares Cabral, 144 – Porto
Vol. 6 of Sophia Journal Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations published articles addressing the following global issues: How do we all become aware of the gradual, but inescapable changes in the environment? How does photography raise public awareness of the pressing environmental changes implicit in our anthropocentric epoch? How can photography contribute to these complex debates? These issues were addressed from several perspectives: from confronting our memories and understandings of a place to reactivating ‘what is no longer there’ or proposing ‘what could be there’.
This volume brings together photographers and researchers who make significant contributions to these discussions, including the material processes of creating, managing and interpreting sets of documents. We are publishing work where photography is explored as a significant research tool for critical and innovative views on architecture and urban transformation in their expanded fields and contextualized by larger systems: cultural, political, artistic, technical, and historical dimensions. In this context, the works which are presented in Sophia question how the different dimensions of architecture and urban transformation may be meaningfully understood or reframed through the different lenses and perspectives of visual processes.
Editorial Team
Wilfried Wang (UTSoA) Guest Editor
Jorge Marum (CIAUD-UBI)
Leonor Matos Silva (Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL) Carolina Leite (CEAU / FAUP)
Carlos Machado e Moura (CEAU / FAUP) Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI)
Editor-in-chief
Pedro Leão Neto
Sophia Journal Vol. 6 International Conference
International Conference - 6th number of Sophia Journal - Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations took place on the 21 and 22 of May - FAUP | 2021.
Online access to Conference
MORNING SESSION – 21 MAY - OPENING SESSION | PANEL #1
AFTERNOON SESSION – 21 MAY - PANEL #2 | PANEL #3
MORNING SESSION | 22 MAY - PANEL #4
EXHIBITION at FAUP
Abstract
The International Conference for SOPHIA #6 took place at the Faculty of Architecture of University of Porto (FAUP), continuing the annual cycle of international forums on a specific theme.
Sophia Journal ́s International Conference consisted of a live and video conference programme organized by CEAU / FAUP in partnership with other institutions and the event will be held online and access to the Conference Room will only be possible to the organising team.
Encompassing a rich and diverse programme around: (i) roundtables for each panel concerning a focused topic coming from Sophia ́s comprehensive call; (ii) presentation of articles submitted; (iii) the opening of Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations exhibition using the VSC Mobile Projector.
The contents of the exhibition will also be online soon and the exhibition experience is registered purely for research purposes, being analysed in the context of the ongoing Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations articles and research.
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.