The Design of Self
February 22 – 23, 2013
UCLA Royce 314
The idea of “the self” has been central to recent invocations of an authentic embodied experience. This symposium focuses on new methodological approaches to exploring the category of “the self" in architectural history and its relevance to the question: “What is the modern mode of being subjects?” Invited speakers will introduce a critical distance from naturalizing claims to embodied experience by addressing the cultural formation of concepts like habit, the senses, and environment.
Participants include:
Daniel Barber Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Zeynep Celik Alexander Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Irene Cheng Assistant Professor, California College of Arts
Edward Eigen Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate
John Harwood Associate Professor, Oberlin College School of Design
Erika Naginski Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Michael Osman Assistant Professor, UCLA
Aron Vinegar Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Tijana Vujosevic Assistant Professor, University of Western Australia