Vera Bühlmann, Rosi Braidotti - Europe and University

Sophistication: Rhetorical, Geometrical, and Computational "Articulation"
A symposium on architecture, technics, theory, and thinking

December 7-9, 2017

WELCOME
Prof. Dr. Vera Bühlmann

Vera Bühlmann is Professor for Architecture Theory at Vienna University of Technology, and director of the ATTP Department since 2016. She originally studied English Literature and Language, Philosophy, and Media Studies at Zurich University, and earned a PHD in Media Philosophy/Philosophy of Technics from Basel University in 2009. Together with Ludger Hovestadt, she is co-founder of the applied virtuality lab in 2010, at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich, where she had been teaching since 2008. She is Co-editor of the Applied Virtuality Book Series (Birkhäuser, since 2012). Her newest monograph is under contract with Bloomsbury Press, London, and will be entitled Mathematics and
Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres (2018, forthcoming).

EUROPE AND THE UNIVERSITY - A concerned Statement
Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti

Rosi Braidotti is an Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. An established scholar in the field of Continental philosophy and epistemology, feminist and gender theories and post-structuralist thought, she is also a world figure in gender and critical theory.
Braidotti set up in 1989 the Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe (NOI&SE) within the Erasmus Programme. From 1997 to 2005 she was the founding scientific director of the SOCRATES Thematic Network for European Women’s Studies ATHENA, which was awarded in 2010 the Erasmus Prize of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission for outstanding contribution to social inclusion. Among her book publications are: Nomadic Subjects (second edition, revised and enlarged, 2011, Columbia University Press); La Philosophie, là oú on ne l’attend pas, Larousse, Paris, 2009; Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, Polity Press, Cambridge 2002.

ATTP - Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics
Institute for Architectural Sciences
Vienna University of Technology