"Ways of teaching-with in architecture" lecture series - Pelin Tan: On the Unconditionality of Architecture 

Arrangør: Bergen School of Architecture Studio for Theory and History
Dato: Onsdag 27. mai
Tid:
16:00 - Dørene åpner
17:00 - Foredrag
Billetter: Gratis inngang!
Rom: Bergen Kjøtt Bar (1. etasje)
Aldersgrense: Fri alder
Språk: Engelsk

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On the Unconditionality of Architecture: What kind of ethical demand does substitution at the threshold entail? Does the dualism of guest and host truly exist? And what are the conditions of radical hospitality? What kinds of conceptualizations do notions such as space, building, surface, neighborhood, wall, bostan, or a camp offer regarding the relationship between scale and ethics?

This presentation will examine Levinas’s concepts of dwelling, substitution, the ethics of the face, and alterity through a Critchley-inspired reading of Levinas. Through cross-readings, it will critically engage with a reading of hospitality grounded in a Eurocentric onto-ethics that presupposes the possibility of a coherent and self-sustaining affirmative ethics (Dufourmantelle & Derrida). It will follow Karen Barad’s ethics of entanglement, accountability, and intra-connectedness with other forms of existence. What are the ethical-spatial entangled scales of unconditionality of architecture?

Pelin Tan is a researcher based in Mardin Turkiye. Sociologist/Art Historian, Prof./Head of the Cultural Studies graduate program of Batman University. 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Art&Activism fellowship, Bard College Human Rights Project, 2019, NYC. Tan is a member of the curatorial board of IBA Stuttgart 2027 and the Research Network Steering Committee of the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal 2025 - 2027. Co-Curator of Urgent Pedagogies (IASPIS). Tan was a visiting professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design (2016), the Architecture Faculty of the University of Cyprus (2018), and the Orient Institute in Beirut, Lebanon. Leads research on the threshold infrastructure of the Culture of Assembly, Luxembourg University, Architecture Faculty. Books: Forms of Non-Belonging, e-flux books/Sternberg, 2026. Unconditional Hospitality - Threshold Architecture, dpr-barcelona, 2026. Editor of i press, Cambridge.

Selected Publications: Agonistic Assemblies (Sternberg Press/MIT Press, 2024), From Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023), Climates: Architecture and The Planetary Imaginary (Columbia Univ.Press, 2017), Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press, 2022), Designing Modernity The Arab Architecture (Jovis, 2021), Autonomous Archiving (Istanbul, 2017), Refugee Heritage (DAAR-2020), Urgencies in Architectural Theories (Columbia Univ.Press, 2015), Lead author of the Urban Society report by ipsp (Cambridge Univ.Press 2018).

Photo: A Refugee Dwellling from 1949, UNRWA by architect Hasan Fathy, Jericho. Photo by Pelin Tan, 2023.