Aesthetics: Architecture, Landscape, Archaeology
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Speakers:
Professor Jale Erzen, Department of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, “Greek Architecture – Synergy: nature/culture”
Professor Raffaele Milani, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna, “Theories of Landscape: an interdisciplinary approach”
Dr Aikaterini Gkoltsiou, President of the Panhellenic Association of Landscape Architects, “Collective memory and place identity: Landscape design interventions in Greece”
Dr Martha Fajardo, CEO Grupo Verde, Bogota, Colombia, “Latin American Landscape Initiatives: Connecting peoples, building collaboration, cocreation and making inspiring places”
Professor Jala Makhzoumi, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, American University of Beirut, “Historical transformations of urban culture: Landscape politics and practice in Beirut”
Dr Vangelis Athanassopoulos, Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics at the Michelis Chair, Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete, "Image and Identity”
Dr Zoltan Somhegyi, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts in the College of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, “Mirroring ruins: Aesthetic experience and engaging with the past”
Professor Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, “Ancient Athens and the Future City”
Coordinator: Professor Elias Constantopoulos, Professor of Architecture, University of Patras
All lectures will be conducted in English.
Organizer The Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation
Organizer of Aesthetics: Architecture, Landscape, Archaeology
The Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation was established by Effie Michelis in 1979. The Foundation is a legal entity of private law administered by a five-member Board of Directors.
The Foundation’s mandate is to study and promote aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
The Foundation fulfils its mandate through a variety of activities, including scholarships for graduate studies in aesthetics and art; scholarly publications; conferences, seminars, lectures, and art exhibitions; endowing the Michelis Chair of Aesthetics at the University of Crete; funding cultural and academic organisations that share its mission.
The Foundation is headquartered at 79, Vasilissis Sofias Avenue in Athens, in an apartment building designed by Panayotis Michelis.
Also housed in this building are the Foundation’s Library of Aesthetics, which is open to the public, and its Exhibition and Events Hall, which houses a permanent exhibition of paintings by Effie Michelis, as well as by other naive artists, whose works have been donated to the Foundation to augment its Greek Naïve Art Collection.
