International workshop, The Spatial Inscription of Science, Paris, 26-27 may 2014
Dear
Colleagues,
We
are happy to announce the upcoming international workshop The spatial
inscription of science: exhibitions, devices, architectures, to take place
on 26-27th May 2014 at the Curie Museum, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
This event is part of the project Matières à penser. Les mises en scènes des
sciences et leurs enjeux (19.-21. siècles) and supported by CIERA.
The
programme and further informations here,
below and on the project's blog: http://matap.hypotheses.org/paris-maimay-2014-2
The
admission is free subject to availability.
Andrée Bergeron, Charlotte Bigg, Jochen Hennig and Renaud Huynh
Andrée Bergeron, Charlotte Bigg, Jochen Hennig and Renaud Huynh
The spatial inscription of
science:
Exhibitions, Devices, Architectures
Exhibitions, Devices, Architectures
An International Workshop
Organised by Andrée Bergeron (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Jochen Hennig (Humboldt Universität, Berlin), Renaud Huynh (Musée Curie, Paris)
Organised by Andrée Bergeron (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Jochen Hennig (Humboldt Universität, Berlin), Renaud Huynh (Musée Curie, Paris)
Musée Curie, Paris,
26-27 May 2014
Scientific spaces such as universities,
laboratories but also museums and temporary spaces for showing science have a
lot to tell us. Whether through their architecture, their material and symbolic
inscription in the urban fabric, and their evolution over time and across
different geographical and cultural environments they are revealing of
the evolving relations between science, science policy and science
popularization.
Starting from this working hypothesis, this workshop brings together historians of science, of the museum, of art, urban historians as well as exhibition makers to discuss concrete embodiements of three types of spaces, each considered within the scientific, social and political context of their making : the university, the scientific and technical exhibition, and the dome.
The workshop aims to contribute to recent historiographical developments in the history of science, the history of scientific museums and of science popularization that have emphasized spatial issues as well as the material and visual cultures involved in scientific work and communication. It also aims to foster a dialogue between historical investigations (19th and 20th centuries) and current reflections about the place of science in our societies today.
Download the program (pdf) : http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1024/files/2014/05/Plaquette-uk.pdf
Starting from this working hypothesis, this workshop brings together historians of science, of the museum, of art, urban historians as well as exhibition makers to discuss concrete embodiements of three types of spaces, each considered within the scientific, social and political context of their making : the university, the scientific and technical exhibition, and the dome.
The workshop aims to contribute to recent historiographical developments in the history of science, the history of scientific museums and of science popularization that have emphasized spatial issues as well as the material and visual cultures involved in scientific work and communication. It also aims to foster a dialogue between historical investigations (19th and 20th centuries) and current reflections about the place of science in our societies today.
Download the program (pdf) : http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1024/files/2014/05/Plaquette-uk.pdf
Monday, 26 May 2014
10h -12h Guided tour of the Curie campus
Comments in english by Parcours des sciences : please register with the organisers by May 9th, 2014
13h30 : Welcoming addresses
14h – 18h The architectural design of universities and what it says about conceptions of the university, science and the city.
Architectural design cannot be reduced to technical constraints. Buildings « do » and « say » a lot about the activities they host. Thus university architectures are revealing of the conceptions of science prevailing at the time they were built. Different cases will be presented, spread over the last three centuries and reaching into the present.
Chair : Andrée Bergeron (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris)
- Carla
Yanni (Rudgers university)
Health, Space, and the City: Housing Women at Co-educational American Colleges (1890-1915) - Loic
Vadelorge (Université Marne la Vallée)
Equipements universitaires et villes nouvelles en région parisienne (1965-1975) - Volny Fages
(ENS Cachan), Ronan le Roux (Printemps/Sphere)
Réorganisations urbaines et transformations des pratiques de recherche scientifique : le cas du cluster Paris-Saclay - Friedrich
von Bose (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
The cultural politics of exhibiting « other cultures »: spatial arrangements, geographical inscriptions, and the intricacies of museum making. The Berlin case.
Tuesday, 27th May 2014
9h – 12h Science and technology exhibitions and museums in and through national spaces
What is the power of locality in the staging of science and technology? This question can be broached by comparing exhibitions across different national and regional settings, looking into travelling exhibitions and each of their local embodiements or studying international exhibitions or professional congresses.
Chair: Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (ENS-CNRS)
- Christian
Vogel (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
Gilbert Simondon at the exhibition. From 'concrete' to 'abstract' x-ray machines and the practice of showing at science exhibitions - Loic
Charles (Université de Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis) et Yann Giraud
(Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Social Science Museums in Europe and the United States (1903-1940): Utopia in the Age of Nationalism - Andrée
Bergeron, Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris)
Astronomy on Display at the 1937 Universal Exhibition : The Planetarium and Palais de la Découverte in International Context
13h30 – 17h Domes as spatial devices for staging science and modernity
Domes, such as the innovative Zeiss planetarium dome developed in the 1920s, or Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes that had spread worldwide by the end of the twentieth century, are spatial devices often used for putting science on display. The astonomical sciences are projected inside the surface of the planetarium, while technology and science are showcased in domes as part of large exhibitions, such as the Atoms for Peace exhibitions of the 1960s. Through their architecture and their visually unique appearance in the urban landscape domes also themselves advertise a particular kind of techno-scientific modernity, modernism or even futurism. As permanent or temporary architectural landmarks, they provide a space where science popularization meets science fiction. In their concrete materiality, they embody real or imagined configurations of science, technology and society.
Présidence/chair : Jochen Hennig (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
- Felix
Sattler (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
From Dome to Desk: The Staging of Science as a Spectacle of Sacrifice and Ressurection in Carl Gotthard Langhans Veterinary Anatomy Theater - Pedro
Raposo (Universidade de Lisboa)
Commanding the heavens: Conceição Silva (1903-1969), the Portuguese War Navy, and the Gulbenkian Planetarium in Lisbon - Sebastian
Grevsmühl (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Cultural history of Buckminster Fuller’s dome, materialized utopias and their uses in exhibitions - Lino
Camprubi (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
Domes, models and silos as functional representatives of the Francoist state.
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Andrée Bergeron
Maître de conférences
Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS/EHESS/MNHN
27 rue Damesme
75013 Paris
Attention nouvelle adresse mail : andree.bergeron@cnrs.fr
Andrée Bergeron
Maître de conférences
Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS/EHESS/MNHN
27 rue Damesme
75013 Paris
Attention nouvelle adresse mail : andree.bergeron@cnrs.fr