Memory, Place, and Material Culture

Workshop organized by John Sutton, Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, and 2022-2023 Paris IAS Fellow.

Workshop in situ.
Free entrance upon compulsory registration, see form at the bottom of the page.

Presentation

If remembering and feeling, designing and decision-making are situated as well as embodied processes, then cognition can have material and ecological components. Our mental lives may be partly constituted by places – landscapes, built environments, neighbourhoods – and by artifacts. This workshop examines relations between memory, place, and material culture. Our topics include maps and spatial cognition, tools and devices in wayfinding and memory, mental health and the city, difficult places and historically burdened heritage, and spatial disruptions of memory. Speakers draw on evidence from archaeology, architecture, art, neuroscience, performance, philosophy, and sociology, opening up new questions about the nature of bodily and affective orientation as people navigate places and the past together.

Programme

May 16, 2023

14.30-14.40
Welcome
John Sutton (IEA de Paris)

14.40-15.30
Erik Rietveld (Philosophy, Amsterdam / RAAAF [Rietveld Art-Architecture-Affordances])
Landscapes of transformation

15.30-16.00
Valeria Giardino (Philosophie, Institut Jean Nicod)
We are geometric beings: how we use space to think

16.00-16.20
Pause

16.20-17.10
Sarah Gensburger (Sociology, CNRS/ Sciences Po)
The memorialization of terrorism in Paris public space, 1974-2023

17.10-18.00
Mark Edmonds (Archaeology, York)
Building and belonging: architecture and memory in Neolithic Orkney

18.00-20.00
Cocktail

May 17, 2023

10.00-10.50
Andy Clark (Philosophy & Informatics, Sussex)
Predictive processing and the materially entangled mind

10.50-11.40
Paula Reavey (Psychology, London South Bank)
Spatial markings and memory: mental health and institutional space

11.40-12.10
Pause

12.10-13.00
Madeleine Accarain (Wagon Landscaping, Paris)
The coldness of the stone and the lightness of the bird: a memorial garden for the victims of November 13, 2015

13.00-14.10
Lunch

14.10-15.00
Roberto Casati (Philosophy, Institut Jean Nicod)
The cognitive life of maps

15.00-15.20
Pause

15.20-16.10
Evelyn Tribble (English, Connecticut)
Affective atmospheres: place and memory on the early modern stage

16.10-17.00
Mike Wheeler (Philosophy, Stirling)
The invisible and the visible: building, dwelling, and authenticity

17.00-17.30
Roundtable with Alain Berthoz, Valeria Giardino, John Sutton.

Workshop in situ.
Free entry upon registration, see form below (please check the two white boxes before clicking on the "register for the event" button).