The 5th International Conference ON THE SURFACE Photography on Architecture, happens next week on the 31st May 2019 at MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) .

The program of the conference consists of three round tables in which photography is explored as a significant instrument of research to build innovative and critical visions on architecture as a broad field of knowledge operating within larger systems, with cultural, artistic, technical and historical dimensions. The main focus of the 5th edition on the public condition of urban space, is to question how different dimensions of the public sphere can be significantly understood or refracted through different lenses and perspectives. At the heart of this debate is the contemporary discussion that the city’s image is itself modified within the actual process of change according to specific sensory and cognitive conditions, influencing the readability of public space and the imagination of the public sphere. At this conference these and other interrelations will be debated and explored to infer how they can establish new spatial connections in expanded territories of cosmopolitan interaction. Within this broader discussion, each roundtable will address the following issues, among other issues posed by invited authors.

OPENING SESSION
Pedro Gadanho – MAAT
José Miguel Rodrigues – FAUP
Olívia da Silva – ESMAD
Pedro Leão Neto -FAUP

OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Marco Iuliano

PANEL #1
Invited guest speaker – Beate Guttschow
Moderator – Pedro Leão Neto

PANEL #2
Invited guest speaker – Bas Princen
Moderator – Iñaki Berguera

PANEL #3
Invited guest speaker – Gloria Moure
Moderator – Pedro Gadanho

CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Paolo Rosselli

More info:
MAAT
On The Surface