All events to take place in the John A. Russell Building.
4:30 Registration opens
5:00 OPENING RECEPTION | Entr’Acte, Clay Odom, Patterning Temporary Atmospheres
Welcome by Dean Ralph Stern | Remarks by Symposium Chair Lisa Landrum
KEYNOTE 6:00 ALEX GILLIAM Tiny WPA
9:30 Paper Sessions: Dwelling Acts 1 Environmental Acts
11:00 Paper Sessions: Dwelling Acts 2 Socio-Political Acts
KEYNOTE 1:30 LINDSEY DUGDILL Designing Buildings for Behavioural ‘Nudging’:
The Public Health Imperative for an Active Workforce
3:00 Paper Session: Building Acts
5:00 Break | RECEPTION | Entr’Acte, Paola Zellner, Reclaiming Space
KEYNOTE 6:00 ANDREW TODD Action, Energy, Performance, Ecology: Notes on a New Functionalism
If, as Aristotle asserted, “action…is the most important thing of all,” then contemporary
architecture seems set on the obverse: bloated, cavorting, lumpen spaces designed
merely to be photographed, where actual human action is all but absent. This is bad
enough in itself, but much worse when we consider the disconnect between space and
need, and the extravagant consumption of energy and resources that building
represents. Looking at examples from the theatre and elsewhere, this talk proposes a
counter-model which recaptures and redefines ‘functionalism’ for our challenged times.
7:30 Ice Bar, Courtyard
8:00 DINNER, Centre Space
KEYNOTE 9:30 KANTEN RUSSELL Launching Into Action: Creating the Modern
11:00 Paper Session: Representational Acts
12:30 LUNCH | Entr’Acte, Lawrence Bird, Winnipeg on the Edge of Coherence
1:30 Paper Session: Research in Action 1
3:00 Paper Session: Research in Action 2
4:30 Break | Entr’Acte, JNZNBRK, Screen
KEYNOTE 6:00 MICHAEL VAN GESSEL Action: Transforming the Present
Remarks by Symposium Chair Lisa Landrum | Closing comments by Dean Ralph Stern
7:30 CLOSING RECEPTION
The 2014 Atmosphere Committee consists of: Lisa Landrum, Chair (Architecture), Rae Bridgman (City Planning), Alyssa Schwann (Environmental Design), Lynn Chalmers (Interior Design), Marcella Eaton (Landscape Architecture); with web design and graphics support from Thalia Andreoglou (Masters of Architecture student), and administrative support from Brandy O’Reilly (Faculty of Architecture, Partners Program).
Questions? Please contact Lisa.Landrum@umanitoba.ca
Atmosphere is generously supported by the Faculty of Architecture Endowment Fund and the following professional associations: the Manitoba Association of Architects (MAA); the Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects (MALA); and the Professional Interior Designers Institute of Manitoba (PIDIM).
Aspects of Atmosphere 2014 ACTION are being presented in collaboration with StoreFront Manitoba and aceartinc.