Atmosphere 2014

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

9am Registration | Coffee

9:30 Paper Sessions: Dwelling Acts 1 Environmental Acts
11:00 Paper Sessions: Dwelling Acts 2 Socio-Political Acts

12:30 LUNCH

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

9am Registration | Coffee

KEYNOTE 9:30 KANTEN RUSSELL Launching Into Action: Creating the Modern

Playground for Action Sports

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

Cash Bar

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