Keynote Speakers
PAUL EMMONS /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Paul Emmons is a registered architect and the Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor in Architecture at Virginia Tech where he is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Emmons is based at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center and chair of its PhD in Architecture and Design Research program. He earned a PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from the University of Minnesota. His research on design practices focusing on architectural drawing has been presented at venues around the world. His published work includes the book Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices (2020) and coedited volumes: Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity (2019), Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture (2018) and The Cultural Role of Architecture (2012).
JEAN-BAPTISTE FRESSOZ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
JB Fressoz is a historian of science, technology and the environment. He was a lecturer at Imperial College London before joining the CNRS in Paris. He is the author of several books, including L'Apocalypse joyeuse. une histoire du risque technologique (2012), L'événement anthropocène, la terre, l'histoire et nous (2013, 2016) and Les Révoltes du ciel. Une histoire du changement climatique, XVe-XXe siècles (2020). The latter two books have been translated into Italian. He will next publish a book entitled: Sans transition: une nouvelle histoire de l'énergie.
LAURA KOLBE ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Ph.D. (Helsinki) professor of European history at the Department of History, University of Helsinki. She is author of Helsinki, the Daughter of the Baltic Sea, editor of Finnish Cultural History I-V and co-editor of the series History of Metropolitan Development in Helsinki - post 1945. Dr. Kolbe's research is in Finnish and European history, urban and university history, national and class history. Her latest research deals with urban governance, city halls and municipal policy making in Helsinki and Scandinavian capital cities during the 21st century. Kolbe is founder and chair of the Finnish Society for Urban Studies (2000). She was the International Planning History Society's (IPHS) Conference Convenor in 2000 and President of IPHS in 2007-2012. She is currently the chair for History Committee of the City of Helsinki.
AMI SKÅNBERG DAHLSTEDT //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, PhD in Dance from University of Roehampton, UK, is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker and teacher. She is the current Head of the Master’s programme in Dance Education at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and also works at Academy of Music and Drama at University of Gothenburg. Ami has co-chaired the Nordic Summer University Study Circle of Artistic Research with Dr Lucy Lyons. She is a member of the Peer Review board of Journal of Artistic Research. Ami often creates stage work (solo, and collaborative) based on her embodied life story in a particular theme. Her 90 min solo performance A particular act of survival received a performing arts award at Scenkonstgalan in Sweden in 2015. Her new screendance piece Ancestor premiered at Dansfilmfestivalen in Feb 2022. Ami makes dance films and documentaries about dance. Her debut film won an honorary mention at VidéoDanseGrandPrix in Paris 1995. She walks slowly as a ceremonial, subversive act thanks to her studies with Nishikawa Senrei and work with Japanese dance in Kyoto since 2000. Her research interests are practice-led and concern gender codified movement practice, non-hierarchical processing of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic accounts from within the practice. Her PhD thesis has the title Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces