Symposium ‘Off-Earth’

LUCA with curator and researcher Marija Marić is organising, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the international symposium ‘Off-Earth. A Critical Reading of Resources, Infrastructures, and Commons’, which follows on from the work undertaken by the curators of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 18th Venice International Architecture Biennale (2023).

This symposium will bring together international architects, historians, geographers, and artists, working critically on issues of extraction beyond Earth. It will feature fragments from the exhibition in Venice, including the screening of the film ‘Cosmic Market’, directed by Armin Linke, as well as a conversation with the artist. 

The symposium in Luxembourg will result in the publication of a series of essays in collaboration with e-flux.

• Language: EN
• A certificate of attendance will be issued on-site upon request
• Free, registration is required
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PROGRAMME

— 10:00 Welcome and Introduction

— 10:30 Roundtable 1 'RESOURCES'

• Thandi Loewenson (Senior Tutor, Architecture, Royal College of Art, UK)
• Bethany Rigby (Lecturer in Design, Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
• Moderated by Marija Marić (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Master in Architecture, LU) & Charles Rouleau (Coordinator, Casino Display, LU)

— 12:00 Break

— 13:30 Roundtable 2 'INFRASTRUCTURES'

• Megan Eardley (Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE)
• Fred Scharmen (Program Director and Associate Professor of Architecture, Morgan State University School of Architecture and Planning; Co-Founder, Brick Moon, US)
• Moderated by Marija Marić & Valentin Bansac (Co-Curator, Luxembourg Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, LU)

— 15:00 Break

— 15:30 Roundtable 3 'COMMONS'

• Rory Rowan (Assistant Professor of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, IE)
• Ana María Gómez López (Tutor, MA Interior Architecture, Studio for Immediate Spaces, Sandberg Institute, NL)
• Moderated by Marija Marić & Nick Axel (Deputy Editor, e-flux Architecture & Head of Architectural Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, NL)

— 17:00 Roundtables closing discussion

— 17:30 Break

— 18:00 Conversation with the artist

• Armin Linke (Artist, Berlin, DE)
• Moderated by Marija Marić & César Reyes Nájera (Postdoctoral Researcher, Master in Architecture, LU)

— 18:30 Screening 'COSMIC MARKET'

— 19:30 Drinks