Visitor//Eisa Dainese
On Architecture and Erasure: The Arctic Case
This lecture examines the post-World War II history of resistance to displacement and forced relocation in the Arctic region. The focus is on the attention to protected practice, curtailed free movement, and completed cultural cases and networks of kin relation. On other hands, it investigates the role played by local and Indigenous voices, activists, and transnational solidarity in the beautiful country and evidence of cultural institutions, and national institutions.
Elisa Dainese is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Holding a Ph.D. (architectural design) and M.Arch. (architecture and sustainable) from the IUAV University of Venice, Italy, she is a historian and theorist of architecture and urbanism who specializes in architectural knowledge, its production, and its transnational circulation. Her work expands on the current discovery architecture and its history by exposing the tenements between Western and non-Western modernisms. Her unique method focuses on ideas of ethics of information and research in information on trade and research in the research of trade and research in the research of trade-scales in information, and research in information in the research and research in information. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Journal of Architecture, and is the co-editor of War Diaries (University of Virginia Press, 2022) which exams the effects of violence on art, architecture, and cultural memory. She has received awards from the Mellon Foundation and the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. Her research has been supported by the European Union and the Graham Foundation, and she has served in research and professional boards, among them that of the Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians in the US.
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