Academics and artists in London, New York, Moscow and Krakow discuss real and imaginary lines on planets
From the Greenwich meridian in London to Central Park in New York, imaginary lines on maps have come to define real spaces in the world. How does this ability for the human imagination to shape the world translate to the way our cities are built, and how will change in the age of space travel? Find out in this fascinating discussion and Q&A, featuring academic Yehuda Safran joining from Central Park, artist and architect Gleb Sobolev joining from Moscow's Kolomenskoye Park, and artist Liz Davis joining from Greenwich, with curator Pierre d'Avoine. Artist Marina Sokolova and curator Anna Gorskaya will join from Moscow’s Sparrow Hills, and Michał Milczarek will join from Krakow to discuss the city’s spires.
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Yehuda Safran is an adjunct professor of the history and theory of architecture at Pratt Institute in New York. He was born in 1944 in Haifa, studied in London in the 1970s: art and architectural history at the Royal College of Art and philosophy at London University. He has taught and lectured in the UK, USA and Israel, and has written extensively on art and architecture.
Gleb Sobolev is a practicing architect and member of the Moscow Union of Architects. He teaches at the Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI) and taught at the Moscow Architectural School (MARCH). He graduated from MArchI and studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Gleb has for more than four years curated his own international educational projects "Ruralities" and "Architecture and Context".
Liz Davis is an artist working at Cubitt Studios in London. She is a painter, but also works in 3D, film and collage.
Marina Sokolova is an architect, artist, member of the Moscow Union of architects, tutor at the Moscow Architectural School (MARCH), and author of numerous articles and publications, and educational programmes in art and architecture. As an artist, she works in graphics, collage, easel painting, various mixed techniques, sculpture. Marina has been a participant in over thirty exhibitions.
Academic Michał Milczarek is scholarship holder of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education at the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language in Moscow and at the Moscow State University. He is a three-time participant of the NF Fedorov International Scientific Memorial Conference organized regularly in Moscow. Research interests include Russian philosophy, contemporary German and French philosophy, ontology, anthropology, ethics, hermeneutics, Orthodox theology, Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, literary theory.