Dr. Elena Chestnova
19 May 2017 – Palazzo Canavée, Viale Canavée 5, aula C3.89
14:00
BOAS EREZ (Università della Svizzera italiana, Chancellor)
MARIE THERES STAUFFER (Université de Genève, President SSCS)
Welcome
14:15
SONJA HILDEBRAND (USI, Mendrisio)
Introduction
Mathematics and Knowledge
chair: Elena Chestnova (USI, Mendrisio)
14:30
MICHAEL GNEHM (USI, Mendrisio/ETH Zurich)
Descartes and Architecture
15:15
HANS NIELS JAHNKE (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
How Form Generates Meaning: Algebra1700 to 1900
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
ANDREA ALBRECHT (Universität Stuttgart)
LUTZ DANNEBERG (HU Berlin)
Beauty = Truth? On Aesthetic Criteria for Scientific Validity
17:45
FRANZISKA BOMSKI (Klassik Stiftung Weimar)
Creating the Unity of Knowledge: Novalis and Mathematics
18:30 SSCS General Assembly
20 May 2017
Mathematics and Aesthetics in the 19th Century
chair: Marie Theres Stauffer (Université de Genève)
9:30
CÉLINE TRAUTMANN-WALLER (Université Paris 3)
Johann Friedrich Herbart and his Heritage in Aesthetics
10:15
ELENA CHESTNOVA (USI, Mendrisio)
Popular Mathematics in the 19th Century
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
SONJA HILDEBRAND (USI, Mendrisio)
Mathematical Curves in Architectural Theory around 1850
12:15
ESTELLE THIBAULT (ENSA Paris-Belleville)
Order, Permutations and Intuitive Geometry: Jules Bourgoin’s Theory of Ornament
13:00
Lunch break
Mathematics and 20th-Century Architecture, Visual Arts and Music
chair: Michael Gnehm (USI, Mendrisio/ETH Zurich)
14:30
UTE POERSCHKE (Pennsylvania State University)
A Source of Inspiration: Mathematical Functions in Architectural Theory
15:15
HANS FREI (Zurich)
‚Space, Time, and Everything Else‘: Shinohara Reconsidering the Spatial Concept of the Modern Avant-garde
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
LYNN GAMWELL (School of Visual Arts, New York)
Formalist Aesthetics in Göttingen and Moscow: from Hilbert’s Grundlagen (1899) to Rodchenko’s Red (1921)
17:15
PETER KOCH GEHLSHØJ (University of Copenhagen)
Messiaen’s Musical Convergence
Final Discussion