Category: Speakers

KEYNOTE speaker

Rachel Armstrong (United Kingdom)

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at The Department of Architecture, Planning & Landscape at Newcastle University, England. She is also a 2010 Senior TED Fellow, and a sustainability innovator who investigates a new approach to building materials called living architecture, which suggests it is possible for our buildings to share some of the properties of living systems. She collaboratively works across disciplines to build and develop prototypes that embody her approach.
Rachel has been frequently recognised as being a pioneer. She has recently been added to the 2014 Citizens of the Next Century List, by Future-ish, listed on the Wired 2013 Smart List, is one of the 2013 ICON 50 and described as one of the ten people in the UK that may shape the UK’s recovery by Director Magazine in 2012. In the same year she was nominated as one of the most inspiring top nine women by Chick Chip magazine and featured by BBC Focus Magazine’s in 2011 in ‘ideas that could change the world’.

OPENING SESSION speaker

Igor Marić (Serbia)

Architect engaged in scientific work, planning, design, education, publicizing. He was born in Belgrade in 1950 where he has graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at which he has also completed doctoral program and defended his doctoral thesis.
Besides his professional activities, he has also been actively involved in professional associations of architects, town planners and engineers, he has written for professional magazines and daily newspapers.
Igor Marić is President of the Association of Architects of Serbia and Vice President of the Union of Engineers of Serbia.
He has received many awards at a series of architecture and town planning competitions, as well as professional recognitions amongst which a recognition of exceptional achievements in profession by the Chamber of Engineers of Serbia.
Igor Marić is also an associate member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia, and Director of the Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia.
Besides diverse interests in the fields he deals with, he has dedicated a special attention to research work in bioclimatic architecture and relationship between vernacular and contemporary architecture of Serbia.

OPENING SESSION speaker

Dijana Milašinović Marić (Serbia)

Graduated the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade, Department of History of Art, in 1982. At the same Faculty defended her Master’s thesis entitled Architect Jan Dubovi in 1998. and her doctoral thesis entitled the Serbian Architecture of the 1960s and acquired professional title of Doctor of History of Art in 2010.
Since 2013. professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Architecture, Kosovska Mitrovica, from 2005-2013. the Chief Curator of the Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia (ULUPUDS), an associate in the RTS Second Program, a member of the Initiative Board of the Docomomo Serbia, associate in professional magazines. Since 2007, a member of the Professional Editorial Board of the Serbian Encyclopedia of Fine Arts and Architecture, a member of the Editorial Board of the Glossary of Art Terms, publisher: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

KeYnote speaker

Aleksandra Stupar (Serbia)

Aleksandra Stupar has graduated (1997) and obtained her master (2001) and PhD degree (2005) at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture. She has presented her papers at numerous international conferences and participated in several national and international research projects and workshops. She is currently engaged in the project Cities and Transnational Interaction. The Cultural Contacts between West and East European Urban Centers during and beyond the Cold War (2010-2013) conducted by the University of Tampere and financed by the Academy of Finland. During 2005-2006 she was a researcher in the project South-East European Network for Science and Technology Studies: STS Contributions to the Governance of Socio-technical Change, funded by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation). She has also participated in eight research projects of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
Aleksandra Stupar has been an invited/guest researcher at IAS-STS (Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society) in Graz, Austria (2007, 2011), where she was awarded the Мanfred Heindler grant (2011) for her project proposal. She was a guest researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland (School of Humanities and Social Sciences – 2010, 2011, 2012), and an invited lecturer/speaker at the Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia, University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy (2006, 2008, 2009).
Aleksandra Stupar has published articles and chapters in national and international journals and books, focusing on the problems of contemporary cities and their identity. She is the author of the award-winning book The City of Globalization – Challenges, Transformations, Symbols (2009) and the winner of the Gerd Albers Award 2008, given by ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners), for the best published article on urbanism. In 2012 she was a guest-editor of a thematic issue of the Serbian Architectural Journal (SAJ) entitled City vs. Innovation.

FOUNDING MEMBER

Ružica Bogdanović (Serbia)

Ružica Bogdanović, Phd is a Professor Emeritus of Urban planning and Sustainable development at the Faculty of Transport Engineering, University of Belgrade and Faculty of Architecture, Union University – Nikola Tesla in Belgrade. Main areas of interest in research and teaching include urban planning, urban design and sustainable development.
She has initiated, conducted and implemented a number of scientific research projects as team leader and principal investigator. Has organized and moderated numerous panel discussions, round tables, national and international symposia. Author of numerous books and articles in professional journals. Presented papers at numerous national and international congresses and symposia.
Ružica Bogdanović contributes to the profession by active engagement in different professional organizations. She was a member of IsoCaRp, a delegate of Serbia in the ECTP, member of the Association of Serbian Town Planners, a Chairperson in two terms of the Society of Belgrade Urban Planners and a member of Belgrade Association of Architects.
She received several awards for projects and books, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award “Emilijan Josimovic Grand Award” in 2003.

KeYnote speaker

Aleksandar Kadijević (Serbia)

On Dept. for Art History at Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade graduated (1987), and defended M.A.(1991) and Ph.D (1995) degrees. For the separate scientific field choose the history of Serbian and European 19th and 20th century architecture. From 1988. till 2013. has published 250 articles, contributions and books. Cooperated with scientific journals and institutions from Russia, USA, Ucraine, Romania, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Grecce, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Brasil and Turkey, including four journals from AHCI and ERIH lists. Participated on 50 international and national scientific confferences. In 2000.was visiting lecturer at School of Art History of St Andrews University( Scotland). Worked as lecturer at University of Niš and Priština (Serbia).

KeYnote speaker

Vladimir Lojanica (Serbia)

Architect, currently employed at the position of Associated Professor at Department for Architecture. Member of several national, professional organizations and advisory bodies. Awarded on numerous national/international professional competitions. Series of projects, realized buildings, both local and international. Participated on several national/international exhibitions including two times national selection at Architectural Biennale in Venice, international professional conferences, and published works and articles in monographs and professional publications. Several times awarded with different national professional awards.

KeYnote speaker

Philip Beesley (Canada)

Philip Beesley is a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. A practitioner of architecture and digital media art, he was educated in visual art at Queen’s University, in technology at Humber College, and in architecture at the University of Toronto. At Waterloo he serves as Director for the Integrated Group for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing, and as Director for Riverside Architectural Press. He also holds the position of Examiner at University College London. His Toronto-based practice PBAI is an interdisciplinary design firm that combines public buildings with exhibition design, stage and lighting projects. The studio’s methods incorporate industrial design, digital prototyping, and mechatronics engineering. Philip Beesley’s work is widely cited in the rapidly expanding technology of responsive architecture. He has authored and edited eight books and appeared on the cover of Artificial Life (MIT), LEONARDO and AD journals. Features include national CBC news, Casa Vogue, WIRED, and a series of TED talks. His work was selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale for Architecture, and he has been recognized by the Prix de Rome in Architecture, VIDA 11.0, FEIDAD, two Governor General’s Awards and as a Katerva finalist. Beesley’s funding includes core CFI, SSHRC, NSERC and Canada Council for the Arts grants.

KeYnote speaker

Álvaro Gómez-Ferrer Bayo (Spain)

Correspondent Academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid (1980).
Permanent Academic and curator of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia (1985). Correspondent Academic of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon (2006), Honorary Member of the International Committee of Historic Cities (CIVVIH). Honorary President of the CEU-ECTP, Honorary Member of ICOMOS in 2011. Doctorate in Architecture and qualification as an Urban Planning Technician from the Local Administration Studies Institute (1968).
He wins competitions to carry out the urban planning framework of some cities, and implemented many planning bylaws and various environmental protection sector plans as Bethlehem Master Plan, or the Conservation Plan for the historic city of Medina (Malta).

KeYnote speaker

Miško Šuvaković (Serbia)

Miodrag Šuvaković publishes under the name Miško Šuvaković. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Art in Belgrade in 1993. He has been professor of applied aesthetics, Faculty of Music in Belgrade (1996-2015). Šuvaković is professor of applied aesthetics & theory of art and media, Faculty for Media and Communications, Belgrade. He is member of Slovenian Society of Aesthetics.  He is former president of the Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia. He was president of the IAA (International Association for Aesthetics 2019-2022).  He has published or edited 50 books in Serbian, Slovenian, Croatian and English, among them: PAS TOUT– Fragments on art, culture, politics, poetics and art theory 1994-1974 (Buffalo, 1994), 2001; Impossible Histories – Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991 (co-editor with Dubravka Đurić, Cambridge MA 2003, 2006), Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti [Concepts of Contemporary Art] (Zagreb, Ghent, 2005), Epistemology of Art – Critical design for procedures and platforms of contemporary art education (Belgrade, Wien, Erme, Antwerp, 2008), Clandestine Histories of the OHO Group (Ljubljana, 2009), Neo-Aesthetic Theory. Complexity and Complicity Must Be Defended (Wien, 2017).