14. TAB Symposium: Graham Harman. Why Architecture and Beauty Need Each Other.

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (2018) and Speculative Realism: An Introduction (2018). Harman has lectured in thirty-nine countries, and his writings have been translated into twenty-one languages. Along with being one of the founding members of the Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology movements, he is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Open Philosophy, Speculative Realism series editor at Edinburgh University Press, and (with Bruno Latour) Co-Editor of the New Metaphysics series at Open Humanities Press.

Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2019 Symposium took place on the 12-13th of September in Kultuurikatel, Tallinn. Curator: Yael Reisner.

The 2-day event was multidisciplinary symposium that included architecture, neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, poetry, mathematics, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital technologies related to these fields. Its participants included both distinguished scholars and leading architects and designers.
The Symposium’s 16 participants formed 16 panels of different duo, presented and discussed why beauty matters today, how come it was dormant for some 80 years, and to reflect on new buds of beauty in architecture.

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