Symposium III, Torino

WEDNESDAY May 21 Salone d’Onore, Castello del Valentino

18:00 Keynote lecture: Jorge Otero-Pailos, Columbia University:

The Provenance of Dust

THURSDAY May 22 Stanza della Caccia, Castello del Valentino

10:00 Provenance updates: Publications and conferences

Provenance in architecture. A dictionary of terms (Nicola von Velsen, Uwe Fleckner, Mari Lending)

Short presentations of entries: Reconstruction (Erik Langdalen), Authorship (Tim Anstey), Material (Thomas McQuillan), Renovation (Amandine Kastler), Postproduction (Dag Erik Elgin)

Future Anterior, special issue on Provenance (Alena Rieger, Simon Mitchell, Mari Lending)

Autumn 2025:

Fitch Symposium, Columbia University, September 19–20, 2025: Fragments of the imagination: Provenance, preservation, and the afterlives of architecture (Jorge Otero-Pailos)

Provenance conference, Warburg Institute, London, Oct 31/Nov 1, 2025 (Mari Lending)

Presentations

Charles Saumarez Smith: Thoughts on the Client

Albena Yaneva: The Architecture Biennale in the Era of Circularity

15–18 PhD and Postdoc Work

Alena Rieger, Usus, fructus, abusus

Flavia Crisciotti, Between movable and immovable: Museum furnishings by Carlo Scarpa and Franco Albini

Jørgen Tandberg, European broadcasting buildings: a modernist typology

Simon Mitchell, Storing the future

FRIDAY May 23

Tours: Lingotto, Castello de Rivoli, etc.