PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS

The 5^th Baltic Conference of Emerging Scholars in Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urbanism, will take place over two days on October 3-4, 2024. 

The purpose of this conference is to share PhD students’ research and improve its quality, provide versatile feedback, and help them build an academic and vocational network. 

The first day of the conference, October 3, is dedicated to the lecture/architectural walk and workshop and will take place at the Lost Shtetl Museum and Centre for Culture and Arts and Crafts in the town of Šeduva, Lithuania. 

The architect of the Lost Shtetl Museum, Rainer Mahlamäki, professor emeritus of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Oulu, Finland, will give the lecture and the architectural walk.

The workshop "Exquisite crops" for PhD students will be led by Mindaugas Reklaitis, Assistant Professor at Vilnius Gediminas technical university (VILNIUS TECH).

The second day, October 4, will be dedicated to PhD student‘ presentations and scientific discussions at the Rokiškis Manor House in the town of Rokiškis, Lithuania. The doctoral students' presentations will be commented by experienced researchers from architecture schools in the Baltic countries.
 

Rainer Mahlamäki – Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Oulu (Finland), was Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Museum of Architecture from 2002 to 2006 and President of the Finnish Association of Architects from 2007 to 2011. He founded the architecture firm Lahdelma & Mahlamäki together with Ilmari Lahdelma in 1997. His best-known works include the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, and the Finnish Forest Museum Lusto in Punkaharju, Finland. 

Mindaugas Reklaitis – an architect, assistant professor at Vilnius Gediminas technical university (VILNIUS TECH), producer, researcher, exhibition architect at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, and holds a PhD in focus of Performative Architecture as Critical Spatial Practice. During more than ten years of practice, he has designed award-winning buildings in Lithuania and abroad, participated in NGOs, collaborated in the realisation of the Lithuanian national pavilions at the Venice Biennales of Art and Architecture, and has presented his work in group and solo exhibitions. 

PRESENTATION:
The conference includes only oral presentations
Official presentation language: English
The time limit for oral presentations: 20 min.
The oral presentations should be prepared using the prepared template in „Microsoft Power Point“ program (save your „PowerPoint presentations as ppt.).