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copenhagen airport

Copenhagen Airport, Architect Vilhelm Lauritzen, finished in 1998

zurich airport

Zurich Airport, Architect Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, 2006

Otherness and the Arts Conference

Stuck between thesis jury and conference papers chaining me to the computer all day since the last 4 months, I found a chance to attend an interesting conference, "Otherness and the Arts"; a conference held in the old barrack buildings of Aarhus University, the beautiful small city of Denmark. As always for me, this meant a small travel; but a kind of large and widened world of creativity and motivation that start immediately as I begin travelling. The conference was a joint venture between the University of Aarhus, Mary Immaculate College, and University of Limerick. My speech topic was "Experiencing the Urban Space As the Other", based on my experimentation as a woman flaneur in cities of Netherlands; about becoming the other and city narrative in architectural media and complex structure; the city. All the participants except me were from social sciences, asking different questions, keeping talking and talking.....and talking:) But there were interesting and inno...