Without providing answers or suggesting alternatives to the current vacuity of architectural thought, this lecture will attempt to address the influence and status of the digital by focusing on an inclusive notion of space. This is both architectural space but also the productive space in which we find ourselves as we go about architectural design.

The proposed theme Architecture Utopia Realism aims to further the on-going discussion on the relations of architecture with realism and utopia. In that sense, the speakers are invited to reflect on a multivalent relations of practices and theory of avant-garde, modern and contemporary architecture to concepts and issues, such as utopianism, realism, social realism, socialist realism, neo-realism, utopian realism, new realism and the like.