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TU Delft and Nieuwe Instituut jointly hosted their annual conference alongside the Jaap Bakema Study Centre’s celebrating its 10th anniversary and the centennial of the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. The Architecture Archives of the Future conference held on November 22 & 23 of 2023 aims to collectively investigate the future of curatorial practices, architectural legacies, memory, and knowledge, and the future narratives of the manifold histories yet unknown.

911³Ô¹Ï’s School of Architecture Ph.D. candidate Smaro Katsangelou participated in the closing session Archival Excess featuring prominent researchers, including Ana Miljacki, who presented research carried out at MIT titled Bootleg Archives: Lessons from Exhibiting Unsanctioned Architectural ‘Heritage’ to conclude the two-day event. In her presentation, Smaro discussed the documentation and research process employed in one of her professional projects Museum-Archive in Polygyros, Chalkidiki, Greece: New Technologies, Exhibition Design, and Archival Research, which centered around the creation of a museum-archive in Greece. Following the presentations, Smaro, Prof. Miljacki of MIT, Assistant Professor Heidi Svenningsen Kajita at University of Copenhagen, and Ludo Groen (Postdoctoral fellow at ETH) discussed current issues on archival research, their interpretation and constructing narratives with non-canonical foci. The proliferation of deep learning algorithms has enabled new lines of research in interpreting as well as showcasing archives. Classification and image generation are two of the main functions, through which new conclusions as well as narratives can emerge from archives of different nature and provenance.

 Smaro is a practicing architect and engineer from Greece (School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, AUTh, Class of ‘22 Valedictorian). She has been designing exhibitions and museum spaces in Greece since 2020. Her main focus is the interpolation of cultural and architectural heritage with new technologies. She has participated in research projects regarding History of Architecture, Urbanism, New technologies and Visual Arts for more than 7 years. From 2015 onwards, she has been experimenting with photography and multimedia digital art, having exhibited her work in group shows across Greece

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