Open Workshop Sessions: Building Early Moderne Privacy
THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER, 9.30–12.00, 13.00–14.30
Room: Auditorium 15
In a present-day understanding, privacy is often limited to a private room in a home, preferably behind a closed door. In contrast, scholarship on the built environment of early modern society, as well as anthropological research on non-western cultures, has shown that privacy could be provided much more flexibly by various spaces—indoors as well as outdoors.
At this workshop, scholars of history and/or architecture will explore both opportunities and delimitations for privacy by considering a range of perspectives: how privacy was enabled or constrained by construction and design, legal regulation, and social behaviour in response to these material and legal frameworks. We will explore how the built world contributed to the construction of the concept and the experience of privacy.
Everyone is welcome to listen to short presentations of the contributions for the book. This day the presentations concern building elements, rooms and small buildings.
FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 9.15–12.30
Room: Auditorium 6
In a present-day understanding, privacy is often limited to a private room in a home, preferably behind a closed door. In contrast, scholarship on the built environment of early modern society, as well as anthropological research on non-western cultures, has shown that privacy could be provided much more flexibly by various spaces—indoors as well as outdoors.
At this workshop, scholars of history and/or architecture will explore both opportunities and delimitations for privacy by considering a range of perspectives: how privacy was enabled or constrained by construction and design, legal regulation, and social behaviour in response to these material and legal frameworks. We will explore how the built world contributed to the construction of the concept and the experience of privacy.
Everyone is welcome to listen to short presentations of the contributions for the book. This day the presentations concern larger buildings and outdoor spaces.