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ASSEMBLAGE THINKING:
THEORY, ANALYSIS, PRACTICE AND GOVERNANCE
PRESS RELEASE
THE Department of Geography of the University of the Aegean will host the International
Symposium “Assemblage Thinking: Theory, Analysis, Practice and Governance” between
June 2 and 4, 2017. The scientific organizer of the Symposium is Helen Briassoulis,
professor at the Department of Geography.
The topic of the Symposium, Assemblage Thinking, represents an alternative orientation
to the theoretical and applied research and study of environmental, socio-economic,
cultural, political and other issues, from the whole spectrum of scientific fields, which
better represents their complexity and dynamics. Central axis of this orientation is the
thesis that an object of study is not a pre-determined and a priori given whole abut an
assemblage, a dynamic and unique entity that emerges from the interactions among the
particular components that continuously assemble together in space and time and
constitute it. The new ways of theorizing, analysis and empirical applications that are
shaped on the basis of this orientation direct to different ways of decision making,
management and governance from the local to the global level.
The keynote invited speaker is Dr. Manuel DeLanda (adjunct professor at Princeton
University, USA), who is considered as one of the main ‘translator’ of the work of the
philosophers Deleuze και Guattari on which Assemblage Thinking is based, and with
special contribution on the subject.
The speakers comprise a multi-disciplinary group of 30 scholars from three continents –
Europe, N. America, Oceania – and eight countries who will present their work at the
Symposium. The diversity of applications of Assemblage Thinking and Assemblage
Theory is reflected in the topics of these presentations that concern geography, urban and
regional planning, architecture, ecology, nature-society, politics, geopolitics, sociology,
migration, media, archaeology and data analysis.
Common aim of the theoretical and applied research that is based on the notion of
assemblage is the formulation of an approach to the study of contemporary
environmental, socio-economic and other issues that leads to customized ‘solutions’ for
their governance, solutions that are adapted to the particularities of each case, in contrast
to general solutions (OSFA – One Size Fits All) and best practices that do not always
prove to be effective.
The presentations will take place on June 3 and 4, 2017. Attending the Symposium is
open to every interested person.
For more information, please visit the Symposium’s web page:
http://assemblage-symposium.aegean.gr/
Mytilini, May 29, 2017