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Conférence, GATES
Le 21 novembre 2025
This lecture will be presented by Simone Chung, GATES Alumna, and Tomohisa Miyauchi, architect and professor at Kyoto Arts and Crafts University, and moderated by Stéphane Sadoux, Director of LabEx Architectures (UGA).
International exhibitions and design showcases present themselves as crucial platforms for promoting architectural discourse and addressing polemical issues.
The two complementary talks in this panel session reflect on the cultural, social, contextual and inherently political dimensions of presenting at hallmark events such the Venice Biennale, assessed from the perspectives of curatorial agenda and collective participation respectively.
Programme:
16:00: Welcome Introduction by Associate Professor Stéphane Sadoux (LabEx Architectures - UGA)
16:10: Prof. Tomohisa Miyauchi “Curating Japanese Architecture: The Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, 2016 and 2018”
This talk investigates the influence of curatorial practices in the international presentation and understanding of Japanese architecture. It analyses the shifting narratives, spatial configurations and cultural conditions offered in three such events, and shows the methodologies in which the respective Japanese curators restructured architectural discourse at the intersection of tradition, contemporary practice and global issues.
“In-Between”, The Japan Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice curated by Jun Aoki. Photograph by Simone Chung (2025).
16:45: Dr Simone Shu-Yeng Chung “Temporal Teahouse Device: Exploring Tactility and Time in Ascetic Architecture and Its Translation for a Contemporary Audience”
This talk explores the humble Japanese teahouse as an Idea and an Object – a tool for transmission. Architecture as a cultural act and continuous process of renewal and rebuilding philosophically underpins Japanese historical and cultural value as one that is not tied to material and form, but to time and occasion. In some instances, new value can emerge from discoveries arising from the recreation. These qualitative and rhetorical considerations guide our collaborative installation – a contemporary interpretation of the rustic teahouse structure – in the main pavilion of the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice.
17:15: Q&A
Simone Chung is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner in architecture and moving image media. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge where she also completed her M.Phil. in Screen Media and Cultures (Distinction).
Tomohisa Miyauchi is an architect, curator, and educator, professor at Kyoto Arts and Crafts University. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree with distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2000 and his Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University in 2004. Co-founder of the architecture firm ISSHO in Tokyo, he led projects that spanned the fields of art, space, and architecture in Tokyo and Shanghai. His innovative design contributions were recognized in 2010 when he was selected by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) as one of 20 emerging designers in “JAPAN DESIGN+”.
Supported by the GATES project (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS), funded by the French government's Programme d'Investissement Avenir and implemented by ANR France 2030
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