While taking the Basel drawings as an important point of departure, the conference broadens the focus to Gothic design processes more generally, exploring graphic invention, workshop practices, and strategies of form generation across media and scale.

PROGRAM

Friday, June 26

18:00–19:00 
Femke Speelberg, What's in a Name? The "Basler Goldschmiederisse" and the Quest for their Artistic Origins
 

Saturday, June 27

9:30–11:30 visit to the Kunstmuseum’s Prints and Drawings department (for speakers only)

Section I („Geometries and Creation“) – Chair: Cara Rachele

13:30 Daniel Tischler

14:15 Robert Bork

15:00–15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 Zoltan Bereczki

16:15 Martin Schwarz

Sunday, June 28

09:30 Coffee

Section II („Practice / Cases“) - Chair: Irina Dudar

10:00-10:45 Peter Voelkle: Die Herstellung eines spätgotischen Baldachins: Von der Zeichnung zum Werkstück

10:45-11:30 Merlijn Hurx: Geometry by the Last Gothic Generation in the Low Countries

11:30-12:15 Katja Schröck: The Reconstructed Lodge: Gothic Design Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

12:15–14:30 lunch break

14:30–16:00 site visit: Basel Minster (for speakers only)