ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Conference Agenda
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Panel: Between Structure and Experience: Rethinking Social and Material Worlds Location: North Hall 110* link to join Session Chair: Alice E Ripberger | |
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Structures of Care: Architectural and Therapeutic Parallels in Kahn and Rogers Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, United States of America This project uses hermeneutic methods to compare the work of architect Louis Kahn and psychologist Carl Rogers as two mid-century figures who developed parallel humanistic responses to modernity. Through interpretation of their writings, lectures, and texts, the study examines how both figures expressed humanistic values in their concepts of presence, authenticity, dignity, and care. Kahn expressed these ideas through architectural space and Rogers through therapeutic relationship. Themes such as light, silence, organismic valuing, congruence, and institutional purpose are analyzed in their historical and cultural contexts. The findings aim to inform contemporary therapeutic practice by offering a phenomenological framework for designing relational and physical environments that preserve dignity and encourage human flourishing. | |

