FollowIn current debates on museums and participatory exhibition experiences, the centre of attention is on the curatorial and the museological, and in regards to art museums, obviously on the participatory or relational potentials of the exhibited artworks and installations. Hence, it is time now to give attention to the relational aspects of museum architecture, in particular to exploring the relational field between the exhibited (art), the architecture, and the visitor, as well as the engagement or disengagement of museum architecture in exhibition experiences.
Contemporary Architecture in Heritage Contexts
The purpose of this conference is to open a space for the socialization of intervention criteria, the set up and development of research on new architectural and urban projects located in natural or cultural heritage contexts, in order to harmonize the use of heritage elements and resources in new projects as a way to strengthen territorial and community development.
SAHC 2016
The general theme of the conference is “Anamnesis, Diagnosis, Therapy, Controls”, which emphasizes the importance of all steps of a restoration process in order to obtain a thorough understanding of the structural behavior of built cultural heritage. Research papers are invited for oral and poster presentation.
Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage
We have already attracted a great deal of interest in the forthcoming conference, with abstracts coming from many disciplines and from presenters over 24 countries. However, due to popular demand we are extending the Call for Papers deadline and would be particularly interested in receiving abstracts (of 300 words) that address the following themes:
- The heritage of Atlantic crossings
- The Trans-Atlantic as a tourist space
- Disaporic heritages across the Atlantic
- Travelling intangible heritages
- Heritage flows of popular culture
- Re-defining heritage beyond the postcolonial
- Visualising the Trans-Atlantic world
Convergence of People and Places-Diverse Technologies and Practices
Convergence is the independent development of similar characteristics or approaches by different groups exposed to similar environments, challenges and practices. As those who are responsible for the care and preservation of our built heritage, we embrace convergence every day. Even with local or regional differences, the technologies and approaches that we develop and implement have common threads, which are largely the result of our history, knowledge, training, resources and practice.
APT Kansas City 2015 * November 1-5, 2015 * The Baltimore Club
Deadline: Sunday 22 Feb 2015
National Trust Conference 2015: Heritage Energized
Heritage is an energy producer that consistently infuses Canadian communities with cultural and economic vitality, sparks new investment, and grounds us with a strong sense of place. The 2015 National Trust Conference will explore how heritage energy can turn places around, empower people, and create opportunities. It will also shine a spotlight on how the heritage movement itself is being transformed through its evolving relationship with property development, arts and culture, sustainable living, philanthropy, and the cultural diversity of Canada.
Place and space in the medieval world
Abstracts up to 250 words are invited by 15 January 2015 for a conference to be held at the King’s Manor, York, on 29 to 31 May 2015. Proposals should be sent by email to Heidi Stoner and Meg Boulton.
‘Space’ and ‘Place’ are terms that have had a ‘renaissance’ within medieval scholarship in recent decades, becoming increasingly employed to describe the cultural and intellectual landscape of the Middle Ages. However, despite the widely recognised importance of these terms, of late, various factions of scholars have begun to debate whether one has primacy over the other in terms of its agency and usefulness in determining how we conceptualise and discuss the medieval world. While taking into account these vagaries, this conference will extend the conversation surrounding these terms and ideas, considering the extant visual and textual sources alongside the contemporary scholarly discussions of this milieu.
International Trades Education Symposium (ITES 2015)
The goal of this conference is to create an environment for collaborative exchanges between educational providers, institutions/organizations, government and industry and to permit educational providers to build greater partnerships with their peers. Abstracts and panel discussion proposals are currently being accepted for the following themes:
Defining Pathways for Trades Education in the 21st Century
- Government
- Industry, business and higher education
- Craft practitioners, teacher and the public
- Potential for development of skills exchange, and partnership efforts
- Collaboration on community, regional, national and international levels
- Building a new culture for building craft education and industry
- Finding and Remembering the Reasons for Building Craft
Geographies of the Anthropocene
Members of the geographical and related communities are invited to propose sessions, papers and posters for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015.
The Anthropocene has been claimed to herald a new geological epoch in which human society is acknowledged as having become the greatest force shaping planet earth. Although its recognition as a new age in geological history remains provisional, the idea of the Anthropocene has already captured the public imagination and that of scientists, social scientists and humanities scholars variously advancing new projects, agendas and critiques in its wake. This annual conference theme aims to bring all areas of the discipline to the table, including the physical geography and climate science communities, to explore the rich array of geographical work engaging this powerful idea and its consequences.
Deadline: Friday 20 February 2015
14th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture
The importance of retaining the built cultural heritage cannot be overstated. Rapid development and the inappropriate conservation techniques are threatening many unique sites in different parts of world. This conference aims to provide the necessary scientific knowledge required to formulate regulatory policies, to ensure effective ways of preserving the architectural heritage. Because of that the series has been successful and continues to attract a wide range of high quality contributions since it started in 1989.
Submission ASAP