Monuments in Monuments Conference, Monday 2 September to Wednesday 4 September 2019, the Engine Shed, Stirling
Are you a conservation professional? We’re inviting contributions for abstracts for our conference next year on the conservation of stone monuments and objects inside traditional buildings.
Further details here
As part of
7th Euroacademia Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again
23 – 24 November 2018
Nice, Côte d’Azur, France
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15th of October 2018
Panel Description:
Urban image construction is a reflection, expression and constitutive factor of local identity formation and dynamics. Cities simultaneously localize identities and connect them with wider global signs of utility, function and symbolic order. Elasticity of the label identity accommodates everything that surrounds us as presence or absence, persistence or change. As a theatrical scenery, cities change after each act, sometimes with discrete adaptations, sometimes with radical interventions. If the scenery is composed of streets, parks, roads, museums, monuments, shopping malls and buildings connected through the intricate network of the perpetual and cumulative actions of its inhabitants, every adaptation and intervention affects its multi-dimensional identities. Changes in urban visual identities unfold as a form of public art feeding from the immense potential of social imaginary significations accommodated by a time’s perception of stability, structure and continuity. Urban change is itself a production of meaning, interpretation and identity making practices.
As the chaotic canvases of cities are being stretched over a framework of identity, its further exploration seems more than appropriate. Amidst the incredibly rapid urban growth crowding more than half of the world population in towns and cities, the questions are only going to keep multiplying. How are city identities made and re-made, used and abused, imagined and narrated, politicised and communicated, expressed and projected, imposed and marketed? And above all, how do they thrive within the dynamic interpolation of the nexus of local-global, centre-periphery, urban – suburban, old and new. As out-dated as these dichotomies may sound, in many places their daily life is far from over. As old cities became new capitals and new capitals struggle for more capital, the challenges of maintaining public-driven collective identities in the face of cultural fragmentation and diversification, coupled with consumer-attractiveness is turning them into urban palimpsests. Urban environments reflect the human needs and values. In an increasingly globalized world, the human beings are becoming more citizens of the world than citizens of the cities. The increasing mobility of the new pilgrims of globalization creates more of the same in the logic of universalized urban functionality. Within this logic, the cities are now in the position to re-evaluate their impact on the world and shape their future in a manner that assumes a wider responsibility that evades a localized mentality. Urban local identities are becoming increasingly thin and rely strongly on negotiating a local specificity with universalized functionality and global responsibility. An increasing need for uniqueness and distinctiveness foster site-specificity aimed at placing a particular urban identity within a global economic hierarchy. Public art became essential for affirming distinctive local urban identities in a universe of serialization and commodification.
As the research on cultural identities of the city is becoming more abundant, this panel aims at adopting a wide-lens inter-disciplinary approach, while focusing on various processes affecting identities in the urban context in its global-regional-national-local
Some example of topics may include (but are not limited to):
• Collective Memory, Identity and Urban Image Construction
• Appropriation, Instrumentalisation and Functualisation of Public Spaces
• Contemporary Nomadism and the City as a Common Denominator for Collective Identities
• Architecture as ‘Politics with Bricks and Mortar’
• History, Heritage and Urban Change
• Urban Regeneration Projects, Landmark Buildings and ‘Starchitects’
• Non-Places and (Non)Identity
• Immigrants and the Cultural Identity of Cities
• City Marketing and City Branding
• Cities and Public Goods
• European Capitals of Culture and European Identity
• Cities and Sites of Memorialisation
• Identity Creation and the Cultural Offer of the City
• Urban Cultural Heritage as Identity-Anchor
• Minor Places: Dominant Culture and Site-Specific Urban Identities
• Creative Changes of the Cities
• Art and Industry in Urban Development
• Urban Aesthetics
• Urban Installations
• Critical Architecture
• Urbanism and Social Intervention: Inclusion of the Marginalized
• Centre/Periphery Nexuses in Contemporary Urban Development
• Cities and the Quality of Life
• Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities
• Contemporary Cities and Environmental Responsibility
• Ugliness, Kitsch and Value in Shaping Contemporary Urban Spaces
• Urban Sites of Identification
• Temporary Urban Interventions
• Architecture as Public Art
Please apply on-line using the electronic form on the conference website or submit by e-mail a titled abstracts of less than 300 words together with the details of your affiliation until 15th of October 2018 to application@euroacademia.org
If you are interested to apply, please see complete information about the conference and details for applicants at:
http://euroacademia.eu/conference/7fcs/
PLACE: Stevens Institute of Technology, New York / New Jersey
DATES: 17-19 June 2019
ABSTRACTS: 01 Dec 2018 (Round One)
http://architecturemps.com/newyork/
DISCIPLINES:
This unique conference is interested in how we prepare the next generation of professionals to manage, design and construct the built environment. A specific urban design strand has been established. It seeks papers on:
Education and Pedagogy | Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape | Construction and Engineering
ORGANISERS:
Stevens Institute of Technology and AMPS
PARTICIPATE:
Pre-recorded video (via special YouTube Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfWS4KkYSauAaTV2pjrQlQ
Other formats: Skype | Conference Presentations | Written Papers
PUBLISHERS:
The conference forms part of PARADE, a collaboration between Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Intellect Books, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Vernon Press, Libri Publishing.
More details: http://architecturemps.com/newyork/
A one-day conference at the Manchester School of Architecture
15th February 2019
Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Keynote Speaker: Elain Harwood (Historic England)
Infrastructure is popularly conceived as a form of material production assigned to technological advancement. However, it is not exclusively a techno-centric endeavour, it is constituted by built artefacts designed through collaboration by those with more than simply an interest in its engineering. Infrastructure has the capacity to reveal much about the society in which it was produced – the political economy of infrastructure; the socio-cultural effects of infrastructure; the formal and visual impact of infrastructure and attitudes to its celebration or containment. Continue reading
The Society for the Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) is issuing a call for papers for its 2019 symposium around the theme of ‘architecture and light’. This symposium will coincide with two exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum: one on ‘Soane and Light’ and another – as yet untitled – with a leading contemporary light artist. Thereby the theme of papers should focus on the presence, use and meaning of light in architectural design across all periods and styles. The Symposium is taking place on Saturday 22 June 2019 in London. Papers should be 20 minutes in length and should be illustrated by PowerPoint, with speakers prepared to take questions at the end. Find out more about how to submit here.
iDOC 2019 International Design Out Crime and CPTED Conference, New Directions in CPTED
13-15 Feb 2019
www.idoc2019.org
It is a pleasure to invite you to iDOC 2019 The conference is organized by the Design Out Crime and CPTED Centre, the Sellenger Centre, ECU and the International CPTED Association. It will take place at Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA on 13-15 February 2019.
iDOC 2019 is the 10th anniversary of the inaugural iDOC 2009 International Design Out Crime and CPTED Conference. The timing of iDOC 2019 is at a time of very rapid change and expansion in CPTED and Design Out Crime particularly improved access to detailed crime statistics and new technologies of surveillance, access control and social control; awareness of potential for adverse consequences of CPTED; the extension of CPTED into counter-terrorism; radical new kinds of analyses of CPTED in health, gender, equity, indigeneity, etc; and the professionalisation of CPTD in terms of training, certification and standard processes. In parallel, iDOC 2019 supports the recent focus worldwide on developing CPTED for night time economies
The themes of iDOC 2019 will be New Directions in CPTED and Night Time Economies and CPTED.
Topics of interest
We welcome four types of submissions:
Submissions are to be in English and in Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents. Sound anbd video media to be in mp4 (or as agreed with organisers). Images to be in jpg or png.
Word documents are to have a maximum of 3 levels of headings and only one type of bullets and numbered lists. Formatting to use Word styles. Citations and references to be in APA format and we recommend the use of Endnote or similar software.
Start here to submit a paper to this conference.
STEP ONE OF THE SUBMISSION PROCESS
The regional delegation Paris-Ile de France is organizing a conference on the use of gypsum in ancient buildings in February 2019.
The call for paper is open until september 28th. Don’t hesitate to make circulate this info among your scientific and professional networks.
There will be working sessions on the following topics so it is expected that communication in english or french will be proposed on :
Theme 1 – Gypsum as a material
Key words : content, production process, properties, incompabilities, performance;
Theme 2 – Gypsum as part of local Know-hows through history
Key words : crafts, architecture, archeology, history, ethnology, sociology, building practices…
Theme 3 – Gypsum in a Heritage restoration perspective
Key words : diagonis, studies, experiment practices, remarkable restoration on listed or non listed building, volunteer workcamp based on technical skills experimentation based on gypsum,
Theme 4 – Identifying limits and fighting prejudicies on plaster
Keywords : rehabilitation of the material, potentialities, training, legal environment, eco-construction, recycling, materials of the future.
Important dates :
Deadline for submission of conference papers : September 28, 2018
Notification from the committee on the selection of papers : as from October 15, 2018
Conference program sent out : end October 2018
Registration : as from November 2, 2018
You can find some more info here in french leplatreenconstruction.fr
For further details contact Fabrice Duffaud
22–23 March 2019: What is Unique about Cornish Buildings? (Cornwall)
The Cornish Buildings Group in association with Historic England will host a two-day conference to celebrate 50 years of the Group, at a venue to be announced. New and challenging paper submissions are invited to explore and discuss the conference question: What is unique about Cornish buildings? The theme will unite aspects of Cornish architectural design with distinctiveness and exclusivity. The Group welcome contributions from any area or discipline relative to the past, present and future of buildings in Cornwall and how they impact and affect the natural environment.
The conference will embrace research looking at Cornish distinctiveness in the widest possible sense. Submissions of 250 words to Paul Holden FSA at cornishbuildingsgroup@gmail.com by 31 August 2018. Details online .
9 January 2019: New Insights into 16th- and 17th-Century British Architecture (London)
The ninth conference on this topic, organised by Claire Gapper FSA and Paula Henderson FSA , will be held at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House. Proposals in the form of short abstracts (up to 250 words) are invited for papers of 30 minutes long. While the emphasis remains on new developments in architecture, we welcome proposals on related themes, such as decorative arts, gardens, sculpture and monuments.
They should be submitted by 31 August, and the final programme will be announced in September. Please include a short biography with your proposal. For further information contact Claire Gapper at Claire.gapper@btinternet.com , or Paula Henderson at Henderson.paula@comcast.net .
16–17 November: Reading the Country House (Manchester)
Country houses were made to be read – as symbols of power, political allegiance, taste and wealth. This places emphasis on the legibility of their architecture and decorative schemes, and their paintings, collections and furniture. It also draws our attention to the skills required to decode the signs. The messages and processes of reading were carried further by 18th- and 19th-century images: in private sketch books and journals, in engravings and in guidebooks. These allowed the country house to be read in very different ways, as did its appearance in novels as backdrop and social symbol. This conference at Manchester Metropolitan University seeks to explore such perspectives on reading the country house, and link them to how the house is read today, by managers, visitors and viewers of period dramas. Keynote speakers Phillip Lindley FSA (Loughborough) and Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford). If you would like to present a paper please send title and 200-word abstract with a very brief biography to Jon Stobart at j.stobart@mmu.ac.uk by 31 August 2018.
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