As part of the 8th Euroacademia International Conference
\u2018The European Union and the Politicization of Europe\u2019
Ghent, Belgium, 25 – 26 October 2019
Deadline: 25th of September 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUrban image\nconstruction is a reflection, expression and constitutive factor of local\nidentity formation and dynamics. Cities simultaneously localize identities and\nconnect them with wider global signs of utility, function and symbolic order.\nElasticity of the label identity accommodates everything that surrounds us as\npresence or absence, persistence or change. As a theatrical scenery, cities\nchange after each act, sometimes with discrete adaptations, sometimes with\nradical interventions. If the scenery is composed of streets, parks, roads,\nmuseums, monuments, shopping malls and buildings connected through the\nintricate network of the perpetual and cumulative actions of its inhabitants,\nevery adaptation and intervention affects its multi-dimensional identities.\nChanges in urban visual identities unfold as a form of public art feeding from\nthe immense potential of social imaginary significations accommodated by a\ntime\u2019s perception of stability, structure and continuity. Urban change is\nitself a production of meaning, interpretation and identity making practices. As part of the 8th Euroacademia International Conference \u2018The European Union and the Politicization of Europe\u2019 Ghent, Belgium, 25 – 26 October 2019 Deadline: 25th of September 2019 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs the chaotic canvases of cities are being stretched over a framework of\nidentity, its further exploration seems more than appropriate. Amidst the\nincredibly rapid urban growth crowding more than half of the world population\nin towns and cities, the questions are only going to keep multiplying. How are\ncity identities made and re-made, used and abused, imagined and narrated,\npoliticised and communicated, expressed and projected, imposed and marketed?\nAnd above all, how do they thrive within the dynamic interpolation of the nexus\nof local-global, centre-periphery, urban – suburban, old and new. As out-dated\nas these dichotomies may sound, in many places their daily life is far from\nover. As old cities became new capitals and new capitals struggle for more\ncapital, the challenges of maintaining public-driven collective identities in\nthe face of cultural fragmentation and diversification, coupled with\nconsumer-attractiveness is turning them into urban palimpsests. Urban\nenvironments reflect the human needs and values. In an increasingly globalized\nworld, the human beings are becoming more citizens of the world than citizens\nof the cities. The increasing mobility of the new pilgrims of globalization\ncreates more of the same in the logic of universalized urban functionality.\nWithin this logic, the cities are now in the position to re-evaluate their\nimpact on the world and shape their future in a manner that assumes a wider\nresponsibility that evades a localized mentality. Urban local identities are\nbecoming increasingly thin and rely strongly on negotiating a local specificity\nwith universalized functionality and global responsibility. An increasing need for\nuniqueness and distinctiveness foster site-specificity aimed at placing a\nparticular urban identity within a global economic hierarchy. Public art became\nessential for affirming distinctive local urban identities in a universe of\nserialization and commodification.
\nAs the research on cultural identities of the city is becoming more abundant,\nthis panel aims at adopting a wide-lens inter-disciplinary approach, while\nfocusing on various processes affecting identities in the urban context in its\nglobal-regional-national-local interplay.
\nSome example of topics may include (but are not limited to):
\n\u2022 Collective Memory, Identity and Urban Image\nConstruction
\n\u2022 Appropriation, Instrumentalisation and\nFunctualisation of Public Spaces
\n\u2022 Contemporary Nomadism and the City as a Common\nDenominator for Collective Identities
\n\u2022 Architecture as \u2018Politics with Bricks and Mortar\u2019
\n\u2022 History, Heritage and Urban Change
\n\u2022 Urban Regeneration Projects, Landmark Buildings and\n\u2018Starchitects\u2019
\n\u2022 Non-Places and (Non)Identity
\n\u2022 Immigrants and the Cultural Identity of Cities
\n\u2022 City Marketing and City Branding
\n\u2022 Cities and Public Goods
\n\u2022 European Capitals of Culture and European Identity
\n\u2022 Cities and Sites of Memorialisation
\n\u2022 Identity Creation and the Cultural Offer of the\nCity
\n\u2022 Urban Cultural Heritage as Identity-Anchor
\n\u2022 Minor Places: Dominant Culture and Site-Specific\nUrban Identities
\n\u2022 Creative Changes of the Cities
\n\u2022 Art and Industry in Urban Development
\n\u2022 Urban Aesthetics
\n\u2022 Urban Installations
\n\u2022 Critical Architecture
\n\u2022 Urbanism and Social Intervention: Inclusion of the\nMarginalized
\n\u2022 Centre\/Periphery Nexuses in Contemporary Urban\nDevelopment
\n\u2022 Cities and the Quality of Life
\n\u2022 Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities
\n\u2022 Contemporary Cities and Environmental\nResponsibility
\n\u2022 Ugliness, Kitsch and Value in Shaping Contemporary\nUrban Spaces
\n\u2022 Urban Sites of Identification
\n\u2022 Temporary Urban Interventions
\n\u2022 Architecture as Public Art
\nFor complete information before applying see full details of the conference at:
http:\/\/euroacademia.eu\/conference\/8eupe\/<\/a>
\nYou can apply on-line by completing the Application Form on the conference\nwebsite or by sending 300 words titled abstract together with the details of\ncontact and affiliation until 25th of September 2019 at application@euroacademia.org<\/a>
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