The Politics of Environments: Architectures, Natures and Data
Tallinn, Estonia
April 20 2017 - July 23 2016
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Two themes stand out prominently in discussions, projects and strategies that are at the forefront of contemporary urbanisation. It is, on one hand, the question of ecology, where the city and architecture are reconceptualised in "green" terms such as sustainability, resilience, metabolic optimisation and energy efficiency. On the other hand is the cybernetic question, where the futures of architecture and urbanisation are staked upon the pervasive use of digital communication, interactive technologies, ubiquitous computing, and the "big data". Moreover, these two questions have become increasingly intertwined as two facets of a single environmental question: while real-time adjustments, behaviour optimisation and "smart" solutions are central to urban environmental agenda, the omnipresent network of perpetually interacting digital objects constitutes itself a qualitatively new environment within which urban citizens are enfolded. But as digital networks become our "second nature," we also hark back to the models derived from the "first nature".
With the growing pressure on architects, urbanists and planners to deliver ecological and techno-informational solutions, with (self-)monitoring of citizens "behaviour", optimisation of the buildings "performance", and smoothing of urban "flows", and with the respective substitution of democratic politics by automated governance models, it is ever more important to interrogate the historical, theoretical, methodological and epistemological assumptions beneath the above set of processes that can be described, following Michel Foucault, as environmental governmentality. These questions will be explored under three thematic tracks.
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Performing, Writing Symposium March 2017
Wellington, New Zealand
March 09 2017 - March 19 2017
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Performing, Writing: a symposium in four turns is an international interdisciplinary research-focussed event occurring in March 2017, Wellington NZ run in association with Performance Arcade.
This event imagines how a text can be conceptualised, written, presented and figured with equal or more contingency and responsiveness to temporal and corporeal happenings, and vice versa.
What creative, dialogic, autobiographical or alternative writing approaches might elicit a text that engages with the plurality of affects of an artwork? How might a creative work be informed, inspired, directed, scripted or critiqued with the same respect for live-ness that unfolds spatially as it does textually? How might these parallel practices inhabit space symbiotically? How might a new culture of criticality develop in between acts of “performing through”?
The proposal deadline has recently been extended to 15 July 2016 and the event dates have changed since the first posting in April this year.
See the website for details: www.performingwriting.com
Dr Julieanna Preston
Professor of Spatial Practice
Toi Rauwharangi College of Creative Arts
Te Kunenga o Purehuroa Massey University
Wellington, Aotearoa
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Performing, Writing 2017
Wellington, New Zealand
March 04 2017 - March 09 2017
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There is something nearly indescribable yet palpable in the transfer between embodied works of art and the textual inscriptions that imagine, forecast, relate, explain, document orco-exist alongside them.
This parallel and often intersecting dialogical relationship bears out the ways that practices such as live art, performance, theatre, architecture, spatial design, dance and music depend, expand upon, repeat and exacerbate practices such as script and score-writing poetry, literary fiction, art criticism, ficto-criticism, curatorial writing, site writing and writing associated with creative practice-led research.
This synaptic condition is what John Hall calls out in On Performance Writing, with pedagogical sketches (2013) as gestures of actualisation, performing thru; writing as itself performance, the very literal taking place over time, slowly, meticulously, and performance as an event that is more than the writing where the writing’s concern is with its relation to the full context of the performance. (61)
Here we find shared attentiveness towards the shaping of words, breathe, body, object, time and space, to effectively and affectively curate subjective encounters.
Performing, Writing: A symposium in four turns imagines how a text can be conceptualised, written, presented and figured
with equal or more contingency and responsiveness to temporal and corporeal happenings, and vice versa. What creative,
dialogic, autobiographical or alternative writing approaches might elicit a text that engages with the plurality of affects of
an artwork? How might a creative work be informed, inspired, directed, scripted or critiqued with the same respect for live-
ness that unfolds spatially as it does textually? How might these parallel practices inhabit space symbiotically? How might a
new culture of criticality develop in between acts of “performing through”?
Proposals due 1 July 2016. See the website for details: www.performingwriting.com
Dr Julieanna Preston
Professor of Spatial Practice
Toi Rauwharangi College of Creative Arts
Te Kunenga o Purehuroa Massey University
Wellington, Aotearoa
Mobile +6421 842616
Skype user name buildingartpractice
www.julieannapreston.space
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Theory’s History 196X-199X
Challenges in the historiography of architectural knowledge
Brussels
February 09 2017 - February 10 2017
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Theory’s history, 196X – 199X
Challenges in the historiography of architectural knowledge
KU Leuven, Belgium
CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BRUSSELS
9th-10th of February, 2017.
Submission deadline: 15th of June, 2016
In recent international literature addressing the history of 20th century architectural theory, the year 1968 is indicated as a decisive moment, giving rise to a ‘new’ architectural theory. From that moment onwards, emphasis was no longer placed on the aesthetics of architecture, but on its critical potential. Yet, according to some scholars, this intensification of theory was short-lived. A presence of coexisting and even contradictory paradigms derived from very different epistemic domains (anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, social sciences, etc.) led to a setback of theory, resulting in an end-of-theory atmosphere in the 1990s.
It is not a coincidence that the so called death of architectural theory concurred with the upsurge of anthologies on architectural theory that collect and classify referential texts. Instead of burying theory, these anthologies had an additional effect, namely to institutionalise it. In other words, they offered both closure to a past period and also defined the locus of a next period of theorisation, invoking a ‘historical turn’. At the same time architectural discourses, and especially architectural historiography, were engaging with new theoretical fields such as gender studies or postcolonial studies, giving rise to a continued production of theoretically informed books and articles.
The goal of this conference is to discuss the methodological challenges that come along with this historical gaze towards theory, by focusing on the concrete processes in which knowledge is involved. By screening the unspoken rules of engagement that the accounts of post-war architectural theory have agreed to and distributed, we want to point at dominant assumptions, biases and absences. While anthologies inevitably narrate history with rough meshes, we believe it is time to search for those versions of theory formation that have slipped through these nets of historiography, in order to question the nature of theory and the challenges it poses to historians. How do you do historical research on something as intangible as theory, or in a broadened sense, the knowledge of architecture?
Practical information
Please visit our website for up to date information and for the full CFP: architecture.kuleuven.be/theoryshistory
This two-day conference will be held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday 9th - 10th February 2017. The conference aims to bring together both young and established scholars from every discipline that is able to engage with the topics outlined above. Confirmed keynotes are Joan Ockman, Ákos Moravánszky and Łukasz Stanek.
We’re happy to receive abstracts of up to 300 words until the 15th of June, 2016. Information on how to submit is provided on our website. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by an international scientific committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance on the 15th of July 2016. In order to provide a solid conference, we expect full papers one month in advance of the conference, i.e. 1st of January, 2017.
Please note that there will be a conference fee for participants of maximum €150 and a reduced price for students.
For any other questions, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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AIARG 2017 Conference
Call for Conference Papers
Waterford Institute of Technology
January 27 2017 - January 28 2017
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Proposals for conference papers are now sought for the 6th annual AIARG conference to be held in Waterford on 27- 28 January 2017. Paper must be submitted under the following thematic sessions.
- Architectural Education in the Age of Globalization: when East meets West.
- Centenary Celebration of William H. Whyte, Sage of the City (1917-1999).
- Concealed or Exposed? Ireland and Concrete.
- Critical Spatial Practice and Sensibility Formation.
- Design versus Conservation and the Value of Time. What is the meaning of place?
- Domesticity at the Crossroads: Irish Housing Design 1955-1980.
- Evaluating Landscapes.
- Interim Review- on Architectural Education 2.
Please forward your abstract by email (300 words maximum) to session chair by 24 October. Full papers (2,000-2,500 words) expected in December. Please include with your abstract a 100 word biography and contact details.
For more information or queries visit www.aiarg2017conference.com or email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Data Publics
Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy
Goldsmiths, University of London & Gasworks, London
January 26 2017 - January 28 2017
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International research forum hosted by the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
Thursday, 26 January 2017, 7pm-9pm, Goldsmiths, London
Friday, 27 January 2017, 11am-7pm, Goldsmiths, London
Saturday, 28 January 2017, 12pm-4pm, Gasworks, London
with keynotes by Lev Manovich and Ravi Sundaram,
and contributions by Luciana Parisi, Ignacio Valero, Stephen Graham, Jennifer Gabrys, Matthew Fuller, Paolo Gerbaudo, Dani Admiss, Cecilia Wee, Lise Autogena, Joshua Portway, Simon Yuill, and others.
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