Colleagues, this call is from the departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Urban Planning at RIT, CUHK and the University of Melbourne.

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LOCAL CULTURES – GLOBAL SPACES: COMMUNITIES, PEOPLE, PLACE


A Virtual conference by: 


Department of SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

Department of CULTURAL STUDIES, Chinese University of Hong Kong   

Department of ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING, University of Melbourne



Dates: 5-7 December, 2023

Abstract Deadline: 20 October, 2023 

https://amps-research.com/conference/local-global/




CALL:

The United Nations Human Rights and Habitat programmes connect how we live to where we live. The association is premised on an understanding of cultures, communities and society through the lens of place. It sees them as inherently interlinked, and mutually reinforcing. Examining this liminal state, the Local Cultures – Global Spaces conference questions this idea as it appears at the intersection of architecture and urban planning, cultural studies, sociology and human geography.

It responds to debates around community networks and cultural traditions as independent of location. It addresses readings of the built environment as an isolated phenomena – as a series of constructed objects in, of, and for, themselves. Conversely, it acknowledges that how we live can be seen as inseparable from our built environments – our buildings, villages, towns and cities. In such readings, place may be defined as deterministic – as a central player influencing actions, and even identity. Positioning itself somewhere between these positions, Local Cultures – Global Spaces explores readings of societies and place as hybrid – as byproducts of the conflicting social, cultural and economic forces shaping our lives in multiple spheres.

If we take the city as a case in point, it can be critiqued as a site of displacement, economic inequity, gender marginalization and social exclusion. Viewed through such lenses, architecture, urban design and development policy can be said to ingrain the status quo. By contrast, for those celebrating cultural consumption, the city is a site for exchange – of ideas, experiences, identities, money, and more. Within this mix, the design the cities is central to the riches of globalization. It is where we find the Creative Class of Richard Florida, and where we enjoy the fruits of human production: cultural buildings, public spaces and the IT networks of the ‘smart city.’

In addressing questions of social and built environment theory and practice, then, this conference is interested in a diversity of ideas. From the social sciences, themes of interest may include cultural geographies, late Capitalism spatially manifest, and critiques of community and social justice, a la Lefevre and Harvey. In terms of architectural and urban design, the conference sees these concerns as reflected in participatory approaches to housing, examinations of queer space, Critical Regionalism, placemaking, and questions of race and planning, to name but a few.


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PUBLISHERS:
UCL Press and Cambridge Scholars Publishing


MORE DETAILS:
https://amps-research.com/conference/local-global/

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