Urban Spaces and Private Quarters
As part of the conference “Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society” held between October 12 to 14, 2005 at the Technical University of Darmstadt we would like to inform you about the programm of the conference panel “Urban Spaces and Private Quarters”.
http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/gradkoll/Konferenzen/abschluss/main.html
In this panel the focus lies on spatial relations and the city both as object of and as the location for scientific scrutiny. Perceptions of symbolic and material artifacts in the city guide the everyday life of a majority of the world's contemporary population. The tacit power of architecture, the subtle influences of the aesthetics of things are constantly reconfigured by the practices of the people moving through and using urban spaces. However, built space is not the only hub of this panel. The staging of events in the city by different actors and the conflicting uses of publically accessible spaces directs our interest to presentations and representations of the city and its diverse inhabitants. This area of inquiry connects discursive with visual and performative aspects of urban life. Finally, we are interested in the multiple ways in which the modeling and visualization of urban space in architectural design influences the development and the decision making processes that eventually solidify into concrete buildings, plazas, and parks. Regarding all three of these hubs there will be presentations that explicitly deal with the ambivalent or dialectic character of aesthetics in the cities. Touristic interests produce sites that are intended to attract people, their time, their money and their attention. These sites become places of a specific cultural and economic significance. At the same time other places are produced and presented as repellent - the "no-go areas" of the modern ghetto, ethnic neighborhoods, and the hidden or gated communities of the rich and powerful. Aestetics are a central component of the processes of attraction and exclusion that regulate our everyday practices.
We are glad to offer the following presentations:
* Jerome Krase (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York): Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little and Big Italy.
* Helen Liggett (Cleveland State University)
* Deniz Altay (City and Regional Planner, Urban Designer Ankara, Turkey): Urban Spaces in Daily Practices – The Case Of “Minibar”.
* Lars Frers (Technical University of Darmstadt): Perception, Aesthetics, and Encapsulation – Encountering Space and the Materiality of Railway and Ferry Terminal Buildings.
* Ute Lehrer (Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada): Urban Design, Everyday Life and Image Politics Re-Defined .
* Zeuler R. Lima, (Washington University in Saint Louis), Vera M. Pallamin (University of São Paulo): Reinventing the void.
* Martina Löw (Technical University of Darmstadt): Eye-Catchers. Space-Gender Stagings in the Case of Prostition.
* Rosmin Mathew (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Anup Sam Ninan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi): Architecture – Changing Priorities Of Space – Case-Study Of A University.
* Lars Meier (Technical University of Darmstadt): Working in the Skyline – Landscape images and their inscribtion in everyday life.
* Daniel Normark (The Interactive Institute / Mobility Studio, Stockholm), Oskar Juhlina (Section for Science and Technology Studies, Göteborg University): Presenting and Representing Roadsides the Practise of Mounting and Removing Private Signs along Road.
* Lukasz Stanek (Technical University Delft, Department of Architectural Theory):
Simulating Nowa Huta: The Crisis of Representation in a Postcommunist City and its Consequences for the Production of Urban Space.
* Katharine Willis (University of Bremen, Spatial Cognition Program)
The planning committee of the conference, and the organizers of this panel, Lars Frers and Lars Meier, are looking forward to welcome you in the city of Darmstadt for this conference.
For more information:
http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/gradkoll/Konferenzen/abschluss/main.html
Registration is required.
Conference Fee: 30/15 Euro
Contact:
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Conference Location:
Technical University of Darmstadt
Residenzschloss
Darmstadt, Germany
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