Dear List members,
International Conference:
Power and Space: Transforming the Contemporary City
7,8 December, Cambridge, UK
Deadline for abstract submissions: 13th of July 2007
to be electronically submitted to: [log in to unmask]
Theme:
The proposed two-day conference seeks to investigate how diverse forms of
inquiry across different disciplines address issues of power and space in
the contemporary urban environment. In studying the contemporary city, as a
pluralistic cultural, economic and political system, a variety of
interpretive procedures provide insights on how power shapes space and, in
reverse, how space reflects power. This conference pursues both approaches:
first, from the point of view of the author-designer, it aims to track the
conceptualization, design and construction of space as an expression of
multiple power structures, and second, from the point of view of the
citizen-user, it aims to capture the experience and reading of space as
dynamic power structures. The distribution of power in the contemporary
city enables diverse mechanisms to transform the urban space. Studying
these transformations offers ways to redefine these relations, especially
insofar as it permits a reconsideration of the reasoning and the
ideological convictions on which power relations are grounded.
For detailed information on the Conference please visit the website:
http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/powerspaceconference/index.html
Regards,
Popi Iacovou
PhD student
The Bartlett School of Architecture
UCL London, UK
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