2nd CFP AAG 2014:Geographies of Modernism: architecture, heritage and landscape
Session organisers: Hilary Geoghegan (Reading), Hannah Neate (UCLan) and Ruth Craggs (King's College London)
Recent years have witnessed an increasing popular and academic interest in architectural modernism, specifically its material cultures, associated political projects, and broader landscapes. This session aims to bring an international perspective to these debates by inviting contributors to examine the histories, politics and contemporary evaluations of the modernist project in diverse places and settings (architecture, design, interiors, town planning, institutions). Papers might consider modernism and its legacies in, for example, post-socialist spaces, The Global North and South, and wide-ranging post-colonial and post-imperial contexts.
Following on from our own work on modernist architecture in the UK, we are interested in drawing together papers that explore links to broader national and international ideologies of reconstruction, development, modernisation, and welfare, and the status of these modernisms today: how are they reappropriated, contested and valued (or not) in the twenty-first century as heritage, real estate, memorial, aesthetic, commodity? How has modernist architecture, design and material culture been subject to institutionalization as heritage, through national and international legislation and popular campaigning, to disinvestment and privatization through shifting political and economic contexts, and to commodification through popular cultural forms?
Themes and topics to explore include:
• Architectural styles and materials
• Modernism as heritage
• Preservation, conservation and legislation
• Reuse and re-appropriation
• Demolition
• Domestic spaces
• Problematic legacies
• Campaigning and activism
• Commodification
• Popular cultures of modernism
• Public and private space
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to Hannah Neate ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 11th October 2013.
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