Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting, this is the FINAL call for papers for IUAES 2014 in Chiba, and I have been informed that no extensions will be granted.
Please find this call for papers for the panel 'Towards an Architectural Anthropology' at the IUAES 2014 conference in Chiba, Japan below.
Please circulate to anyone in your networks who you think may be interested. The call closes on 9th January. Please contact me by e-mail if you have any queries.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2891
Yours sincerely,
Ray Lucas
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Manchester School of Architecture
University of Manchester
Towards an architectural anthropology
This panel seeks to investigate the possibilities of a deeper anthropological engagement with the discipline of architecture, based in but distinct from the practices developed by design anthropology, what can anthropologists learn from architects and what can architects learn from anthropologists?
The recent development of Design Anthropology (Gunn, Donovan Eds. 2013, Gunn, Otto, Smith Eds. 2013) as a distinctive sub-discipline has some lessons for collaborations with the built environment disciplines including architecture and urban design. Many of the issues raised are of interest to architecture, most notably the opportunity to integrate anthropological theory and methodology into the design process. A distinction must be drawn between the needs of a Design Anthropologist and those of an Architectural Anthropologist. This distinction is more than merely one of scale, however: most notably, the use of prototypes within design anthropology is inappropriate for architecture, and fundamental issues about our relationships with the environment and what it means to dwell are concerns shared by architecture and and anthropology.
There have been a number of studies in the mode of an 'anthropology of architecture' (Buchli 2012, Marchand 2009) or an 'ethnography of architecture' (Yaneva 2009, Houdart 2009), but what does it mean to produce anthropology by way of architecture (Ingold 2013)? It is easy to see what architects can learn from anthropology, but a greater challenge to ask anthropologists to learn from architects and designers.
Themes for the panel include but are not restricted to the following:
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE STUDIO
THE CONUNDRUM OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
HOME, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO DWELL
ARCHITECTURES OF COLLECTION: THE MUSEUM & ARCHIVE
SITES OF EXCHANGE: SHOPPING, MARKET, CONSUMPTION
ARCHITECTURAL POWER RELATIONS MATERIAL CULTURE AND CIVIC BUILDINGS
THE TRANSIT INTERCHANGE, FLOWS AND ROUTES
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2891
Dr Raymond Lucas
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Manchester School of Architecture
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