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*Call for Abstracts*
*ISA RC21 International Conference*
*'The Ideal City: between myth and reality. Representations, policies,
contradictions and challenges for tomorrow's urban life' *
*27-29 August 2015 | Urbino, Italy | *
*www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015*
<http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015>
*Investigating urban image making: actors, processes and tactics / STREAM B
- Images of the city *
Public images contribute to define urban reality in many different ways.
Social media technologies increasingly allow for the everyday circulation
of ideas, discourses, representations and politics and highlight the
potential for social action through practices of disordered spatial
tactics, the ones that "...make use of the cracks that particular
conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers" as De
Certeau put it (1984: 37). In this session we wish to examine the urban
image making as a "process of ownership," which is complimented by the
researchers' acceptance that visual recording is an entirely immersive
experience.
What are the contemporary urban imaging tactics that can be considered
proactive, socially motivated, and defiant of the institutional strategies
implemented within the urban fabric? What are the ways urban researchers
are investigating the visual processes of protest for example? What new
technologies allow us to examine the urban tag/graffiti as a subversive act
in more complex ways? What is the role social media plays in urban visual
tactics? We are interested in attracting papers that explore how social
media technology and the power of the visual image come together in
specific contexts. Instagram, with its hashtagging and timecoding, for
instance, allows us to understand the fluid aspects of a given space. Such
images become, in fact, archives of evidence of socially mediated
Certeauian tactics to navigate the contemporary urban strategies of what
"public" space is and whom this "public" space is designed for.
We are looking for papers where the visual is driving the research, the
conceptualization, methodology, and analysis around urban issues, and we
encourage the submission of "traditional" papers as well as posters
(70x100cm).
*Organizers: *David Chapin (CUNY Graduate Center, USA); Scott Lizama (CUNY
Graduate Center, USA); Lidia K.C. Manzo (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
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*Deadline January 31 2015 Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to
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Lidia K.C. Manzo, Ph.D.
Contract Professor of *Contemporary City: Social Change and Policies*
DAStU Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano
University
Via Bonardi, 3 - 20133 Milano (Italia)
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lidiakcmanzo.com
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