I run the librarian team that forms part of the research group AMPS and its associated academic journal Architecture_MPS. The journal is now published with University College London (UCL) Press.The librarian team supports research and we try to embed librarians into the scholarly communication process of the journal and its associated activities such as conferences. As part of this, some of the librarian team are engaged in editing the books coming from these conferences and in putting together online resources about the conference themes through Pinterest. See https://www.pinterest.com/architecturemps/
For this collaboration of librarians and academics to work, we also need to ensure the academics engage in these events and publications, so I just wanted to ask if you could forward the call for papers below to relevant academics. The deadline is pretty soon. Details below. It is relevant to architecture academics in particular.
Many thanks,
Rachel Isaac-Menard
Head of Research Support
Architecture_MPS
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Abstracts: 15th October, 2015
Housed by Choice, Housed by Force – Homes, Conflict and Conflicting Interests
Details: http://architecturemps.com/cyprus
Interdisciplinary – International Conference
The need to be housed is basic and yet, the forces that produce it in any city of the world multiple, contradictory and often conflictive.
Whilst inherently complicated in any context, housing delivery is even more difficult in sites of inherent social, cultural, political and economic sensitivity such as the one that hosts this event, Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus.
Taking as its starting point the social, political, cultural and economic complexity of its host city – the world’s last remaining divided capital - this conference seeks to understand the range of conflicting interests and factors that shape the housing of our towns and cities in both normal and extreme scenarios.
It is interested in cases from around the world, from politically charged environments of military conflict zones to the socially conflictive contexts of developer led gentrification. It welcomes resident perspectives and planner led solutions, sociological analysis and ideas for inclusionary design.
It seeks to better understand how we safeguard the right to choose appropriate housing for all our citizens; how we ensure residents have a voice in design and development; how we guarantee adequate housing is always an option; and how we overcome conflicts and conflicting interests to do this.
Location: University of Cyprus; The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus.
Conference Dates: 21 – 22nd January, 2016
Abstract Deadline: 15th October, 2015
Details: http://architecturemps.com/cyprus
For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2013 at
http://arlis.org.uk/
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