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Dear list members
See below details of a forthcoming session at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference 2017.
Proposal deadline: 7 November 2016.
Regards,
Robert
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AAH2017
43rd Annual Conference & Art Book Fair
Loughborough University
6th to 8th April 2017
Session: The Object of Urban Visual Culture
Convenor: Robert Harland, Loughborough University, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Urban environments in the 21st century are peppered with a vast array of graphic objects, serving many functions. They inform and persuade, entertain and educate, and more, contributing to what Kevin Lynch called the 'City Image' (1960). Lynch sought to define the 'image of the city' through identity, structure and meaning, with the concept of 'imageability: that quality in a physical object, which gives high probability of evoking a strong image in any given observer,' based on the earlier ideas about the attributes of an artistic object.
If looked at from the perspective of visual culture, with its strong emphasis on cultural identity and weaker sense of the visual that also considers social factors (Barnard 2001), the scope of objects that contribute towards understanding the city image is wide. Furthermore, urban visual culture emphasises the products of advertising by foregrounding its relationship to architecture and design (Ward 2001). This partial perspective takes a narrow view of design for visual communication in urban contexts, leading to the need for further consideration about what urban visual culture might be. For example: What is its scope and scale? How might it be defined in relation to Lynch's ideas about imageability? In short: What is an urban visual culture.
This session invites papers and presentations from historians, theorists and practitioners that explore what urban visual culture might be in relation to Lynch's aspiration for imageability, visibility, and legibility in the design of urban environments.
Further details available on the AAH website http://aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2017-conference.
Dr Robert Harland<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/aed/staff/academic/robert-harland/> · Recent publications · Graphic design in urban environments<http://bit.ly/2atjUzJ> · Graphicality: why is there not such a word?<http://www.drs2016.org/099> · Traces of fascist urban iconography in the Latina Province, Italy<https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21989> · Graphic objects and their contribution to the image of the city<http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KbNaiAaKJsWRgPru6jcT/full>
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