RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 28-31 August, 2018, Cardiff, UK
Call for abstracts for conference and book chapters: Technology-mediated identities in the futures of place
Deadline: Sunday, February 13th, 2018
Session organisers: NezHapi Dellé Odeleye and Lakshmi Priya Rajendran (Anglia Ruskin University, Essex, UK)
The range of operations and activities made possible by media practices and technologies (mobile phones, smart screens, screen projections, etc) modify our sensory perception (visual, acoustic and haptic) and affects the way we conceptualise and understand places today. With places occurring at all levels of identity (Relph, 1976), and place itself losing its authority (Leach,1999) discourses and debates over implications of media practices on place-related identities have begun to attract attention. In the changing socio-technical geographies, identity remains as a contested and complex concept (Yuval Davis and Kaptani, 2009) for spatial and non-spatial disciplines.
Various perspectives, from human geography, media studies, cultural studies, urban design and architecture, nonetheless share some themes, related to networked culture, human experience of the city and the changing relations between people, digital interfaces, and places (Cuff 2003; De Waal 2011; Sassen and Shepard 2011). New forms of representations through citizens lens have emerged from open-ended city-building video games such as SimCity, Cities:Skylines and as well as practitioner-based representations of proposed changes to places - using City Information Modelling (CIM) and other virtual tools for promoting new development / regeneration. Personal and social relations are being experienced more through virtual and mediated environments, higher levels of home-working and individual start-ups. The multi-dimensional and multi-layered nature of place-based community relationships today also make identity negotiation into a restless activity often marked by discordant and/or agreeable spatial encounters. By exploring these emerging people-place relationships in cities, we strive to examine how such practices and technologies, challenge the ways in which planning, designing - and place-related identities can be understood, perceived, engaged and re-constructed in contemporary urban contexts - and in the potential futures of place.
These highlight a need to investigate the implications of media for rethinking the relationship among users, spaces, information, as well as interfaces and the impact which these reconfigurations have upon place and place-related identities. The session seeks papers that probe ways in which new digital media trends in how and what we communicate, and where this is taking place, are driving / reshaping our everyday practices and emerging contemporary identities, amidst media portrayals of urban transformations. Adopting an interdisciplinary lens, the session aims to explore how technology and media platforms are steering a paradigm shift in our relational existence and experience in urban environments allowing place-related identity de/constructions and negotiations to occur.
We welcome contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics (which will be considered for inclusion as a chapter in a forthcoming book):
• Indigenous cultural identity adaptations to urban mediatization
• Neo-cultures, tranlocalism and Identity
• Identity, technology and everyday processes and environments.
• Intersubjective representations
• Mediated and shared experiences
• Urban realm and Immersive environments
• Temporalities and mediated experiences
• Virtual co-implacements and territorialites
The session targets a multi-disciplinary audience/participant from diverse fields including urban design, planning, architecture, anthropology sociology, media studies, history, psychology, cultural studies and human geography.
Selected abstracts will be invited for publication in our on-going book project with the Springer Series in Adaptive Environments and will need the full papers to be finalised in April 2018 following a separate peer review process.
If interested, please send a proposal (title, 300-word abstract and author details) Lakshmi Priya Rajendran ([log in to unmask]) and NezHapi Dellé Odeleye ([log in to unmask]) by 13th
February 2018.
References
Dana Cuff, Immanent Domain: Pervasive Computing and the Public Realm.” Journal of Architec Journal of Architectural Education, 57, no. 1: 43–9, 2003
Edward Relph, Place and Placelessness, Research in Planning and Design 1 (London: Pion, 1976)
Martijn de Waal,The city as interface: How new media are changing the city. Rotterdam: NAI (Uitgevers/Publishers Stichting, 2013)
Mark Shepard. Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space. (The MIT Press: 2011)
Neil Leach, “The Dark Side of the Domus: The Redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe.,” in Architecture and revolution contemporary perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Neil Leach (London; New York: Routledge, 1999)
Yuval-Davis Nira, and Erene Kaptani. “Performing Identities: Particpatory Theatre among Refugees.” In Theorizing identities and social action, edited by Margaret Wetherell, 56–74. Houndmills, Basingstoke [etc.] (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Sakia Sassen, When Cities Become Strategic. Archit Design, 81: 124–127. doi:10.1002/ad.1250, 2011
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