All, here is the call “Mediating and rethinking ‘site’ in the creative process: from Ball State University, USA. Virtual conference with Routledge.
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MEDIATING AND RETHINKING ‘SITE’ IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Dates: 20-22nd April, 2022
Place: Virtual
Abstracts: 05 Dec, 2021
https://architecturemps.com/ball-state/
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DISCIPLINES:
Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape Design, Interior Design, Regional Planning
PART OF THE SERIES:
A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and Research in the Modern Academy
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CALL:
The concept of a site, location, setting or a context is a notion that has, in recent times taken on meanings seemingly directly associated with the pandemic and concomitant social distancing – whether permanently or not. However, as a concept it has always resonated in very different ways across different disciplines: literature, poetry, philosophy, history, politics, film, fine art, and allied design fields all have their particular associations ascribed to it.
From the field of human geography, David Harvey once defined ‘absolute’ material space as the experience of streets, walls, territorial markers, and physical boundaries. However, he also suggests that there are multiple other readings of space, from lived-relative to conceptualized-relational spaces. His reading of ‘site’ in the urban context is thus complex and nuanced.
In alignment with the nuanced pre (and probably post) pandemic reading of site found in Harvey, this conference strand invites submissions that consider site (and its correlates in different disciplines – location, setting, context etc.) as something more than just ‘absolute’ and/or material. Rather than reduce the notions of site, location or setting to a category of perceived parameters, boundaries, or topographic features, we invite papers that consider ‘site’ as a more intangible and malleable concept that may serve as a framework for art and design teaching, and as an impetus for the creative process.
In our own disciplinary areas (architecture and urban design) designers often think of site in ‘absolute’ terms and thus, in design-teaching, it typically connotes an urban, suburban, rural, or exurban place. In the traditional design studio, students use this approach to draw upon multidisciplinary concepts to generate architecture that establishes the order of the city. Recent research on the effects of post-industrialisation, however, argues that architecture no longer orders the city and, in its place, landscapes, sites, and atmospheres now define the nature of our urban experience. Consequently, it is our proposition, that ‘site’ more broadly understood, should now serve as the medium for multidisciplinary, conceptual design-thinking in the fields of spatial design.
Seeking to broaden our understanding of site then, this strand invites multiple perspectives on the issue of ‘site’, whether it be defined in terms of location, setting, context or any other disciplinary conceptual framework. It seeks to exchange ideas on how these varying notions will inform each other and, ultimately, the design of the places we inhabit.
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FORMATS:
Zoom, Pre-Recorded, Written Papers, Films
ORGANISERS:
This is the continuation of a unique international collaboration between Ball State University, USA, the University of Kassel, Germany, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan, the University of Pretoria, South Africa. It is coordinated by AMPS. Publications by Routledge.
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Part of the event series:
A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY: TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE MODERN ACADEMY
WEBSITE:
https://architecturemps.com/focus-pedagogy/
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