Hi, below are details about ‘Design Informatics’ and Ethical Space’ based on the work of Chris Speed and Willie Ermine at the University of Calgary hybrid conference CULTURES, COMMUNITIES and DESIGN. The conference hopes to link debates about digitality with questions of cultures and land rights.
Cultures, Communities and Design Conference
Virtual and In-person – Calgary, Canada
28-30th June, 2022
https://architecturemps.com/calgary/
- CHRIS SPEED – Design Informatics: From Countryside to Country-side
Prof. Chris Speed FRSE, is Chair of Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh where he collaborates with a wide variety of partners to explore how design provides methods to adapt and create products and services within a networked society. Chris directs the Institute for Design Informatics that is home to a combination of researchers working across the fields of interaction design, temporal design, anthropology, software engineering and digital architecture, as well as the PhD, MA/MFA and MSc and Advanced MSc programmes. He is Director of the Creative Informatics R&D Partnership and Co-I to the Next Stage Digital Economy Centre DECaDE led by Surrey with the Digital Catapult. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020.
- WILLIE ERMINE – Ethical Space
Willie is an Assistant Professor with the First Nations University of Canada. He is from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in the north-central part of Saskatchewan where he lives with his family. As a faculty member with the First Nations University of Canada, he lectures in the areas of Education, Humanities, Indigenous Studies and Research Methods. He has published numerous academic articles and contributed reports to the Tri-Council Panel on Research Ethics. He has presented at various national and international conferences and symposiums on topics such as education, research and in particular, the nature of Indigenous thought. Throughout his research, Professor Ermine has worked extensively with Elders. He promotes ethical practices of research involving Indigenous Peoples and is particularly interested in the conceptual development of the ‘ethical space’–a theoretical space between cultures and worldviews.
https://architecturemps.com/calgary/
OVERALL CALL:
‘The Countryside’ – a polemically generic term Rem Koolhaas has recently used to reposition debates about our cities to those of rural areas. While posited as ‘new’, it is, in reality, a well established mode of thinking. Through notions such as the peri-urban for example, geographers, sociologists, architects, urban designers and regional economists have all debated the urban-rural relationship for several decades. Under this framework we are obliged to consider the city and its architecture on its own terms, but also address the ‘rural’ in its particular context and, importantly, explore the parallels and mutual influences at play.
According to this logic, the environmental, social, cultural, planning and design issues relevant in our cities find parallels outside the city fringe. Calgary, the host city of this conference, is a perfect example. It has heavy industry, a thriving business economy and a growing tourist sector. However, pockets of the city contend with poverty, pollution and gentrification. As a city, Calgary also ‘pressures’ its surrounding lands including the Rockies and the Banff nature reserve.
While such debates are of concern today around the world, they were also highlighted 50 years ago when the host school of this conference was founded. Back then, Archigram and Buckminster Fuller argued that architecture, technology and the ‘earth’ were interconnected. Jane Jacobs connected the built environment with social concerns. Aldo van Eyke fought for communities and the participatory practices and, in 1971, the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) was founded in the United States.
Picking up on its 50th year anniversary, the Faculty of Environmental Design / School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary seeks to foster debate around issues relevant at its opening which remain important and unresolved today.
Dates: June 28th, 2022 – In-person and virtual
Abstracts: 01 April, 2022
https://architecturemps.com/calgary/
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