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Envisioning Transitions: Bodies, buildings, and boundaries
DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS submission EXTENDED > June 19th
Il 26 apr 2022, 17:09 +0200, Andrea Cattabriga <[log in to unmask]>, ha scritto:
Deadline for abstracts (max 5000 ch): May 22nd, 2022
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Envisioning Transitions: Bodies, buildings, and boundaries
virtual-only on December 16th, 2022
organized by the Doctorate in Architecture and Design Cultures of the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna
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Transition is an increasingly common concept in the debate among technicians, especially in fields such as design, architecture, and the humanities in general. It turns out to be one of the most compelling contemporary challenges. We are currently living through a phase of epochal transitions, however, it seems that the longed-for change never arrives.
Anticipating, accompanying, holding back: our call for Bodies, buildings, and boundaries invites us to reflect on the challenge of transition, focusing on the link between bodies and the built environment and analyzing the problem of limits and boundaries, both those to be set and those that are already defined.
Conference website: https://eventi.unibo.it/transitions
Keynote speakers will be announced soon.
To participate in the conference, please complete the registration form at the link: http://www.transitions-conf.org/
Proceedings with selected papers will be published
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Track 1. Bodies
Reflections can be made about the sense of precarity and uncertainty that transitions embed, lead- ing to initially temporary phenomena that invest the different spheres of the social dimension but then seem to become permanently adopted in the society.
How are people’s habits and lifestyles changing, both individually and collectively? How do design cultures take this into account? Thinking about the somatic dimension of humans’ experience, how are technologies perceived and accepted in the digital transition? (e.g., the performative construc- tion of the identity, the artistic display of somatic experiences in the context of new technologies).
How to relate bodies and transitions? Perhaps we should first ask what the body is perceiving? And what is the position we occupy in relation to what is happening? Inner, outer, near, far, centre, pe- riphery. What is the temporal and spatial dimension of this particular transition? How is it affecting our perception and representation of time and space, of our “self”, of our relationships with the Other? If by transition we mean the perception that something is changing, that we are changing, that we need a different attitude towards the way we are living, the duty to produce different forms and different relations that question the assumptions that have led us so far (e.g., economic, tech- nic, scientific), what would aesthetics of transition be about?
Track 2. Buildings
Many changes have taken place in recent years for what concerns all levels of the building process. Aspiring towards more conscious and responsible design and construction choices, criteria that were previously overlooked have now become ever more salient (e.g., life cycle thinking, circularity, carbon neutrality, km0, low environmental impact).
How is architecture adapting to the demanding framework of transition? What are the new para- digms that are emerging in the actual transitions, and what forms can we envision for a future-proof architecture? What role do technologies and design play in this passage?
Track 3. Boundaries
Global networks, territories, cities, and various spaces of interactions are transforming and hence the boundaries between people and objects, spaces, and different relational dimensions are chal- lenged. How can we take account of these changes on the larger scale?
How are these spatial realities adapting and changing with respect to the current challenges (e.g., digital and climate-neutral transitions)? We seek contributions addressing strategies and their spa- tial territorialization, aiming to understand how transitions are concretely realized and how they change territories, objects, and relations with human beings.
Andrea Cattabriga
PhD Fellow
Advanced Design Unit<https://adu.unibo.it/>
Department of Architecture
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
M +39 339 7801377 | Linkedin<http://bit.ly/3i1U9ZP>
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