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Dear Critters... For all those interested: Sensi/eable Spaces Space, Art and the Environment Conference at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík 1st and 2nd June 2006 Hosted by the faculties of Geoscience and Philosophy and the 20th Reykjavík Arts Festival CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The conference deals with the perception and conception of spaces in the built as well as natural environment. The aim of the conference is to bring together a wide range of academics, from the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as artists and activists who have an interest in the way spaces can be sensed, understood and reconfigured. With this aim in mind we invite papers, posters, art work and displays that focus on ways of understanding and perceiving spaces as well as methodologies and techniques for creating spaces. Spaces today are continually being reconstituted and reformulated in various ways, often relying on notions of what is sensible, narrowly defined by groups with an ideological agenda of some kind and/or vested economic interests. These sensible factors often obscure and ignore notions of the sense-able – that which people perceive through the senses while being-in spaces. The conference is about drawing out these sensibilities based on the sense-able, as opposed to subjectively formulated agendas or interests which are based on many different notions of the sensible. Papers, posters, art work and displays are encouraged from a broad range of disciplines. The focus can be both on conceptual issues as well as more practical issues, or can be theme-related artwork displayed on site. More information is to be found at: www.sparten.org Paper and poster abstracts are to be 300–500 words and submitted by 30th January 2006 to Edward H. Huijbens ([log in to unmask]). Proposals for art displays are to be sent by 30th January 2006 to Paul Hackett ([log in to unmask]) Final papers, to be published on the conference web page are to be submitted online by 1st May 2006, following the format outlined on the conference webpage. -- "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden"....Goethe "The trick is to be hard on the outside, but soft on the inside, like a cola cube, or a rolo"....Faulkner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edward H. Huijbens Ph.D. Candidate Department of Geography University of Durham South Road Durham DH1 3LE England tel: +44-7876586861 or +354-847-4104 e-mail: [log in to unmask]