City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Liverpool, 26-28th March 2008
Organised by the School of Architecture / School of Politics and
Communication Studies
INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
'City in Film' will explore the relationship between film, architecture
and the urban landscape drawing on interests in film, architecture,
urban studies and civic design, cultural geography, cultural studies and
related fields. The conference is part of University of Liverpool's
contribution to the European Capital of Culture 2008, and aims to foster
interdisciplinary dialogues around architectural and film history and
theory, film and urban space, and to point towards new intellectual
frameworks for discussion. It seeks to draw on the work of theorists and
practitioners engaged in ideas in these areas, examining film in the
context of urban design and development and exploring in particular the
contested social, cultural and political terrain that underpins these
practices. We particularly welcome contributions on non-fiction film,
documentaries, actuality and amateur film, the influence of film on
urban and architectural design, and the role of film in the construction
of virtual environments and spaces of memory. Potential speakers are
invited to submit abstracts that relate to any aspect of the general
subject area, but the main focus of conference is expected to be around
the following strands and suggested themes in relation to the moving image:
Film, Place and Urban Identity
o Localism, regionalism; peripheries and boundaries
o Iconography, landscape and urban form
o Transculturation and migration
o Industrial and post-industrial landscapes
o Tourism, heritage and city branding
o Contested spaces
Mapping Filmic Space
o Cognitive mapping
o Psychogeographies: reverie and urban drift
o Spaces of affect
o Stasis and mobility
o Habitus and place
o Everyday life and rhythmanalysis
Time, Memory, and Urban Form
o Role of archives in architectural, filmic and curatorial practice
o Perception and aesthetics in early film actualities
o Narrative and expressive spaces in film
o Historiographies of cities in film
o Presence and absence: spectral cities, ghosts and spaces of
dereliction
o Monuments and spaces of memory
Virtual Environments
o Digitality and spatiality
o Screen-based technologies - electronic billboards, interactive
facades
o Haptic spaces and architextures
o Educational environments
Design in Architecture and the Moving Image
o Set design
o Embodiment, performance and urban space
o Mobile spaces
o Interactive environments
o Participatory environments
o Film influenced architectural designs
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Charlotte Brunsdon, University of Warwick
Patrick Keiller, Royal College of Art
James Sanders, architect, filmmaker, writer
For further enquiries, please contact Dr Richard Koeck
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Dr Les
Roberts ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). Please submit proposals for
papers (300 words maximum) by e-mail to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 1 September 2007. Information on
booking and registration will be posted to the website shortly:
www.liv.ac.uk/abe/cityinfilm/ <http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/cityinfilm/>
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
