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Registration is now taking place for the second seminar ‘Senses and Architecture’ in the ESRC funded research seminar series ‘Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place’.  Further details can be found at http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/.  To register please complete the form at the end of this email and send to Kellie Gallagher on [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

ESRC Research Seminar Series

 

Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place

Seminar Two: Senses and Architecture

The study of SenseScapes is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field focussing on sensorial studies of human interaction with physical environments. Challenging an ocular-centricism that arguably underpins much scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences, a new multi-sensory research agenda is being critically developed. The concept of ‘sensescapes’ incorporates the full range of sensory experience in the broadest range of disciplines as sensual experience is mediated through hearing, smell, touch, taste, as well as sight. Including the visual, the auditory, the olfactory, the gustatory and the haptic, the concept of sensescapes enables an interrogation of everyday life that incorporates the meeting of mind, body and environment.

Seminar Two (Senses and architecture) seeks to move on from, but be informed by, the more pluralistic understandings of the senses detailed in the previous seminar by focusing on how sensory understandings have filtered into disciplines such as architecture and urban planning.  The specific focus will be on built form and will bring together disparate groups working in areas such as: the relationships between public and private space; buildings and their various uses; the sensory qualities of the material world and their social significance; multi-sensory appreciations of physical urban artefacts; materials and their sensory significance.

 

Convenor:                 Simon Guy (University of Manchester)

 

Date:                           29^th June 2007

 

Keynote Speaker:   David Howes, Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Canada

                                    (Editor of Berg’s Sensory Formations series)

 

Venue:                        Urbis, Cathedral Gardens, Manchester, M4 3BG.

                                    http://www.urbis.org.uk/visitors.asp

 

Directions:                 Urbis is located in Cathedral Gardens in Manchester City Centre, just next to Victoria Station and easily accessible by bus, train, tram, car or on foot. See Urbis’ webpage for disabled access. 

 

There will be a tour around the Victoria Baths http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/ organised for the previous evening (Thursday 28^th June - there will be a small charge for this) and led by Professor Guy.  Please indicate on your registration form if you wish to participate.  There will also be an evening meal organised for the previous evening (there will be a charge for this).  Please indicate on your registration form if you wish to attend this, as numbers will be limited.   

 

A number of travel bursaries are also available on a first come first served basis.  Please indicate on your registration form, if you wish to be considered for one. 

 

The seminar is free and lunch will be provided but places will be strictly limited to enable discussion so please register for the seminar by returning the attached registration form via mail or email to:

 

Kellie Gallagher, School of Environment and Development (SED), University of Manchester, Humanities Bridgeford Street, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.

 

Tel: +44 (0)161 275 0315.  Email: [log in to unmask]

 

Further details which will be updated as the seminar series progresses can be found at http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/

 

ESRC Research Seminar Series

 

Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place

 

Seminar Two

Seminar Two: Senses and Architecture

29^th June 2007

University of Manchester, UK

 

REGISTRATION FORM

 

Personal details for registration and correspondence (please complete all fields):

 

Name:
Title:
Position:
Organisation:
Address:

 

Fax number:
Tel number:
Email address:

 

Please provide a short paragraph of your interests in Senses and Architecture for the participants list:
These details will go on the SenseScapes website.  Please tick if you do not want your details on the website.
Please state any dietary  requirements:

 

Registration details:

Please tick if you are interested in participating in a guided tour of the Victorian Baths the previous evening (there will be a charge for this)
Please tick if you wish to attend the meal the previous evening
Please tick if you wish to apply for a travel bursary