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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
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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: 29th 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 28th 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.
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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
29th 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
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