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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear all, Please find details of a forthcoming conference in beautiful West Wales. best Carl Dreams, Revolution and Process: Spatial and Temporal Approaches to Rural Sustainability and Regeneration On: 5th October, 2013. At: fforest, Cilgerran, Ceredigion. Web: www.makinghome.org.uk<http://www.makinghome.org.uk> This is an interdisciplinary conference that aims to respond to a range of material that addresses rural sustainability and regeneration, with a focus on how and why decisions are made at individual, local, community and government level. Bringing together perspectives from geography, history, policy-making, regeneration practitioners and the arts, the conference will open up the gaps between individual and collective aspiration and reality. The rural is in a state of constant regeneration. Since the development of the urban, the rural has been a place of both harmony and negativism. It switches from radical, alternative (anti-industrialist) space where we can renegotiate a relationship with 'nature', to uncultured backwater, representing little more than material resource. Such perspectives are formed in relation to time (history) and space (place) and need to be considered when reaching an understanding of, as well as approaches to, rural regeneration, in order to ask: Who is regenerating, and for whom? The venue itself reflects the conference themes, as well as providing fantastic accommodation for the day - and night too, if needed. (Please note, family and friends, while not registered for the conference, are welcome to stay). More details are on the website: www.makinghome.org.uk<http://www.makinghome.org.uk> Submissions are invited from any discipline - sciences, humanities, regeneration practice, arts - which, within the overall theme of a temporal/spatial understanding of rural sustainability and regeneration, address the following: Social inclusion/exclusion. Power relations (e.g. between incomers/indigenous; public/private; individual/community). Imagining sustainability. Counter-urbanisation. Urban/rural relationship. Distance, space and place. Grass roots vs government development. Globalisation. Community cohesion, based, for example, on history, culture, ideology, nostalgia. Commodification, and protection, of 'nature' and the different values imposed by local, regional, national and global expectations. Design processes: traditional vs innovative. Policy. Programme delivery. Please email submissions of no more than 300 words to Reuben Knutson ([log in to unmask]) by August 9th. We welcome presentations in a variety of formats. FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan