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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Colleagues, the Arts, Design & Culture in Cities series from Cambridge Scholars Publishing was launched last month. The first book is now published. Chapters for the next book will come from the ‘Rapid Cities – Responsive Architectures’ conference held in November 2020 to coincide with the Dubai World Expo. A full virtual strand will be available for those who can’t travel. Thanks. RAPID CITIES – RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURES American University in Dubai 22-24 November, 2020 Abstracts: 30th June 2020 (Round One) / 01st October 2020 (Round Two) https://architecturemps.com/dubai-2020/ - This conference coincides with the Dubai World Expo 2020. Its publications (book, proceedings and journal Special Issue) use the EXPO as the starting point for a critique of architecture, planning and design today. The previous publication ‘Critical Practices in Architecture’ includes a foreword from Jane Rendell. It was based on her keynote talk at the AMPS conference ‘Critical Practice in an Age of Complexity’. See the series page: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-arts-design-and-culture-in-cities - For chapter themes for the next book please see the ‘Rapid Cities – Responsive Architectures’ conference call: https://architecturemps.com/dubai-2020/ Call: In 1975 the World EXPO opened in Okinawa, Japan. Its centerpiece was ‘Aquapolis’, a floating city designed by the leading ‘metabolist’ architect Kiyonori Kikutake. By the time it closed one year later, Reyner Banham had published Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past. Paul Virilio had also coined the term dromology to explain the impact of speed and technology on contemporary culture. For all, speed and technology were not only central to architectural and urban design, but also the mediated culture of spectacle around them. The event that this conference aligns with, EXPO 2020, addresses the dichotomies found in the work of these theorists. For many, the phenomenon of the EXPO is the epitome of contemporary fast-paced design and development. Commercially driven, built at break neck speed, led by star architects and premised on instant urban planning. EXPO 2020 has all these traits. However, it also presents itself as responsive to social and environmental concerns. It is powered by solar arrays, recycles wastewater and monitors its carbon footprint. It touts its long term plan for housing and mixed-use development post EXPO. Rapid Cities – Responsive Architectures seeks to examine the dialectic, tensions, problems and possibilities of architecture and urbanism as technologically imbued, fast-paced commercial exercises. It does so from a multi-disciplinary perspective: Architecture | Urban Design | History and Heritage | Culture | Sustainability | Engineering | Housing | Public Health | Sociology To participate submit an abstract: https://architecturemps.com/dubai-2020/ The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST