Call for papers: Annual AAG meeting in Boston, Massachusetts April 15-19,
2008
EXPERIENCING URBAN AESTHETICS:
I - Theorizing encounters in designed urban spaces
II - Methods for researching experiences in designed urban spaces
Organizers: Gillian Rose (Open University), Monica Degen (Brunel University)
Chair: Begum Basdas (Open University)
An increased preoccupation with the visual impact of places has led to an
explicit focus on and use of urban design in the redevelopment of urban
centres. The intention of aesthetic intervention into urban space is to
alter the experience of that space. Debates on this aesthetization of the
urban environment have tended to portray those using these spaces as
passively responding to urban design stimuli. However, there is clearly a
diversity of fluid and overlapping practices and experiences involved when
people interact with the materiality of the city. In the daily uses of these
designed environments, people may engage, ignore, resist or subvert them. In
this session we are interested in thinking through the diversity of embodied
visual and sensuous encounters we have with the built environment. In
particular we invite papers that either theorize the complex and diverse
engagements that people have in designed spaces or papers that develop
methods for researching how we experience the city.
Expressions of interest and/or abstracts (250 words of less) should be sent
by October 22nd to Gillian Rose: [log in to unmask] or Monica Degen:
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