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Call for Papers: RGS-IBG International Conference: London, August 30 to September 2, 2016
Session Title: Ordinary Place Making
Session Convenors:
Sue Kyte – Griffith University
Steve Millington – Institute of Place Management/Manchester Metropolitan University
The complex and multi-faceted dimensions of place making and development requires consider integrated and inter-disciplinary approaches. Critical engagements with place-making, however, often focus on large metropolitan centres, whilst practice is informed by mainly Western, urban and professional experiences, suggesting an implicit tension arising through the privileging of social and cultural positions of both the observers and observed. Overlooked perhaps is the ordinary, everyday and banal sites of lived experience - the vernacular realm, neighbourhoods, small towns, the rural and informal settlement (Bell & Jayne, 2006; Edensor et al, 2010; Lombard, 2014). This session therefore aims to refocus research on ordinary place-making, to reveal multiple, nuanced and diverse practices emergent through the lived experiences of communities engaged with attempts to inscribe place identity within their localities. We aim, therefore, to reveal the disconnection between place-making imaginaries, the policy rhetoric and lived experience (Jones et al, 2012), by bringing together an inter-disciplinary range of papers that might address the following themes:
- How spaces are made into places through design interventions, activities, adaptation and behaviours of people using space that might challenge international professional understandings of taste/aesthetics and what constitutes good design.
- Adaptations that goes beyond physicality / materiality to generate atmosphere and engagement with multiple sensory experiences of place-making
- Distancing of place making from strategies for urban competitiveness - to think about the social and cultural outcomes for both individuals and communities
- The creative and resistant possibilities / affordances that might arise through deployment of formal place-making, together with the tensions, distinctions and conflicts that might arise through activities of differently positioned non-state non-professional and informal activities
- Creative place-making, specifically community based arts and creativity - together with festivals - as a source of inscribing place identity
- Community driven sustainable place-making initiatives
- Strategies for effective engagement between professional and community place-makers
- Evaluation tools and methods for community-driven and participatory place-making - to both inform and reveal the outcomes of interventions
Please send a 250 word abstract by 5th February to:
Sue Kyte: [log in to unmask]
Steve Millington: [log in to unmask]
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