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Subject:

Re: INURA and the Exodus Collective: some info. (fwd)

From:

Kris Olds <[log in to unmask]>

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Kris Olds <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:10:45 -0700 (PDT)

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As requested (by Michael Edwards of INURI):


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:11:53 +0000
From: Michael Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
To: Kris Olds <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: keith halfacree <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: INURA and the Exodus Collective: some info. (fwd)

Dear Cris Olds - thanks for forwarding the INURA/EXODUS message and keith
thanks for intiating it.  I was there too for a bit of the meeting and got
a lot of sustenace from it.  The Exodus video made by Mark Saunders for
Channel 4 is very good and, if you circulate again, I suggest you mention
it as being avaiable from Mark, Spectacle TV Collective, Thackeray Rd,
London SW8  3TW fax 0171 978 1361 for £10.

If you have an Emailing-list, could you please also circulate the following??

Biss Newsletter 1996
The International Summer School on the 
Production of the 
Built Environment
will take place at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2 - 7 September 1996
Main theme:
Changing social relations in the production of the built environment:  
class, identity, culture, ethnicity and gender

Announcement and Call for ContributionsŠ
Social relations in cities all around the world have changed radically in
recent years. New mechanisms of inequality and exclusion/inclusion are now
at work and new divisions are emerging not only among the urban population
but also between cities themselves. Contemporary capitalism takes on global
dimensions by challenging an industrial capitalism based upon national
economies.  It leads to forms of inequality and mechanisms of inclusion and
exclusion that appear radically different from those that prevailed, say,
some twenty years ago.  Re-distributive mechanisms are weakened and
polarisation grows.  We now know that class relations are multi-faceted,
extremely complex and reproduced through a wide variety of mechanisms not
strictly limited to the economic sphere. 

What social agents increasingly do is not simply to rehearse pre-determined
rôles and fill in already-given vacant positions in social relations, but
to open to contestation the very rôles themselves and generate mechanisms
to challenge the existing positions. Social agents can no longer be
understood as unified conscious classes, centred merely around the
experiences of the workplace, but must be theorised as fragmented
identities that are always partial and in the making. Thus the themes
culture, identity, ethnicity and gender arise as crucially important areas
to which critical social theory cannot remain indifferent, alongside class,
in an analysis of social relations. 

The production and the use of the built environment play a pivotal role in
the, still precarious, construction of subjectivity and the generation and
contestation of new mechanisms of inequality in material life.  Through the
mediation of the built environment, social relations are produced and
reproduced. This theme should incorporate both the theoretical and
empirical analyses of changing social relations in cities in different
parts of the world and exemplifying the very fact that the construction of
the social is not 'a-spatial' and that of the spatial is not 'a-social'. 

The adequacy of our conceptual tools developed so far for the analysis of
these changing social relations is deeply controversial.   The critical
point is whether the centrality and determinacy of the point of production
in the construction of social consciousness, inevitably leads (in some
versions) to a failure to understand the heterogeneity and complexity of
today's social relations and forms of subjectivity. Materialist analyses
are considered by some to have failed in their attempts to theorise
subjectivity and identity in the face of today's rapidly changing and
ephemeral social relations.

On the other hand it is widely argued (in the Summer School and elsewhere)
that the main unifying force in the world is the ubiquitous penetration of
capital as an exploitative social relation into almost every corner of the
world, leaving few individuals or cultures un-touched.  In this context,
the analysis of how capital relates to non-capital (i.e. to labour, to
family and gender, to natural resources, to cultures and identities) is a
crucial task - and a unifying basis for dialogue between people in
different situations.

These debates and themes are proposed as subject matter of the 1996 meeting.

The city where the meeting will be held provides an excellent setting for
the study of these complex social relations and in addition for the study
of  a very strong presence of the state in society and in the built
environment.:  Ankara is literally a republican dream, a city built from
next-to-nothing.

Call for Papers
If you are thinking of submitting a paper, please send at least a
provisional title - plus an abstract if you can.   Send simultaneously to
Melih Pinarcioglu in London and to Oguz Isik in Ankara to help with the
planning of the meeting.  (Addresses below.)

for new readers

What are the Summer Schools on the 
Production of the Built Environment? 
These meetings have, since 1979,  been a unique forum for scientific
discussion and debate among researchers, students and activists concerned
with the Production of the Built Environment. They aim at crossing the
boundaries between professions and disciplines - architecture, planning and
city government, engineering, economics, history, geography - and at
linking the experiences of regions and nations. In its first years it met
exclusively in Europe (UK four times, Italy, France, West Germany, East
Germany, Switzerland) and then began to range more widely (Mexico, Brazil
and Soviet Union, but with a distinct European base. Later meetings have
included Brussels - hosted by the Commission and La Cambre - Roubaix and
Strathclyde. The Summer School is often called "Biss" because it started
life as the Bartlett International Summer Schools on the Production of the
Built Environment, under the auspices of The Bartlett School, University
College London. One of the distinctive features of Biss meetings is the
welcoming, cooperative, non-competitive, atmosphere.

Further information:
London:  Michael Edwards and / or Melih Pinarcioglu
The Bartlett, UCL, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H  0QB, UK
FAX:  +44 (0)171 380 7502
EMAIL:  [log in to unmask]
EMAIL:  [log in to unmask]

Ankara:  Dr Oguz Isik
Department of City and regional Planning, Middle East Technical University,
ANKARA, Turkey
FAX:  (90) 312 210 1250
EMAIL: [log in to unmask]

Biss Secretariat General: Martin Schwartz and Jean-Claude Stofer
10 rue Michel Chauvet, 1208 GENEVA, Switzerland
FAX:  +41 (0)22 346 8261
EMAIL:  not available

http://www.metu.edu.tr/~www21/biss.html

Michael






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