Past Events

PERIPHERIES

AHRA International Conference 2011

Queen’s University Belfast - School of Planning, Architecture & Civil Engineering (SPACE)

October 27 2011 - October 29 2011

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Call for Papers 

Deadline 15 February 2011

Peripheries are increasingly considered in contemporary culture, research and practice. This shift in focus challenges the idea that the centre primarily influences the periphery, giving way to an understanding of reciprocal influences. These principles have permeated into a wide range of areas of study and practice, transforming the way we approach research and spatio-temporal relations.

The 2011 AHRA Queen's Belfast Peripheries conference will invite discussion via papers and short films on the multiple aspects  periphery represents --  temporal, spatial, intellectual, technological, cultural, pedagogical and political – with, as a foundation for development, the following themes:

Peripheral practices

Practice-based research

Urban peripheries

Non-metropolitan contexts

Peripheral positions

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CAAD | INNOVATION | PRACTICE

Manama, Al bahrain

October 21 2011

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The concepts and applications of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) have a
predominant presence and impacts on human innovation and creativity. 

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The Classical Urban Plan:  Monumentality, Continuity and Change

Brussels

September 30 2011

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Call for papers: European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Conference

Brussels: 31 May-3 June, 2012

Conference Session:

The Classical Urban Plan:  Monumentality, Continuity and Change

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Call for Projects: Urban Transcripts

Rome: The Accidental City

Rome, Italy

September 30 2011

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Call for Projects: Rome, The Accidental City
Urban Transcripts 2011

opening 09.05.2011
deadline for registrations of interest 30.09.2011
deadline for the reception of project submissions 07.10.2011

Urban Transcripts was borne out of an interest to create a new tool through which to explore cities in a participatory and cross-disciplinary way. It was initiated in 2010 as a series of annual
events, such as exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and publications, centred around a specific agenda every year, addressing issues in a particular city, or transversal themes
common to a number of different cities. Through an annual call-for-projects open to the wider public, Urban Transcripts solicits projects in a range of disciplines, from architecture and urban design to film and social research, in a variety of critical and creative media. Our series of events and actions is composed of an extensive selection of the projects submitted, curated by a designated committee. In this way, we are creating a unique platform for the advancement of a body of work and knowledge dealing with the urban phenomenon.

Theme of Urban Transcripts 2011

Beyond an imagery of the unchanged and unchangeable old town, the realities of the city of Rome finely weave themselves through an everlasting conflict between the remote past, the
recent yesterday, and the present. An exploration of Rome as an emergent territory reveals a vibrant congregation of “incidental” urban products: informal neighbourhoods resulting from
spontaneous development, modernist experiments in (re)housing society, ruins of a history that tourism has forgotten, bold transportation infrastructure piercing through the city's
residential fabric, urban voids or even unspoilt countryside that escaped ‘development’, all strikingly interlaced between the threads of time, in the junctures and overlaps between
planned form and plan-resistant city. They appear like parts of an accidental city: a city of the unexpected contrasts in built forms and urban landscapes, a city continuously redefined by its
citizens’ spontaneous appropriation of space, a city of the unpredictable play between people, space and time.

We invite you to explore the accident(al) in the city of Rome: the accident(al) which happens over time and transforms the 'essence' of the city that would otherwise remain unchanged, the
accident(al) which adds surprise and complexity to our reality and challenges our understanding of the city, the accident(al) which generates the energy to recreate and reshape
the city. Urban Transcripts 2011 is calling for projects in the visual arts, theory and research, architecture and urban design, which engage in critical and creative approaches with this theme and the problematics it evokes.

For more information, please visit http://www.urbantranscripts.org/, or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Brian Rosa
PhD Researcher, Human Geography
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
http://brianrosa.net/

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The shrinking world

RIBA Research Symposium 2011

Wren Room, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

September 22 2011

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Globalisation and emerging markets present numerous opportunities for architects to export their skills all over the world. And given the state of the UK economy, providing architectural services overseas has become increasingly vital to commercial survival. How easy is it? What are the pitfalls? What are the ethics of globalisation?

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Mobile Geographies of Art: Bodies, Technologies and Transnationality

RGS-IBG Annual Conference

London

August 31 2011 - September 02 2011

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Call For Papers:

Deadline for abstracts is Friday 11th February.

Convenor: Amanda Rogers (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group.

Geographical research on the arts has often concentrated on place bound artistic practices and representations, examining how art responds to local environments, identities and communities. This session invites papers that loosen the relationship between art and place by focussing on multi-locational and mobile geographies of art. These spatialities can occur at a range of scales, including: the micro-geographical movements of bodies as they engage in creative practices; the expression of mobile identities and spatialities in art; and the development of art works through transnational travel or collaboration. The session is also interested in how technologies affect or reflect this artistic movement, as well as mediating the form and function of art as it travels – whether in the development of viral videos or the re-staging of theatrical plays in different locations. The session therefore seeks to bring together geographers working on art, mobility and technology in order to develop accounts of artistic geographies that demonstrate how art can reassemble place or engage with porous understandings of site and location (Morris and Cant 2006; DeSilvey 2010).

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