Past Events

Museums and the Web 2011

international conference for culture and heritage online

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

April 06 2011 - April 09 2011

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2010

Museums and the Web explores the social, cultural, design,  technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science  and heritage online. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews  and analyzes the impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific  heritage. Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining,  tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web  - wherever the network may take us.

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Live Projects 2011

a free, one day colloquium for live project academics in architecture, built environment and design disciplines

Queen's University Belfast

March 25 2011 - March 25 2011

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Live Projects 2011 invites academics and teachers in architecture, built environment and design disciplines to a one day colloquium about the use of live projects in higher education. Participants chosen to present will have reasonable travel and accommodation expenses met.  The deadline for proposals is 21st January 2011 - see below.

A live project in architectural education may be defined as a teaching project that brings students of architecture into contact with one or more aspects of the reality of architectural practice: a real client, a real timeline and a real outcome that is of value to the client. Established as an adaptation of the studio-based model of architectural education, their origins lie in nineteen-fifties’ experiments in the university-based architectural education. Contemporary UK live projects are increasingly cited as developing broader skill-sets in their students than traditional studio based projects, often drawing reference from design/build or service learning projects in North America.  Yet despite their established use in architectural education, live projects remain under theorised, with primarily descriptive rather than analytical research.

Live Projects 2011 offers live project academics, practitioners and students a focused opportunity to:

• present, discuss and critique live project practice and research
• propose and develop areas for future practice and research
• meet and network with peers at schools of architecture in Britain and Ireland
• develop their contributions for subsequent publication

http://liveprojects2011.wordpress.com/

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NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF POSTCOLONIALITY AND GLOBALIZATION

The University of the West Indies, Trinidad

March 24 2011

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: October 31^st, 2010

With a conviction to articulate alternative directions for postcolonial studies within a globalised world, we invite paper proposals on a wide range of topics related to postcolonial theory and globalization studies. One of the aims of this conference is a rigorous scrutiny of what it may mean to ‘re-think’ the ongoing ‘critiques of postcolonialism’. Postcolonial studies has been steadily and rapidly energized by cross-disciplinary investigations thereby re-configuring critical paradigms of thought and contributing to contemporary understandings of the world as being dominated by transnational capital flows, rapid and extensive globalisation and an unprecedented surge of technology and information. At the conference, we propose to work with a more flexible understanding of postcolonial studies that can reveal new perspectives on the ideological, political and socio-cultural dimensions of the contemporary world order.

Given the context and geographical locality of the conference, we are very keen to receive paper proposals that move beyond the West/ non-West structure which inevitably involve a critique of Eurocentric thought. We thus invite proposals that are historically and geographically extensive and that seek to problematize facile divisions in an increasingly mobile and interconnected world. Within this context we are particularly interested in situating postcolonial studies and globalisation with the Caribbean context. 

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Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture

An International Conference Hosted by Leiden University

Leiden, The Netherlands

March 17 2011 - March 19 2011

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Please save the date and plan to join us for an international conference on proportional systems in the history of architecture, to take place at Leiden University, The Netherlands, from 17-19 March 2011. The purpose of this conference is to frame a rigorous new scholarly discussion of this subject, and in the process, to help define appropriate methods, standards and limits for it. The conference will explore this subject during any period, and from both historical and historiographical points-of-view.

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Between Experience and Representation

Cities in an Area of Tension, 1800-1914

Radboud University of Nijmegen

March 10 2011 - March 11 2011

Call for Papers

Deadline: 15 September 2010

Nineteenth-century Europeans experienced growing difficulties in understanding their cities. So much is clear when studying the very different ways in which cities were described. Whereas some people associated the city with freedom, wealth and artistic creativity, others noticed nothing but the unwholesomeness, the loneliness, the immorality and the noise. The causes of this division are easily explained: industrialization, technological progress and the ever increasing mobility were changing the nineteenth-century Lebensraumat an unbelievable pace. Especially in the cities, these processes led to abrupt changes in perspective and ever-evolving ways of experiencing space. Between experience and representation. Cities in an area of tension, 1800-1914, the sequel to the conference Nations in an area of tension (2009), of which the proceedings will be published in the spring of 2010 by Verloren Publishers (Hilversum), concentrates on that constant renewal of the way in which the city is experienced and represented. The central question is how literary and other texts dating from the long nineteenth century bear witness to the confusing realities of city life. 

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Inhabiting Adaptive Architecture Workshop

at the International Adaptive Architecture Conference

The Building Centre, London

March 05 2011

Call for Submissions (Number 2): Call for Workshop Participants

Deadline for submissions: 21 January
Announcement of Acceptance: 31 January

Chairs: Holger Schnädelbach, Jonathan Hale

Buildings are no longer static objects. More and more frequently, they adapt to their environments with the aim of being more sustainable and of providing more comfortable conditions for their inhabitants. They can adapt to their users to make spaces more convenient, information rich and more useful in different circumstances. They adapt to the presence of objects and are responsive to their own emergent data streams. This is typically achieved through the combination of ubiquitous computing technologies [5] and a flexible building fabric and it finds widespread interest under various banners [1, 2, 4] - whether it is in eco houses, smart homes, office buildings or media facades.

Adaptive Architecture represents an expansive, multi-disciplinary and exciting research field, but despite delivering clear benefits and novel types of architecture, individual inhabitants often find adaptive buildings counter-intuitive, illegible and frustrating, an issue most clearly seen in the extensively researched smart homes sector [3]. In addition, organisations (as inhabitants) often find Adaptive Architecture difficult to operate, to maintain and to keep relevant to their needs over the life-span of a building,

To discuss the challenges that are faced in this regard, this workshop will focus on inhabitants (individuals, groups & organisations) of Adaptive Architecture, as the key drivers of adaptations and as those who are directly affected by adaptations.

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