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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SCALE
7th AHRA International Conference
University of Kent
November 19 2010 - November 20 2010
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. To build in scale goes virtually without saying in the world of ‘polite’ architecture, but this is a precept observed more often in the breach when it comes to vast swathes of commercial and institutional design. The older, more particular, meaning in the humanities, pertaining to classical western culture, is where the sense of scale often resides in cultural production. Scale may be traced back, ultimately, to the discovery of musical harmonies, or it may reside in the arithmetic proportional relationship of the building to its parts. One might question the continued relevance of this understanding of scale in the global world of today. What, in other words, is culturally specific about scale? And what does scale mean in a world where an intuitive, visual understanding is often undermined or superseded by other senses, or by hyper-reality?
Invited keynote speakers:
- Nathalie de Vries (MVRDV)
- Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois)
- Brett Steele (Architectural Association)
- Robert Tavernor (LSE)
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7th Annual AHRA Research Student Symposium
School of Architecture, University of Sheffield
October 22 2010
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The Annual AHRA Research Student Symposium provides an international platform for current graduate students in the architectural humanities to meet, present and discuss their work.
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6th Annual AHRA Research Student Symposium
Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University
December 12 2009
The symposium includes papers from current graduate students in the architectural humanities, including the fields of culture, theory and design.
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FIELD/WORK
6th AHRA International Conference
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art
November 20 2009 - November 21 2009
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Fieldwork has always been integral to the work of architects and landscape architects and the many forms of associated scholarship, from the site visit to the grand tour to the social survey. We visit sites – real and imagined – to collect, order, and interpret data, to establish parameters, frameworks, contexts, and outlines for design work. As the sites of design work and scholarship have become increasingly complex and mediated, the questions as to what and where the field is, how we collect data, how we ensure its reliability, and how it informs design work have renewed practical and theoretical significance. New configurations of fieldwork have blurred traditional distinctions between subject and object, observer and observed, audience and performer, material and immaterial, and even fact and fiction. Relationships between the field, data and creative work have, as a consequence, become integral to many contemporary forms of design practice and research.
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