This is the Call for Papers for the Eighth Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, to be held on June 23-28, 2008 at the University of the Aegean (Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering) on the island of Syros in Greece.
Biosemiotics is an interdisciplinary research agenda investigating the myriad forms of communication and signification found in and between living systems. It is thus the study of representation, meaning, sense, and the biological significance of codes and sign processes, from genetic code sequences to intercellular signaling processes to animal display behavior to human semiotic artifacts.
Such sign processes appear ubiquitously in the literature on biological systems. Up until very recently, however, it had been implicitly assumed that the use of such terms as “message” “signal” “code” and “sign” was ultimately metaphoric, and that such terms could someday effectively be reduced to the mere chemical and physical interactions underlying such processes. As the prospects for such a reduction become increasingly untenable, even in theory, the interdisciplinary research project of biosemiotics is attempting to re- open the dialogue across the life sciences (including the humanities) regarding what, exactly, such a things as “meaning” or “significance” might refer to in the context of living, complex adaptive systems.
The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Eighth Annual Gatherings in Biosemiotics welcomes paper proposals from researchers in any academic discipline who are investigating the real-world use of sign processes among or within living organisms.
14 December 2007
11 December 2007
Architecture and Authorship Symposium
7-8 February 2008 KTH Stockholm
The symposium Architecture and Authorship, to be held in Stockholm on Feb 7-8th in 2008, is a follow-up event to the book published in June 2007 by Black Dog Publishing. It explores issues of authorship, attribution and intellectual property in architecture, and examines how individual architects and movements, from the fifteenth century onwards, have endeavoured to maintain their status by defending what they see as their own unique territory, the origins and intentions of their work, and their signature style. The event is organised by the editors of the book. The symposium will be structured in accordance with the sections of the book - mapping a 'force field' in which issues of authorship in architecture are played out.
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This event is organized by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, through Katja Grillner, Tim Anstey, and Rolf Hughes
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Contact and registration: Katja Grillner, info@auctor.se
Venue: KTH Main Library, Osquars backe 31, Stockholm.
Program info: www.auctor.se
Please register before January 15!
The symposium Architecture and Authorship, to be held in Stockholm on Feb 7-8th in 2008, is a follow-up event to the book published in June 2007 by Black Dog Publishing. It explores issues of authorship, attribution and intellectual property in architecture, and examines how individual architects and movements, from the fifteenth century onwards, have endeavoured to maintain their status by defending what they see as their own unique territory, the origins and intentions of their work, and their signature style. The event is organised by the editors of the book. The symposium will be structured in accordance with the sections of the book - mapping a 'force field' in which issues of authorship in architecture are played out.
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This event is organized by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, through Katja Grillner, Tim Anstey, and Rolf Hughes
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Contact and registration: Katja Grillner, info@auctor.se
Venue: KTH Main Library, Osquars backe 31, Stockholm.
Program info: www.auctor.se
Please register before January 15!
09 December 2007
Research into Practice 2008 conference
This a reminder that the first call for papers for the Research into Practice 2008 conference has been issued. The conference will be held on 31 October 2008 at the Royal Society of Arts, London, and will explore the problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts. Selected papers will be published after the conference in the international peer-reviewed journal "Working Papers in Art and Design". This is an open-access e-journal at http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpades/index.html
To contribute to the conference please send a 1000-word abstract which clearly address the theme of the conference. The deadline for submission is 1 May. Details of the theme may be found online at http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/theme1.html
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE MAIN CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/confhome.html
Research into Practice is the leading international forum for scholarship on so-called practice-based research in the visual and performing arts, hosted by the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
To contribute to the conference please send a 1000-word abstract which clearly address the theme of the conference. The deadline for submission is 1 May. Details of the theme may be found online at http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/theme1.html
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE MAIN CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/confhome.html
Research into Practice is the leading international forum for scholarship on so-called practice-based research in the visual and performing arts, hosted by the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
30 November 2007
ANDREW BARRY, POLITICAL MACHINES (2001)
Välkommen till höstens näst sista seminarium i serien KOMMUNIKATION: KULTUR,
TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP
Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"
Tid: Torsdag 6 december 2007, kl. 14-16
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och
kommunikation, KTH
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LITTERATURSEMINARIUM OM ANDREW BARRY, POLITICAL MACHINES (2001)
Abstract
Teknik- och vetenskapsstudier (STS) har utvecklats under de senaste
trettio åren med ett fokus särskilt på aktörerna i innovationsprocesser
och de politiska frågor som väcks i samband med dessa. Ofta har teknologin
och det politiska kommit att skiljas åt, men det är mycket som talar för
att analyser bör utvecklas där de studeras tillsammans: teknologi och
politik bör ses som integrerade i varandra. I sin bok Political Machines:
Governing a Technological Society (2001), argumenterar den brittiske
kulturgeografen och sociologen Andrew Barry för detta men även för att den
politiska analysen inte bara skall äga rum i anslutning till politiska
institutioner och identiteter, utan också i anslutning till den nya
tekniken. Han fokuserar på en mängd olika saker som är "inskrivna" i
teknologin, t ex nätverkande, nya medier, interaktivitet, standardisering,
teknologiska risker, etc. genom att kombinera olika forskningsfält som
kulturgeografi, politisk sociologi och antropologiska studier av teknik
har Barry initierat ett nytt och viktigt fält inom forskningen där det
analytiska objektet är teknik/politik i dess integrerade form.
Per-Anders Forstorp, docent och lektor i kommunikation på CSC kommer att
inleda diskussionen framförallt kring det första kapitlet i boken.
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Skriv ett mail om du vill få våra löpande inbjudningar.
Mer information om höstens seminarier finns på:
http://www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/k-sem/k-sem-aktuell/
TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP
Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"
Tid: Torsdag 6 december 2007, kl. 14-16
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och
kommunikation, KTH
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LITTERATURSEMINARIUM OM ANDREW BARRY, POLITICAL MACHINES (2001)
Abstract
Teknik- och vetenskapsstudier (STS) har utvecklats under de senaste
trettio åren med ett fokus särskilt på aktörerna i innovationsprocesser
och de politiska frågor som väcks i samband med dessa. Ofta har teknologin
och det politiska kommit att skiljas åt, men det är mycket som talar för
att analyser bör utvecklas där de studeras tillsammans: teknologi och
politik bör ses som integrerade i varandra. I sin bok Political Machines:
Governing a Technological Society (2001), argumenterar den brittiske
kulturgeografen och sociologen Andrew Barry för detta men även för att den
politiska analysen inte bara skall äga rum i anslutning till politiska
institutioner och identiteter, utan också i anslutning till den nya
tekniken. Han fokuserar på en mängd olika saker som är "inskrivna" i
teknologin, t ex nätverkande, nya medier, interaktivitet, standardisering,
teknologiska risker, etc. genom att kombinera olika forskningsfält som
kulturgeografi, politisk sociologi och antropologiska studier av teknik
har Barry initierat ett nytt och viktigt fält inom forskningen där det
analytiska objektet är teknik/politik i dess integrerade form.
Per-Anders Forstorp, docent och lektor i kommunikation på CSC kommer att
inleda diskussionen framförallt kring det första kapitlet i boken.
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Skriv ett mail om du vill få våra löpande inbjudningar.
Mer information om höstens seminarier finns på:
http://www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/k-sem/k-sem-aktuell/
28 November 2007
Design Research Society 2008 Conference
This just in from Ramia Mazé:
DRS 2008 Call For Papers
Design Research Society 2008 Conference
16-19 July 2008 in Sheffield, UK.
We invite you to present your research at this internationally refereed conference.
DRS 2008 Call For Papers
Design Research Society 2008 Conference
16-19 July 2008 in Sheffield, UK.
We invite you to present your research at this internationally refereed conference.
Electronic Text and Textiles
e-text+textiles (e-t+t) is an interdisciplinary platform facilitating artistic investigation and production in the fields of literature, language, textiles, and material culture, promoting expression at the intersections of print, cloth, and electronic technologies.
e-t+t examines the position of text and textiles within the constantly shifting technological reality through theoretical and practice-based enquiry. It hosts creative makers, writers, researchers, and theoreticians in residence, initiates dialogue and organizes presentations and seminars. e-t+t offers professional development, networking possibilities and small-scale production facilities for visiting artists, designers, writers, and scholars from Europe and beyond.
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e-t+t examines the position of text and textiles within the constantly shifting technological reality through theoretical and practice-based enquiry. It hosts creative makers, writers, researchers, and theoreticians in residence, initiates dialogue and organizes presentations and seminars. e-t+t offers professional development, networking possibilities and small-scale production facilities for visiting artists, designers, writers, and scholars from Europe and beyond.
More.
Research into Practice 2008
Research into Practice 2008 will be held on 31 October 2008 at the Royal Society of Arts, London, and will explore the problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.
It is characteristic of research outputs, reports and theses in traditional disciplines that they are expressed in unambiguous language. One reason for this is to establish the grounds and argument from which the conclusions derive. Another reason is to be quite clear and explicit about what is being claimed as original by the author for the research. This characteristic has the effect of reinforcing the dominant knowledge models such as "the scientific method", "empirical methods", etc. However these models come from disciplines whose aims and objectives may differ from those in the arts and humanities. There has been much discussion about the suitability of such models for the visual and performing arts, which seem to rely on a more pluralistic approach to interpretation which values the fact that different generations and different cultures find their own value in the artefact.
Does this difference of explicitness between traditional disciplines and the arts mean that their research outputs cannot be compared? What is the status of the outcomes of research in the visual and performing arts in terms of what is known or discovered? Is research in these areas actually trying to achieve something quite different, and if so what? Is the value of research something constructed by the receiver, and if so what would that mean for knowledge-models in the arts? Are its outcomes more contingent than those in other disciplines because of this difference in the role of interpretation by the reader/viewer? Does the scientific method really result in unambiguous interpretation, or conversely is interpretation really so subjective in the arts?
The conference will focus on the theory of interpretation in research in traditional disciplines and on the emerging theory of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.
Conference topics that might be considered include, but are not restricted to:
are unambiguous research outputs in the arts possible or desirable?
are the problems of interpretation in the arts different from other disciplines?
do the interpretational problems in arts stem from its media or from its aims?
can anything be learned from studies in interpretation in other humanities subjects?
in the historical past were issues of interpretation viewed differently?
do the arts have special advantages that compensate for any perceived disadvantages with respect to interpretation of outcomes?
how does the author/reader problem affect research?
More.
It is characteristic of research outputs, reports and theses in traditional disciplines that they are expressed in unambiguous language. One reason for this is to establish the grounds and argument from which the conclusions derive. Another reason is to be quite clear and explicit about what is being claimed as original by the author for the research. This characteristic has the effect of reinforcing the dominant knowledge models such as "the scientific method", "empirical methods", etc. However these models come from disciplines whose aims and objectives may differ from those in the arts and humanities. There has been much discussion about the suitability of such models for the visual and performing arts, which seem to rely on a more pluralistic approach to interpretation which values the fact that different generations and different cultures find their own value in the artefact.
Does this difference of explicitness between traditional disciplines and the arts mean that their research outputs cannot be compared? What is the status of the outcomes of research in the visual and performing arts in terms of what is known or discovered? Is research in these areas actually trying to achieve something quite different, and if so what? Is the value of research something constructed by the receiver, and if so what would that mean for knowledge-models in the arts? Are its outcomes more contingent than those in other disciplines because of this difference in the role of interpretation by the reader/viewer? Does the scientific method really result in unambiguous interpretation, or conversely is interpretation really so subjective in the arts?
The conference will focus on the theory of interpretation in research in traditional disciplines and on the emerging theory of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.
Conference topics that might be considered include, but are not restricted to:
are unambiguous research outputs in the arts possible or desirable?
are the problems of interpretation in the arts different from other disciplines?
do the interpretational problems in arts stem from its media or from its aims?
can anything be learned from studies in interpretation in other humanities subjects?
in the historical past were issues of interpretation viewed differently?
do the arts have special advantages that compensate for any perceived disadvantages with respect to interpretation of outcomes?
how does the author/reader problem affect research?
More.
23 November 2007
Design Interactions
The Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art explores new roles, contexts and approaches for design in relation to the social, cultural and ethical impact of existing and emerging technologies. Projects, which are often speculative and critical, aim to inspire debate about the human consequences of different technological futures both positive and negative. Students work closely with people outside the College, designing for the complex, troubled people we are, rather than the easily satisfied consumers and users we are supposed to be. Project outcomes are expressed through a variety of media including prototypes, simulations, video and photography. Students have backgrounds in art and design, computer science, engineering and psychology.
If you are interested in finding out more please join us for our Open Day on Friday 7 December 2007. Visitors can meet and talk with students in the studio between 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm. Professor Anthony Dunne, Head of Department, will give presentations about the course at 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm.
Please visit the course website.
If you are interested in finding out more please join us for our Open Day on Friday 7 December 2007. Visitors can meet and talk with students in the studio between 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm. Professor Anthony Dunne, Head of Department, will give presentations about the course at 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm.
Please visit the course website.
15 November 2007
Figurations of Knowledge
European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL)
June 03 - 07, 2008
Conference details.
June 03 - 07, 2008
Conference details.
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) welcomes colleagues in the sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists. SLSA members share an interest in problems of science and representation, and in the cultural and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.
SLSA publishes the professional journal Configurations through Johns Hopkins University Press. The web site http://sls.press.jhu.edu contains information on membership and subscription rates, publications, and a directory of membership. (The membership directory is available only to current members.)
SLSA
SLSA publishes the professional journal Configurations through Johns Hopkins University Press. The web site http://sls.press.jhu.edu contains information on membership and subscription rates, publications, and a directory of membership. (The membership directory is available only to current members.)
SLSA
09 November 2007
Fringe
We would like to invite you to the launch of Fringe - a gathering for new media artists and the like in Stockholm.
Fringe will be held at Weld, on Thursday 15th November at 19:00. Presentations and performances will be followed by music and a bar.
For more information about Fringe gatherings please visit http://www.fringe.nu
For more information about Weld: http://www.weld.se
Weld is located at Norrtullsgatan 7, T-bana Odenplan.
(For a map, see http://tinyurl.com/yqswqo )
The Fringe is an initiative by the Interactive Institute.
Fringe will be held at Weld, on Thursday 15th November at 19:00. Presentations and performances will be followed by music and a bar.
For more information about Fringe gatherings please visit http://www.fringe.nu
For more information about Weld: http://www.weld.se
Weld is located at Norrtullsgatan 7, T-bana Odenplan.
(For a map, see http://tinyurl.com/yqswqo )
The Fringe is an initiative by the Interactive Institute.
FUTURE ANTERIOR
FUTURE ANTERIOR is a peer reviewed (refereed) journal published by the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS. It approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. CALL FOR PAPERS: FUTURE ANTERIOR seeks contributions that ask these difficult questions from philosophical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. We welcome articles on all topics relevant to historic preservation. Submissions for the Winter 2008 issue must be received no later than January 7, 2008. Articles should be no more than 5000 words, with up to seven illustrations. Text must be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition. All articles must be submitted in English, and spelling should follow American convention. All submissions must be submitted electronically, on a CD or disk, accompanied by three hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8by 9print size. Figures should be numbered clearly in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author biography (around 100 words) must accompany the text. FUTURE ANTERIOR also welcomes shorter articles of less than 2500 words and five illustrations for publication outside of the peer review process. The same submission requirements apply to these articles. Acceptance or rejection of submissions is at the discretion of the editors. Please do not send original materials, as submissions will not be returned. Please mail all submissions to: FUTURE ANTERIOR, 400 Avery Hall, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. Questions about submissions can be mailed to: futureanterior@columbia.edu
ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES
ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES. THEORIES, METHODS AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY NORDIC ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH /Teorier, metoder och strategier i nutida nordisk arkitekturforskning/ NORDIC-BALTIC CONFERENCE April 24-26, 2008, in Göteborg, Sweden, arranged by The Nordic Association of Architectural Research, The Nordic Architectural Academy, The Swedish Research Council Formas, The Association of Swedish Architects and Chalmers Architecture. Architectural research, including landscape architecture, urban design & development and interior architecture, is an expanding field with high relevance for urgent issues in contemporary society and environment. We invite Nordic and Baltic architectural researchers and PhD-students to discuss theories, methods and strategies in contemporary architectural research through the six interconnecting themes listed below. Conference language will be English as well as Nordic languages. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, maximum 300 words, on the following themes: 1. Lack of theory or new theoretical frameworks 2. History and historiography: Is there a Nordic architectural research? 3. Practice relevance versus peer-review publications 4. Integrating design-based methodology 5. New technologies: impact on research problems and methodology 6. Urban research between social sciences and design. Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2007 Conference e-mail: a-inquiries@chalmers.se Conference website: in progress. Links: www.arkitekturforskning.net or www.chalmers.se/arch/SV Questions: dyrssen@chalmers.se, caldenby@chalmers.se, fredrik@chalmers.se, lena@arch.kth.se Arranged by: Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg
Forthcoming events (architecture + acoustics)
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SENSORY URBANISM An Interdisciplinary Two Day Conference: Departments of Architecture & Building Science / DMEM, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on Tuesday 8th - Wednesday 9th January 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite scholars and practitioners to submit papers for the SENSORY URBANISM, organised by the Multimodal Representation of Urban Space research group, a Design for the 21st Century initiative supported by the AHRC and EPSRC. Space - more than the surrounding objects or buildings - seems to demand to be represented not only visually, as it is not only determined by the visible surrounding objects, but also by sound and smell which are literally "in the air", and by an integrated multi-modal body experience which is related to the space itself. Nevertheless, spaces, especially urban spaces in planning processes, are today usually only represented in a visual manner. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and accompanied by a brief biography ofthe author(s). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail raymond.lucas@strath.ac.uk no later than Friday 16th November 2007.
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DESCRIPTIO URBIS i Rom 27-29 mars 2008. Konferensen hoppas på att få fler nordiska forskare med på sessionen Models for a Contemporary City Atlas in the Nordic context eller på någon annan del i konferensen. Abstract senast den 20 november. För vidare information se:
http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/croma/descriptiourbis/contenuti.asp?page=Home
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Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: 'WIDENING HORIZONS IN ACOUSTICS RESEARCH', 10 - 11 April 2008, University of Reading in Salford. In this session we seek to open up a dialogue about soundscapes with the wider acoustics community and to acknowledge the diverse work taking place on soundscapes within a multitude of disciplines across the UK. We invite proposals for papers that present research falling with the broad theme of soundscapes. Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome from a quantitative, qualitative, scientific or artistic perspective. Papers arising from interdisciplinary projects are especially welcome as are those from a broad range of academic disciplines, practitioners, policy experts, the public sector, architects, planner etc. We encourage papers from researchers at all levels (undergraduate, MSc, PhD, IoA Diploma etc.) and young members in both full and part-time employment are particularly welcome. Short abstracts of approx 100 words should be sent by email to Dr Mags Adams at by 7th December 2007.
SENSORY URBANISM An Interdisciplinary Two Day Conference: Departments of Architecture & Building Science / DMEM, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on Tuesday 8th - Wednesday 9th January 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite scholars and practitioners to submit papers for the SENSORY URBANISM, organised by the Multimodal Representation of Urban Space research group, a Design for the 21st Century initiative supported by the AHRC and EPSRC. Space - more than the surrounding objects or buildings - seems to demand to be represented not only visually, as it is not only determined by the visible surrounding objects, but also by sound and smell which are literally "in the air", and by an integrated multi-modal body experience which is related to the space itself. Nevertheless, spaces, especially urban spaces in planning processes, are today usually only represented in a visual manner. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and accompanied by a brief biography ofthe author(s). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail raymond.lucas@strath.ac.uk no later than Friday 16th November 2007.
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DESCRIPTIO URBIS i Rom 27-29 mars 2008. Konferensen hoppas på att få fler nordiska forskare med på sessionen Models for a Contemporary City Atlas in the Nordic context eller på någon annan del i konferensen. Abstract senast den 20 november. För vidare information se:
http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/croma/descriptiourbis/contenuti.asp?page=Home
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Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: 'WIDENING HORIZONS IN ACOUSTICS RESEARCH', 10 - 11 April 2008, University of Reading in Salford. In this session we seek to open up a dialogue about soundscapes with the wider acoustics community and to acknowledge the diverse work taking place on soundscapes within a multitude of disciplines across the UK. We invite proposals for papers that present research falling with the broad theme of soundscapes. Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome from a quantitative, qualitative, scientific or artistic perspective. Papers arising from interdisciplinary projects are especially welcome as are those from a broad range of academic disciplines, practitioners, policy experts, the public sector, architects, planner etc. We encourage papers from researchers at all levels (undergraduate, MSc, PhD, IoA Diploma etc.) and young members in both full and part-time employment are particularly welcome. Short abstracts of approx 100 words should be sent by email to Dr Mags Adams at
Swedish Colour Centre Foundation
The Swedish Colour Centre Foundation invites you to the AIC 2008 Interim Meeting on COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS to be held at Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Sweden on June 15-18, 2008. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the effects of using colour in interior and exterior design and how colours affect us. The meeting will bring together experts from all over the world to exchange the latest information on the developments in colour science, colour design, and colour psychology. Different aspects of the effect of using colour in interior and exterior design like change of colour impressions depending on distance, light sources, colour combinations and interaction of colours etc. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be submitted via the online form on the web site www.aic2008.org or by e-mail info@aic2008.org at a maximum of two A4-sized pages and a minimum of 500 words. Deadline for submission of abstract: November 15, 2007
The Orpheus Myth in Modern Culture
CentreCATH at Leeds
The Opera North Centre, Friday 23 November - Sunday 25 November
Over three afternoons, leading speakers from the arts and academic worlds explore the enduring potency of the Orpheus Myth – from Monteverdi’s opera to American tv series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
As well as the discussions the conference will also feature film screenings (including Jean Cocteau’s Orphee and Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus), poetry readings and live performance.
More information
The Opera North Centre, Friday 23 November - Sunday 25 November
Over three afternoons, leading speakers from the arts and academic worlds explore the enduring potency of the Orpheus Myth – from Monteverdi’s opera to American tv series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
As well as the discussions the conference will also feature film screenings (including Jean Cocteau’s Orphee and Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus), poetry readings and live performance.
More information
30 October 2007
Forthcoming events (cont'd)
Thanks to Ramia Mazé for passing on the following:
Extrainsatt föreläsning - Mejan Labs
Imorgon onsdag kommer Paula Gaetano (Argentina), Paul Granjon (Frankrike)
och Andy Gracie (Storbritannien) som deltar i utställningen Frankenstein's
Monster att berätta om sina arbeten.
Tid: 31 oktober kl 18.00
Plats: Kungliga Konsthögskolans nya lokaler på Jakobsgatan 27C, våning 4
(IASPIS gamla lokaler i akademibyggnaden).
Vernissage på utställningen Frankenstein's Monster på Mejan Labs,
Akademigränd 3, torsdagen 1 november 17-20.00.
Se mer på www.mejanlabs.se
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From Sara Ljungblad (an ex-colleague of mine)
Welcome to a seminar on my thesis draft "Experience centred Innovation" on the 5th of November, 13.00 at DSV in KIsta, Stockholm. Professor Jonas Löwgren will act as "opponent". I will start the seminar with a brief introduction (20 min), before Jonas Löwgren discusses the draft. After this, everyone will have a chance to provide helpful comments.
Abstract:
How can experiences be used as a resource for innovation in HCI (Human Computer Interaction)? This thesis presents the design philosophy "Experience Centred Innovation" which attempts to capture qualities of experiences and transfer these into innovative designs and forms of interaction for digital artefacts. Innovation is approached in the design process by matching "the design material" with qualities of experiences, studied in a human practice. The practice is referred to as a marginal practice, and is chosen to be relevant for the intended design outcome instead of representing potential users. This is different from a user-centred design process within HCI that focus on intended users as a basis for design. The research is design driven, and builds on several empirical design cases. Experience Centred Innovation contributes with (1) the concept or transferable qualities as a resource for innovation (2) novel design outcomes, and (3) transfer scenarios - design method for capturing and transferring qualities of experiences.
The thesis consist of several articles held together by an introduction (kappa). The "kappa" and six papers are found here:
http://www.viktoria.se/~saral/kappa.html
And...
If you want to come, but don't want to read the whole thing... I would recommend reading the Kappa "Experience Centred Innovation" and Chapter 11 that describes the design method, or chapter 8 that describes how the Lomographic practice informed context photography.
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17-19 December 2007: Emergent Objects: Performing Design
University of Leeds
Call for participants
Emergent Objects: Performing Design will comprise performative
events/installations, workshops and presentations and a
colloquium with academic and practitioner experts in the fields
of interaction design, experience design, product design,
fashion and clothing, robotics, digital and media art,
engineering, architecture and computing.
http://www.emergentobjects.co.uk/
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Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue of Children, Youth and
Environments
Children in Technological Environments: Interaction,
Development, and Design
Children are coming of age in increasingly sophisticated and
pervasive technological environments. They're immersed, for
example, in video gaming, web browsing, and instant messaging.
Many have cell phones and laptop computers. Their avatars
represent them in virtual spaces. They care for digital pets in
a virtual world, and play with embodied robot pets, which move
autonomously through the physical world. These technological
environments have come a long way, fast. It's not just TV
anymore. On the immediate horizon are responsive computational
devices that mimic a social other, such as navigational devices
in cars that speak with a human voice. "Smart homes" of the
future will have interfaces that speak to us and respond to our
actions and conversation. Humanoid robots may well become
nannies for our children, and their tutors and playmates, and -
if we're not careful - their slaves. It seems likely, too, that
inequities will persist in children's access to technology.
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/
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Extrainsatt föreläsning - Mejan Labs
Imorgon onsdag kommer Paula Gaetano (Argentina), Paul Granjon (Frankrike)
och Andy Gracie (Storbritannien) som deltar i utställningen Frankenstein's
Monster att berätta om sina arbeten.
Tid: 31 oktober kl 18.00
Plats: Kungliga Konsthögskolans nya lokaler på Jakobsgatan 27C, våning 4
(IASPIS gamla lokaler i akademibyggnaden).
Vernissage på utställningen Frankenstein's Monster på Mejan Labs,
Akademigränd 3, torsdagen 1 november 17-20.00.
Se mer på www.mejanlabs.se
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From Sara Ljungblad (an ex-colleague of mine)
Welcome to a seminar on my thesis draft "Experience centred Innovation" on the 5th of November, 13.00 at DSV in KIsta, Stockholm. Professor Jonas Löwgren will act as "opponent". I will start the seminar with a brief introduction (20 min), before Jonas Löwgren discusses the draft. After this, everyone will have a chance to provide helpful comments.
Abstract:
How can experiences be used as a resource for innovation in HCI (Human Computer Interaction)? This thesis presents the design philosophy "Experience Centred Innovation" which attempts to capture qualities of experiences and transfer these into innovative designs and forms of interaction for digital artefacts. Innovation is approached in the design process by matching "the design material" with qualities of experiences, studied in a human practice. The practice is referred to as a marginal practice, and is chosen to be relevant for the intended design outcome instead of representing potential users. This is different from a user-centred design process within HCI that focus on intended users as a basis for design. The research is design driven, and builds on several empirical design cases. Experience Centred Innovation contributes with (1) the concept or transferable qualities as a resource for innovation (2) novel design outcomes, and (3) transfer scenarios - design method for capturing and transferring qualities of experiences.
The thesis consist of several articles held together by an introduction (kappa). The "kappa" and six papers are found here:
http://www.viktoria.se/~saral/kappa.html
And...
If you want to come, but don't want to read the whole thing... I would recommend reading the Kappa "Experience Centred Innovation" and Chapter 11 that describes the design method, or chapter 8 that describes how the Lomographic practice informed context photography.
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17-19 December 2007: Emergent Objects: Performing Design
University of Leeds
Call for participants
Emergent Objects: Performing Design will comprise performative
events/installations, workshops and presentations and a
colloquium with academic and practitioner experts in the fields
of interaction design, experience design, product design,
fashion and clothing, robotics, digital and media art,
engineering, architecture and computing.
http://www.emergentobjects.co.uk/
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Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue of Children, Youth and
Environments
Children in Technological Environments: Interaction,
Development, and Design
Children are coming of age in increasingly sophisticated and
pervasive technological environments. They're immersed, for
example, in video gaming, web browsing, and instant messaging.
Many have cell phones and laptop computers. Their avatars
represent them in virtual spaces. They care for digital pets in
a virtual world, and play with embodied robot pets, which move
autonomously through the physical world. These technological
environments have come a long way, fast. It's not just TV
anymore. On the immediate horizon are responsive computational
devices that mimic a social other, such as navigational devices
in cars that speak with a human voice. "Smart homes" of the
future will have interfaces that speak to us and respond to our
actions and conversation. Humanoid robots may well become
nannies for our children, and their tutors and playmates, and -
if we're not careful - their slaves. It seems likely, too, that
inequities will persist in children's access to technology.
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/
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International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2008
ISEA on Leonardo Electronic Almanac: http://leoalmanac.org/resources/sprojects/ISEA08/
ISEA website: http://isea2008.org/
Submission Link: http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php
Dear friends
This is a gentle reminder that the submission deadline for ISEA2008 call for papers, artists and panel presentations will close on 14 Nov 2007.
International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2008 -ISEA2008 - is seeking both peer- reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological aspects of their works.
We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference.
The conference will be of interest to those working in but not limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design, art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies, musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, science, technology and society studies, history of science and history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political science, anthropology, sociology and geography.
For more information on the themes and for the submission link, please log on www.isea2008.org
ISEA website: http://isea2008.org/
Submission Link: http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php
Dear friends
This is a gentle reminder that the submission deadline for ISEA2008 call for papers, artists and panel presentations will close on 14 Nov 2007.
International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2008 -ISEA2008 - is seeking both peer- reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological aspects of their works.
We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference.
The conference will be of interest to those working in but not limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design, art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies, musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, science, technology and society studies, history of science and history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political science, anthropology, sociology and geography.
For more information on the themes and for the submission link, please log on www.isea2008.org
28 October 2007
Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine
Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine conference Wednesday, April 23 to Friday, April 25, 2008 at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. I am writing to share the 2008 call for presentations. Potential presenters may submit up to two proposals here:
https://survey.uiowa.edu/wsb.dll/37/call-for-presentation-2008.htm
Proposals are due by Monday, December 3, 2007.
Keynote presenters confirmed to date are poet Marvin Bell, MFA and novelist Daniel Mason, MD. Registration, housing, and CME information will be posted soon.
Margaret LeMay-Lewis, MFA
Writing Program Coordinator
Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
1193 MERF
Iowa City, IA 52242
margaret-lemay-lewis@uiowa.edu
319 335 8051
https://survey.uiowa.edu/wsb.dll/37/call-for-presentation-2008.htm
Proposals are due by Monday, December 3, 2007.
Keynote presenters confirmed to date are poet Marvin Bell, MFA and novelist Daniel Mason, MD. Registration, housing, and CME information will be posted soon.
Margaret LeMay-Lewis, MFA
Writing Program Coordinator
Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
1193 MERF
Iowa City, IA 52242
margaret-lemay-lewis@uiowa.edu
319 335 8051
Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture
Telling Places
Research Spaces IV, 4/5 December, 2007
Bartlett/Slade Annual PhD Conference
Woburn Studios, University College London, UK
The annual PhD research conference Research Spaces, has been running since 2004, affording post-graduates at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and the Slade School of Fine Art, the opportunity to examine research activities across disciplines. The event has continued to be a success, attracting contributions from the UK, Europe and North America, from practicing architects and artists, academics and research students.
The 2007 Research Spaces Conference – Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture asks for contributions on new practices, theories and critiques of narrative and identity.
In a globalised context, conditioned by mass migrations of peoples – across national and ethnic boundaries, and from dispersed rural environments to dense urban centres – the idea that art and architecture can convey stable representations and values has come undone. At the same time, practices of place making are no longer considered the domain of the professional, nor as an inherent/given act, but as an ongoing, repeated, negotiated and contested process.
If the ‘place’ of art and architecture is already filled, and by competing stories, what else is to be told? What new responsibilities does this telling imply?
Over two days, the Telling Places conference will consider place as a space loaded with ‘familiar’ significance, whether this be personal or collective. We are interested in the objects, the artifacts, the means, the processes that narrate the creation of such places, as well as those that challenge, question or negate such places.
A selection of full papers will be published in the new interdisciplinary design journal Multi: The Journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design
Papers are invited that respond to, challenge and extend the following questions:
1) Places that Tell:
How do buildings, artefacts, models, or stories, contribute to the formation of cultural identity?
To what extent can culturally and ethnically specific representations be considered political?
To what extent are the limits of such representations set by the work (the object, the site), or set by the audience?
How, and what, does the non-representational object, or building, narrate?
2) Meeting Places:
Has a new ‘narrative of place’, challenged the boundaries between art and architecture?
What are the implications, for the relationship between art and architecture, of such narratives?
3) Telling of Places:
If narrative cannot be treated as ‘neutral’, what is its role in the examination of the history of art and design?
To what extent, and in what ways, does the historian, or critic, contribute to the construction/production of place?
In what ways does narrative affect ownership of the work?
4) Hidden Places:
To what degree can the artist or designer reveal the process of production, in the work itself?
Can practice be considered an act of identification?
To what extent is practice an ‘uncovering’, ‘unmasking’, ‘revealing’, or a ‘making known’, that which had been ‘guessed’, ‘assumed’, ‘hidden’, or even ‘secret’?
What models, technologies, procedures, and dialogues have been developed to ‘reveal’, and how are these limited (do they ‘hide’ as well?)?
What are the aesthetics, and ethics, of the ‘disguised’ work?
Guidelines for submission of paper abstracts:
Deadline 22nd October, 2007 – all respondents will here from the organising committee by 29th October 2007.
Abstracts 500 words for
10 page papers (approximately 20 minute presentations)
Abstracts must include title, but no author
All Proposals to include a cover letter with:
1) title
2) name and address
3) phone number
4) email address
5) college affiliation (if any)
To:
info@tellingplaces.co.uk or ucftnbe@ucl.ac.uk
Telling Places
c/o Nick Beech
Wates House,
22 Gordon Street,
London WC1H 0QB
Telling Places regrets that it cannot contribute towards the cost of travel or accommodation, please state if you require any information regarding these matters.
Research Spaces IV, 4/5 December, 2007
Bartlett/Slade Annual PhD Conference
Woburn Studios, University College London, UK
The annual PhD research conference Research Spaces, has been running since 2004, affording post-graduates at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and the Slade School of Fine Art, the opportunity to examine research activities across disciplines. The event has continued to be a success, attracting contributions from the UK, Europe and North America, from practicing architects and artists, academics and research students.
The 2007 Research Spaces Conference – Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture asks for contributions on new practices, theories and critiques of narrative and identity.
In a globalised context, conditioned by mass migrations of peoples – across national and ethnic boundaries, and from dispersed rural environments to dense urban centres – the idea that art and architecture can convey stable representations and values has come undone. At the same time, practices of place making are no longer considered the domain of the professional, nor as an inherent/given act, but as an ongoing, repeated, negotiated and contested process.
If the ‘place’ of art and architecture is already filled, and by competing stories, what else is to be told? What new responsibilities does this telling imply?
Over two days, the Telling Places conference will consider place as a space loaded with ‘familiar’ significance, whether this be personal or collective. We are interested in the objects, the artifacts, the means, the processes that narrate the creation of such places, as well as those that challenge, question or negate such places.
A selection of full papers will be published in the new interdisciplinary design journal Multi: The Journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design
Papers are invited that respond to, challenge and extend the following questions:
1) Places that Tell:
How do buildings, artefacts, models, or stories, contribute to the formation of cultural identity?
To what extent can culturally and ethnically specific representations be considered political?
To what extent are the limits of such representations set by the work (the object, the site), or set by the audience?
How, and what, does the non-representational object, or building, narrate?
2) Meeting Places:
Has a new ‘narrative of place’, challenged the boundaries between art and architecture?
What are the implications, for the relationship between art and architecture, of such narratives?
3) Telling of Places:
If narrative cannot be treated as ‘neutral’, what is its role in the examination of the history of art and design?
To what extent, and in what ways, does the historian, or critic, contribute to the construction/production of place?
In what ways does narrative affect ownership of the work?
4) Hidden Places:
To what degree can the artist or designer reveal the process of production, in the work itself?
Can practice be considered an act of identification?
To what extent is practice an ‘uncovering’, ‘unmasking’, ‘revealing’, or a ‘making known’, that which had been ‘guessed’, ‘assumed’, ‘hidden’, or even ‘secret’?
What models, technologies, procedures, and dialogues have been developed to ‘reveal’, and how are these limited (do they ‘hide’ as well?)?
What are the aesthetics, and ethics, of the ‘disguised’ work?
Guidelines for submission of paper abstracts:
Deadline 22nd October, 2007 – all respondents will here from the organising committee by 29th October 2007.
Abstracts 500 words for
10 page papers (approximately 20 minute presentations)
Abstracts must include title, but no author
All Proposals to include a cover letter with:
1) title
2) name and address
3) phone number
4) email address
5) college affiliation (if any)
To:
info@tellingplaces.co.uk or ucftnbe@ucl.ac.uk
Telling Places
c/o Nick Beech
Wates House,
22 Gordon Street,
London WC1H 0QB
Telling Places regrets that it cannot contribute towards the cost of travel or accommodation, please state if you require any information regarding these matters.
26 October 2007
Pavilion Politics
Park Nights at the Serpentine together with Curating Architecture:
Pavilion Politics
Friday 2 November
7-9 pm
An evening discussion on the multiple and contradictory roles pavilions
play at the intersection of art and architecture. This event will
investigate the ways in which such temporary spaces orchestrate current
politics of value and event culture, experimentation, philanthropy and
institutional profiling.
Speakers:
Momoyo Kaijima (architect, Atelier Bow Wow)
Nikolaus Hirsch (architect, European Kunsthalle, unitednationsplaza)
Celine Condorelli (architect, Support Structure)
Chair:
Andrea Phillips (Director, Curating Architecture, Goldsmiths)
www.gold.ac.uk/visual-arts/curating-architecture
Pavilion Politics
Friday 2 November
7-9 pm
An evening discussion on the multiple and contradictory roles pavilions
play at the intersection of art and architecture. This event will
investigate the ways in which such temporary spaces orchestrate current
politics of value and event culture, experimentation, philanthropy and
institutional profiling.
Speakers:
Momoyo Kaijima (architect, Atelier Bow Wow)
Nikolaus Hirsch (architect, European Kunsthalle, unitednationsplaza)
Celine Condorelli (architect, Support Structure)
Chair:
Andrea Phillips (Director, Curating Architecture, Goldsmiths)
www.gold.ac.uk/visual-arts/curating-architecture
22 October 2007
TANKENS TEKNOLOGISERING – HEIDEGGER OM TECHNE
Välkommen till höstens åttonde seminarium i serien KOMMUNIKATION: KULTUR,
TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP
Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"
Tid: Torsdag 25 oktober 2007, kl. 12-14 (Obs tiden!)
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och
kommunikation, KTH
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Föredragshållare: Hans Ruin (Filosofi, Södertörns högskola)
Titel: TANKENS TEKNOLOGISERING – HEIDEGGER OM TECHNE
Skriv ett mail om du vill få våra löpande inbjudningar.
Mer information om höstens seminarier finns på:
http://www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/k-sem/k-sem-aktuell/
TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP
Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"
Tid: Torsdag 25 oktober 2007, kl. 12-14 (Obs tiden!)
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och
kommunikation, KTH
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Föredragshållare: Hans Ruin (Filosofi, Södertörns högskola)
Titel: TANKENS TEKNOLOGISERING – HEIDEGGER OM TECHNE
Skriv ett mail om du vill få våra löpande inbjudningar.
Mer information om höstens seminarier finns på:
http://www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/k-sem/k-sem-aktuell/
Footprint: a new academic journal published by the Delft School of Design
Footprint is a new academic journal published by the Delft School of Design presenting research regarding architecture and the urban. Architecture and urbanism are the points of departure and the core interests of the journal. From this perspective, the journal encourages the study of architecture and the urban environment as a means of comprehending culture and society, and as a tool for relating them to shifting ideological doctrines and philosophical ideas. The journal promotes the creation and development – or revision - of conceptual frameworks and methods of inquiry. It is engaged in creating a body of critical and reflexive texts with a breadth and depth of thought which would enrich the architecture discipline and produce new knowledge, conceptual methodologies and original understandings.
The inaugural issue of Footprint aims at understanding today’s architecture culture as a negotiation between two antithetical definitions of architecture’s identity. The belief in the disciplinary singularity of architectural objects, irreducible to the conditions of their production, is confronted - in discourse and design - with the perception of architecture as an interdisciplinary mediation between multiple political, economic, social, technological and cultural factors. With the concept of trans-disciplinarity, the negotiation between these two positions is investigated here as an engine of the ‘tradition of the present’ of contemporary architecture - the discourses and designs which emerged in the 1960s and defined orientation points for today’s architectural thought and practice. The issue includes articles by Wouter Davidts, K. Michael Hays, Patrick Healy, Mark Jarzombek, Ákos Moravánszky and Jean-Louis Violeau.
Footprint offers online free PDF downloads [pending –free- registration] or the purchase of hard-copies. It is also a submission-based journal, so please check regularly our calls for papers. For downloading PDFs, for purchasing hard-copies and for calls for papers, please see our website www.footprintjournal.org
The inaugural issue of Footprint aims at understanding today’s architecture culture as a negotiation between two antithetical definitions of architecture’s identity. The belief in the disciplinary singularity of architectural objects, irreducible to the conditions of their production, is confronted - in discourse and design - with the perception of architecture as an interdisciplinary mediation between multiple political, economic, social, technological and cultural factors. With the concept of trans-disciplinarity, the negotiation between these two positions is investigated here as an engine of the ‘tradition of the present’ of contemporary architecture - the discourses and designs which emerged in the 1960s and defined orientation points for today’s architectural thought and practice. The issue includes articles by Wouter Davidts, K. Michael Hays, Patrick Healy, Mark Jarzombek, Ákos Moravánszky and Jean-Louis Violeau.
Footprint offers online free PDF downloads [pending –free- registration] or the purchase of hard-copies. It is also a submission-based journal, so please check regularly our calls for papers. For downloading PDFs, for purchasing hard-copies and for calls for papers, please see our website www.footprintjournal.org
18 October 2007
Autumn research activities/KTH and elsewhere
SEMINARIER/ SEMINARIES
KOMMUNIKATION: KULTUR, TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP
Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"
Tid: torsdagen den 18 oktober 2007, kl. 14-16
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation, KTH
Föredragshållare: Pelle Snickars (Statens ljud- och bildarkiv)
Titel: DET KONVERGERANDE ARKIVET
Abstract: Det har hävdats att den mediearkivariska rörelsen från analogt till digitalt fundamentalt kommer att förändra förståelsen av "arkivet", det vill säga den instans som reglerar vad samhället väljer att minnas. I det digitala arkivet är bevarande inte längre en självklar arkivarisk grundprincip, lika gärna kan man tala om överföring som en metafor för arkivverksamheten. Därtill håller skillnaderna mellan de olika medieformerna på att försvinna; begreppet mediespecificitet börjar bli musealt. På webben är alla medier grå, eller rättare sagt, på webben finns vid närmare betraktande inga medier alls, bara filer med matematiskt kodad information. I takt med att 1900-talets specifika medieformer konvergerar ersätts de av yteffekter av algoritmer, det vill säga av olika slags programmerat innehåll bestående av text, ljud och (rörlig) bild. I allt detta befinner sig ett antal kulturarvsinstitutioner som varken vet ut eller in. Om detta, det nya digitala kulturarvet, och den konvergerande ABM-sektorn handlar Pelle Snickars föredrag.
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ESRC Research Seminary on Friday 19th October 2007. RETHINKING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE: the sensory production of place Seminar Three: SENSES AND INFRASTRUCTURE The Smells, Sights, Sounds, Textures and Tastes of Socio- Technical Transitions: An Exploratory Workshop. The third seminar in the series focuses on the relations between senses and the socio-technical infrastructure of everyday life. What if we re-designed infrastructure for all of our senses? Given the pressure to develop systemic transitions in the social and technical organisation of energy, water, waste, and transport infrastructures in response to climate change and resource constraint there is a need to raise the "visibility" of networks to users. Suppose for a moment that taste, sound, touch, and odour were treated as the equals of sight. What would our infrastructure be like if sensory response, sentiment, and memory were critical design factors, the equals of structure and function? There are still a number of places available for the third seminar 'Senses and Infrastructure' in the ESRC funded research seminar series 'Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place'. Further details can be found at http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/ or download a booking form http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk/documents/SenseCity/Booking_Form_Sense.pdf
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Tidskriften i&m och Mångkulturellt centrum inbjuder till ett heldagsseminarium: MITT HEM MIN BORG, seminarium 24 oktober kl 9.00-16.00 på Fittja gård, En dag om boende, stadsplanering och delaktighet. Miljonprogrammens nödvändiga upprustning öppnar möjligheter - tar vi dem tillvara? Hur långt bär stadsplanerares och arkitekters visioner och erfarenheter och är de boende delaktiga på allvar? Handlar det bara om förorterna eller behövs det en helt ny syn på staden som helhet? Arkitekter, forskare, samhällsplanerare och politiker diskuterar de möjligheter som miljonprogrammens nödvändiga upprustning ger. Utgångspunkten är bland annat erfarenheter från storstadsarbete och områdesutveckling landet runt. Seminariet tar upp såväl teori som praktik och för debatten vidare. Anmälan senast den 19 oktober på www.iochm.com eller på www.mkc.botkyrka.se eller per telefon på 08-531 757 60.
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ARCHITECTURE & DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE: WRITING, IMAGING AND PERFORMANCE. Tuesday, 27th November 2007, 10-6 PM, the Bartlett School of Architecture, RSVP to: Architectural.Research@ucl.ac.uk ARCHITECTURE &: is a termly interdisciplinary seminar initierad by Prof. Jane Rendell providing opportunities for researchers within the Bartlett School of Architecture to initiate reseach conversations at various interdisciplinary crossings. In the third of the series we bring together editors, architects, artists and theorists of architecture and performance studies to discuss current issues in the field of documentary practice.
SYMPOSIER/ SYMPOSIA
The Arts Catalyst, the British Library and the Open University present POLAR: FIELDWORK & ARCHIVE FEVER. An interdisciplinary symposium on Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 November 2007, British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London NW1. To register contact Kathryn Yusoff, Open University K.Yusoff@exeter.ac.uk. POLAR: FIELDWORK AND ARCHIVE FEVER is an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the polar regions. It brings together scientists, writers, artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge about the polar landscape and its broader implications for global climate and society. Polar regions are both exceptional to and considered representative of the developments in global climate change and climate change science. Given the important claims and policy decisions based on the polar archive, it is timely to consider the way in which our knowledge of this archive has been produced. Historically, control of polar archives and landscapes has gone hand in hand. Recent work suggests that this archive and the landscapes represented therein could be structured and interpreted in alternative ways. This might give rise to alternative visions and uses of polar landscapes and their connection to a wider global picture. The symposium is organised by the Open University in association with the British Library and The Arts Catalyst with international partners as part of a wider multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural and scientific issues surrounding climate change in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-08). Symposium web-site: http://www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html
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ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION NORDIC SYMPOSIUM in Stockholm October 16-17, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS. Throughout the history, design competition has been deployed as a reliable and acquiescent system for assuring quality and as an efficient instrument for evaluation of the best design solutions. Nordic countries are enjoying over hundred years of tradition in organizing architectural competition for selection of the best design practices. Every year, about 100 architectural and urban design competitions take place in the Nordic countries. The competition system is a recognized endeavour in the Nordic countries to elevating qualities and minimizing uncertainties in architectural design. It is also used to give partaking opportunity to talented architects to express their visions, to demonstrate their professional skills and to be rewarded, admired and endorsed publicly. Competing in architecture has also gained new relevance in Europe through the EU's Directive 2004/18/EG. Nowadays, the competition appears as a means to acquire new ideas and good design solutions for the whole of Europe. Architectural competition is also becoming a promoting method of architectural services in European market. According to the EU Directive of 2004/18/EG, public organizers of competitions are obliged to announce their competitions in public. Structure: The Symposium will be held in Stockholm. It is organized in cooperation between NoEND, NA (Nordic Association of Architectural Research) and the architect unions in the Nordic Countries. Abstracts and Themes: You are welcome to submit your Abstract before December 1, 2007. Abstracts can be written in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish with maximum 400 words. The workshops cover the whole architect¬ural competition process; from programme, evaluation, selection, and ranking of the entries up to the appointment of the winner. For further information and early registration, please contact the Organizing Secretariat. Papers and Abstracts can be sent via e-mail attachment to Ms. Charlotte Svensson: charlottes@arch.kth.se
KONFERENSER/ CONFERENCES
INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF SUFFERING - An international conference in Stockholm 8-11 november. A meeting between scholars and practitioners around the idea of social suffering and its institutional transformations. The Humanities and the Social sciences have a long tradition of dealing with human suffering, trying to understand how subjective experiences of individuals and collectives are connected with social conditions which cause or aggravate suffering. The aim of this conference is to deepen our understanding of social suffering by focusing on attitudes to suffering within different institutions and professional practices, such as medical care, psychiatry, migration politics and legal system. Keynote speakers: Professor Jeanne Gaaker, Dept of Law, Erasmus University, Professor Arthur Kleinman, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor Iain Wilkinson, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Canterbury. Participation in the conference is free. If you are interested, please mail before 27/10: jakob.nilsson@mail.film.su.se Further information about the conference including preliminary programme is availaible on the conference website: www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/Transformations_of_suffering
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The Swedish Colour Centre Foundation invites you to the AIC 2008 Interim Meeting on COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS to be held at Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Sweden on June 15-18, 2008. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the effects of using colour in interior and exterior design and how colours affect us. The meeting will bring together experts from all over the world to exchange the latest information on the developments in colour science, colour design, and colour psychology. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the theme COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS. Different aspects of the effect of using colour in interior and exterior design like change of colour impressions depending on distance, light sources, colour combinations and interaction of colours etc. Different aspects of how colours affect us like colour psychology, colour meaning, colour associations, and colour emotions. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be submitted via the online form on the web site www.aic2008.org or by e-mail info@aic2008.org at a maximum of two A4-sized pages and a minimum of 500 words. Deadline for submission of abstract: November 1, 2007
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SENSORY URBANISM An Interdisciplinary Two Day Conference: Departments of Architecture & Building Science / DMEM, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on Tuesday 8th - Wednesday 9th January 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite scholars and practitioners to submit papers for the SENSORY URBANISM, organised by the Multimodal Representation of Urban Space research group, a Design for the 21st Century initiative supported by the AHRC and EPSRC. Submitted papers will be reviewed by a committee comprising the research group and advisory board. Representing space is not only a long-standing challenge to the arts but is also a major task in the planning process for buildings, cities, and many other products. This particularly applies to the "Urban Renaissance" of our days with its emphasis on public places. Space - more than the surrounding objects or buildings - seems to demand to be represented not only visually, as it is not only determined by the visible surrounding objects, but also by sound and smell which are literally "in the air", and by an integrated multi-modal body experience which is related to the space itself. Nevertheless, spaces, especially urban spaces in planning processes, are today usually only represented in a visual manner. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and accompanied by a brief biography ofthe author(s). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to Raymond Lucas no later than Friday 16th November 2007. For further information, please contact: raymond.lucas@strath.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTIO URBIS i Rom 27-29 mars 2008. Konferensen hoppas på att få fler nordiska forskare med på sessionen Models for a Contemporary City Atlas in the Nordic context eller på någon annan del i konferensen. Abstract senast den 20 november. För vidare information se:
http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/croma/descriptiourbis/contenuti.asp?page=Home
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ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES. THEORIES, METHODS AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY NORDIC ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH /Teorier, metoder och strategier i nutida nordisk arkitekturforskning/ NORDIC-BALTIC CONFERENCE April 24-26, 2008, in Göteborg, Sweden, arranged by The Nordic Association of Architectural Research, The Nordic Architectural Academy, The Swedish Research Council Formas, The Association of Swedish Architects and Chalmers Architecture. Architectural research, including landscape architecture, urban design & development and interior architecture, is an expanding field with high relevance for urgent issues in contemporary society and environment. At the same time it is fragmented into small research units and often transgresses conventional categorization for funding, which can be problematic. New design-based investigation methods merge with influences from other research areas and demonstrate large potentials but have difficulties to obtain scientific legitimacy. We invite Nordic and Baltic architectural researchers and PhD-students to discuss theories, methods and strategies in contemporary architectural research through the six interconnecting themes listed below. Conference language will be English as well as Nordic languages. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, maximum 300 words, on the following themes: 1. Lack of theory or new theoretical frameworks 2. History and historiography: Is there a Nordic architectural research? 3. Practice relevance versus peer-review publications 4. Integrating design-based methodology 5. New technologies: impact on research problems and methodology 6. Urban research between social sciences and design. Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2007.Conference e-mail: a-inquiries@chalmers.se Conference website: in progress. Links: www.arkitekturforskning.net or www.chalmers.se/arch/SV Questions: dyrssen@chalmers.se, caldenby@chalmers.se, fredrik@chalmers.se, lena@arch.kth.se Arranged by: Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg
JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS
FUTURE ANTERIOR is a peer reviewed (refereed) journal published by the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS. It approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. CALL FOR PAPERS: FUTURE ANTERIOR seeks contributions that ask these difficult questions from philosophical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. We welcome articles on all topics relevant to historic preservation. Submissions for the Winter 2008 issue must be received no later than January 7, 2008. Articles should be no more than 5000 words, with up to seven illustrations. Text must be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition. All articles must be submitted in English, and spelling should follow American convention. All submissions must be submitted electronically, on a CD or disk, accompanied by three hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8by 9print size. Figures should be numbered clearly in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author biography (around 100 words) must accompany the text. FUTURE ANTERIOR also welcomes shorter articles of less than 2500 words and five illustrations for publication outside of the peer review process. The same submission requirements apply to these articles. Acceptance or rejection of submissions is at the discretion of the editors. Please do not send original materials, as submissions will not be returned. Please mail all submissions to: FUTURE ANTERIOR, 400 Avery Hall, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. Questions about submissions can be mailed to: futureanterior@columbia.edu
DOKTORANDKURSER
Under läsåret planeras den obligatoriska kursen ARKITEKTURENS BEGREPP OCH TEORIER, 7,5 högskolepoäng, under förutsättning att det finns tillräckligt många doktorander för att skapa en seminariegrupp. Kursen består av orienteringar och nedslag i arkitekturens teorihistoria ur aktuella, tematiska och begreppsliga perspektiv. Den är obligatorisk för doktorander i arkitektur och arkitekturhistoria. Kursen omfattar ca tio seminarier, med ett inledande seminarium som åtföljs av ytterligare seminarier under hösten 07 och våren 08. Vid dessa diskuteras en eller flera gemensamt lästa texter. Dessutom ingår för varje deltagare en särskild redovisningsuppgift. Kursen ges av professor Johan Mårtelius, Arkitekturhistoria. Doktorander från arkitekturskolorna vid Chalmers och LTH samt från konstvetenskap och ev. angränsande ämnen är välkomna. Kontakta eller sänd en intresseanmälan till Lena Villner: 08-790 9167, lena@arch.kth.se Se medföljande PDF!
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KURS I FORSKNINGSMETODIK: Tanken är att kursen ska gå att läsa på distans. Den kommer innehålla introducerande moment i de olika forskningsmetodologiska traditioner som arkitekturforskningen lutar sig mot, samt ett individuellt fördjupningsarbete som redovisas i form av ett paper. Tanken är att detta paper ska jobbas fram för det symposium som Nordisk Arkitekturforskning anordnar i Göteborg den 24-27 april 2008. Undervisningsformen är en blandning av föreläsningar med workshop och seminariediskussion. Omfattningen är 7,5 högskolepoäng (dvs 5 'gamla' poäng)
Förslag på upplägg och datum:
- Kursstart 1 november 10-17 Vetenskaplig publiceringspraxis abstract, konferenspaper, artikel, sammanläggningsavhandling. Informationssökning/arkivbesök.(KG)
- Workshop kring abstract inför NA-symposium 29 November (inte KG!)
- Vecka 10 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag (5-6mars)
- Vecka 11 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag (12-13 mars)
- Vecka 12-13 egen skrivtid strukturerad handledning per distans eller genom gruppmöten med handledare och doktorandkolleger.
- Vecka 15 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag presentation och genomgång av papers (9-10 april)
Kontakta eller sänd en intresseanmälan till Katja Grillner: 08-790 8769, katja@arch.kth.se Se medföljande PDF!
PROVFÖRELÄSNINGAR
Föreläsningarna är öppna för alla intresserade förutom de övriga sökande till respektive utlysning (även de som inte kallats till provföreläsning). Information: brodersen@arch.kth.se
PROFESSUREN I ARKITEKTUR - GESTALTNINGSPROCESSEN
Tid: 22 oktober kl 8.00-10.40
Plats: Sal A5
Ämne: Om gestaltningsprocessen
Föredragshållare: kl 8.00 Ulrika Karlsson, kl 8.40 Tor Lindstrand, kl 9.20 Camilla Schlyter, kl 10.00 Anders Wilhelmson
PROFESSUREN I ARKITEKTUR - AVANCERAD GESTALTNING
Tid: 24 oktober kl 15.00-17.00
Plats: Sal A5
Ämne: On advanced architectural design
Föredragshållare: (turordning ej fastställd) Anders Wilhelmson, Johan Celsing, Helena Paver Njiric
STIPENDIER
Konstakademien utlyser följande stipendium: HJALMAR WICANDERS FOND sökes senast den 31 oktober. För "främjande av de bildande konsterna genom direkt beställning av eller genom bidrag till åstadkommande av verk av monumental eller dekorativ art i samband med någon staten icke tillhörande offentlig byggnad eller anläggning". För mer information se www.konstakademien.se
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STOCKHOLMS BYGGNADSFÖRENINGS STIFTELSE FÖR DOKTORANDSTIPENDIET skall inges till Stockholms Byggnadsförening senast 31 december. Föreningens kansli tillhandahåller ansökningsblanketter. Stiftelsen är bildad 1989 genom medel som tillskjutits av Stockholms Byggnadsförening och enskilda medlemmar. Ändamål: Stiftelsen skall ekonomiskt understödja forskning och utbildning som till allmänt gagn främjar utvecklingen inom byggnadsbranschen. Stipendier som utdelas ur stiftelsen skall bereda forskare - doktorander - vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), och då i första hand vid sektionerna S(Samhällsbyggnads), A(Arkitektur) möjlighet att under åtminstone ett halvt år bedriva forskning och studier vid annan europeisk högskola eller universitet. Ansökan skall åtföljas av uppgifter om sökandens namn, ålder och adress, nuvarande forskningsverksamhet och redogörelse med tidplan och budget för ändamålet med stipendiet ävensom eventuella referenser. Stipendiat skall vara medborgare i något av den ordiska länderna. För mer information se www.sthbyggnadsforening.se/stipendier/doktorand.html
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SVENSKA INSTITUTET I ROM-STIPENDIET är avsett för arkitekt som utexaminerats från teknisk högskola (eller med motsvarande kvalifikationer) och ämnar bedriva arkitektstudier i Rom. Studierna i Rom kan inriktas på arkitekturhistorisk, konstvetenskaplig eller restaurerings¬teknisk fördjupning, men också gälla aktuella byggnadsfrågor och miljöstudier. Vid utseende av stipendiat tillmäts särskild betydelse dels vilken relevans ett stipendium vid institutet har för den sökandes studier eller forskning, dels graden av relevanta förkunskaper. Stipendiebeloppet är på 70.000 kr för 6-8 månaders vistelse i Rom och ökas med 1000 kr för varje ytterligare vecka upp till högst 75.000 kr. Stipendiaten får under vistelsen i Rom disponera bostad på Institutet. Ansökan ställs till Institutets kontor i Stockholm, och skall vara inkommen i mitten av januari. Till ansökan skall bifogas styrkta kopior av merithandlingar, detaljerad forsknings- eller studieplan för stipendietiden, färdigställda delar av avhandling (ej arkitekt) och i förekommande fall intyg från handledaren. För mer information se www.isvroma.org/svenska/stipendier.html
FILMVISNINGAR
5 filmvisningar under hösten kommer att visas i Nedre Ateljén. Visningarna är en del av undervisningen i ÅK 3 men samtidigt öppet för hela skolan.
* Brazil av Terry Gilliam (The final cut), (1985)
Tid: 17:00 onsdag 2007-10-24
* Blade Runner av Ridley Scott (directors cut) (1991)
Tid: 17:00 torsdag 2007-11-01
* The Fifth element av Luc Besson (1997)
Tid: 17:00 fredag 2007-11-09
KOMMUNIKATION: KULTUR, TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP
Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"
Tid: torsdagen den 18 oktober 2007, kl. 14-16
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation, KTH
Föredragshållare: Pelle Snickars (Statens ljud- och bildarkiv)
Titel: DET KONVERGERANDE ARKIVET
Abstract: Det har hävdats att den mediearkivariska rörelsen från analogt till digitalt fundamentalt kommer att förändra förståelsen av "arkivet", det vill säga den instans som reglerar vad samhället väljer att minnas. I det digitala arkivet är bevarande inte längre en självklar arkivarisk grundprincip, lika gärna kan man tala om överföring som en metafor för arkivverksamheten. Därtill håller skillnaderna mellan de olika medieformerna på att försvinna; begreppet mediespecificitet börjar bli musealt. På webben är alla medier grå, eller rättare sagt, på webben finns vid närmare betraktande inga medier alls, bara filer med matematiskt kodad information. I takt med att 1900-talets specifika medieformer konvergerar ersätts de av yteffekter av algoritmer, det vill säga av olika slags programmerat innehåll bestående av text, ljud och (rörlig) bild. I allt detta befinner sig ett antal kulturarvsinstitutioner som varken vet ut eller in. Om detta, det nya digitala kulturarvet, och den konvergerande ABM-sektorn handlar Pelle Snickars föredrag.
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ESRC Research Seminary on Friday 19th October 2007. RETHINKING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE: the sensory production of place Seminar Three: SENSES AND INFRASTRUCTURE The Smells, Sights, Sounds, Textures and Tastes of Socio- Technical Transitions: An Exploratory Workshop. The third seminar in the series focuses on the relations between senses and the socio-technical infrastructure of everyday life. What if we re-designed infrastructure for all of our senses? Given the pressure to develop systemic transitions in the social and technical organisation of energy, water, waste, and transport infrastructures in response to climate change and resource constraint there is a need to raise the "visibility" of networks to users. Suppose for a moment that taste, sound, touch, and odour were treated as the equals of sight. What would our infrastructure be like if sensory response, sentiment, and memory were critical design factors, the equals of structure and function? There are still a number of places available for the third seminar 'Senses and Infrastructure' in the ESRC funded research seminar series 'Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place'. Further details can be found at http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/ or download a booking form http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk/documents/SenseCity/Booking_Form_Sense.pdf
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Tidskriften i&m och Mångkulturellt centrum inbjuder till ett heldagsseminarium: MITT HEM MIN BORG, seminarium 24 oktober kl 9.00-16.00 på Fittja gård, En dag om boende, stadsplanering och delaktighet. Miljonprogrammens nödvändiga upprustning öppnar möjligheter - tar vi dem tillvara? Hur långt bär stadsplanerares och arkitekters visioner och erfarenheter och är de boende delaktiga på allvar? Handlar det bara om förorterna eller behövs det en helt ny syn på staden som helhet? Arkitekter, forskare, samhällsplanerare och politiker diskuterar de möjligheter som miljonprogrammens nödvändiga upprustning ger. Utgångspunkten är bland annat erfarenheter från storstadsarbete och områdesutveckling landet runt. Seminariet tar upp såväl teori som praktik och för debatten vidare. Anmälan senast den 19 oktober på www.iochm.com eller på www.mkc.botkyrka.se eller per telefon på 08-531 757 60.
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ARCHITECTURE & DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE: WRITING, IMAGING AND PERFORMANCE. Tuesday, 27th November 2007, 10-6 PM, the Bartlett School of Architecture, RSVP to: Architectural.Research@ucl.ac.uk ARCHITECTURE &: is a termly interdisciplinary seminar initierad by Prof. Jane Rendell providing opportunities for researchers within the Bartlett School of Architecture to initiate reseach conversations at various interdisciplinary crossings. In the third of the series we bring together editors, architects, artists and theorists of architecture and performance studies to discuss current issues in the field of documentary practice.
SYMPOSIER/ SYMPOSIA
The Arts Catalyst, the British Library and the Open University present POLAR: FIELDWORK & ARCHIVE FEVER. An interdisciplinary symposium on Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 November 2007, British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London NW1. To register contact Kathryn Yusoff, Open University K.Yusoff@exeter.ac.uk. POLAR: FIELDWORK AND ARCHIVE FEVER is an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the polar regions. It brings together scientists, writers, artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge about the polar landscape and its broader implications for global climate and society. Polar regions are both exceptional to and considered representative of the developments in global climate change and climate change science. Given the important claims and policy decisions based on the polar archive, it is timely to consider the way in which our knowledge of this archive has been produced. Historically, control of polar archives and landscapes has gone hand in hand. Recent work suggests that this archive and the landscapes represented therein could be structured and interpreted in alternative ways. This might give rise to alternative visions and uses of polar landscapes and their connection to a wider global picture. The symposium is organised by the Open University in association with the British Library and The Arts Catalyst with international partners as part of a wider multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural and scientific issues surrounding climate change in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-08). Symposium web-site: http://www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html
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ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION NORDIC SYMPOSIUM in Stockholm October 16-17, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS. Throughout the history, design competition has been deployed as a reliable and acquiescent system for assuring quality and as an efficient instrument for evaluation of the best design solutions. Nordic countries are enjoying over hundred years of tradition in organizing architectural competition for selection of the best design practices. Every year, about 100 architectural and urban design competitions take place in the Nordic countries. The competition system is a recognized endeavour in the Nordic countries to elevating qualities and minimizing uncertainties in architectural design. It is also used to give partaking opportunity to talented architects to express their visions, to demonstrate their professional skills and to be rewarded, admired and endorsed publicly. Competing in architecture has also gained new relevance in Europe through the EU's Directive 2004/18/EG. Nowadays, the competition appears as a means to acquire new ideas and good design solutions for the whole of Europe. Architectural competition is also becoming a promoting method of architectural services in European market. According to the EU Directive of 2004/18/EG, public organizers of competitions are obliged to announce their competitions in public. Structure: The Symposium will be held in Stockholm. It is organized in cooperation between NoEND, NA (Nordic Association of Architectural Research) and the architect unions in the Nordic Countries. Abstracts and Themes: You are welcome to submit your Abstract before December 1, 2007. Abstracts can be written in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish with maximum 400 words. The workshops cover the whole architect¬ural competition process; from programme, evaluation, selection, and ranking of the entries up to the appointment of the winner. For further information and early registration, please contact the Organizing Secretariat. Papers and Abstracts can be sent via e-mail attachment to Ms. Charlotte Svensson: charlottes@arch.kth.se
KONFERENSER/ CONFERENCES
INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF SUFFERING - An international conference in Stockholm 8-11 november. A meeting between scholars and practitioners around the idea of social suffering and its institutional transformations. The Humanities and the Social sciences have a long tradition of dealing with human suffering, trying to understand how subjective experiences of individuals and collectives are connected with social conditions which cause or aggravate suffering. The aim of this conference is to deepen our understanding of social suffering by focusing on attitudes to suffering within different institutions and professional practices, such as medical care, psychiatry, migration politics and legal system. Keynote speakers: Professor Jeanne Gaaker, Dept of Law, Erasmus University, Professor Arthur Kleinman, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor Iain Wilkinson, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Canterbury. Participation in the conference is free. If you are interested, please mail before 27/10: jakob.nilsson@mail.film.su.se Further information about the conference including preliminary programme is availaible on the conference website: www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/Transformations_of_suffering
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The Swedish Colour Centre Foundation invites you to the AIC 2008 Interim Meeting on COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS to be held at Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Sweden on June 15-18, 2008. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the effects of using colour in interior and exterior design and how colours affect us. The meeting will bring together experts from all over the world to exchange the latest information on the developments in colour science, colour design, and colour psychology. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the theme COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS. Different aspects of the effect of using colour in interior and exterior design like change of colour impressions depending on distance, light sources, colour combinations and interaction of colours etc. Different aspects of how colours affect us like colour psychology, colour meaning, colour associations, and colour emotions. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be submitted via the online form on the web site www.aic2008.org or by e-mail info@aic2008.org at a maximum of two A4-sized pages and a minimum of 500 words. Deadline for submission of abstract: November 1, 2007
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SENSORY URBANISM An Interdisciplinary Two Day Conference: Departments of Architecture & Building Science / DMEM, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on Tuesday 8th - Wednesday 9th January 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite scholars and practitioners to submit papers for the SENSORY URBANISM, organised by the Multimodal Representation of Urban Space research group, a Design for the 21st Century initiative supported by the AHRC and EPSRC. Submitted papers will be reviewed by a committee comprising the research group and advisory board. Representing space is not only a long-standing challenge to the arts but is also a major task in the planning process for buildings, cities, and many other products. This particularly applies to the "Urban Renaissance" of our days with its emphasis on public places. Space - more than the surrounding objects or buildings - seems to demand to be represented not only visually, as it is not only determined by the visible surrounding objects, but also by sound and smell which are literally "in the air", and by an integrated multi-modal body experience which is related to the space itself. Nevertheless, spaces, especially urban spaces in planning processes, are today usually only represented in a visual manner. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and accompanied by a brief biography ofthe author(s). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to Raymond Lucas no later than Friday 16th November 2007. For further information, please contact: raymond.lucas@strath.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTIO URBIS i Rom 27-29 mars 2008. Konferensen hoppas på att få fler nordiska forskare med på sessionen Models for a Contemporary City Atlas in the Nordic context eller på någon annan del i konferensen. Abstract senast den 20 november. För vidare information se:
http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/croma/descriptiourbis/contenuti.asp?page=Home
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ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES. THEORIES, METHODS AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY NORDIC ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH /Teorier, metoder och strategier i nutida nordisk arkitekturforskning/ NORDIC-BALTIC CONFERENCE April 24-26, 2008, in Göteborg, Sweden, arranged by The Nordic Association of Architectural Research, The Nordic Architectural Academy, The Swedish Research Council Formas, The Association of Swedish Architects and Chalmers Architecture. Architectural research, including landscape architecture, urban design & development and interior architecture, is an expanding field with high relevance for urgent issues in contemporary society and environment. At the same time it is fragmented into small research units and often transgresses conventional categorization for funding, which can be problematic. New design-based investigation methods merge with influences from other research areas and demonstrate large potentials but have difficulties to obtain scientific legitimacy. We invite Nordic and Baltic architectural researchers and PhD-students to discuss theories, methods and strategies in contemporary architectural research through the six interconnecting themes listed below. Conference language will be English as well as Nordic languages. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, maximum 300 words, on the following themes: 1. Lack of theory or new theoretical frameworks 2. History and historiography: Is there a Nordic architectural research? 3. Practice relevance versus peer-review publications 4. Integrating design-based methodology 5. New technologies: impact on research problems and methodology 6. Urban research between social sciences and design. Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2007.Conference e-mail: a-inquiries@chalmers.se Conference website: in progress. Links: www.arkitekturforskning.net or www.chalmers.se/arch/SV Questions: dyrssen@chalmers.se, caldenby@chalmers.se, fredrik@chalmers.se, lena@arch.kth.se Arranged by: Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg
JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS
FUTURE ANTERIOR is a peer reviewed (refereed) journal published by the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS. It approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. CALL FOR PAPERS: FUTURE ANTERIOR seeks contributions that ask these difficult questions from philosophical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. We welcome articles on all topics relevant to historic preservation. Submissions for the Winter 2008 issue must be received no later than January 7, 2008. Articles should be no more than 5000 words, with up to seven illustrations. Text must be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition. All articles must be submitted in English, and spelling should follow American convention. All submissions must be submitted electronically, on a CD or disk, accompanied by three hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8by 9print size. Figures should be numbered clearly in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author biography (around 100 words) must accompany the text. FUTURE ANTERIOR also welcomes shorter articles of less than 2500 words and five illustrations for publication outside of the peer review process. The same submission requirements apply to these articles. Acceptance or rejection of submissions is at the discretion of the editors. Please do not send original materials, as submissions will not be returned. Please mail all submissions to: FUTURE ANTERIOR, 400 Avery Hall, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. Questions about submissions can be mailed to: futureanterior@columbia.edu
DOKTORANDKURSER
Under läsåret planeras den obligatoriska kursen ARKITEKTURENS BEGREPP OCH TEORIER, 7,5 högskolepoäng, under förutsättning att det finns tillräckligt många doktorander för att skapa en seminariegrupp. Kursen består av orienteringar och nedslag i arkitekturens teorihistoria ur aktuella, tematiska och begreppsliga perspektiv. Den är obligatorisk för doktorander i arkitektur och arkitekturhistoria. Kursen omfattar ca tio seminarier, med ett inledande seminarium som åtföljs av ytterligare seminarier under hösten 07 och våren 08. Vid dessa diskuteras en eller flera gemensamt lästa texter. Dessutom ingår för varje deltagare en särskild redovisningsuppgift. Kursen ges av professor Johan Mårtelius, Arkitekturhistoria. Doktorander från arkitekturskolorna vid Chalmers och LTH samt från konstvetenskap och ev. angränsande ämnen är välkomna. Kontakta eller sänd en intresseanmälan till Lena Villner: 08-790 9167, lena@arch.kth.se Se medföljande PDF!
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KURS I FORSKNINGSMETODIK: Tanken är att kursen ska gå att läsa på distans. Den kommer innehålla introducerande moment i de olika forskningsmetodologiska traditioner som arkitekturforskningen lutar sig mot, samt ett individuellt fördjupningsarbete som redovisas i form av ett paper. Tanken är att detta paper ska jobbas fram för det symposium som Nordisk Arkitekturforskning anordnar i Göteborg den 24-27 april 2008. Undervisningsformen är en blandning av föreläsningar med workshop och seminariediskussion. Omfattningen är 7,5 högskolepoäng (dvs 5 'gamla' poäng)
Förslag på upplägg och datum:
- Kursstart 1 november 10-17 Vetenskaplig publiceringspraxis abstract, konferenspaper, artikel, sammanläggningsavhandling. Informationssökning/arkivbesök.(KG)
- Workshop kring abstract inför NA-symposium 29 November (inte KG!)
- Vecka 10 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag (5-6mars)
- Vecka 11 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag (12-13 mars)
- Vecka 12-13 egen skrivtid strukturerad handledning per distans eller genom gruppmöten med handledare och doktorandkolleger.
- Vecka 15 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag presentation och genomgång av papers (9-10 april)
Kontakta eller sänd en intresseanmälan till Katja Grillner: 08-790 8769, katja@arch.kth.se Se medföljande PDF!
PROVFÖRELÄSNINGAR
Föreläsningarna är öppna för alla intresserade förutom de övriga sökande till respektive utlysning (även de som inte kallats till provföreläsning). Information: brodersen@arch.kth.se
PROFESSUREN I ARKITEKTUR - GESTALTNINGSPROCESSEN
Tid: 22 oktober kl 8.00-10.40
Plats: Sal A5
Ämne: Om gestaltningsprocessen
Föredragshållare: kl 8.00 Ulrika Karlsson, kl 8.40 Tor Lindstrand, kl 9.20 Camilla Schlyter, kl 10.00 Anders Wilhelmson
PROFESSUREN I ARKITEKTUR - AVANCERAD GESTALTNING
Tid: 24 oktober kl 15.00-17.00
Plats: Sal A5
Ämne: On advanced architectural design
Föredragshållare: (turordning ej fastställd) Anders Wilhelmson, Johan Celsing, Helena Paver Njiric
STIPENDIER
Konstakademien utlyser följande stipendium: HJALMAR WICANDERS FOND sökes senast den 31 oktober. För "främjande av de bildande konsterna genom direkt beställning av eller genom bidrag till åstadkommande av verk av monumental eller dekorativ art i samband med någon staten icke tillhörande offentlig byggnad eller anläggning". För mer information se www.konstakademien.se
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STOCKHOLMS BYGGNADSFÖRENINGS STIFTELSE FÖR DOKTORANDSTIPENDIET skall inges till Stockholms Byggnadsförening senast 31 december. Föreningens kansli tillhandahåller ansökningsblanketter. Stiftelsen är bildad 1989 genom medel som tillskjutits av Stockholms Byggnadsförening och enskilda medlemmar. Ändamål: Stiftelsen skall ekonomiskt understödja forskning och utbildning som till allmänt gagn främjar utvecklingen inom byggnadsbranschen. Stipendier som utdelas ur stiftelsen skall bereda forskare - doktorander - vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), och då i första hand vid sektionerna S(Samhällsbyggnads), A(Arkitektur) möjlighet att under åtminstone ett halvt år bedriva forskning och studier vid annan europeisk högskola eller universitet. Ansökan skall åtföljas av uppgifter om sökandens namn, ålder och adress, nuvarande forskningsverksamhet och redogörelse med tidplan och budget för ändamålet med stipendiet ävensom eventuella referenser. Stipendiat skall vara medborgare i något av den ordiska länderna. För mer information se www.sthbyggnadsforening.se/stipendier/doktorand.html
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SVENSKA INSTITUTET I ROM-STIPENDIET är avsett för arkitekt som utexaminerats från teknisk högskola (eller med motsvarande kvalifikationer) och ämnar bedriva arkitektstudier i Rom. Studierna i Rom kan inriktas på arkitekturhistorisk, konstvetenskaplig eller restaurerings¬teknisk fördjupning, men också gälla aktuella byggnadsfrågor och miljöstudier. Vid utseende av stipendiat tillmäts särskild betydelse dels vilken relevans ett stipendium vid institutet har för den sökandes studier eller forskning, dels graden av relevanta förkunskaper. Stipendiebeloppet är på 70.000 kr för 6-8 månaders vistelse i Rom och ökas med 1000 kr för varje ytterligare vecka upp till högst 75.000 kr. Stipendiaten får under vistelsen i Rom disponera bostad på Institutet. Ansökan ställs till Institutets kontor i Stockholm, och skall vara inkommen i mitten av januari. Till ansökan skall bifogas styrkta kopior av merithandlingar, detaljerad forsknings- eller studieplan för stipendietiden, färdigställda delar av avhandling (ej arkitekt) och i förekommande fall intyg från handledaren. För mer information se www.isvroma.org/svenska/stipendier.html
FILMVISNINGAR
5 filmvisningar under hösten kommer att visas i Nedre Ateljén. Visningarna är en del av undervisningen i ÅK 3 men samtidigt öppet för hela skolan.
* Brazil av Terry Gilliam (The final cut), (1985)
Tid: 17:00 onsdag 2007-10-24
* Blade Runner av Ridley Scott (directors cut) (1991)
Tid: 17:00 torsdag 2007-11-01
* The Fifth element av Luc Besson (1997)
Tid: 17:00 fredag 2007-11-09
07 June 2007
THURSDAY CLUB OPEN CALL
OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS & PROPOSALS
The Thursday Club is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s). The Club is supported by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios (GDS) and the Goldsmiths Graduate School.
Originally set up in October 2005 by GDS as a more informal setting for research discussions, it has grown to include over 150 members, artists, technologists, scientists, in fact, a growing diversity of people from different communities worldwide, that are now connected via a mailing list and online forum.
There are also regular meetings in ‘real' space at the Ben Pimlott site of Goldsmiths, University of London. Anyone can attend these events. By keeping these meetings free, informal and open to all, we provide a platform for diverse and open ended discourse, for people who perhaps would not have the opportunity to discuss ideas outside of their chosen discipline.
The Thursday Club brings together people from diverse fields and degrees of expertise, aiming to initiate discussion and debates among postgraduate students, researchers, academics, artists, theorists, and other cultural practitioners.
Since it focuses on interdisciplinary practices, the Club is interested to experiment with innovative formats of presentation that are appropriate to the nature of the subject. We particularly welcome the proposal of round table discussions, panels, screenings, 'hearings', live gigs and performance lectures as well as more traditional presentations. We are also interested to platform experimental work-in-progress, of both practical and theoretical nature.
Submission Materials
1. An A4 size page with your proposal (about 500 words); any relevant links; 1-2 pictures if relevant.
2. A 200 words CV
3. Your contact details: name, address, email and telephone number
4. Selected additional audiovisual information (e.g. audio and video files) preferably as a link.
Please send any submissions by email to Maria X at writing 'Thursday Club Submission' as a Subject.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 29 JULY 2007. The submissions will be reviewed by the Thursday Club Board.
THURSDAY CLUB BOARD
Miguel Andres-Clavera
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Member of Social Technology and Cultural Interfaces Research Group.
Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X], Thursday Club Coordinator
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Sessional Lecturer Birkbeck FCE; Curator.
Bronac Ferran
Director of boundaryobject.org; Member of DCMS Research and KT taskgroup; Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England until March 2007.
Prof. Janis Jefferies, Thursday Club Convener
Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths;
Co-director Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Director Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles; Curator; Artist.
Dr Sarah Kember
Reader in New Technologies of Communication, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College; Writer.
Michela Magas
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Co-director Stromatolite Design Studio.
Prof. Carrie Paechter
Professor of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths College; Dean of the Goldsmiths Graduate School.
Prof. Robert Zimmer
Professor of Computing, Goldsmiths College; Co-director Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
The Thursday Club is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s). The Club is supported by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios (GDS) and the Goldsmiths Graduate School.
Originally set up in October 2005 by GDS as a more informal setting for research discussions, it has grown to include over 150 members, artists, technologists, scientists, in fact, a growing diversity of people from different communities worldwide, that are now connected via a mailing list and online forum.
There are also regular meetings in ‘real' space at the Ben Pimlott site of Goldsmiths, University of London. Anyone can attend these events. By keeping these meetings free, informal and open to all, we provide a platform for diverse and open ended discourse, for people who perhaps would not have the opportunity to discuss ideas outside of their chosen discipline.
The Thursday Club brings together people from diverse fields and degrees of expertise, aiming to initiate discussion and debates among postgraduate students, researchers, academics, artists, theorists, and other cultural practitioners.
Since it focuses on interdisciplinary practices, the Club is interested to experiment with innovative formats of presentation that are appropriate to the nature of the subject. We particularly welcome the proposal of round table discussions, panels, screenings, 'hearings', live gigs and performance lectures as well as more traditional presentations. We are also interested to platform experimental work-in-progress, of both practical and theoretical nature.
Submission Materials
1. An A4 size page with your proposal (about 500 words); any relevant links; 1-2 pictures if relevant.
2. A 200 words CV
3. Your contact details: name, address, email and telephone number
4. Selected additional audiovisual information (e.g. audio and video files) preferably as a link.
Please send any submissions by email to Maria X at
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 29 JULY 2007. The submissions will be reviewed by the Thursday Club Board.
THURSDAY CLUB BOARD
Miguel Andres-Clavera
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Member of Social Technology and Cultural Interfaces Research Group.
Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X], Thursday Club Coordinator
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Sessional Lecturer Birkbeck FCE; Curator.
Bronac Ferran
Director of boundaryobject.org; Member of DCMS Research and KT taskgroup; Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England until March 2007.
Prof. Janis Jefferies, Thursday Club Convener
Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths;
Co-director Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Director Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles; Curator; Artist.
Dr Sarah Kember
Reader in New Technologies of Communication, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College; Writer.
Michela Magas
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Co-director Stromatolite Design Studio.
Prof. Carrie Paechter
Professor of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths College; Dean of the Goldsmiths Graduate School.
Prof. Robert Zimmer
Professor of Computing, Goldsmiths College; Co-director Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
04 June 2007
Writing Purposefully in Art and Design
Writing PAD Project (Writing Purposefully in Art and Design) led by Goldsmiths University of London with over 40 other UK A&D institutions. The project is now developing an international following with the launch of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, published by Intellect.
Writing PAD offers UK art and design institutions an arena in which to explore and develop the notion of ‘thinking through writing’ as a parallel to visual discourse in art and design practice. Writing PAD has not only brought together tutors from across the disciplines, but also from across roles: i.e. studio staff, theory staff, learning support, and learning and teaching (L&T) coordinators.
Check out: www.writing-pad.ac.uk and www.writing-pad.org
Writing PAD offers UK art and design institutions an arena in which to explore and develop the notion of ‘thinking through writing’ as a parallel to visual discourse in art and design practice. Writing PAD has not only brought together tutors from across the disciplines, but also from across roles: i.e. studio staff, theory staff, learning support, and learning and teaching (L&T) coordinators.
Check out: www.writing-pad.ac.uk and www.writing-pad.org
10 May 2007
Learning from Experience
Required reading for forthcoming workshop on practice-based research:
"Learning from Experience: approaches to the experiential component of
practice-based research" by Michael A R Biggs
Available here:
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/tvad/mb/2004a.pdf
"Learning from Experience: approaches to the experiential component of
practice-based research" by Michael A R Biggs
Available here:
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/tvad/mb/2004a.pdf
09 May 2007
Rhetoric resources
Virtual Salt: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
Rhetoric and composition
http://rhetoric.eserver.org/
Silva rhetoricae
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
Rhetoric and composition
http://rhetoric.eserver.org/
Silva rhetoricae
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
Course reading list
Reading list:
i) Highly recommended
Hill, Jonathan & Rendell, Jane Critical Architecture (London: Routledge, 2007)
Laurel, Brenda (ed.): Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003)
Nelson, Robert S. and Shiff, Richard (eds.) Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition (1996, 2003).
Sullivan, Graeme: Art Practice as Research. Inquiry in the Visual Arts. London: Sage, 2005
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Philosophical Investigations tr. by G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995)
Zwicky, Jan Wisdom and Metaphor (Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2003)
Web resources:
Course blogs:
Art and Design Research Methodologies: http://adrm.blogspot.com/
The End of Me (useful for discussions on ‘originality’): http://endofmeblog.blogspot.com/
Experience Design: http://www.interdisciplinaryresearch.blogspot.com/
Experience Design: www.designtime.se
Other:
Centre for Research into Practice (Faculty of Art and Design
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/cr2p/index.htm
AKAD (Academy for Practice-Based Research in Architecture and Design): http://www.akad.se/
ii) Recommended
Butler, Judith, ‘Giving an account of oneself’, Diacritics, Winter 2001, 31, 4, 22-40.
Diderot, Denis: Rameau’s Nephew (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)
Dolar, Mladen: A Voice and Nothing More (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, UK: MIT Press, 2006).
Frayling, Christopher. Research in art and design. Royal College of Art Research Papers. Vol.1. No.1. London: Royal College of Art, 1993.
Grillner, Katja et al (eds) 01.AKAD - Experimental research in architecture and design – Beginnings. (Stockholm: AKAD/AXL Books, 2005).
Göranzon, Bo, Hammarén, Maria and Ennals, Richard (eds) Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 2006)
Hughes, Francesca (ed.) The Architect Reconstructing Her Practice (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998)
Hughes, Rolf and Monk, Jon (eds). Hybrid Thought (Milton Keynes: Department of Telematics, Faculty of Technology, Open University, 2003)
Klein, Julie Thompson Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, Practice (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990).
Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark Metaphors We Live By (London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
Lyotard, Jean-Francois: The Postmodern Condition: a Report of Knowledge. Minneapolis 1993.
Margolin, Victor (ed.) Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Nordenstam, Tore Exemplets makt (Stockholm: Dialoger, 2005). In Swedish only.
Schön, Donald The Reflective Practitioner (NY: Basic Books, 1983)
Tillberg, Peter (ed): Dialoger: om yrkeskunnande och teknologi (Stockholm: Dialoger, 2002). In Swedish only.
Wilde, Oscar: The Critic as Artist (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2006)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: On Certainty tr. by G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979).
Zwicky, Jan Wisdom and Metaphor (Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2003)
i) Highly recommended
Hill, Jonathan & Rendell, Jane Critical Architecture (London: Routledge, 2007)
Laurel, Brenda (ed.): Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003)
Nelson, Robert S. and Shiff, Richard (eds.) Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition (1996, 2003).
Sullivan, Graeme: Art Practice as Research. Inquiry in the Visual Arts. London: Sage, 2005
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Philosophical Investigations tr. by G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995)
Zwicky, Jan Wisdom and Metaphor (Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2003)
Web resources:
Course blogs:
Art and Design Research Methodologies: http://adrm.blogspot.com/
The End of Me (useful for discussions on ‘originality’): http://endofmeblog.blogspot.com/
Experience Design: http://www.interdisciplinaryresearch.blogspot.com/
Experience Design: www.designtime.se
Other:
Centre for Research into Practice (Faculty of Art and Design
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/cr2p/index.htm
AKAD (Academy for Practice-Based Research in Architecture and Design): http://www.akad.se/
ii) Recommended
Butler, Judith, ‘Giving an account of oneself’, Diacritics, Winter 2001, 31, 4, 22-40.
Diderot, Denis: Rameau’s Nephew (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)
Dolar, Mladen: A Voice and Nothing More (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, UK: MIT Press, 2006).
Frayling, Christopher. Research in art and design. Royal College of Art Research Papers. Vol.1. No.1. London: Royal College of Art, 1993.
Grillner, Katja et al (eds) 01.AKAD - Experimental research in architecture and design – Beginnings. (Stockholm: AKAD/AXL Books, 2005).
Göranzon, Bo, Hammarén, Maria and Ennals, Richard (eds) Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 2006)
Hughes, Francesca (ed.) The Architect Reconstructing Her Practice (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998)
Hughes, Rolf and Monk, Jon (eds). Hybrid Thought (Milton Keynes: Department of Telematics, Faculty of Technology, Open University, 2003)
Klein, Julie Thompson Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, Practice (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990).
Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark Metaphors We Live By (London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
Lyotard, Jean-Francois: The Postmodern Condition: a Report of Knowledge. Minneapolis 1993.
Margolin, Victor (ed.) Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Nordenstam, Tore Exemplets makt (Stockholm: Dialoger, 2005). In Swedish only.
Schön, Donald The Reflective Practitioner (NY: Basic Books, 1983)
Tillberg, Peter (ed): Dialoger: om yrkeskunnande och teknologi (Stockholm: Dialoger, 2002). In Swedish only.
Wilde, Oscar: The Critic as Artist (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2006)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: On Certainty tr. by G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979).
Zwicky, Jan Wisdom and Metaphor (Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2003)
09 April 2007
Research skills and writing essays in art and design
Monash University has useful and extensive online resources for researching and, especially, essay writing in art and design:
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/artdesign/index.xml
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/artdesign/index.xml
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