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Colleagues, see details below on
this international conference at CITY University of London.
Cultural studies,
art and social history. June 2020, London
Complexity and the City - Life, Design and
Commerce in the Built Environment
http://architecturemps.com/london-2020/
Themes: Cultural studies, art and social history in relation to
architecture, planning, technology, economics and life in cities.
Dates: 17-19 June 2020
Abstracts deadline: 01
December 2019
Place: London. CITY University of London
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Outline:
In 2015 the art and architectural collaborative, “Assemble”
won the UK’s premier contemporary art award, ‘The Turner
Prize’, for a project to renovate and save buildings in the city
of Liverpool. ‘Assemble’s’ Granby 4 Streets project
salvaged a socially and culturally important thread of the city’s
history and, simultaneously, turned its historic decaying architecture
into an avant-garde design project. The combination of contemporary
art, social history and cultural ‘resistance’ it
represented was also a response to the economics of the housing
industry, the regenerative forces of gentrification,
‘traditional’ design attitudes towards the home, and the
political neglect of communities.
Premised on an artistic reworking of a socially charged history and architecturally
undervalued past, the project picked up on multiple historic strands of
thinking about the life and design of our cities. In 1961 Jane
Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities drew our
attention to a cultural and architectural past in decline. In the early
1970s Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown would celebrate the social
and aesthetic complexity and contradiction of an eclectic cultural
history and present. By the mid 1970s the past – in the form of
post modernism – would be front and central in the architectural,
art and cultural worlds. Charles Jencks would be exact about its
reintroduction: July 15, 1972, 3.32pm. Place: Pruitt Igoe housing
complex, Missouri.
Some fifty years on from these seminal re-readings of art, society cultures
and architecture, this conference seeks to understand the past of our
cities in relation to their complex and interdisciplinary present. It
seeks to, firstly, collect research and narratives on the history of
cultures, communities, urban design and architecture and, secondly,
open these perspectives to people from related but separated
disciplines: architectural design, city planning, urban economics and
the history of public health and economics.
Virtual
Presentations:
To facilitate participation and publication of works by delegates who
cannot travel there is a special Academic YouTube
channel set
up for pre-recorded presentations.
Publications:
The conference publications form part of an international publishing
network PARADE involving Routledge Taylor&Francis, Intellect Books,
UCL Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Vernon Press and Libri
Publishing.
Organisers:
The conference is coordinated by CITY University of London and PARADE
(Publication and Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments)
in collaboration with AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics,
Society).
More information:
http://architecturemps.com/london-2020/
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