[csaa-forum] Panel Proposal - Everyday Transformations

[Joanna Besley]

Panel Proposal - Everyday Transformations

I am seeking people who may be interested in participating in a panel 
on architecture and the everyday for the annual conference of the 
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Everyday Transformations: 
The Twenty-First Century Quotidian in Perth 9-11 December 2004. A panel 
usually involves four speakers and papers can be either refereed or 
non-refereed. Refereed papers will be published in electronic 
conference proceedings.

The general call for the conference poses questions about what is 
sought in engaging with the everyday and what remains relevant today in 
the study of everyday life. I would like to focus these questions more 
closely on to architecture and the built environment. What and how can 
our understanding and interpretation of the built environment gain from 
an engagement with everyday life and theories of everyday life? In 
recent years, theories of everyday life have been embraced by 
architectural and urban theorists as an alternative critical 
perspective for examining architectural and urban production and 
reception. Neglected and overlooked 'ordinary' places and urban forms, 
banal materials and everyday social practices and interactions with 
urban and suburban environments are beginning to attract critical 
curiosity - but to what end? Will this result in an aestheticisation 
and commodification of the everyday in architecture? Are there real 
social and cultural gains to be made from a re-framing of architecture 
within the everyday - and for whom: architects, designers and theorists 
or the users of buildings and urban spaces?

Contributions and suggestions are most welcome - my aim for the panel 
is simply a fruitful exchange of ideas and research.  My contact 
details are below.

Jo Besley


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Joanna Besley
Doctoral Candidate
School of Geography, Planning and Architecture
University of Queensland
Phone and fax: 07 - 3254 1445
email: arthur43 at ihug.com.au

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Joanna Besley
School of Geography, Planning and Architecture
University of Queensland
Phone and fax: 07 - 3254 1445
email: arthur43 at ihug.com.au
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