[csaa-forum] The Mediated City Conference - Call for Papers

[Graham Cairns]

Dear all,



Below is information on a multidisciplinary conference event. The aim is to
bring people from diverse backgrounds together around the issue of “the
city”.



Please pass on the call and get in touch with any queries. In addition to
standard papers we are asking for proposals for a range of activities:
workshops, panel discussions, book launches etc. So feel free to propose
something of interest.



http://architecturemps.com



THE MEDIATED CITY



– two multidisciplinary conferences examining “the city”…… a virtual,
filmic, social, political and physical construct.



CONFERENCE  1.

Place: London

Dates: 01-03 April 2014

Host: Ravensbourne (University)



CONFERENCE  2.

Place: Los Angeles

Dates: October 2014 (TBD)

Host: Woodbury University



Outline:



The nature of the city is a contested concept. For architects it is
generally a question of bricks and mortar - a physical entity. For human
geographers it is a place of human interaction and engagement. For
filmmakers it is a site for action and futuristic nightmare. For animators
and computer programmers it becomes a virtual world - a second life, a
SIMulated city. For sociologists, it is a defining aspect of cultural
identity. For political activists and theorists, it is a place to ‘occupy’
and the site of the polis.



THE MEDIATED CITY conference offers a platform for multiple and diverse
examinations of the city. It aims to bring people together from diverse
backgrounds and fragment, multiply and reconfigure our readings of the
city; to offer multiple and conflicting discipline perspectives. The
intention is to share views of the city as physical entity, online
community, film set, photographic backdrop, geographical map, sociological
case study, political metaphor, digital or video game etc…. – to examine it
as a mediated and shared phenomenon.



Key dates – Conference 1 – London



15 September 2013. Deadline for abstracts / initial proposals



15 January 2014. Deadline for full papers / detailed proposals



01 April 2014. Conference –1



For full details visit: http://architecturemps.com


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Graham Cairns
Editor. Architecture_MPS
http://architecturemps.com/
http://www.graham-cairns-architecture.com/
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Graham Cairns
Editor. Architecture_MPS
http://architecturemps.com/
http://www.graham-cairns-architecture.com/
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