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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Dear all,</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Below is information on a multidisciplinary conference
event. The aim is to bring people from diverse backgrounds together around the
issue of “the city”. </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">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.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://architecturemps.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue">http://architecturemps.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA"></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">THE MEDIATED CITY </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">– two multidisciplinary conferences examining “the city”…… a
virtual, filmic, social, political and physical construct. </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">CONFERENCE<span style> </span>1.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Place: London</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Dates: 01-03 April 2014 </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Host: Ravensbourne (University)</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">CONFERENCE<span style> </span>2.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Place: Los Angeles</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Dates: October 2014 (TBD)</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Host: Woodbury University</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Outline: </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">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.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">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.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">Key dates – Conference 1 – London</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">15 September 2013. Deadline for abstracts / initial
proposals</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">15 January 2014. Deadline for full papers / detailed
proposals</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">01 April 2014. Conference –1</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA">For full details visit: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://architecturemps.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue">http://architecturemps.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-CA"></span></p>
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