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| Bookings now open for the Food and eating at home Conference | Bookings are now open for the Histories of Home SSN Fourth Annual Conference, What's cooking? Food and eating at home, to be held on Friday 9th March 2012 at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London (9.30am - 5pm).
This conference will focus on food within the domestic setting in the UK. Papers will explore the changing feelings and meanings attached to kitchens; gender and identity issues around cooking, feeding and kitchens; the transmission of culinary knowledge as well as the impact of design and new technologies on the use of virtual and real foodspaces. There will also be a presentation on interpreting food preparation spaces and food consumption within a historic house setting. The conference programme reflects the interdisciplinary approach of the Histories of Home SSN and will draw on social geography, food history, sociology, social gerontology, design, digital and social anthropology as well as artistic and museum practice. The Conference Keynote paper will be delivered by Professor Peter Jackson (University of Sheffield), Director of the recently completed three-year interdisciplinary research project, Changing Families, Changing Food and currently Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded Consumer Culture in an Age of Anxiety research programme. KEYNOTE Peter Jackson (University of Sheffield) Anxious appetites: researching families and food Food anxieties in contemporary UK households SPEAKERS Ines Amado (De Montfort University) Story-telling, exchange and observations of the everyday Short video piece of a family meal - food-sharing, ritual and hospitality Stephanie Baum (Institute of Education) An analysis of cooking from the perspective of hegemonic masculinity in transformation Male cooking today Maria das Graēas Brightwell (Royal Holloway) Food consumption and the practice of everyday life in two Brazilian mixed households in Harlesden, London Manpreet K. Janeja (University of Cambridge) Feeding and eating ‘proper meals’ at home and beyond Everyday feeding and eating practices in migrant households in East London Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes University) Margarine, social class and the home: exploring the ‘margarine mind’ in rationed Britain Angela Meah (University of Sheffield) “Of course I know that; you told me that years ago”: the acquisition of culinary knowledge in British families Anne Murcott (SOAS & University of Nottingham) A century of English cookery books: examining what they can reveal about trends in food preparation, recipes and eating at home Lida Papamatthaiaki (UCL) Digital symposiakotita @ new foodspaces Food blogs and new digital foodspaces Sheila Peace (Open University) Continuity and change: Aspects of the food environment across the life course The role, function and design of the kitchen in the lives of older people Sara Pennell (University of Roehampton) Foodways in the heritage house New interpretation of food areas in the late Stuart historic house, Ham House Rachel Scicluna (Open University) Is the kitchen as ‘hub of the household’ a myth? Or is it the hub of politics and social change? BOOKING Conference fees are £40/£25 (concs.) and inlcude a light lunch and refreshments. Please complete and return the booking form to Krisztina Lackoi, klackoi@geffrye-museum.org.uk by 29th February 2012 at the latest. I look forward to seeing many of you there! |
| Useful resources: Asians in Britain – timeline & other resources | Explore the history of South Asians in Britain between 1858 and 1950 using this interactive timeline. Browse contemporary accounts, posters, pamphlets, diaries, newspapers, political reports and illustrations, including a section specifically relating to Making Home in Britain. |
| Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migration | The EU-funded project MeLA (Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migration, http://www.mela-project.eu/) is developing multi-disciplinary resources for investigating major European public museums, supporting their collaboration with libraries and other cultural institutions, and helping them to address contemporary challenges of globalization, European integration, and new media. |
| Art invasion: the Leona Drive project | Art invasion: the Leona Drive project
Photographs of houses 9-19 on Leona Drive that have been transformed for The Leona Drive Project. The project takes 6 post-war bungalows slated for demolition and brings designers, filmmakers, artists from Toronto and Calgary to produce a series of on-site installations. Photographs of houses 9-19 on Leona Drive that have been transformed for The Leona Drive Project. The project takes 6 post-war bungalows slated for demolition and brings designers, filmmakers, artists from Toronto and Calgary to produce a series of on-site installations. Charla Jones / The Globe and Mail Five postwar bungalows become a trenchant indictment of suburban lifestyle and design. http://www.leonadrive.ca/main.html |
| Reece Terris: Ought Apartment | Part of Vancouver Art Gallery's NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim, Ought Apartment runs from May 6 to September 20, 2009.
From Vancouver Art Gallery's website: The work of Vancouver-based Reece Terris focuses on the relationship between constructed architectural spaces and our common experiences and encounters within them. Through amplifications or shifts in the function of an initial design, Terris’ work reconsiders utility in both object and place to create environments that highlight the larger cultural contexts implicit in our built environment. Commissioned by the Gallery, Ought Apartment will consist of a tower that rises from the main floor to the full height of the central rotunda, in which sections from six apartments are stacked one on top of another. Each apartment will be furnished with discarded items from the 1950s (on the lowest level) up to the present decade (at the top). Through this process of “making strange,” Terris invites viewers to consider their relationship to the consumption and construction of domestic space and the role this space plays in locating a public as social subjects. Reece Terris: Ought Apartment is the ninth project in NEXT: A series of artist projects from the Pacific Rim. Visit http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_next_reece_terris.html for more information. |
| Design Principles and Practices | FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
University of Illinois Chicago, USA 13-15 February 2010 http://www.Design-Conference.com This year's Conference will be in Chicago, one of the world's great design cities. Chicago serves as a living history of modern architecture - the home of the world's first skyscrapers and, at various times, of architects Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. More recently and notably in the global design scene, Chicago-based Sol Sender created the the design strategy and concept for the 2008 Obama campaign for the US Presidency. Chicago is also a marvelous city of art and design galleries, and museums, including a recently opened modern art wing to the Chicago Art Institute, designed by Renzo Piano. This dynamic history, and continuing spirit of creativity, makes Chicago an environment well suited to the goals and spirit of the International Conference on Design Principles and Practices. The Design Conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The Conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. In professional and disciplinary terms, the Conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, ps ychology, sociology, software engineering and telecommunications. This highly inclusive format provides Conference Delegates with significant opportunities to connect with people from shared fields and disciplines and with those from vastly different specialisations. The resulting conversations provide ample occasions for mutual learning, often weaving between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, and market pragmatics and social idealism. As well as an international line-up of plenary speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the refereed Design Principles and Practices: an International Journal of Design Principles and Practices. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the Journal. Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at the Design Conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 11 June 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the Conference website - http://www.Design-Conference.com. |
| Histories of the Home conference | First Annual Conference of the
HISTORIES OF THE HOME SSN in association with The City Centre at Queen Mary, University of London at London Transport Museum on Friday 5 June 2009, 10.00 - 17.00. The conference will showcase different approaches to the study of the home from material culture studies and art history through to contemporary ethnographic studies. The papers draw upon a wide range of sources including inventories, paintings and diaries and span the 17th century to the present day within a British context. The event aims to bring together academics, archivists, museum professionals and postgraduate students to inspire new ideas and foster interdisciplinary dialogue. Speakers include: Alison Clarke (University of the Applied Arts, Vienna) The home as process - contemporary ethnographic methodologies in making histories of the home Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts, Rochester) Cleanliness, shine and polish in working-class and middle-class material culture in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London) From drawing room to dressing room: marital dynamics and middle-class domestic material culture in England, 1850-1910. Dianne Lawrence (Lancaster University) Borders of distinction and fashionable friezes - wallpaper and wall decoration in colonial homes in Tasmania, in the latter half of the 19th-century. Sara Pennell (Roehampton University) Home is where the hearth is? The uses and meanings of the hearth in Restoration London. Kate Retford (Birkbeck, London) Fabricating the domestic interior? The conversation piece in Georgian England. Tim Richardson (independent scholar, freelance garden historian) The importance of biography and connections in understanding the emergent English landscape garden, 1680-1720. Barbara Simms (independent garden and landscape historian) The 20th-century house and garden: a review of research and an evaluation of its contribution to our knowledge of the role of gardens in domestic life. Divya Tolia-Kelly (Durham University) South Asian post-colonial identity within Britain: memory-objects in the home. Tickets are priced £45 (£35 concs. - full-time students and the unwaged) and include a light lunch and refreshments. To book please complete the Booking Form and return with payment by Friday 22 May. For more information about the Histories of the Home SSN and their past events, please visit http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/find_a_network/subject_specialists/Histories_of_the_Home (see our "Web links" page). |
| Making home: material geographies of house and home | The IAG Cultural Geography Study Group is sponsoring a specialist session
called 'Making home: material geographies of house and home' at the 2009 Institute of Australian Geographers' Annual Conference. The conference will be held 28 September to 1 October, hosted this year by James Cook University, Cairns, in sunny tropical north Queensland! If you are interested in presenting in this specialist session, please send your name, contact details, paper title and an abstract of no more than 200 words to Andrew Gorman-Murray or Rosie Cox (email addresses below) by 9 April 2009 at the latest. The session description follows: Making home: material geographies of house and home Convenors: Andrew Gorman-Murray, UOW and Rosie Cox, Birkbeck College This sponsored session responds to the growing interest in house, home and domesticity in geographical and related research, and calls for papers addressing the broad theme of "making home". As the truism goes, house and home are not the same, and in this session we are interested in papers which explore the relationship between residential housing and the notion of home. This, in turn, demands attention to the material geographies of house and home, and particularly the material processes of homemaking. Homemaking should be understood broadly to include a range of practices, including (but not limited to) DIY, home repair, home decoration, interior design, material consumption, spatial arrangements, renovations, housework, gardening, waste disposal, and wide range of financial practices. How are these material processes enlisted to turn houses into homes? A range of further questions emerge from these provocations. How is the conventional gendering of house and home confirmed or challenged by material homemaking practices? How do our multiple subjectivities-- class, race, gender, sexuality, disability--inform practices of making home? How are non-human presences--pets, plants, dirt, weather patterns, inter alia--implicated in material homemaking? Indeed, how is homemaking influenced by the house itself (denoted by Daniel Miller as "estate agency")? Relatedly, what is the role of money and debt in homemaking practices? How is consumption and disposal of "things" balanced in homemaking efforts? In this context, have material homemaking practices changed in light of concerns about environmental conditions and impacts of global warming? How might sustainable housing be seen as a way of making home? We invite papers addressing these questions and more. Contact: Andrew Gorman-Murray, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, andrewgm@uow.edu.au; or Rosie Cox, Birkbeck College, London, r.cox@bbk.ac.uk |
| Louise DeSalvo's new book | A New York Times review of Louise DeSalvo's new book--in which Virginia Woolf figures prominently:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Finnerty-t.html?_r=1 |
| CFP for MSA 11: The Everyday Languages of Modernism | In his claim that life of a village is narrative whereas in the city visual impressions succeed each other, overlap, overcross, they are "cinematographic",¯ Ezra Pound efficiently characterizes what is arguably
modernism's primary discursive mode, one devoted to the shock and speed of the modern. Along these lines, modernism's investment in the defamiliarizing potential of the aesthetic experience (e.g. the Joycean or Imagist epiphany) is interested in the ordinary or commonplace only insofar as they are to be transcended. But the manifold languages of modernism address a far greater (if arguably less sexy) range of everyday social contexts and experiences, including routine and the familiar. This panel considers how modernists attuned their languages (literary, visual, sculptural etc.) to various forms of everyday life-not in an effort to condemn, for instance, its homogeneity, but to levelheadedly assess if not value its salutary functions and practices. Topics and concepts to consider: -routine and ritual -everyday life and urban space -spaces and forms of dwelling -communal forms; the role of community -everyday domestic labour -the gender of the quotidian -modernisms and food -modernisms and errands -modernisms and/at rest -boredom, fatigue -knowledge vs know-how -quotidian time Please send a 300 word abstract and a brief CV to Connor Byrne, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. Canada (connor.byrne@dal.ca) by April 30, 2009 |
| Interior Spaces in Other Places | Interior Spaces in Other Places
An IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association) Symposium 3-5 February 2010 Hosted and convened by the Interior Design program, School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia CALL FOR PAPERS The focus of this symposium is to question whether interior design is changing relative to local conditions, and the effect globalization has on the performance of regional, particularly Southern hemisphere identities. The intention being to understand how theory and practice is transposed to 'distant lands', and how ideas shift from one place to another. To this extent the symposium invites papers on the export, translation and adoption of theories and practices of interior design to differing climates, cultures, and landscapes. This process sometimes referred to as a shift from 'the centre to the margins' seeks new perspectives on the adoption of European and US design ideas abroad, as well as their return to their place of origin. Papers are invited from a range of perspectives including the export of ideas/attitudes to interior spaces, history of interior spaces abroad, and the adoption of ideas/processes to new conditions. Paralleling this trafficking of ideas are broader observations about interior space that emerge through specificity of place. These include new and emerging directions and differences in our understanding of interiority, both real and virtual, and an ever-changing relationship to city, suburb and country. Keeping within the symposium theme the intention is to examine other places, particularly on the margins of the discipline's domain. Semantic slippage aside, there are a range of approaches that engage outside events and practices enabling a transdisciplinary practice that draws from other philosophical and theoretical frameworks. Moreover as the field expands and new territories are opened up, the virtual worlds of computer gaming, animations, and interactive environments, both rely on and produce new forms of expression. This raises questions about the extent such spaces adopt or translate existing theory and practice, that is the transposition from one area to another and their return to the discipline. Guidelines for submission of Abstracts Submitted in Microsoft Word document (max 300 words). Please provide the abstract on the first page and on the second page include your name, institutional affiliation, contact details and a brief biographical statement of 100 words or less. Deadlines Abstract: 30 March 2009 Submit Abstracts to ideasymposium@qut.edu.au Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts: 1 May 2009 Submission of Full papers: 30 September 2009 Return of Referees Report: 11 November 2009 Final date for submission of revised papers: 21 December 2009 Proceedings: To be published as CD Rom, and papers uploaded to IDEA website http://www.idea-edu.com/. A selection of papers will be considered for further development in a future IDEA Journal. Exhibitions: Proposals for exhibitions are welcomed. Please provide an abstract, as above Keynote: Professor Penny Sparke, Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) Kingston University, and is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the Society of Arts. Penny Sparke has worked in the field of late nineteenth and twentieth century Design History and has lectured, curated exhibitions, broadcast and published widely in that broad field both in the UK and overseas in addition to her numerous articles and book chapters her single authored books include An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century (1986, new edition 2004), Japanese Design (1986), Design in Context (1987), Italian Design (1988), As Long As It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995), and Elsie de Wolfe (2005). Further Information: A website containing more information about the symposium is under construction. In the interim please direct all enquiries to ideasymposium@qut.edu.au Convenors: Associate Professor Mark Taylor, Program Coordinator, Interior Design, Queensland University of Technology. Professor Gini Lee, Executive Editor, IDEA Journal, Queensland University of Technology. |
| "Northern Heterotopias," 4th Annual Aboriginal and Northern Studies | CFP Deadline extended to March 15:
"Northern Heterotopias," 4th Annual Aboriginal and Northern Studies Conference, The Pas, Manitoba, Canada, 4-5 June 2009 https://mycampus.ucn.ca/ics/Welcome/UCN_Conference/Call_for_Papers.jnz In a 1967 lecture entitled 'Of Other Spaces' [Des espaces autres] Michel Foucault elaborated on his lifelong fascination with space and spatial metaphors and presented the idea of heterotopia(s) through which he challenged dominant, unilateral ways to think about space and place. Foucault called our attention to the many "counter-sites", or multiple imaginations, experiences and inscriptions of space and identity, that can be found beyond the "fundamentally unreal" discourse of dominant utopias that seek to define, regulate, and confine particular places and people. In contrast to utopias, then, heterotopias "juxtapos[e] in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are themselves incompatible." (Foucault, 1986 [1967] p25). Digressing from Foucault's original coinage of the term to re-conceptualize specific sites and places (cemeteries, cinemas, boats, brothels, etc), we interpret the idea of heterotopia, and the mapping logic of heterotopology, as an alternative way to think of the experience of space as a whole, and a conceptual lens through which to analyze and bring to light the multiple imaginations, experiences, embodiments, and inscriptions of space and place that are inherent in all sites. What, then, would a heterotopology of the (idea of) North look like? For this conference, we invite scholars, artists, storytellers, writers, poets and activists to examine different ideas, imaginations, experiences, and inscriptions of the North beyond hegemonic conceptions (the Great "White" North; hegemonic articulations of indigenism; the North and its 'untapped resources', etc.). We leave it up to participants to navigate through that contested space (discursive, physical, human) that is the North, and to identify both Northern utopias (or hegemonies) and the counter-sites they have silenced. Thus, we hope to bring together a broad range of voices and experiences that highlight the fundamentally plural (contradictory? cacophonic? contrapuntal? heteroglossic?) and heterotopic nature of the North. We are particularly interested in papers that address the following issues: · Identity · Migration, diaspora and metissage · Critical Indigenous perspectives · New epistemologies · Race, gender and sexuality · Queer Issues · Globalization and transnationalism · Art as Resistance · Critical pedagogies Deadline: To be considered, an abstract or paper must be received no later than 15 January 2009. NEW DEADLINE MARCH 15 Submission Detail: The abstract or title page must include: (1) the name, affiliation, email address and telephone number of the principal presenter; (2) name(s) of co-presenters/co-authors; (3) a brief biography of each author/presenter. Please submit your abstract using one of the following methods: Email attachment (PDF or Word) to: sveissiere@ucn.ca Fax to: (204) 677-6589. Attn: Dr. Samuel Veissiere Mail to: University College of the North Attn: Dr. Samuel Veissiere 504 Princeton Drive Thompson MB R8N 0A5 |
| Interior Territories: IDEA Journal 2009 | CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to submit design research papers and critical project works that engage with interior design/interior architecture theory and practice for the IDEA Journal 2009. PROVOCATION: Proposals are requested to respond to the provocation Interior Territories: exposing the critical interior in order to elicit emerging interior discourses influenced by explorations into contemporary spatial, material and performative practices. What are the critical issues facing environments and societies that can be explored around the ideas of interior territories? We suggest that within increasingly homogenised and globalised public and private interiors, concepts of territory that infer relationships with located place and field can provoke new relationships concerning spatial practices and material and immaterial ecologies. The IDEA Journal 2009 seeks to expose the engagement of interior practice in contemporary ecological, cultural and economic systems. We invite scholarly accounts of writing and projects that move across disciplinary perspectives and temporal and political systems to express an open-ended enquiry into an expanded territory of the interior. IDEA ACCEPTS:DESIGN RESEARCH PAPERS that demonstrate development and engagement with interior design/interior architecture history, theory, education and practice through critique and synthesis. The focus is on the documentation and critical review of both speculative research and practice-based research REFEREED STUDIOS that represent the nature and outcomes of refereed design studios which have either been previously peer reviewed in situ and/or critically discussed through text and imagery for the IDEA Journal. PROJECT REVIEWS that critically evaluate design-based works which seek to expand the nature of spatial and theoretical practice in interior design/interior architecture and associated disciplines. PROPOSALS FOR BOOK REVIEWS to encourage debate into the emerging literature dedicated to the expression and expansion of the theory and practice of interior design/interior architecture REGISTRATION OF INTEREST: Authors are invited to register their interest in submitting a paper on the following form. Receipt of expression of interest will be acknowledged and guidelines for authors provided. Please forward by email to the Executive Editor, Gini Lee by December 19 2008 Email: gini.lee@qut.edu.au IMPORTANT DEADLINES/DATES: Registration of interest December 19 2008 Final date for submission of full papers/proposals February 27 2009 Final date for return of referees’ reports April 13 2009 Notification to authors April 20 2009 Final date for submission of revised papers/proposals May 25 2009 Expected publication date July/August 2009 |
| Interior Occupation | 9 - 20 September 2008
Interior Occupation Galleries 1, 2 + 3 Craft Victoria 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne Victoria Urban Interior is a creative research group based at RMIT University. In September it will occupy Craft Victoria, Flinders Lane gallery spaces and surroundings and create a research laboratory to explore the spatial and temporal dimensions of the inhabited, urban environment. Urban Interior will be exploring exhibition as medium of research through a number of parallel events and installations at Craft Victoria. For dates and times on events and happenings: www.urbaninterior.net http://www.craftvic.asn.au/exhibit/exhibit.htm |
| Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling (MoMA) | Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
July 20–October 20, 2008 The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor West lot, exterior, first floor http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5476 Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (New York); Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects (London/Munich); Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass (Cambridge); and Oskar Leo Kaufmann (Dornbirn, Austria). The exhibition, and its accompanying Web site (www.moma.org/homedelivery), display the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result. Within the gallery, eighty-four architectural projects spanning 180 years are presented by means of film, architectural models, original drawings and blueprints, fragments, photographs, patents, games, sales materials and propaganda, toys, and partial reconstructions. This diverse collection of material illustrates how the prefabricated house has been, and continues to be, not only a reflection on the house as a replicable object of design but also a critical agent in the discourse of sustainability, architectural invention, and new material and formal research. |
| Thinking Allowed- Daniel Miller's The Comfort of Things | The Comfort of Things
Polity Author Danny Miller on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed- Daniel Miller's The Comfort of Things Professor Daniel Miller talked to Laurie Taylor about his new book, The Comfort of Things on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed on the 4th of June. In this brilliant exposé of a street in modern London, Danny Miller provides insight into the diversity of contemporary London. He creates a gallery of portraits, some comic, some tragic, some cubist, some impressionist, some bleak and some exuberant. The podcast is available from the BBC's Thinking Allowed page in .ram format or click through to their podcast section for the mp3. |
| INTERIOR OF DESIGN | INTERIOR OF DESIGN
Babak Golkar, Hadley+Maxwell, Yedda Morrison, Natasha McHardy and Marina Roy, Samuel Roy-Bois, Nicole+Ryan, Erica Stocking, Brandon Thiessen June 13 to August 2, 2008 Opening reception Saturday June 14, 2 to 5pm Curated by Jordan Strom Republic Gallery 732 Richards Street, Third Floor Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 3A4 604.632.1590 www.republicgallery.com For more information please contact Pantea Haghighi at 604.632.1590 or email pantea@republicgallery.com |
| kerpic’08: Learning from earthen architecture in climate-change | kerpic’08: Learning from earthen architecture in climate-change
Is second of the International Conference held in Istanbul –Turkey, www.kerpic.org/2005. This year it will take place at: Cyprus International University, Lefkoşa, Northern Cyprus, 4-5 September 2008 www.ciu.edu.tr; www.kerpic.org/2008 info@kerpic.org; kerpic08@ciu.edu.tr We are pleased to announce a call for the second International Conference, Kerpic ’08: Learning from earthen architecture in climate-change, to be held on 4-5 September 2008, at Cyprus International University, in Lefkoşa, Northern Cyprus. The focus of the conference has evolved from quality of life in earthen architecture, environmental and health care, towards disaster prevention. We hope that it will bring together the related disciplines of architects and engineers, on material, construction, marketing and environmental science, to create database, technology watch and strategy. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean. Cyprus has been inhabited since the Neolithic period in history by different cultures. Stone and earthen materials are characteristics of Cyprus vernacular architecture and the Island is especially famous for its earthen traditional houses and villages which provide climatically appropriate environments. A workshop will be organized on site which will cover the entire construction activities of Alker (gypsum stabilized earthen material), where all the participants can take part. Social and cultural program will offer interesting historical tour; distinguished dinner will welcome you. Post-Congress Program will be a tour to open-air museums in Northern Cyprus. THEMES 1. Learning from earthen architecture in climate change 2. Mediterranean earthen architectural heritage 3. Living sites and local knowledge 4. Management of architectural heritage 5. Disaster prevention 6. Standards and guidelines 7. Small island ecological aspects 8. Advances in researches 9. Earthen architecture with ultimate technologies. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Paper proposals require submission of ABSTRACTS (according to the template in the website) in English. The length of abstracts must be between 300-400 words. Full-length papers will later be asked to be 8 pages, including graphics, tables and references. KEY DATES Deadlines for abstract May 14, 2008 Acceptance for abstracts May 30, 2008 Full paper submission July 16, 2008 Acceptance for full paper July 28, 2008 Deadline for final papers Aug 11, 2008 We invite you to visit the conference website for more information and look forward to seeing you in Cyprus. Submissions: kerpic08@ciu.edu.tr For full information: www.kerpic.org/2008 CONTACT Dr Bilge ISIK (Mrs.), Coordinator - Kerpic Network Chair person CIU, Cyprus International University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Haspolat, Lefkoşa, Northern Cyprus Tel: +90 392 671 11 11 Official: kerpic08@ciu.edu.tr info@kerpic.org; bilge.isik@kerpic.org www.kerpic.org/2008; www.ciu.edu.tr ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bilge IŞIK, Cyprus International University (Chairperson) Ēiler Kirsan YÜKSELEN, Cyprus International University (Co-chairperson) Hülya YÜCEER, Cyprus International University Nezire ÖZGECE, Cyprus International University Batuhan BAYRAMOĞLU, Cyprus International University Nail ÖZLÜSOYLU, Cyprus International University Meray TALUĞ, Cyprus International University Zeref BİRSEL, Cyprus International University Sevim ZABUNOĞLU, Cyprus International University |
| Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices | On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, we would like to inform
you of the: Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices Berlin, Germany 15-17 February 2009 http://www.Design-Conference.com This conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum which brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism. In professional and disciplinary terms, the Conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, psychology, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, telecommunications, urban planning and visual design. As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Design Principles and Practices. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.Design-Conference.com We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Berlin in February 2009. Yours Sincerely, Marianne Wagner-Simon For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Design Principles and Practices |
| The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange | The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange
Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, London: 17 and 18 October 2008 The cultural significance of the café provides a central theme for scholars from the fields of visual, social, literary and cultural history to meet and explore the similarities, differences and shared points of interest in recent research into Vienna 1900. Although the Viennese coffeehouse has long been recognised as a site of importance, there has as yet been no in-depth scholarly investigation of how it functioned in relation to the broader culture of the city at this time. The programme examines the café from a variety of perspectives, with the aim of deepening our understanding of the nature of this urban space, and the cultural exchange[DEL: s :DEL] and performances that went on there. Keynote speakers: Dr Steven Beller, independent scholar, Washington DC and Professor Edward Timms, University of Sussex. The conference is part of the programme of research of the AHRC-funded Vienna Café Project, which is run jointly by the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London and the Department of Design History at the Royal College of Art. It is organised to coincide with the exhibition Vienna Café 1900, which will be shown in the galleries of the RCA between 13^ - 24 October 2008. For further details of the programme and registration please visit: [1]www.rca.ac.uk/viennacafe/conference.html Or contact Angela Waplington [2]a.waplington@bbk.ac.uk References 1. http://www.rca.ac.uk/viennacafe/conference.html 2. mailto:a.waplington@bbk.ac.uk |
| Interiors Forum Scotland- Interior Tools, Interior Tactics | August 2008
2nd IFS International Interior Design / Interior Architecture Conference Edinburgh 21 & 22 August 2008 Following its successful conference, exhibition and publication 'Thinking Inside the Box' held at Glasgow's Lighthouse in March 2007, the IFS Interiors Forum Scotland invites the international interior design and interior architecture community to register interest in participating in the 2nd IFS International Conference, 'Interior Tools Interior Tactics', to be held in Edinburgh, 21-22,August 2008. Conference Aims 'Interior Tools Interior Tactics' aims to bring together an international interior community of advocates, academics, researchers, practitioners, design organisations and design policy makers who wish to shape the future tools and develop progressive tactics for interiors practice, education and research. Keynote addresses from leaders in the field of interior practice, interior research and interior education will stimulate debate. The format for the event aims to challenge conventional conference delivery and the organisers are especially keen to receive proposals around the conference theme which engage audiences and provoke debate. The Interiors Forum Scotland welcomes initial enquiries and seeks formal registrations of interest from the diverse field of interior inquiry: from those involved in interior design; interior architecture; interior decoration; interior history; interior teaching and other interior environmental contexts. Initial enquiries and registrations of interest should be emailed to Cathy Brown, Research Co-ordinator at the School of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at c.e.y.brown@dundee.ac.uk' Interior Tools Interior Tactics' will offer delegates opportunities to network, establish collaborative research relationships, participate in exploratory theatres of thinking, particpate in workshops and interactive presentation sessions, and to reflect, explore, debate and share the innovative tools and diverse tactics deployed across interiors academe, practice and research. It will provide a forum for educators, industrial practitioners, researchers and graduate students to discuss current issues affecting the nature and direction of interior design practice, education, policy and research. |
| Geffrye Museum's Home and Garden Exhibit | Part 3 (1914-1960): 20 February - 24 June 2007
Part 4 (1960-present): 16 October 2007 - 4 February 2008 http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/whatson/special/ This major exhibition will explore the representation of urban domestic interiors and gardens in paintings during the twentieth century. It will pick up where the Geffrye’s acclaimed exhibitions of the same name, which covered the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, left off. Again, the focus will be on the valued domestic spaces of the middle-classes rather than those of Royalty or the aristocracy. It will bring together pieces from collections across the UK to be shown not simply as works of art, but interpreted as historical documents with detailed evidence for understanding the nature of middle-class domestic interiors and gardens. Works by both famous artists, including Walter Sickert, Carel Weight, Paul Nash and Patrick Caulfield, and those who are less well-known, such as John Pearce and Stuart Pearson Wright, will be displayed in two groups of about 40 paintings and drawings. The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-colour catalogue. |
| Victoria And Albert's Surrealism and Design: Surreal Things | Exhibit runs March 29 to July 22, 2007.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1558_surrealthings/home.php Surreal Things is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see 300 of the most extraordinary objects ever created, in a spectacular theatrical setting. This exhibition is the first to explore the influence of Surrealism on the worlds of fashion, design, theatre, interiors, film, architecture and advertising. It shows how artists engaged with design and how designers were inspired by Surrealism. |
| Urban History Conference: the city and the home | Urban History Group annual conference, Exeter UK, 29-30 march
2007 Website: http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/uhg/index.html Second Call for sessions and papers: The City and the Home This broad conference theme explores the concept of "home" in the context of the city. This is interpreted in two broad ways - the city as a home, and the city as a collection of homes; the one focussing on how different groups and individuals, including newcomers and migrants, construct a sense of home and belonging in the city, and the other on the social relationships and material structures the constitute the concept of home. The city as home raises questions about how newcomers and migrants, as well as more settled groups and individuals, construct notions of home and belonging in the city. This may include, for example, the role of festivals and festivities as well as ethnic and regional associations. What kinds of identities are created in the process of defining the concept of home by those who are both settled as well as new to the city? The second sense of home refers to the kinds of relationships between different kinds of interiors and emotional aspects of home. This theme is interpreted broadly to include not just domestic interiors associated with the family or household but also other forms of buildings and institutions, from gentleman's clubs to working-class parlours, from prisons to long stay hospitals. This theme looks at the design, construction and representation of different types of interiors in the city. It includes the ways that institutions and buildings have been reconfigured over time by different groups and cultures in order to construct a sense of “home”. The central theme is the significance of home as a social construct and the issues that raises for understanding a range of social and cultural relationships in the city.. The conference committee invites proposals for sessions as well as individual papers relating to the main themes. Session proposals should include a brief statement of the topic and a list of speakers. Offers of individual papers should include an abstract. The deadline for expressions of interest for sessions and papers is 14 November 2006. In addition, the conference will also host a new researchers forum for postgraduates in their first and second years. New postgraduates are particularly invited to submit short papers on their research irrespective of the main conference theme. Postgraduates in their final years are encouraged to consider presenting their research in the main themed sessions. For further details please contact: Dr David Green (conference organiser) Email: david.r.green@kcl.ac.uk +44 (0) 207 848 2721 |
| Simon Fraser University Gallery presents Home Theatre | Main Gallery
Oct 21 to Dec 9, 2006 Home Theatre is a group exhibition presenting five very different, but related views of contemporary domestic space. Karin Bubas sees residential spaces as indexing the residue of human passing, especially the physical traces of domestic routines. Lynda Gammon conflates the home, the studio and Merzbau effects in her architectural re-renderings of her Rotterdam studio. Arni Haraldsson's images of the B.C. Binning House in West Vancouver reveal a modernist plan to convert the home into a gallery/museum. Oliver Michaels treats domestic architecture as a variegated landscape through which we pass as explorers. Carol Sawyer's Flux photographs record the traces left by past inhabitants on empty Strathcona houses undergoing renovation. Each artist shows us domestic space as a stage, a place to be choreographed, to be acted in and upon. In each of these images there is a sense of the uncanny, a strangeness raising many questions about, as well as celebrating, the way we live now. For more information, visit: http://www.sfu.ca/gallery/exhibitions.html |
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| International Conference on Design Principles and Practices | Imperial College, London University, UK, 4-7 January 2007
http://www.Design-Conference.com This conference is a place for discussions which explore the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artefacts and processes. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum which brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism. In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, psychology, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, telecommunications, urban planning and visual design. As well as an impressive line up of plenary speakers, the conference will include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. We welcome your submissions to the conference call for papers. If the presenter chooses, a paper may be submitted by participants before or up to one month after the conference. These will be peer-refereed and, if accepted by the referees, published in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of Design Principles and Practices. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the journal. The deadline for the next round call for papers (a title and abstract) is 30 September 2006. Presentation proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website - http://www.Design-Conference.com. |
| CFP: The Cult of Domesticity and Indigenous Women (1/15/06; ASA, 10/12/06-10/15/06) | We are seeking papers for a proposed panel on The Cult of Domesticity and Indigenous Women, to be submitted for consideration to the 2006 American Studies Association conference. We are interested in considering how the cult of domesticity, as it is theoretically mapped out by such authors as Ann Douglas, Lora Romero, Devon Mihesuah, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, and Susan Tompkins, resonates specifically in Indigenous women's narratives. We are interested in a complex conversation about the multivalent negotiations Indigenous women have and continue to make with the cult of domesticity. How does the cult of domesticity for Indigenous women resonate similarly with and differently from other communities of women? How does the cult of domesticity resonate differently within and between Indigenous communities? To what extent, as argued by Mihesuah and Lomawaima, do Indigenous women embrace rather than reject the cult of domesticity? In what ways did the Allotment Acts alter and reify the cult of domesticity for Indigenous women? Topics can include work on written and/or oral narratives, as well as visual culture.
Please send a 300 word abstract and CV by January 15th to Patricia Ploesch at pploesch@gmail.com |
| Call for Papers: Domesticity and Narrative | For a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal _Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative_ (Winter 2007), the guest editor is soliciting contributions that address issues of domesticity and narrative as a mode of storytelling. The guest editor envisions essays that explore this topic in narrative film, on television, and in popular literature including advertising and nonfiction texts.
Essays should be between 10 to 15 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) including notes and works cited, and should be formatted according to MLA style. Please email all submissions to the guest editor as Word attachments. Deadline: March 1, 2006 Guest Editor: Sidney Eve Matrix, Assistant Professor Women's Studies at The University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave. Winnipeg, MB Canada R3B2E9 Tel: 204/786-9921 Fax: 204/774-4134 Email: s.matrix@uwinnipeg.ca Visit _Storytelling_ online at http://www.heldref.org/stor.php |
| CFP: Inner Sanctums and Outer Spaces | The University of Alberta’s Medieval and Early Modern Institute invites abstracts for their 3rd annual graduate student colloquium, to be held in Edmonton at the University on December 8th and 9th, 2005. This colloquium encourages papers that explore the themes of Inner Sanctums and Outer Spaces in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Topics can include but are not limited to:
-the Gawain manuscript and its texts -Arthurian legend and cultural practices -stage drama and/or closet drama -the natural and/or the supernatural -civility and/or incivility -domestic spaces: private and public -wild men and wild women -the reception/dissemination of texts in society -courts of love/courtly love -representations of interiority in art and architecture -consort music and/or ceremonial music -the mapping of inner sanctums and outer spaces -royal entries/joyeuse entrées Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to either: Rob Desjardins Department of History and Classics rob.desjardins@ualberta.ca or Sheila Christie Department of English and Film Studies sheilac@ualberta.ca by Tuesday, November 1st 2005. Please include your name, affiliation, email, and telephone number on the abstract. Please note that MEMI also awards a $100 prize for the best paper presented, as determined by the faculty component of its board. |
| Panel CFP: Much Depends on Dinner: Consumption in the Nineteenth Century | Permeability and Selfhood
The McGill Graduate Conference on Language and Literature March 11-12, 2006 McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada The penetrability of the body through the mouth carries both negative and positive implications: for Mikhail Bakhtin, it represents the promise of growth and community; for Julia Kristeva, it poses a threat to the "clean and proper body" that guarantees identity. The things we put in our mouths can produce, complicate, and transform who we are. Thus, food and drink operate as a system of signs indexed to multiple layers of identity, and they play an especially important role in the literature, art and culture of the nineteenth century. Beyond recipes, for instance, Mrs. Beeton's famous cookbook Household Management (1859-1861) models a particular brand of middle-class domestic femininity. While Dr. Redgill in Susan Ferrier's Marriage (1818) pronounces the appetite "the best part of us," other nineteenth-century texts, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" (1862) George Gissing's The Odd Women (1893), and Thomas DeQuincey's Confessions (1822) are vivid reminders that having too much appetite or consuming the wrong thing – blood, forbidden fruit, intoxicating substances – leads to degradation and disease. This panel will explore how and to what extent eating, drinking, and related activities are productive of or threatening to individual and group identities. Interdisciplinarity is encouraged. The deadline for paper proposals is January 5, 2006. Send abstracts (approximately 300 words) to heather.mcalpine@gmail.com. |
| Gender & Built Space Workshop | GENDER AND BUILT SPACE
The 16th Annual Workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society 18-19 November 2005 Institute of Historical Research Senate House Malet Street, London The 'Gender & Built Space' research group at the University of Brighton, in association with the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society, and with support from the Design History Society, the EHS, and the British Academy, warmly invite registration for November's 'Gender & Built Space' workshop on Saturday 19th November at the Institute of Historical Research in London. Programme details are in plain text below, and these plus a booking form may be downloaded as attachments from: http://www.ehs.org.uk/society/women.asp We hope to see as many of you as possible at this broad and inclusive event investigating material culture and the role of gender in the making of built spaces, be they domestic, urban, rural, civic, or discursive, between the early modern period and the mid-twentieth century. A number of reduced price student places have been facilitated through the generosity of our funders. Enquiries and requests for plain text versions of the programme and/or booking form should be directed to l.k.whitworth@brighton.ac.uk Sent on behalf of Jill Seddon, Gill Scott, Elizabeth Darling and Lesley Whitworth Schedule: Friday 18th November (17.45 - 19.15) Animating Gender: A selection of films on the theme of Gender and Built Space chosen from the collections of the South East Film and Video Archive (SEFVA) at the University of Brighton, introduced by Ine van Dooren, Moving Image Archivist at SEFVA. Followed by discussion. Saturday 19th November, Registration and Coffee, 09.45 - 10.15 The housewife and the home in early modern rural England Jane Whittle, University of Exeter Self-Made Men and the Civic: Histories of People and Places in the Late Nineteenth Century Donna Loftus, The Open University Tea for Two in the Second City of the Empire Eileen Yeo, University of Strathclyde A Woman's Place? The Communalisation of the Kitchen and Changing Gender Identities in Early Soviet Russia, 1923-1926 Viv Groskop, Independent Scholar The Fennells Build Their Dream House: Furnishing Family in 1930s America Shirley Teresa Wajda, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Promoting Catholic Family Values and Modern Domesticity in Belgium, 1945-1957 Fredie Floré, University of Ghent Programme ends 4.15 sharp. |
| ‘Art and Belonging(s)’ Sessions (RGS-IBG Conference) | RGS-IBG Conference
London August 31-September 2, 2005 Please find below details of a session at the RGS-IBG conference in London, 2005. The session will be part of the largest international annual geographical conference in the UK, but is open to 'non-geographers'. Panel: ‘Art and Belonging(s)’ Sessions The session aims to explore the multifarious connections between 'art' and 'belonging(s)': a theme that - through different interpretations of the terms involved - opens up several interesting lines of geographical inquiry. For instance, belonging may be understood as an affectual attachment to people, objects and place, or a sense of being mobilised through notions of identity. In another sense, belongings are simply things (e.g. commodities, collections, gifts) we produce, consume and then pass on. Art is creative beyond the production of specific art objects or performances. Those involved with art represent, perform and materialise shifting forms of belonging that may be any or all of the following: coherent, incongruous, formal, informal, global, local, complex and/or un/bounded. As both a verb and a noun, belonging(s) impinges upon the visual arts at several spheres of geographical concern - i.e. from the 'content' of specific artworks, to their creation, consumption and display; from art communities and networks, to the discourses and disciplinary practices that shape the art world. This session offers a forum in which to discuss these matters as they are tackled through different conceptual and methodological approaches (which we leave open to foster debate). We want to know: how, why, when, to whom and where can art belong? some possible lines of enquiry include: 1. Picturing belonging(s): feelings of belonging are a chief sentiment behind many examples of western art. European artists, for instance, have long sought to express an emotional, cultural or custodial attachment to people and place through their depictions of the landscape. In another sense, belongings are an important subject for artists: from the modest bourgeois comforts of C.17th still-life's to contemporary works that comment on our obsessive relationship with modern commodities. 2. Art belongings: a recent turn towards the study of art objects, their meanings ownership and display within homes, communities, galleries and other sites, has also met with questions of belonging(s). This may extend from the actual materials used by the artists (brushes, paints, stages), to the collections of local, national or virtual arts institutions and societies. 3. Belonging within art: questions of belonging are a necessary concern for different personalities within the art world (e.g. curators, critics, patrons, gallery staff, audiences and artists) and are represented, materialised and experienced within different artistic spaces (e.g. art studios, galleries, societies, colleges). A certain degree of 'cultural capital' is often deemed necessary to belong in this sphere of creative activity; all the while art stretches beyond discernibly artistic projects, intruding into, and becoming everyday practices, leading to questions of... 4. ...Where/when does art belong? The cultural politics of the art world brings to mind the boundaries of artistic taste and acceptability, of where and when art is deemed 'appropriate', and of the 'accepted' cannon of Western art. It forces us to consider the command certain artworks hold (e.g. military statues, sacred icons, colonial facades), how they may impose themselves on the lives and landscapes of others, how they are used to uphold certain power relations, and how they may be performed, contested, resisted or destroyed for political gain or to enact new forms of belonging. Source: UPenn cfp website (http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/) |
| Urban Culture Area (MAPACA) | Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAPACA) Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ, USA November 4-6, 2005 Panel: Urban Culture Area The focus of this year?s Urban Culture area is the current state of cities. We seek presenters who explore the varied ways in which cities are changing (or not) and the continuous efforts of people to make cities more habitable. Papers addressing issues such as displacement, multi-cultural encounter, hybridization, and the production or loss of public space in the context of the metropolitan city are welcome. How do the home, museum, street performance, ethnic food, architecture, spoken and written word, photography, film, sound, music, and movement, help us negotiate our urban desires and to what end? What is the role of new technologies in such negotiation? Historical or ethnographic studies of cities, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city are encouraged. Source: UPenn cfp website (http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/) |
| The Architecture of Literature; Technology and the Home (MAPACA) | Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAPACA) Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ, USA November 4-6, 2005 Panel: The Architecture of Literature; Technology and the Home #1: This Builds That (Ceci Bt Cela): The Architecture of Literature: Toward the end of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), Claude Frollo, a 15th century priest, points to a book then to Notre-Dame then to images of the cathedral and laments: ?ceci tuera cela.? Frollo's prediction is that the book will kill the cathedral, the alphabet will kill images. While architecture has changed since Hugo's novel was written, the printed word has not eliminated it. In fact, sometimes architecture exits only as part of a text, built of words as a literary character. This session treats this type of architecture by examining its role within a narrative. Ceci Bt Cela is not concerned with paper or fantastic architecture unless it plays a vital role in a literary work. Furthermore, the architecture should not merely serve as a stage-set, it must play a role in the development of the narrative. For example, the building may serve as an object of desire as the new barn does in the 1891 short story, The Revolt of ?Mother,? by M.W. Freeman. Or, it could be a co-conspirator like Tr魩cour's petite maison in The Little House: An Architectural Seduction by J.-F. de Bastide (Eng. tr., 1996). Another option is that the building motivates the rest of the text as the Dome of the Rock does in K. Makiya's historical novel, The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem (2001). There are, of course, more types of architectural characters in literature. Among the questions to address are: What is the role of the architecture? Is it an active or passive character? What is its position within the unfolding narrative? What is the relationship of the other characters to the architecture? Does the personality of the architecture complement that of the other characters? #2: Technology and The Home: One could reasonably argue that without technology in its simplest form, homes would not exist. Technology has also made homes more comfortable, attractive, safer, and sturdier. In the pre-industrial past, the home's relationship to technology was fairly straightforward: homes either benefited from changes in technology or they did not. Today, the relationships between the home and technology are complex and, at times, contradictory. For example, owners of a historic house will often research and revive outdated technologies in order to "correctly" restore a house to its former glory. Yet, they may incorporate modern decorative materials, lighting, heating, and appliances. On the other hand, the owner of a more recent home has an unprecedented range of environmentally friendly and fireproof materials, energy efficient appliances, and innovative furniture and furnishings from which to chose. In addition, some contemporary technologies that may seem benign, such as computers, RFID tags, smart technology and the latest appliances, may have detrimental effects. Technology and the Home welcomes papers examining the home's positive and negative relationships to technology in any and all past, present, and future applications. There is no limit on the time frame nor upon the methodology. Source: UPenn cfp website (http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/) |
| INTERIOR INSIGHTS: DESIGN, ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE HOME | HRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, Royal College of Art, London
Organisers: Alison Clarke and Inge Daniels, AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior. The intimate objects and transactions of the home, its visual, material and sensory cultures, have come under increasing scrutiny from academics, practitioners and market researchers in recent years. While empirical, academic and practice-based researchers, designers and artists share a long-standing interest in the meanings, rituals and makings of the interior, communication and collaboration across different disciplines and research traditions remains minimal. Interior Insights exploits the home as common ground for a radically interdisciplinary discussion. How, for example, do the techniques of video ethnographers from marketing research, filming the minutiae of everyday lives from the squeezing of toothpaste to the selection of a DVD movie, intersect with those of interaction designers? How do ideas about the home interior as a sensual phenomenon, as opposed to a purely visual one, change the concept of design for domestic retail? Have a new generation of designers become pseudo-applied anthropologists? What are the ethical issues of exposing interior worlds and can research be used for social, as well as commercial, benefits? Integral to our enquiries about these topics will be a consideration of how we learn about the home, through empirical studies, historical research, design interventions, and artistic interpretation. Featuring a range of speakers from social anthropology, contemporary design, marketing, sociology, art practice, photography and film, interaction design and domestic retail the event aims to provoke an intellectual debate. The symposium will serve the dual purpose of enriching our understandings of the home as a domain for research and design, and facilitating a more general discussion of the potential synergies between different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies. Participating Institutions: Royal College of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Bedford Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London. Further information: www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/ or email csdi@rca.ac.uk |
| GEORGIAN INTERIOR CONFERENCE | 4-5 November 2005
V&A Museum, London Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the opening of the British Galleries, this conference is the third on the British interior associated with the redesigned galleries. A distinguished panel of speakers will examine the variety of styles associated with the Georgian interior, consider how these interiors were used and understood by contemporaries and what they mean to us today. As well as discussing the key styles associated with the Georgian period, and the revival and survival of certain eighteenth-century aesthetic choices in the modern age, the conference will also address how interior space was created, structured and experienced. What roledid professionals play in the design of contemporary interiors? How did contemporaries furnish their homes and how did they experience life indoors? Who led taste and what was the relationship between Palladianism, neo-classicism, the gothic and the Georgian? Why has Georgian architecture come to be so popular and so protected, and where can we find the Georgian interior today? The conference will be of special interest to architectural historians, design historians, art historians, social and cultural historians, cultural geographers, museum curators, members of heritage bodies and other scholars studying the history of design and the eighteenth century. The conference is supported by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the British Academy. Further information: www.vam.ac.uk or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk or phone + 44 (0) 20 7942 2209. |
| SENSIBILITY: VIEWING GAINSBOROUGH'S 'COTTAGE DOOR' | 7-8 October 2005
Yale Center for British Art, USA On October 5, 2005, the Yale Center for British Art will open Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's 'Cottage Door.' In conjunction with this exhibition, the Yale Center for British Art is hosting a symposium dealing with the broader issue of sensibility in eighteenth-century culture. Using the exhibition as a springboard, the symposium will explore the conceptual and philosophical bases of the aesthetics of sensibility, the relationship between sensibility in the visual arts and in music and drama, and the visual discourse of the cottage in Britain and its colonies. Speakers include: Ann Bermingham (UCSB), Peter de Bolla (Cambridge, UK), David Marshall (UCSB), Thomas Tolley (Edinburgh), Joseph Roach (Yale), Michael Rosenthal (Warwick, UK), Stephen Daniels (Nottingham, UK), and John Barrell (York, UK). The symposium is free. Pre-registration is required. Further information: email: serena.guerrette@yale.edu or (USA) 203.432.7192. |
| LOCATING DESIGN | 7-9 September 2005
London Metropolitan University, London London Metropolitan University, London design sites and histories research group convenes the design history society annual conference. Locating design is devoted to a consideration of design in/and place, both material and imagined, as co-constitutive. The conference will address design as contingent upon place and explores the networks and linkages between design in/and place as a complex that is affiliative and layered. The East End of London - where this conference is to be held - is instructive of these ideas, demonstrating the immense investment of design /material culture in the construction of place. This East End site suggests that the confluence of `design' and ‘place’ across local and global networks is as historically resonant as it is significant today. Locating design also seeks to maintain an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about design and its place in cultural history. Keynote speakers: - Leora Auslander - Mark Kingwell - Paul Carter Further information: [1]http://locatingdesign2005.londonmet.ac.uk/ or email: d.bhagat@londonmet.ac.uk |
| Artstream Nomadic Gallery: Exploring the Domestic Landscape 2005 NCECA Tour | (NCECA is the National Council of Education of Ceramic Arts, an annual conference held in a different city each year. This year it is in Baltimore.)
In 2001, potter Alleghany Meadows remodeled a 30-foot 1967 Airstream Sovereign Land Yacht into a traveling exhibition space featuring his work and the work of fellow artists. Based in Carbondale, CO, it has traveled from Los Angeles to New York, Houston to Minneapolis, putting contemporary ceramic art on the street. Because of its "curb appeal," the gallery attracts a wide range of viewers, from experienced art appreciators to unsuspecting passersby who are drawn to the sleek modern design or the rich travel history of the airstream trailer. The interior has been completely changed to reflect the warmth of a domestic space, with cherry wood floors, wooden counters and track lighting. As a nomadic gallery, this project reflects the transitory nature of young artists who travel to colleges, artist-in-residencies, and other events and opportunities spread throughout our country. This tour is being filmed for a documentary on the traveling gallery. The working title for the documentary is "Utilitarian Pottery: Exploring the Domestic Landscape." The film will use the Artstream project as a vehicle for discussing and revealing the state of contemporary utilitarian ceramics in our country. While initial footage will focus on this tour, select artists, gallery owners, collectors, critics, and museums will be discussed/interviewed to broaden the scope of the film and the understanding of contemporary craft. Tour stops and dates: Kansas City, March 9, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art 4420 Warwick Blvd. Wednesday, 816.753.5784, 10 am to 7 pm www.kemperart.org Philadelphia, March 11 - 13th, The Clay Studio 139 North Second Street, 215.925.3453 Friday, 5 -7 pm: reception. 7 pm: artist lecture Sat & Sun 12 - 6 pm www.theclaystudio.org New York, March 14th, Museum of Arts & Design 40 West 53rd Street, 212.956.3535 10am-6pm www.madmuseum.org Baltimore NCECA 2005, March 16 - 19th, West Pratt Street, Corner of South Hanover. One block west of Baltimore Convention Center, Wednesday - Saturday, 970.618.7479, 10am to 6pm each day www.art-stream.com Source: http://www.art-stream.com/artstream/press_release.htm |
| The 60s: Montreal Thinks Big | During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montreal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montreal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The CCA's exhibition The 60s : Montreal Thinks Big from October 20, 2004 to September 11, 2005 illustrates the processes that brought about these spectacular changes that were recognized all over the world.
From gallery to gallery, the exhibition's original models, photographs, press documents, and statements from influential figures, combined with film, video, and advertising from the period, describe - through the urban projects that were conceived as well as the architecture that gave them material form - the sweeping changes the city underwent and the excitement they generated. Canadian Centre for Architecture 1920 rue Baile, Montreal (Quebec), H3H 2S6 Tel. 514-939-7001 ext. 2628 pjpoirier@cca.qc.ca www.cca.qc.ca/exhibitions Source: http://www.ideamagazine.net/en/news/nmosal.htm |
| Call for papers - Domestic interiors and the influence of social class, migration experiences and ethnicity | At the Sixth European Social Science History Conference (Amsterdam, 22-25 March 2006) there will be a special interest session on Domestic interiors and the influence of social class, migration experiences and ethnicity.
In the past fifteen years, empirical research on the domestic interiors of immigrants has gained more attention in Europe as well as in the United States. An example of the increasing awareness of the importance of this topic within material culture studies as well as within academic research on ethnicity and identity is the Dutch project Migration and Material Culture: the domestic interiors of immigrants and their descendants (see [1 http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/medewerkers/hester.dibbits/migration.pdf). This project involves several explorative studies of the domestic interiors of various migrant groups in the Netherlands and the transfer of objects between generations. In this session, the organisers would like to stimulate an international debate by inviting papers on the influence of class differences, generation, migration experiences and ethnicity on domestic interiors: the arrangement of furniture, decoration and the meanings attached to the use of objects. Papers on the domestic interiors of immigrants are welcomed, as well as papers on the domestic interiors of other groups, since these might offer interesting possibilities for comparison. Please contact and send proposals to: Dr. Hester Dibbits Researcher Material Culture,Department of Ethnology Meertens Institute / Research and Documentation of Language and Culture of the Netherlands / Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) / P.O. Box 94264 - NL-1090 GG Amsterdam tel. + 31 (0)20 - 462 85 50 fax + 31 (0)20 - 462 85 55 e-mail hester.dibbits@meertens.knaw.nl Internet [2]http://meertens.nl ([3]http://www.meertens.nl/medewerkers/hester.dibbits) Visiting adress: Joan Muyskenweg 25, 1096 CJ Amsterdam Please note that the deadline for pre-registration is May 1, 2005. For more information about the ESSHC and for registration see: [4]http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/index.html. The session will be part of the culture network. |
| interior / interiority: a symposium on inner and outer space in modern culture | Friday 3 June 2005
10.00 - 4.30 6th floor Physics Building Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road, E1 Speakers: Michčle Barrett Santanu Das Charlotte Grant Barbara Penner Jean Radford Charles Rice Nicholas Ridout Morag Shiach £15 waged £10 unwaged Enquiries to Leigh Ward: l.m.ward@qmul.ac.uk Presented by Queen Mary, University of London and the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior |
| Interior Insights: Design, Ethnography and the Home--Call for Papers | 24 - 25 November 2005
Royal College of Art, London Organisers: Alison Clarke and Inge Daniels The intimate objects and transactions of the home, its visual, material and sensory cultures, have come under increasing scrutiny from academics, practitioners and market researchers in recent years. While empirical, academic and practice-based researchers, designers and artists share a long-standing interest in the meanings, rituals and makings of the interior, communication and collaboration across different disciplines and research traditions remains minimal. Interior Insights, a two-day symposium, exploits the home as common ground for a radically interdisciplinary discussion. How, for example, do the techniques of video ethnographers from marketing research, filming the minutiae of everyday lives from the squeezing of toothpaste to the selection of a DVD movie, intersect with those of interaction designers? How do ideas about the home interior as a sensual phenomenon, as opposed to a purely visual one, change the concept of design for domestic retail? Have a new generation of designers become pseudo-applied anthropologists? What are the ethical issues of exposing interior worlds and can research be used for social, as well as commercial, benefits? Integral to our enquiries about these topics will be a consideration of how we learn about the home, through empirical studies, historical research, design interventions, and artistic interpretation. Featuring a range of speakers from social anthropology, contemporary design, marketing, sociology, art practice, photography and film, interaction design and domestic retail the event aims to provoke an intellectual debate. The symposium will serve the dual purpose of enriching our understandings of the home as a domain for research and design, and facilitating a more general discussion of the potential synergies between different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies. Please send abstracts (200 words) for 20 minute papers by 15 May 2005 to: csdi@rca.ac.uk AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior Royal College of Art Kensington Gore London, SW7 2EU, UK. Please include your email address and other contact details. Participating Institutions: Royal College of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Bedford Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| Modernity, Modernism and the Interior 1870-1970 | The Dorich House Annual Conference No. 7
Thursday 19th May and Friday 20th May 2005 Hosted by the Faculty of Art Design and Music at Kingston University, London SW15. Full programme and booking form can be found at www.kingston.ac.uk/dorich. |
| Il modo italiano Italian Design and Avant-garde in the 20th Century, Jean-Noėl Desmarais Pavilion, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | May 4 to August 27, 2006
‘Spanning the period from 1890 to the present, this major exhibition will bring together some 500 works representative of the era, and will trace the gradual transition from inspired craftsmanship, beautiful in its uniqueness, to industrial design and infinitely reproducible artifacts. The show will cover twentieth-century design and the decorative arts as well as painting, sculpture and works on paper. It will even venture into related arts, such as architecture, jewellery and fashion, to illustrate the subtle links between these various forms of artistic expression. For a proper overview of the period, the exhibition will also look at such promotional and publishing channels as magazines (Domus, Interni and Abitare), triennials and furniture fairs. The works in the exhibition will come from public and private collections, mainly Italian, and from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition was organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and will later be presented at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.’ Jean-Noėl Desmarais Pavilion, 1380 Sherbrooke Street West Mailing Address P.O. Box 3000, Station 'H' Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G 2T9 Information (514) 285-2000 |
| Shelburne Museum | A museum consisting of art and domestic objects displayed within houses reflecting historical trends and movements within American architecture and interior design, as well as The Collector’s House, ‘the imagined home of a 21st-century folk art collector’ (museum website). The house, ‘made of prefabricated metal structures including a Butler® building for the outer shell and metal shipping containers for three rooms inside,’ was designed and decorated by architect Adam Kalkin and interior designer Albert Hadley.
Contact Information: Shelburne Museum U.S. Route 7, P.O. Box 10 Shelburne, Vermont 05482 Phone: 802/985-3346 Fax: 802/985-2331 www.shelburnemuseum.org |
| Nina Saunders, Artists’ House, The New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery | 19 November 2005 – 5 February 2006
'The New Art Centre first started working with Nina Saunders in 2003 when she was invited to take part in last year's exhibition domestic (f)utility. Since then we have commissioned the wonderful edition of concrete chairs Northern Wind and are now working with her on an exhibition of new work for the Artists' House. The focus of Saunders work is the chair, whether upholstered or cast, inflated, melted or transformed through material, functional or non-functional.' (Artists’ House, The New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery website) Contact Information: Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP5 1BG UK Telephone: +44 (0)1980 862 244 Email: nac@globalnet.co.uk |
| Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, Contemporary Arts Museum | October 1 – November 27, 2005
'Andrea Zittel: Critical Space is the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Zittel’s work in the United States. One of the most influential American artists to emerge in the last fifteen years, Zittel investigates contemporary life in Western societies. Her three-dimensional work encompasses architecture and geography to explore the psychological, biological and economic aspects of domestic and urban existence. Zittel researches, designs and models her own domestic settings that serve as test cases for her experimental living structures. Her home environments and hand-crafted “uniforms,” produced under the name “A-Z Administrative Services,” emphasize the ways in which personal needs such as security, self-empowerment, intimacy and comfort are fulfilled. The importance of the desert in her recent work alters conventional ideas about this environment in both art and culture, including myths and conventions about the frontier, autonomy and freedom. Work featured in the exhibition includes Living Units and Comfort Units, collapsing living stations that challenge the conceptions of personal space; the complete line of her handmade clothing series, Uniforms; and new work developed at A-Z West, her desert studio outside Los Angeles.' 'Andrea Zittel: Critical Space is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, for exhibition at both institutions and a North American tour. Organized by Curator Paola Morsiani and New Museum Curator Trevor Smith, the exhibition will be accompanied by a major catalogue containing essays by Morsiani, Smith and other scholars, an interview with Zittel, comprehensive reproductions of Zittel’s work to date, and complete documentation on the artist’s career.' (Contemporary Arts Museum website) 5216 Montrose Blvd. Houston, Texas 77006-6598 tel: (713) 284-8250 fax:(713) 284-8275 |
| cfp: Food and the Victorians Special Issue, Victorian Literature and Culture | Call for papers deadline: 1 November 2005
Contact Information: Suzanne Daly Department of English Bartlett Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003-9269 Email: rf19@soas.ac.uk, sdaly@english.umass.edu Victorian Literature and Culture seeks articles for an upcoming special issue on Food and the Victorians edited by Ross Forman and Suzanne Daly. Essays should follow MLA guidelines and may address any aspect of the production or consumption of food or drink. Please send two copies by November 1, 2005 to the address below. Inquiries may be directed to sdaly@english.umass.edu or to rf19@soas.ac.uk. |
| Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning (edited collection; 6/1/05) | Call for papers deadline: 1 June 2005
Contact Information: Katie LeBesco, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Arts Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st St. New York, NY 10021 Email: klebesco@mmm.edu We seek submissions for an interdisciplinary collection devoted to the examination of how representations (literary, filmic, artistic, etc.) of food and foodways serve as vehicles for the transmission of ideologies about gender, sex, race, class, age, ethnicity, disability, and a host of other identity constructs. Essays that provide a comparative analysis of multiple representations are preferred to those that examine just one text, although the latter will be considered. All submissions should go beyond a mere “close read” to discuss the social and political context and implications of the meaning of the representations. Possible topics for consideration include: · The politics of class, race and/or ethnicity as represented in dietary practices or rituals; · The enforcement or resistance to religious ideologies and/or codes of morality through food; · Food practices that challenge dominant ideologies and/or cultural practice (i.e., cannibalism); · Food-related texts (i.e., culinary magazines, cookbooks, food-related television shows) that reinforce or resist dominant ideologies, including normative ideologies of sex and gender; · Literary, filmic and/or artistic representations of contemporary debates about food and foodways (i.e., genetic modification of food, the raw food movement, vegetarianism, organic food, etc.). We encourage contributions from a variety of fields, including (but not limited to) Art, Art History, Communication, Comparative Literature, English, Film or Cinema Studies, History, Media Studies, Musicology, Sociology, Theater, and Women’s Studies. Submissions should not be under review elsewhere, nor should they have been previously published. Essays should be approximately 5000-6000 words in length and should adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please send completed essays as MSWord attachment to both of the editors at the e-mail address shown below and pnaccarato@mmm.edu by June 1, 2005. Expressions of interest prior to the deadline are encouraged. About the Editors: Kathleen LeBesco is Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. Peter Naccarato is Assistant Professor of English at Marymount Manhattan College. |
| Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories | Call for papers deadline: 15 June 2005
Contact Information: Fassil Demissie Public Policy Studies, Suite 150 DePaul University 2352 N. Clifton Ave Chicago, IL 60614 Phone: 773-325-7356 Fax: 773-274-5244 Email: fdemissi@depaul.edu Abstracts and manuscripts is being solicited for a book on Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories. The volume aims explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings, in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts, police, prisons, and schools that were crucial in establishing and maintaining political domination, colonial architecture and urban planning played pivotal roles in shaping the spatial and social structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries. The study of architecture and urbanism in the historiography of colonial Africa with few exceptions has received scant attention partly because historians tend to minimize the relationship between built environment and colonialism. Even when architecture and urban planning has been the focus of inquiry, the relationship between architecture and urbanism on one hand and colonialism on the other has not clearly delineated and carefully studied. Historically, the literature on the subject treats colonial architecture and urbanism as a reflection of economic interests of imperial powers. These approaches emanate from the assumption that colonialism was essentially an economic project. Thus, culture as a dynamic of that process largely remains unexamined. The large body of work that has appeared in the past two decades provides a framework, upon which this edited volume will be based, begins from quite different assumptions: that is, it is precisely the cultural dimension of colonialism that evinces its centrality in the development of imperial identity and nationhood. As Dirks Nicholas (1992:1)) has suggested, “colonialism not only has had cultural effects that have too often been either ignored or displaced into the inexorable logics of modernization and world capitalism, it was itself a cultural project of control.” Colonial knowledge both enabled colonial conquest and was produced by it; in certain ways culture was what colonialism was all about”. In a similar vein, Edward Said (1993:11-12) has argued that the critical element of the cultural sphere in the “process of imperialism” which occur by predisposition, by the authority of recognizable cultural formations, by continuing consolidation within education, literature, and visual and musical arts.” While acknowledging the importance of culture, Cooper and Stoler (1997:18) emphasize that, “cultural work in which states engage and the moralizing mission in which they invest are discursive fields both grounded and constitutive of specific relations of production and exchange.” These scholars also caution us that the category of colonial project itself includes a multitude of different practices, that colonial power is never monolithic and changes over time, and that the resistance of colonized subjects must always seen as part of the story. Social historians of Africa have now begun to study the complex ways in which colonial subjects contested the intricate workings of colonial power, particularly in language, identity and in the reorganization of space (Fabian 1986). By moving away from identifying discrete epochs of economic changes, this new approach to inquiry examines the creation and recreation of social boundaries, places of contest and their cultural representations, as well as the process by which knowledge emerges as a particular "type of power" (Foucault, 1980; Camoroff and Camoroff, 1991, Dirks, 1992). Thus the new inquiry suggests a more complex way of considering colonialism and its intricate modalities of power, the multilayered channels of its operation, its disciplinary methods, the hierarchy of surveillance, inspection and punishment by which its power has been inscribed in both time and space. We welcome contributions that examine colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa in a single region, social or historical context. Throughout colonial Africa as it was true elsewhere, colonial architecture and urbanism assumed different trajectories revealing important tensions, competing agendas of settlers and metropolitan powers, doubts about the legitimacy of projects and unpredictable responses from “unruly natives” which complicated the original intention. As a working hypothesis, colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa created a built environment that fit discursively, into the administrative apparatus of the empire: architecture and urbanism sought to project the authority of the European powers at the same time stabilized the fragile European identity at the colonial frontier; the intentional and semiotic function of architecture and urbanism in the colonies made them an appropriate sites for imperial projects; the production of buildings and plans are themselves the outcome of social production and these ‘texts’ reproduced the contradictions and limitations of the empire. Since Africans were subjects of these architectural and urban planning schemes, they responded in a variety of ways, which emerged out of their material and historical circumstances. Subversion, accommodation, appropriation, neglect and destruction were hidden transcripts to contest the hegemony of colonial architecture and urban planning schemes. In setting out to explore the connections, contributors are encouraged to explore colonial architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in Africa. Like writing which was widely used by colonial powers to appropriate people through the medium of writing and regulate their lives through the world of writing (Hawkins, 2002), architecture and urban planning also functioned in a similar way. More than other material instruments of the empire, architecture and urbanism made the empire visible and tangible. As “black mark on white paper” or “the world of drawing on paper” architecture and urbanism sought to regulate the daily lives, habits and desires of the indigenous people as well as European settlers. Indeed, it was the cultural destination of architecture and urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the volume seeks to broaden the discussion. Our goal is to assemble 12 to 14 chapters for this volume that cover a wide range of colonial cities and urbanism in Africa. Final submission should be 25-30 double-spaced pages. Drawing, maps and photographs are welcome. |
| International Conference on ‘The Eighteenth-Century Everyday: Remembrance and Representation’ | 30 September to 2 October 2005
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Organized by: Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of New Brunswick and the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS) Call for papers deadline: 15 April 2005 Contact information: Corey Slumkoski Department of History University of New Brunswick P O Box 4400 Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3 Email: corey.slumkoski@unb.ca Website: http://www.unb.ca/conferences/neasecs Women's diaries, a row of city shop fronts, midwifery practices, a coffee cup, a frock coat and treasured pincushions may seem discordant elements; but they represent different aspects of training, expectation and expression in eighteenth-century life. This era laid the foundation for modern life. Within seemingly mundane practices lie the cultural, social and economic patterns that define an age. Scholars have spent increasing energies discovering and deciphering these phenomena. An interdisciplinary perspective is essential for a full elucidation of quotidian practices, and this conference addresses this need. To be hosted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, by the University of New Brunswick, the conference will be an exploration of the everyday. The conference organizing committee in collaboration with the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS) invite papers to address the eighteenth-century everyday from cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives. The international conference will be held from 30 September to 2 October 2005. The conference welcomes papers in the study of literature, visual arts, music and history, cultural studies, women's studies, critical theory, as well as material culture studies, in any national or cultural context. Particularly welcome are papers exploring the need for, and the uses of, technology in the interpretation of the past. Proposals of 150 words, accompanied by a short CV, should be sent to: Corey Slumkoski (contact information provided below) Or Beverly Lemire: lemire@ualberta.ca Department of History and Classics, 2-28 Henry Marshall Tory Building University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H4 Or You may submit a paper or panel proposal online. To use the Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies online submission form visit www.unb.ca/conferences/neasecs/submission.html For more information about the 2005 meeting of the Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies please visit the conference website at the following web address. The closing date for submissions is 15 April 2005. |
| Architectures of (Unbe)longing | 26 to 29 April 2006
Georgia, US Call for Papers Deadline: 2005-09-10 Contact Information: Sharon Irish School of Architecture 117 Buell Hall, MC-621 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 61820-6921 USA Fax: 217/244-2900 Email: slirish@uiuc.edu Website: http://www.sah.org For a session at the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, to be held in Savannah, Georgia, April 26-29, 2006, papers are being sought that address "Architectures of (Unbe)longing." This session will focus on recent publications of social anthropologist Michel S. Laguerre, who will serve as discussant. Both Laguerre’s _Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things_ (1999) and _Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City_ (2003) consider, among other things, minoritized diasporic and indigenous cultures in the built environment. Laguerre’s analyses explore ways in which people have been marginalized spatially and the methods by which these spaces are maintained, reproduced, and transformed through time. Papers are sought that examine the history of minoritized spaces themselves, as well as those that analyze linkages between majority/minority or colonizer/colonized places. Possible questions might include: How have majority/dominant populations or patrons created structures of (un)belonging and/or alienation–e.g., favelas, lakous, bidonvilles, reservations, internment camps, shtetls, mellahs, barrios--and what forms have these acquired? How have occupants of these structures or neighborhoods shaped or transformed their environments, perhaps informed by their longing for homeland or observation of religious practices? How can we best understand the architectural and urban relationships among classes, races, or ethnicities that create majority and minority spaces? Abstracts of 300 words and a short resume should be sent to Sharon Irish along with complete contact information. Please read the general guidelines on the website of the Society of Architectural Historians prior to submission. |
| Visualising the City | 26 to 28 June 2005
Manchester, UK Organized by: Centre for Screen Studies/University of Manchester Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 January 2005 Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visualisingthecity/ Contact name: Janet Meredith Email: visualcity@manchester.ac.uk This interdisciplinary symposium will seek to explore how popular film and other forms of visual culture filter and shape the way we understand and interact with the built environment. |
| Fourteenth Conference Women's History: Women, Art and Culture Historical Perspectives | 2 to 4 September 2005
Southampton UK, Hampshire, UK Organized by: Southampton Institute Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 June 2005 Contact name: Anne Anderson Email: anne.anderson@solent.ac.uk Women, Art and Culture: Historical Perspective Papers welcome on all aspects of women and the arts, from literature to the theatre. Especially women and the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts. |
| The Metropolitan and Urban Imaginary | 10 June 2005
London, UK Organized by: University of Greenwich Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 16 May 2005 Contact name: Dr. Carolyn Brown C.M.H.@gre.ac.uk This conference will explore the different and complex ways in which texts-whether literary, cinematic, visual or aural-inform and shape our perceptions of cities and the urban environment as a whole. |
| International Arts and Crafts, Victoria and Albert Museum |
17 March - 24 July 2005 The Arts and Crafts Movement was arguably one of the most far reaching and influential design movements of modern times. Emerging in Britain in the late 19th century, and quickly adapted in parallel movements around the world, Arts and Crafts laid the foundations for international approaches to design and lifestyle in the 20th century through new attitudes to work, design and the home. This major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum will be the first to explore the Arts and Crafts Movement from a truly international perspective. It traces the development of the Movement from its flourishing in Britain in the 1880s, through the widespread espousal of Arts and Crafts ideals and their interpretation and development in America and Europe, to its final manifestation as the Mingei (folk craft) movement in Japan from 1926 to 1945. |
| Possessed |
16th - 21st August 2005 What is home? What is property? An installation with associated symposium and events organised by Fine Art Research at Middlesex University. MoDA Museum of Design and Architecture |
| The Arts and Humanities Research Board: Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior | Based at the Royal College of Art in London, the centre brings together three institutions: the Royal College of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Launched in September 2001, its goal is to develop new histories of the home, its contents, and its representation. It pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of rooms in a range of buildings, from tenements to palaces; the objects that furnished those rooms; the ways rooms and objects were depicted; the manner in which people used them; and how they thought about them. Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior |
| BC Studies Special Issue on Domestic Spaces! | Winter 2003/04. 140.
Table of Contents KATHY MEZEI - The House of all Sorts: Domestic Spaces in British Columbia SHERRY MCKAY - “Urban Housekeeping” and the Keeping the Modern House GERALDINE PRATT - Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths PAIGE RAIBMON - Living on Display: Colonial Visions of Aboriginal Domestic Spaces DARA CULHANE - Domesticated Time and Restricted Space:University and Community Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver RITA WONG - Troubling Domestic Limits: Reading Border Fictions Alongside Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl AARON WILSON - At the Front Door Domestic Poetry David Zieroth - Machines; North Van Morning Household Daphne Marlatt - Far from Long Harbour Office of Soft Architecture - Report 1624: The House Guest Editor: Kathy Mezei |
| Th?nk Vancouver: On the Homefront | A CBC sponsored website focusing on domestic space issues in and around British Columbia. Highlights inlcude historical information on various local landmarks, historic walking routes and various stories on home, art and life on the streets.
ThInk Vancouver |
| Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. | Information: A mix of poetry, prose, memoirs, and essays.
Author: Lisa Robertson Publishing Info: Astoria, Oregon: Clearcut Press. (2003) |
| Belonging: Home Away From Home An Insightful Memoir. | Author: Isabel Huggan
Publishing Info: Toronto: Alfred Knopf (2003). |
| "Home" on CBC Radio 1 | "Home" was a ten part series, heard Monday evenings from April 21, 2003 to
June 23, 2003. This series has now ended. You can listen to the episodes online at: CBC Radio 1 - Home with Jane Farrow |
| The House in Southeast Asia: A Changing, Social, Economic | Stephen Sparkes and Signe Howell (Eds.)
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. London: Routledge. 2003. |
| Kitchen Techologies | Technology and Culture October 2002 vol.43, no.4. Edited by Joy Parr.
More information can be found at: Culture and Technology |
| Home Cultures | A new journal on analyzing and understanding the concept and physical nature of home from a interdisciplinary perspective.
Journal Editors: Victor Buchli -(v.buchli@ucl.ac.uk), University College London. Alison Clarke (a.clarke3@rca.ac.uk), Royal College of Art. Dell Upton (du2n@cms.mail.virginia.edu), University of Virginia. Berg Publishers |
