AMBIVALENT LANDSCAPES, Sorting out the present by designing the future
Public Spaces & Urban Cultures Conference
Lisbon, 6th -7th December 2012
Ambivalence stands for the simultaneously contradictory and opposing perception of a given phenomenon, which despite disorienting in its manifestations, may be regarded as a condition from which to build renewed frameworks of analysis and criticism.
Recent trends in spatial, social and cultural processes show a growing sense of this ambivalence – in the coexisting patterns of spatial polarization and shrinkage, in the informal public spaces patched under recombining networks of individual and collective exchange, in the increasingly difficult access to social and physical infrastructures that (used to) support modern cities. These are the landscapes of a changing urban Europe. No longer confined to the City but ever more dependent on stronger spaces of citizenship.
Ambivalent landscapes are the common ground and the opportunity to address public space and urban culture in the face of an open and transdisciplinary perspective.
This is an invitation to scholars to participate with original papers on a multiple disciplinary basis – architecture and urbanism, social sciences and landscape, design and technology. Three trackswere designed to bringing together different approaches into a shared topic: Empty Cities, Collective spaces, Living infrastructures.
Venue: Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Call for papers: 1stSeptember/5th October 2012; Acceptance notice: 1st November Accepted papers will be published in a cd-rom edited by FA-UTL (ISBN)
Keynote Speakers:
Ali Madanipour (Newcastle University);
José Pinto Duarte (Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon); Frank Eckardt (Bauhaus Universität Weimar)
Dias Coelho(Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon);
More information and contact:
AMBIVALENT LANDSCAPES
http://gaudi.fa.utl.pt/~metropolis/PublicSpace/
