WHAT: Interdisciplinary conference / call for contributions
WHEN: November 24-26th, 2009
WHERE: ETH Zurich
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 30th, 2009
From the website:
Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre
The interdisciplinary conference Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre brings together recent applications of Lefebvre’s theory in order to develop new concepts for the analysis of contemporary processes of urbanization and to suggest new design tools for architecture and urbanism.
Rediscovered in the 1990’s, Lefebvre’s theory opened up new ways of understanding of processes of urbanization, their conditions and consequences at any scale of social reality: from the practices of everyday life, through the urban scale, to the global flows of people, capital, information and ideas. At the same time, this theory has the potential to relate urban research and design practices because of its programmatic questioning of the links between urban analysis, the critique of urbanism, and the vision of a new type of social space in the contemporary city.
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If anyone at the Bartlett would like to know more about this conference, do let me know, I presented at last year’s and continue to talk with the organisers.
I am thinking of going, although I am not presenting. Do you know whether the program is out?