Dates: 14-15 June 2018
Location: University of east London, UK
Website: AMPS
Deadline for submission of abstracts: UPDATED 1 April 2018
Context:
In a time when the construction of New Towns are on the agenda in United Kingdom, entire cities are being built from scratch across China, when climate change threatens historic cities and landscapes, and socio-economic change is leaving declining industrial communities across the Western World in search of investment and political answers from the likes of Donald Trump, what can we mean by ‘heritage’?
Our built environment of buildings, towns, cities and infrastructures are always, at inception, visions of a future. They also become – very quickly – the markings of the past. Framed as historic building, these markings of the past tend to be what we think of when discussing heritage. However, heritage is more than this. It is the physical infrastructure from which we build the future. It is the media’s representation of the present and the past. It is the social milieu which we destroy, or reinforce, as economies fade or grow. It is what we construct politically through forms of city governance. It is often a reference point for artistic rupture.
When considering buildings, towns, cities and infrastructures then, this conference suggests we can neither think of them as isolated activities and discipline, nor as isolated in in time. They are social constructions defining the way people live, think, develop and desire. They are economic contrivances marking out the interests of capital. They are artistic visions of an aesthetic present. They are the realisation through design of what we can and wish to build. They are expressions of knowledges and skills which can inform innovation. They are phenomena experienced as much through the media and medias as they are through physical engagement. They are inevitably political at every level. The decisions we make today about this ‘heritage’ is based on the past and will inform future.
Themes:
In redefining heritage as a physical, social, political, economic, artistic, media and design issue, this conference attempts to open up the concept of heritage to a reading that is interdisciplinary and concerned with both the past and the future.
Within this framework, the conference welcomes specialists who will ask their own questions about heritage and thus help redefine the perspective of others. Examples of questions we expect to ask include, but are not limited to: What has and what is happening to current community and social bonds when we replan cities for a changing future? What role do the art and design economies have on city development? How does the media create and distort our vision of built and social urban heritage? How do we preserve the architecture of the past while building for the present? How have and how are changing economic conditions altering how we build and live in cities? What implications does design have for how we live? How can craftmanship and knowledge inform contemporary modes of production and work through innovative processes…..
Disciplines:
We seek to explore definitions of ‘heritage’ by considering it from various angles: physical form, political tool, social and media construct, economic reification, digital innovation and artistic formulation. As a result, the conference welcomes presentations from specialists from multiple fields whose work overlaps with issues of heritage broadly defined: architects, urban designers, conservationists, sociologists, human geographers, art historians, artists, media and press historians, planners and more.
In this regard the event follows the expressly interdisciplinary dialogue set out by AMPS and the research and publication programme PARADE (Publication & Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments).
For further details, visit the website.
Location: University of east London, UK
Website: AMPS
Deadline for submission of abstracts: UPDATED 1 April 2018
In a time when the construction of New Towns are on the agenda in United Kingdom, entire cities are being built from scratch across China, when climate change threatens historic cities and landscapes, and socio-economic change is leaving declining industrial communities across the Western World in search of investment and political answers from the likes of Donald Trump, what can we mean by ‘heritage’?
Our built environment of buildings, towns, cities and infrastructures are always, at inception, visions of a future. They also become – very quickly – the markings of the past. Framed as historic building, these markings of the past tend to be what we think of when discussing heritage. However, heritage is more than this. It is the physical infrastructure from which we build the future. It is the media’s representation of the present and the past. It is the social milieu which we destroy, or reinforce, as economies fade or grow. It is what we construct politically through forms of city governance. It is often a reference point for artistic rupture.
When considering buildings, towns, cities and infrastructures then, this conference suggests we can neither think of them as isolated activities and discipline, nor as isolated in in time. They are social constructions defining the way people live, think, develop and desire. They are economic contrivances marking out the interests of capital. They are artistic visions of an aesthetic present. They are the realisation through design of what we can and wish to build. They are expressions of knowledges and skills which can inform innovation. They are phenomena experienced as much through the media and medias as they are through physical engagement. They are inevitably political at every level. The decisions we make today about this ‘heritage’ is based on the past and will inform future.
Themes:
In redefining heritage as a physical, social, political, economic, artistic, media and design issue, this conference attempts to open up the concept of heritage to a reading that is interdisciplinary and concerned with both the past and the future.
Within this framework, the conference welcomes specialists who will ask their own questions about heritage and thus help redefine the perspective of others. Examples of questions we expect to ask include, but are not limited to: What has and what is happening to current community and social bonds when we replan cities for a changing future? What role do the art and design economies have on city development? How does the media create and distort our vision of built and social urban heritage? How do we preserve the architecture of the past while building for the present? How have and how are changing economic conditions altering how we build and live in cities? What implications does design have for how we live? How can craftmanship and knowledge inform contemporary modes of production and work through innovative processes…..
Disciplines:
We seek to explore definitions of ‘heritage’ by considering it from various angles: physical form, political tool, social and media construct, economic reification, digital innovation and artistic formulation. As a result, the conference welcomes presentations from specialists from multiple fields whose work overlaps with issues of heritage broadly defined: architects, urban designers, conservationists, sociologists, human geographers, art historians, artists, media and press historians, planners and more.
In this regard the event follows the expressly interdisciplinary dialogue set out by AMPS and the research and publication programme PARADE (Publication & Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments).
For further details, visit the website.
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