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Remediating Urban Space Symposium
Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses
Wednesday 6 th June 2012
10.00– 16.30
Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
Keynote: Mark Shepard, University of Buffalo
Communication technologies remediate everyday urban life, resulting in subtle shifts in the spatial, temporal, scalar and material processes which are ‘all too often overlooked in conventional and binary approaches opposing the ‘virtual’ realm of new technologies to ‘real’ urban places’ (Crang/Crosbie/Graham 2007). We need to move beyond an artificially created dichotomy of a real and a virtual world as if the two were opposed. Instead, we must develop a new understanding of our activities and behaviour in the spaces of the city; since online and mobile socially networked spaces and real-world places are connecting and converging in numerous and complex ways. The challenge before us is finding ways to engage with these changes as designers. The aim of the workshop is to consider more fully the multiple, subtle, and interdependent spatio-temporalities which together work to constitute ICT-based urban change. How do we start to create meaningful spaces that merge digital and physical interactions?
The workshop will examine and propose design responses for how to remediate urban space through a range of ICT’s, locative media and smart objects. It will draw on an interdisciplinary field of architecture, human computer interaction, geography, media studies, art and sociology to explore questions of how urban space can be conceived and inhabited when it is mediated, and the nature of these mediated experiences at an everyday level. Contributions will be a mix of ideas/projects and case studies. There will be three main themes/workshops:
The aim of the workshop is to discuss current work, future developments and explore the issues associated with understanding, engaging with and designing for future spaces.
Selected work and papers will be published in a Special Issue of a Journal. There will be an exhibition of project work presented in the School of Architecture and will be documented in a printed catalogue.
Link to download the draft conference programme.
Link to download conference speaker information.
The conference will be held in rooms 206 and 207, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University. Information regarding travel and accomodation can be found here.
Booking is free, and can be made by emailing artsresearch@plymouth.ac.uk
Organising committee: Alessandro Aurigi, Katharine Willis, Mike Phillips, Gianni Corino
School of Architecture / i-Dat
Plymouth University, UK
Image credit: Copyright Mark Shepard ( http://survival.sentientcity.net/ )
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