DASH Archives - April 2020

All, the University of Kent conference, “Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media” is fully virtual. A Virtual Support Team is available and abstracts are welcome for the following formats: 

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PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATIONS | SHORT FILMS | ZOOM | WRITTEN PAPERS.


Abstract deadline: APRIL 10th  

Conference dates: JUNE 29-30th 

Place: VIRTUAL / University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-conference/ 



In the virtual format you can:
-submit a pre-recorded presentation / film
-present virtually via Zoom/ Skype
-attend your preferred sessions in real time online
-publish your full written paper in our proceedings, books and journal special issue

Advantages of the virtual format:
-avoid any travel costs
-your presentations can be made permanently available
-you can view presentations at a convenient time on YouTube

Publishers include:
Intellect Books | Routledge Taylor & Francis | UCL Press | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Vernon Press | Libri Publishing.

Pre-Recorded Presentations:
Available on the AMPS Academic YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/ampsyoutube



Full details:

https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-conference/


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CALL:

Today the digital is ubiquitous across all disciplines connected with life in cities: urban history, architecture, planning, art, design, media, communications, and more. Examples abound.

As the Western world comes to deeper understandings of its heritage in the 21st Century, technology is ever more present in our reading of the past. Data mapping is standard in conservation and social history. Archaeologists use digital tools in geophysics, laser scanning, and compositional analysis. Landscape and architectural visualizations populate museums across the world. In architecture, computational design uses algorithms to replicate biology. Coding produces self-generated architectural form. Information modeling presents planners with interactive design in real time. The city is seen as ‘smart’.

In film and animation, digital models create fictitious places on scales unimagined. Installation artists make space interactive through digitising motion, sound and heat. Projection mapping allows artists to reinterpret the past in-situ. Photographers use digital cameras to document city stories. Marketing, technology and communication mediates the city experience 24/7. In every field, educators are responding.

As the tools we use today merge and blur across disciplines, this conferences asks educators and professionals to consider the following. How can we best manage, direct and utilize the unique potentialities of this interdisciplinary and technological moment? Are we rethinking objects of art and design from the past and future? Are we reconsidering modes of communication, styles of teaching and ways of living? Are we seeing new links between designed objects, visualized spaces and cultural meanings? Are we understanding creative, documentary and media practices in new ways? Are we developing our own knowledge through the technologies, tools or thinking of other disciplines?

Based on this interdisciplinary approach, the conference welcomes educators and professionals in:

Architecture, Urban design, History, Archaeology, Heritage, Art, Design, Technology, Communications, Media, Film, Cultural studies, Pedagogy

The conference is organized by the University of Kent with AMPS, PARADE and Intellect Books.

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:

https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-conference/

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Dear all, details included for the virtual and in-person conference: URBAN ASSEMBLAGE: THE CITY AS ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA, AI and BIG DATA. The Digital Hack Lab and the Design Research Lab at the University of Hertfordshire are working with Intellect Books on this. 

Presentation formats: in-person, pre-recorded, Zoom, film screenings, written papers. 
Themes include: Digital art and design, film video, and gaming.

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URBAN ASSEMBLAGE: THE CITY AS ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA, AI AND BIG DATA. 

Organisers: UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Conference: 28-30 JUNE, 2021
Early Abstracts: 30 JUNE, 2020

Locations: VIRTUAL / LONDON / HATFIELD. UK


Delegates can present virtually. The keynote will be held in London. Conference presentations will take place at the University of Hertfordshire campus in Hatfield on the outskirts of London. 


https://architecturemps.com/london-hatfield/

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DISCIPLINES: 
ART, DESIGN  &  FILM   |   MEDIA  &  COMMUNICATIONS   |   ARCHITECTURE  &  URBAN DESIGN   |   SOCIOLOGY  &  POLITICS


FORMATS:
IN-PERSON, PRE-RECORDED FILMS, ZOOM, WRITTEN PAPERS. 


CALL:
Today, the city is a technological infused entity premised on a plethora of digital phenomena including the Internet of Things, ubiquitous computing, computer-led infrastructure, big data and AI. It is also a place designed, envisaged and increasingly built through data-based digital architecture, planning and construction. Both scenarios mediate how we design and experience of the city. The result is a series of complex interactions of people, place and data and the establishment of the ‘digital city’, ‘smart buildings’ and ‘intelligent’ urbanism.

This new polemic agency of the machine informs the creative industries. A plethora of films in recent decades have built on the imagery it offers while, in the arts, data is increasingly used as both a tool and motive for artworks. However, there are concerns. GIS, Google Maps and Facebook all offer interconnected information on urban life. They are also conduits for the collation of personal data and its misuse. Sociologists highlight the dangers of the digital dependency of future generations.  3D printed buildings threaten job losses in the construction industry. The idea of parametric urbanism is anathema to many for whom city is a place of interpersonal interaction.

This conference seeks to explore these and related issues from a variety of discipline perspectives. 

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PUBLICATIONS:
This event is part of the research programme, ‘The Mediated City’. Previous events have been held by universities in London, Los Angeles, Bristol, Istanbul and Canterbury. Each conference leads to a book as part of the associated Intellect Book series ‘Mediated Cities’. 

In addition, delegates submitting papers related to teaching and learning will be considered for the Routledge book series: ‘Focus on Design Pedagogy’.



To participate, submit an abstract:

https://architecturemps.com/london-hatfield/


Organisers: University of Hertfordshire, UK and Intellect Books, with Routledge, AMPS and PARADE.

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