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Producing Publics: Architecture, Agency, and Social Space
Graduate Student Symposium
History of Architecture and Urban Development Program
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
October 7 & 8, 2011
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-06-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-05-10 |
| Announcement ID: |
185118 |
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Producing Publics: Architecture, Agency, and Social Space
Graduate Student Symposium
History of Architecture and Urban Development Program
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
October 7 & 8, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference examines relationships between historic conceptions of the public and the
production of the built environment. Concerns for various public and counter-public spheres have
been integral to the development of architectural, landscape architectural, and planning
professions. All of these fields have both responded to existing ideas of the public and generated
new ones. The enclosure of the commons marked the beginning of capitalism in the West. Public
housing was key to the development of twentieth-century Modernism. The creation of public
spaces has been critical to colonial and postwar urban planning around the globe. Today the
public sphere is a crucial theme in histories of the built environment - particularly as public life
extends beyond squares and streets to more highly regulated environments such as shopping
malls, entertainment centers, and digital networks.
An expansive consideration of the history of public space allows for a nuanced discussion of its
production. Owners, inhabitants, politicians, bankers, and builders rework material and meaning
in collaborative and contentious processes that determine built form. Such processes also
constitute a public realm of their own, in which competing civic identities are performed, debated,
defined, and resisted. As public debates increasingly take place in abstract rather than physical
spaces, the question of architectureʼs role in producing, defending, and defining the public sphere
is an important one.
How have public spaces historically reflected or redefined the concept of public in different places
and periods? Who designs public spaces, and who uses them? In what ways have public uses
been at odds with the intentions of designers? What is the relationship between physical and
virtual public spaces? How have “temporary citizens” such as tourists and migrant workers
reshaped our understanding of public space? We invite papers that address such questions,
towards a discussion that intertwines intellectual and architectural histories of the public realm.
We invite graduate students to submit abstracts of 250 words related to the topic of Producing
Publics. Please send them to producingpublics@gmail.com by Thursday, June 30.
Participants will be notified by July 15.
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