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Call for papers - Sensory Urbanisms Workshop
| Location: | Singapore |
| Workshop Date: | 2012-10-07 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-09-06 |
| Announcement ID: |
187741 |
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SENSORY URBANISMS WORKSHOP
11th November 2011
National University of Singapore
CALL FOR PAPERS
While urban dimensions of landscapes and the physical environment are often thought of in the fore as built structures that relate to functionality in modern life, cities, towns and other sites are also depositories of a spectrum of human experience that indubitably comprise social relationships, memories, emotions, and how they are negotiated on an everyday basis. Embedded within these processes of sociality is how the senses mediate one’s engagement with urban growth and development, hence rendering insights into the multisensuality of urbanity. Georg Simmel was one of the first intellectuals to locate the links between the sensorium and the metropolitan city towards deliberating on urban culture and urban consciousness. In tandem, Alain Corbin’s distinguished work on The Foul and the Fragrant (1986) details the manifold ways through which odours intersect with notions of health and hygiene, sanitary planning, and how the control of olfaction in urbanity has been deemed imperative within processes of modernisation and civilisation. Similar lines of inquiry have also been undertaken by Cohen, Porteous and Rodaway who expound in different measures, the social significance of the senses and the symbolic meanings they connote within urban landscapes in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and geography.
Providing a suitable point of departure for which sensory urbanisms can be interrogated in both historical and contemporary milieu, what roles do the senses play in urban built-up spaces across different societies and cultures? How do the sensorial alignments and articulations inform in constructing a sense of ‘self’, and in what manner are the sensorial politics exercised to identify and exclude social ‘others’? How are sensorial vocabularies evoked to instate a moral order which has implications in permitting or limiting access to spaces in the city? How do social actors remember and re-experience urban settings through the senses? How are urban spaces of habitation built, designed or re-generated sensorially? Do processes of re-designing urban spaces intersect with the provision of touristic landscapes towards the consumption of ‘local’ cultures and ‘local’ experiences? Is there a transnational dimension built into the equation of sensuous cities and interfaces beyond the local or regional context? What is the multisensual character of physical environments and urban aesthetics?
By calling upon scholarly attention on how urban spaces are experienced sensorially through the bodies of social actors, or planned by various institutions and agencies, we therefore seek to illuminate the ways by which urban environments are distinguished, valued, or reconfigured with the senses as media of evaluation in everyday experiences of space and place. At the same time, we hope to address how sensory qualities of place and sensuous reorganisation elucidate particular sociocultural expressions and practices in urban life. We invite participation from across the different academic disciplines, but we also encourage artists and practitioners of sensorial politics, urban spaces, and bodily performances to engage in this forum.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of themes that we aim to deliberate upon in this inter-disciplinary workshop:
1. Urban history and sensory experiences
2. Sensory-place making, urban regeneration, and experiential economies(enclaves in the city; migrant sensescapes, tourism locales, museums, boutique hotels, shophouses & restoration projects, etc)
3. Heritage Sites, Social Memory, and Sensory Narratives
4. Transnational Sensescapes/Comparing Global Cities
5. Sensory transgressions in the city
6. Urban planning; Architecture and the Senses
7. Sensory methodologies and fieldwork
8. Theoretical Paradigms/Interventions
9. Body, Emotions, & Culture in Urban Life
10. Sensorial politics of identity, mobility, and morality in urban spaces
Keynote Speaker: Ursula Rao (University of New South Wales)
Please submit an abstract of around 400 words, including a brief author biography to the workshop convenors by 3rd October 2011. Authors whose papers are accepted will be notified by October 8th.
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Dr. Kelvin E.Y. LOW
Department of Sociology,
National University of Singapore
socleyk@nus.edu.sg
Dr. POW Choon-Piew
Department of Geography,
National University of Singapore
geopowcp@nus.edu.sg
Dr. Tripta CHANDOLA
Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore
aritc@nus.edu.sg
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