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Call for Papers for conference session: Constructing interstitial heritage: architectures, visions & experiences /
As part of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies Inaugural Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 5-8, 2012
| Location: | Sweden |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2012-02-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-01-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
191471 |
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This session aims to explore the past and present modes through which alternate cultural heritage can be preserved and encouraged. In particular, it focuses on the realm of the interstice: a “space, opening, crevice etc, between things near together or between the component parts of a body”. Interstitial heritage can be located between entities as well as within them. By nature, it creates an aperture that forms an alternate field and conduit to existent structures. It needs not to negate necessarily a prevailing socio-political and economic frame (though it may well do so), but it ultimately provides individuals and groups with a ground on which to construct their environment and express themselves within it rather than be subservient to it. In the city, for example, spontaneous occupations of grounds and temporary archisculptures have offered models of interstitial production. In the ever increasing flow of images during the 20th century, visual strategies aiming to build alternate banks of visual data have grown inside and outside of the constraints of the society of spectacle. In the every day life of an increasingly global world, numerous attempts have been made to propose behaviours and experiences that challenge the predicates of top-down social fabrics. This session is concerned with the history and the present of interstitial architectures, visions and experiences. And crucially, it is concerned with the issue of their safeguarding. Given the alternate nature of interstitial production and living, their sustainability is central to the articulation of empowered individual and communal consciousness. The panel invites proposals that explore historical and contemporary forms of interstitial heritage, such as spontaneous architectures and three dimensional constructions, visual archives and alternate visual production systems, as well as the transmission of a varied and fertile bodily creativity.
250 words proposals should be sent along with a short cv to Gabriel Gee ggee@fc.edu and Michelle Stefano ms@umbc.edu by February 1st 2012
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