OF SPACES IN-BETWEEN

[Below is the publicity blurb for an event I took part in at UCLAN this week…]

Liminal Landscapes: assembly, enclosure & the West Lancs coast

Tuesday 11th March, 2014
6pm – 8pm
Lecture Room 3, Foster Building,
University of Central Lancashire,
Preston, PR1 2HE

The event, which is the second in the Practising Place programme, will also premiere Jacques’ new film, The Dionysians of West Lancs. Described by the artist as ‘a phantom ride’ along the West Lancashire coast, the film weaves together historical topography, rave culture and Greek mythology to examine the age-old tension between enclosure and freedom of assembly which continues to shape this landscape.

These themes will be further explored by Les Roberts, who will present his research into sites of liminality, including the treacherous terrains of the Dee Estuary and Morecambe Bay. Through conversation, Jacques and Roberts will discuss the power struggles, both past and present – such as the current controversy surrounding ‘fracking’ – which define such places, and outline a political reading of liminal landscapes.

About the speakers:

David Jacques is a multi-media artist primarily involved with film. His practice engages with the subject of History, its narrative interpretations and the interplay between factual and fictional strategies of representation. His interest in deconstructing and re-apportioning the subject often results in the exploration of forgotten, marginalised and socially / politically disruptive sources. In 2010 he won the Liverpool Art Prize and was shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize. Recent screenings of his work include; Tate Liverpool ‘Art turning Left’, 17th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Novi Sad Serbia, WNDX Film Festival, Winnipeg Canada 
and Sheffield Fringe at BLOC Projects Sheffield. He lives and works in Liverpool.

David Jacques on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user5423212

Les Roberts’ research interests and practice fall within the areas of urban cultural studies, cultural memory, and digital spatial humanities. His work explores the intersection between space, place, mobility, and memory with a particular focus on film and popular music cultures. He is author of Film, Mobility and Urban Space: a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool (2012), editor of Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice and Performance (2012) and co-editor of Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (2013), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between (2012), and The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections (2010).

For information on research activities and publications see www.liminoids.com

On 7 & 8 March I attended the Location London conference held at UCL and University of London Senate House. Organised by Roland-Francois Lack and Ian Christie, the conference programme featured some excellent papers and a preview screening of Another London, a film written and presented by architectural historian Robert Harbison, and introduced by the director Hector Arkomanis.

My paper was titled ‘Locating the City in Film | Navigating the Archive City’.

Slides of the presentation can be downloaded here

http://www.locationlondon.net/

North! Mapping Cinematic Norths

Friday May 2nd 10-6, Showroom Cinema Sheffield

This event, hosted by the Sheffield Centre for Research in Film, invites exploration of the representation, construction and function of North in film.

The North retains a singularity and certitude in its magnetic signaling of trajectory, route, and direction (home) yet, as Peter Davidson’ reminds us in The Idea of North (2005), ‘Everyone has a different north, their own private map of the emotional – indeed the moral – geography of north and south.’

North
remains an important relational positioning, a loaded projection, an
emphatic somewhere and a powerful elsewhere. Such relational sites are
imbued with cultural, economic and political geographies, epitomized by the defiant signage of Sheffield’s Designers Republic which proclaims their place as ‘North of Nowhere’ TM.

Norths
evoke topographical and meteorological challenge, landscapes of harsh
remoteness, austere beauty and meditative emptiness. Constructions of
space and place characterized by both passionate solidarities and
haunting solitudes, sparkling utopias and dark nostalgias, industrial
heartland, badland, borderland, no man’s land.

The
plotting of these myriad Norths, which bewitch compasses and confound
maps in their elusive, shifting and relational natures can be explored
and traced in moving images.

Suggested areas for discussion include:

– the construction of different relational Norths
– the role of north-ness in constructions of star identity (auteurs and actors)
– Romantic ethnographies and Northern-ness
– landscapes and soundscapes of the North
– national and transnational constructions of Norths
– genre and North
– the role of national / regional policies for funding film production

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers. Please send proposals (200 words) to – researchinfilm@sheffield.ac.uk. Deadline: Friday 21st March

http://researchinfilm.group.shef.ac.uk/

Video of lecture by Marc Auge ‘Architecture and Non Places’ at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, 12–13 October 2012. Access here.

Interesting Guardian article from Alexandra Harris in response to recent floods and extreme weather:

Drip, drip, drip, by day and night
From the April showers that begin The Canterbury Tales to Shakespearean storms to sodden Victorian classics, English literature is full of rain and flooding. Alexandra Harris on how every era creates its own kind of downpour…


http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/14/english-literature-rain-flooding

International Colloquium

Spaces of Memory &
Performance: Trauma, Affect, Displacement

University of East London, Centre
of Performing Arts Development (CPAD)

Date: 20-21 June 2014

Venue: University of East
London, University Square.

Confirmed
speakers: Claudia Fontes (visual artist), Lola Arias (theatre
director), Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths), Anne Huffschmidt (Freie Universitat
Berlin), Ananda Breed (UEL), Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow), Valentina
Salvi (UNTREF), Patricia Violi (University of Bologna), Eve Katsouraki (UEL).

‘Places
are lost – destroyed, vacated, barred – but then there is some new place, and
it is not the first, never can be the first.’ – Judith Butler

The aftermath of episodes of
trauma and loss have traditionally given way to urban rituals and encounters
with sites of public grieving. Even so, the emergence of disparate sites of
trauma has not been enough addressed from a performative perspective. The very
existence of the so-called ‘spaces of memory’ requests the reconfiguration of
modes of engagement with the public space in the face of trauma and its
performance. With this in mind, this two-day symposiumwill explore
unconventional forms of intervention in performance and visual arts in a wide
spectrum of geographical scenarios. The question that underlines the event is
how to propitiate public pathways to engage with loss and trauma among expanded
publics. While contesting processes of normalization of memory, the
symposium seeks to discover embodied, ephemeral and unmarked spaces as sites of
enchantment and public gathering. It also explores transitional and diasporic
interventions that might envisage news forms of being together. The
symposium is also an invitation to imagine the futurity of sites of memory and
explore fictions that may transform the politics of spectatorship in the
present.

Some of the key themes to be
explored include:

– What is a ‘space of memory’?

– How innovative practices of intervention may awake a shared sense
of ownership towards disparate traumatic pasts?

– How to investigate the affectivity of space in
relation to memory and spectatorship?

– How sites of trauma become marked, unmarked, and
displaced?

– Is it possible to encourage ways of ‘performing
life’ within landscapes marked by loss?

– How disparate forms of theatre, performance and
visual arts may contribute to ‘work through’ collective processes of suffering?

– Might bodies emerge as sites of public grieving?

– Might different forms of fiction help us to
re-inhabit trauma in the present?

By rethinking the
performativity of space and trauma, the symposium aims to generate a new and
interdisciplinary dialogue among social sciences, visual arts, literature,
theatre and performance.

We
invite proposals (300 words) for 20 minutes papers & practical
presentations, showings or shorter 10minprovocations/interventions from artists
and curators, practitioners and scholars working at the crossroads of memory
studies, performance, cultural studies, affect and trauma theory. Some
thematic explorations may include:

– Urban space, memorialisation and landscapes

– The affectivity of the space and unconventional
ways of relating to trauma

– Topographies and architectures of affect

– Post-traumatic spaces & performatives

– Sounds of trauma & haunted spaces

– Monuments, living memorials & bones

– Curation, empathy & care

– Ruins, future & potentiality

– Practises of reoccupation and ‘rehabilitation’ of
space

– Abject spaces & body as site of trauma

– New museums, dark tourism

– The place of the perpetrators

– Transmission of trauma, vicarious and prosthetic
memories

– Politics of reparation & spectatorship

Please send
proposals to Cecilia Sosa c.sosa@uel.ac.uk and
Eve Katsouraki e.katsouraki@uel.ac.uk by
March 31st2014.

This research event has the support of the British Academy International Partnership and
Mobility (IPM) SchemeProgramme ‘Commemoration,
New Audiences and Spaces of Memory in Latin America’s Southern Cone:
Trans-cultural Dialogues in the Wake of Loss’. (PI: Dr. Cecilia Sosa,
Postdoctoral researcher, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of
East London).

A podcast of Will Self in discussion with Patrick Keiller and Matthew Beaumont at the LRB bookshop can be accessed on the writer’s website: here

CALL FOR PAPERS: MOVING MOUNTAINS – STUDIES IN PLACE,
SOCIETY AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION

February 5, 2014

University of Edinburgh

History of Art and ESALA

18-20 June 2014

Visit the Moving Mountains website here

Mountains have been considered embodiments of higher
spiritual goals and peak experiences since ancient times. By viewing mountains,
climbing and experiencing changing atmospheres, people have undergone physical
and spiritual quests, the character of which varies depending on the motivation
and identity of the participant(s). The consistent presence of mountains in
legends, myths, literature, artistic and architectural creations suggests their
cultural, religious and social significance. Additionally, mountains and their
surrounding landscape have been the focus of cartographic and scientific work,
mountaineering expeditions and other kinds of explorations.

In order to more fully understand the role of mountains in culture
and society, the History of Art Department at the University of Edinburgh and
the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture are hosting an
inter-disciplinary conference and an exhibition of practice-based material. We
invite abstracts of no more than 300 words addressing questions and proposing
works relevant to the role of mountains in the humanities, arts and design. As
this is intended to be a highly interdisciplinary conference, we welcome
submissions from a wide range of subject areas, which include art history,
architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, film studies geography,
literature, theology and philosophy, among others.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

– The integration of mountains into architectural design and
artistic creations

– City and mountains

– Mountain landscapes, caves and paths

– The impact of mountains on religious practices

– Memory and mountains

– Studies of Mountain communities

– Cultural representations of mountains (cartography, iconography,
photography)

– ‘Peak’ Experiences and Mountain Views

– Atmosphere and the aura of mountains

– Religious experiences and mountains

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Professor Veronica della
Dora of the University of London, Professor Tim Ingold of the University of
Aberdeen and Eamonn O’Carragain of the University College Cork.

Please email abstracts to movingmountainsconference@gmail.com
by 28 February 2014. Abstracts will be reviewed by an academic committee and we
hope to publish selected papers from this conference.

Please email any further inquiries to
movingmountainsconference@gmail.com, or you can contact the conference organisers,
Emily Goetsch and Christos Kakalis directly at ebgoetsch@gmail.com and
xpkakalis@hotmail.com.

A review of Patrick Keiller’s ‘The View from the Train’ by Will Self has been published in the London Review of Books – access here

Guardian article (29/01/13) on anxieties surrounding Google Maps and state & corporate data tracking/surveillance.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/29/google-maps-gchq-a-to-z

Reblogged from Progressive Geographies

An auditory tribute to Harry Beck’s Underground map, the
skeleton which has long lent shape to the city in the minds of Londoners. Here
sounds were collected from along London’s canals and lesser rivers. Completed
in March 2012.

– See more at: http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/waterways

Reblogged from Progressive Geographies


I’m not entirely sure what motivated someone to map places mentioned in Tom Waits’s songs, but as a long time Waits fan I felt duty bound to share.

http://tomwaitsmap.com/

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Media and Place’

School of Humanities and
Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts,
Environment and Technology
Leeds Metropolitan
University

To celebrate the launch
of the new ‘Media and Place’ Masters programme, we are pleased to announce our
conference on the 11-12th July 2014.

Confirmed Keynote
speakers:

Prof Shaun Moores
(University of Sunderland); Prof Kevin Hetherington (The Open University); Prof
Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick)

Media operate in settings
and environments: they exist in place. Some media spaces we occupy feel like
home – listening to our favourite radio stations while we drive to work – while
others enable virtual travel across vast physical spaces to different
geographical locations. Media can escort us in an instant from the glamour of
the global city to the minute, quotidian details of life lived at the local.
Television’s liveness can gather very different people in the same physical
space or draw together disparately located audiences around political events,
sports tournaments and ecological disasters. Film makes possible different
versions of the same city, multiplied as it filters differently through the
eyes of the director to the audience. Media can blur the boundaries between the
private and the professional, transform domestic boundaries into global
businesses, and offer individual opportunities for public confessionals. New
media connect us across continents with friends, loved ones and those we’ve
never met. Yet place is always more than a location on a map; it is lived and
experienced through repetition such that some places become laden with meanings
of belonging and affective attachment. In what ways does place matter to the
media? How far do we inhabit or live inside the media we use? Or rather, has
the electronic world created a culture of placelessness? This inter-disciplinary
conference welcomes researchers and practitioners from media and cultural
studies, urban history, post-colonial studies, gender studies, urban sociology,
cultural and phenomenological geography, politics, political economy,
philosophy, social and cultural theory, cultural policy, anthropology, town
planning, architecture, design, visual arts and ecology.

Conference themes

Themes and issues that
the conference seeks to cover include (but is not limited to):

1. The
cultural representations of land and urbanscapes across time and space;

2. Media and
other representations of place and in particular of the North of England;

3. Transitory
and marginalised spaces – suburbia, media as navigation, disadvantaged and
stigmatised neighbourhoods, urban fringes, places en route;

4. Urban arts
and media responses to the economic crisis post 2008, including – issues of
cultural activism, resistance and culture-led regeneration;

5. Theories
of rural and urban media mindscapes and imaginaries and of media, place and
affect;

6. Drama,
literature, cinema and television of the North: Kes, East is East, Last of the
Summer Wine, The Red Riding trilogy, Wuthering Heights, Haweswater, Fat Friends
…..

7. Post-colonial/global
city spaces, hybrid and intercultural uses of media in urban and rural places;

8. Guerilla
gardening, ecological DIY protest, pop-up urbanism, the emergence of new
informal cultural venues and other grassroots interventions in urban and rural
environments;

9. Digital
technologies and new uses of urban and rural space;

10.Disruption, artistic
intervention and subversive tactics (eg in post-communist
countries in Eastern and Central Europe);

11.Transport,
communication networks as media spaces;

12.Utopian/dystopian
places;

13.The reputation of
places in austerity times;

14.New media and spaces
of protest, conflict and subversion.

15.The places and
practices of sporting media (eg. Le Tour
de France, the Paralympics, the World Cup);

16.Bottom-up,
participatory urban and rural media and cultural
policies.

Publication

The conference organisers
are liaising with Palgrave MacMillan with a view to collecting selected
conference papers together in an edited collection for publication in 2015.

Submission of abstracts

The conference organisers
welcome proposals for single papers and panels of up to three papers. Please
send short proposals of no more than 300 words to mediaplaceconf2014@gmail.com,
by 1st February 2014 including a title, abstract, the theme your
paper speaks to and your affiliation details.

A SERIES OF SEVEN SEMINARS EXPLORING NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL CARTOGRAPHY


During the past decade the development of open source digital technologies has for the first time put the means of mapping in the hands of ordinary citizens. The ordinary person can now create maps that tell their own story, use GPS to plan journeys by land and sea, or go ‘geo-caching’ and adventure into new and unfamiliar environments in search of buried treasure…

See Living Maps Network: http://www.livingmaps.org.uk/

“The map that saved the London Underground…”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25551751

Literary cartographies: the co-production of page and place.
Sponsored by Social and Cultural Geography Research Group RGS-IBG AC2014

This session invites papers that investigate the ways in which geographies of
fiction co-produce the real and imagined places around us. As Piatti et al
observe, geography is essential to fiction, it is “impossible to even think of
literature without any spatial context” (2008:4); however, the co-productive
relationship between real places and literary stories is complex. In some
cases, fiction intersects directly with real world cartographies. Narratives
can be based in specific countries, regions, and towns, so much so that we can
visit them in person and follow our characters’ footsteps with our own. This
direct coincidence of fictional and geographical space can be seen in examples
such as Hardy’s Wessex, Kerouac’s California, or Auster’s New York. In other
fictions, real geographies are moulded, with distances reduced, streets folded
and landmarks crumpled together. In this way, (brave) new worlds are invented
in the author’s and readers’ imagination. In the same way as some authors
invent ‘counterfactual histories’ (see Piatti and Hurni, 2009), these
re-workings may be conceived of as ‘counterfactual geographies’. However, as
this session explores, any claim to a clear and reliable reality is often
difficult to maintain in the realm of literature and geography. Thus, in the
words of Piatti and Hurni, stories can be rooted directly in the “physically
comprehensible world”, or exist in their own “rich geographical layer” above
it. These complex and fascinating relations combine to produce the “geography
of fiction” (Piatti & Hurni, 2011:218).

This session invites papers which explore the ways through which page and place
are co-produced in reading and writing practice. Secondly, it offers a
supplementary walking tour, based around a relevant piece of literature, which
offer a ‘novel’ means through which to experience the co-production of page and
place.

Session Convenors:
Dr Jon Anderson, School of Planning & Geography, Cardiff University. Email:
andersonj@cf.ac.uk
Dr Angharad Saunders, University of South Wales. Email: angharad.saunders@southwales.ac.uk

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Mapping Culture: Communities, Sites and Stories

May 28-30, 2014

Coimbra, Portugal

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Centre for Social Studies (Centro de Estudos Sociais – CES), a State Associate Laboratory at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, is calling for the submission of papers and panel/workshop proposals from academics, researchers, public administrators, architects, planners and artists for an international conference and symposium. The CES is committed to questions of public interest, including those involving relationships between scientific knowledge and citizens’ participation.

Cultural Mapping – A general definition:
Cultural mapping involves a community identifying and documenting local cultural resources. Through this research cultural elements are recorded – the tangibles like galleries, craft industries, distinctive landmarks, local events and industries, as well as the intangibles like memories, personal histories, attitudes and values. After researching the elements that make a community unique, cultural mapping involves initiating a range of community activities or projects, to record, conserve and use these elements. …The most fundamental goal of cultural mapping is to help communities recognize, celebrate, and support cultural diversity for economic, social and regional development. — Clark, Sutherland and Young

An emerging interdisciplinary field
Cultural mapping reflects the spatial turn taken in many related areas of research, including cultural and artistic studies, architecture and urban design, geography, sociology, cultural policy and planning. Traditional approaches to cultural mapping emphasize the centrality of community engagement, and the process of mapping often reveals many unexpected resources and builds new cross-community connections.

Internationally, cultural mapping has come to be closely associated with professional cultural planning practices, but its recent adoption within a variety of disciplinary areas means that ‘traditional’ approaches are being re-thought and expanded, with cultural mapping practices adopting new methodologies, perspectives and objectives as they evolve.

This event is intended to explore both conventional and alternative approaches to mapping cultures and communities in an international context. Presenters will discuss and illustrate innovative ways to encourage artistic intervention and public participation in cultural mapping. They will also address the challenges posed by such artistic practices and community involvement in various phases of the research process, from gathering and interpreting data to modes of presenting ‘findings’ to interest groups from different sectors – the local public as well as specialists in the arts, research, public administration and planning.

Two key dimensions of current research with implications for artistic, architectural and planning practices are:
(a) the participatory and community engagement aspect, especially in the context of accessible mobile digital technologies
(b) mapping the intangibilities of a place (e.g., stories, histories, etc.) that provide a “sense of place” and identity to specific locales, and the ways in which those meanings and values may be grounded in embodied experiences.

These two aspects will be highlighted in the conference presentations and symposium workshops, bridging interests of both researchers and practitioners.

EVENT COMPONENTS
 Keynote lectures
 Plenary panel sessions with discussions among researchers, artists/creators, and local planners/municipal representatives
 Interactive workshop sessions (Symposium)
 Associated artistic presentations to complement event themes

KEY THEMES
 Cultural mapping as an agent of community engagement
 Cultural mapping as a tool of local policy development
 Cultural mapping processes and methodologies
 Multimedia mapping tools – recording interpretations and cultural uses of public space
 Artistic approaches to cultural mapping
 The artist-researcher in interdisciplinary inquiry
 Understanding architecture and urban space through mapping

Sub-Themes
Particular panel sessions can be organized for sub-themes such as:
 ‘Making visible’ eco-cultural knowledge and practices through mapping
 Political underpinnings of cultural mapping – Lessons and corrections
 Mapping as activist art

Symposium – Linking research and practice
Collaborative research with communities can help us better understand its role in their cultural and social development. But how to create or recreate such an experience? The Symposium elements will address how multidisciplinary research perspectives can be applied to local development practice. Workshops will be used to explore the possible contributions of cultural mapping approaches to different communities at a local level, and the role for academia.

 What type of ‘cultural map’ is required, and what methodological tools have proven to be valuable?
 How can academic knowledge be effectively applied to solving issues at the community level?
 How much of this information is more than what we see, that is, ‘cultural mapping’ for the intangible or unseen?

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We invite proposals for individual paper/project presentations, thematic panel sessions and workshops. The primary language of the event will be English, but proposals for presentations in Portuguese are also welcome. (We will try to arrange for ‘informal’ translation support for Portuguese-language sessions, as possible.)

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL (online at the CES website: www.ces.uc.pt)
Required information:
 Name of primary author
 Email of primary author
 Names of other authors (if applicable)
 Position/title of primary author
 Organization/institution
 Department
 City
 Country
 Is this presentation part of a proposed panel? Y/N
 If yes, title of panel
 Title of presentation
 Abstract (250 words)
 Key theme(s) of presentation (from the list of themes above)
 Brief bio of presenter(s), including position/role of each (e.g., researcher, professor, architect, doctoral student, artist, town planner, etc.) (max. 250 words)

Panel Proposals
If you are proposing a panel, please submit the proposed paper of each panel participant separately, using the submission form, to provide full information for each paper and participant. Be sure to enter the title of the proposed panel in the assigned field.

Abstracts will be published in the conference program in English and Portuguese.

Full Papers
Selected papers will be compiled and posted online (in a password protected folder), and all conference registrants will receive an email with the URL and password for access prior to the conference.

We are planning to publish selected papers in a journal, following the conference.

TIMELINE
– Launch – Conference website, online submission form at www.ces.uc.pt January 15, 2014
– Launch – Registration February 1, 2014
– Submission Deadline – using online submission form at www.ces.uc.pt February 14, 2014
– Selection decisions communicated to authors March 1, 2014
– Early Registration closes April 15, 2014
– Completed Papers Deadline – email to: MappingCulture@ces.uc.pt May 15, 2014
– Conference Presentation in Coimbra May 28-30, 2014

PROJECT PARTNERS and COLLABORATORS (so far)
– Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) / Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra
– The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
– Thompson Rivers University, Canada

QUESTIONS? Please contact Dr. Nancy Duxbury: duxbury@ces.uc.pt

REFERENCES
Clark, Sutherland & Young (1995). Keynote speech, Cultural Mapping Symposium and Workshop, Australia.
McLucas, Clifford (no date), There are ten things that I can say about these deep maps. Available: http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/51.
Scherf, Kathleen (2013), The Multiplicity of Place; or, Deep Contexts Require Deep Maps, with an Example. Paper presented at World Social Science Forum, October 13, 2013.
Shanks, Michael; Pearson, Mike (2001), Theatre/Archaeology. New York: Routledge.
Stewart, Sue (2007). Cultural Mapping Toolkit. Vancouver: 2010 Legacies Now and Creative City Network of Canada. Available: http://www.creativecity.ca/database/files/library/cultural_mapping_toolkit.pdf

Coastal Cultures: Liminality and Leisure

Edited by Paul Gilchrist, Thomas Carter and Daniel Burdsey

LSA Publication No. 126 December 2013 (print)ISBN 9781905369454

Contents

Foreword
Fred Gray

Editors’ Introduction
Paul Gilchrist, Thomas Carter and Daniel Burdsey

Histories of Liminality on the Coast
John K. Walton

Wading through Mangroves: Thoughts on Theorizing the Coast
Thomas F. Carter

The Cultural Seascape, Cosmology and the Magic of Liminality
Rob van Ginkel

Liminality and the Production of Coastal Tourism Resorts
Sheela Agarwal

“Feeling Connected”: Practising Nature, Nation and Class through Coastal Walking
Leila Dawney

Coast and the Creative Class: Relocation and Regeneration at the Edge
Andrew Church, Paul Gilchrist, Neil Ravenscroft

Contrived Liminality and the Commodification of the Post-Industrial Waterfront
Steven Miles

http://www.leisure-studies-association.info/LSAWEB/NewTitle/126.html

Architecture
and Culture / Transgression: body and space
Call
for Papers

To
transgress is to break, violate, infringe, or go beyond the bounds of accepted
norms or limits; such limits may be behavioural or cultural (embedded
in law, moral principle, taboo or other codified standards) or spatial.

We
would like to invite you to submit work for consideration for publication
in a special issue of the AHRA journal, Architecture and Culture on
the theme of “Transgression: body and space”. This issue will draw from
the 10th AHRA International conference on the subject of Transgression which
took place at the University of the West of England, Bristol UK, 21-23 November
2014. However, submissions are also very welcome from contributors who
did not attend the conference. This journal will be guest edited by David
Littlefield and Rachel Sara, who will work closely with the permanent editorial
team of Igea Troiani, Suzanne Ewing and Diana Periton.

This
special issue will explore the way in which the notion of transgression
allows us to explore the relationship between the body and space.
From Edgar Allen Poe to Georges Bataille, the history of transgression
is intimately bound up with ideas of the body, psychology, identity
and society. If, as Lefebvre argues, space is a social production, then
what role might transgression play? How can understandings of the body (what
it is; its relationship with mind, psyche and identity; the manner in which
it can enhanced, changed and adapted) affect our understanding and interpretation
of space? How can the relationship between the body and space be
(re)considered?

Architecture
and Culture welcomes explorations that are rigorously speculative,
purposively imaginative, visually and verbally stimulating. It solicits
essays, critical reviews, interviews, fictional narratives both in words
and images, art and building projects, and design hypotheses.

Papers
should be submitted electronically via Editorial Manager at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/archcult/
by the 27th January 2014. Notes for
contributors can also be found on this site. Contributors will be informed
of the result of the peer review process by Friday 7 March.

Papers, accepted
subject to revisions, must be completed by Monday 24 March. If
you have any queries or require further information, please contact: David
Littlefield: david.littlefield@uwe.ac.uk Rachel
Sara: Rachel.sara@uwe.ac.uk

Architecture
and Culture is the new journal of the Architectural Humanities Research
Association.

Reblogged from urbanculturalstudies

BIBLIO (71) FILMS

Planum,
the Italian online urban planning magazine, is publishing a series of
links to urbanism-related films, with interesting examples. Most of the
clips are historical, but there are also recent films, that are not freely
visible online, but which seem quite interesting, as“unfinished
Italy”, in which among other things you can see a re-use of an unfinished
road viaduct.