MESA 2014: Spaces of Movement
November 22-25, 2014 |
While recent scholarships of architecture and planning emphasize a global outlook, the conditions, objectives, and limits of architectural circulation have remained rather unacknowledged. Rather than looking at "roots" within territorial boundaries in order to trace the genealogy of ideas and forms, this panel concentrates on the "routes" along which architectural objects and ideas travel between geographical and intellectual terrains. Networks, infrastructure, and the media that facilitate the movement of architecture, also transform its meanings. The purpose of this panel is thus not to follow the transition and migration of ideas as ready-made parcels containing images, techniques, and styles from place to place.
The aim is, rather, to map the condition in which meanings are exchanged and ideas are transformed in order to constantly recompose new places, identities, and relations. We invite papers that situate the transformative nature of architecture within networks of movement.
Submissions are welcome from any historic period yet the studied routes should constitute a meaningful relationship with the Middle East. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to the narratives and itineraries of designing and making on the move; the contingent forms and historical realities that delimits democratic distributions in space; the examination of revolutionary events and radical projects that creatively resist uneven encounters; the study of synthetic and hybrid edifices as a result of the uncanny fusion of foreign and eclectic environments and their role in cultural and sociopolitical rifts and tensions; global movements of Islamic architecture; local experiences of modernity in the region; and the role of media in transferring architectural ideas. |
Website:
mesa.arizona.edu/annual-meeting |
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Washington, DC |
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| Contact Information |
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mohajeri.shb@gmail.com |
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