A Panel Discussion at the Sixth International Literature
and Humanities Conference,
Inscriptions
in the Sand:
an arts and
culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean
University
in Famagusta, on the island of
Cyprus
May 30-June 1, 2003
Submissions are invited for a Panel Discussion exploring
the ways in which architectural space is interpreted or used to shape,
manipulate and reinforce behavior patterns or mindsets, including movement,
social organization, interpersonal relationships, and relations to technology or
authority.
Some possible topic areas (others are
welcome):
—prisons, asylums, hospitals, and
universities
—Bentham’s Panopticon and Foucault’s disciplinary
spaces
—urban design and
dehumanization
—the architecture of fascism
—decentering and decentralization: the possibility of a
democratic architecture
—Fourier’s arcades, Benjamin’s Arcades, and the
modern shopping mall
—reconstructing architecture at archeological
sites
—adobe huts and igloos: structures and modes of
adaptation and ritual
—spaces of worship: churches, cathedrals, mosques,
temples
—Philippe Ariès and the architectural semiotics of
death
—monuments, memorials, tombstones; cemeteries, mortuaries
and funeral homes
—architecture in film from Caligari and
Metropolis to Belly of an Architect and Fight Club
—classroom, office, and interrogation
spaces
—ducks and decorated sheds: idioms of postmodern
architecture
—deconstructing architecture: Derrida and Peter
Eisenman
—cityscape and landscape
ideologies
—architectural restoration: recovering/fictionalizing
history
—architectural forms in art: medieval illumination,
Monet, Atget, Constructivism, Stella, etc.
—art in architecture: from friezes and altarpieces to
postmodern pastiche
—architecture as art: the aesthetics of
functionality
—wrapping up architecture: the politics of
Christo
—mobility and architecture
—eroticism and architectural
space
—ecological architecture: bio-environments,
space-stations, and alienation
—museum, gallery, and exhibition spaces: Frank Gehry’s
organic architecture
—living spaces from Bauhaus to Koolhaas
—theoretical architecture: the Chicago
school
Prospective
panelists are invited to send 250-word abstracts/proposals for 15-20 minute
presentations on any aspect of these areas to [log in to unmask] or
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by 30 October,
2002. We look forward to learning about your research, and to a provocative
discussion.
For more
information about Inscriptions
in the Sand,
please visit
our website at http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_confer.html.
Please also
check out our links to “Individual Research Presentations” and
“Creative/Performance Work.”