"World in Denmark 2010"
Copenhagen, 17th and 18th June
The 6th "World in Denmark" conference presents key note speakers from landscape architecture, urban design and urbanism who reflect upon their most recent transformations of the urban landscape.
The theme of the conference is As Found, which will also be explored in paper sessions and scholars from a wide range of disciplines are invited to submit abstracts.
The conference invites contributions from scholars and practitioners working within landscape architecture, architecture, urbanism, cultural and heritage studies, who have a special interest in how and what we "find" on site, that is how we sense, read, understand, overlook, suppress, transform and interact with existing qualities in the post-industrial urban landscape. The organizers encourage scholars working with a broad variety of different perspectives to submit abstracts related to the arching theme - As Found - and the following three tracks:
Practices
Landscape architecture, urbanism, architecture and historical preservation always changes site conditions. The wide range of approaches and strategies that have been and are developed through these activities will be investigated within this track. Papers are encouraged to reflect on and contribute to the qualification of the transformation of sites done by the author or others.
Theories
The current celebration of As Found-approaches can be understood as part of a wider tendency that appreciates situated, practice-oriented and transdisciplinary knowledge. This track seeks to explore the linkage between site-thinking and theory by discussing it from perspectives of epistemology, philosophy etc.
Politics
Reading and transforming sites implies stressing certain qualities while inevitably excluding or overlooking others. This activity is always based on certain mind-sets, agendas and values that can be contested in the specific situation. Papers in this track are encouraged to investigate how different agents engage with sites against the backdrop of politics of identity. How can various approaches towards site be discussed and developed in a political perspective?
Deadline for submission: 15th February 2010.
Further details at http://www.sl.life.ku.dk/Forskning/ParkerOgUrbaneLandskaber/world_denmark_2010.aspx
