{"id":1296,"date":"2021-09-13T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2021-09-13T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:25:05","slug":"conference-on-architecture-urbanism-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2021\/09\/13\/conference-on-architecture-urbanism-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Architecture, Urbanism and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a\npleasure to meet architects, urban planners, artists and performers from Italy,\nSpain, Portugal, Greece, Sweden and the UK at the eurau conference over the\nlast few days. Panels were held at Staffs and at Birmingham City University.\nThe panel I chaired attended to the concerns of art and performance in engaging\nwith the contemporary city and addressing issues of marginalisation and\nregeneration. Fabiano Miocci considered the historic and contemporary use of\ncollage to imagine and re-imagine the city by juxtaposing images and symbols\nthat relate to the experience of urban space in the context of 21<sup>st<\/sup>\ncentury Athens. Ludovica Campione and Giovangiuseppe Vanneli, both postgrads at\nthe University of Naples, talked about the relationship between architecture\nand performative arts in articulating marginalised identities in heterotopic\nspaces in both conventional theatre spaces and site specific performance. Anna\nMoro told us about the fascinating new processes and methodologies being used\nin and around Milan to reconnect marginalised, disadvantaged and fragile\ncommunities to the wider city through community arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the conference, we\nwere treated to a fantastic meal at the sumptuous Potters Club near to the\nuniversity and a performance on the last day exploring, through dance, play and\nmulti-media (joined by the magic of the internet by artists from India) the\nrelationship between the body and space. We concluded with a tour of the\ninspriring Stoke on Trent British Ceramics Biennial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new project has been\nconceived as a result of the conference. A Psychogeography of the 6 Towns will\nexplore the polyvalent nature of Stoke on Trent\u2019s historic six towns through\nurban exploration, architectural history, poetry and urban theory. The participants\nwill be Maria Maria Martinez Sanchez (urban planning and architecture), Martin\nBrown (urban and architectural history), Lisa Mansell (geo-poetics) and Mark\nBrown (urban cultures and theory). We will deploy Situationist techniques to\nexplore the centres, margins and inbetween spaces of the city to plot and map\nits history, culture and future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pleasure to meet architects, urban planners, artists and performers from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Sweden and the UK at the eurau conference over the last few days. Panels were held at Staffs and at Birmingham City University. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2021\/09\/13\/conference-on-architecture-urbanism-and-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}