Call for Papers, Architectural Concepts and Media Art Projects
\nMEDIACITY – Situations, Practices and Encounters
\nConference of the MEDIACITY project
\nBauhaus-Universit\u00e4t Weimar
\n18-19th January 2008<\/p>\n
The conference will investigate how the social settings and spaces of the city are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media. We will take the position that new media enables different settings, practices and behaviours to occur in urban space. These media create opportunities for diverse forms of connections between people and spaces and enable and create flows; of information, of communication and of knowledge.<\/p>\n
The conference will consist of three parallel sessions and a workshop, which will explore these themes in a focussed way. We invite papers for the conference and less formal presentations on practices for the workshop session from academics, practitioners, activists close to disciplines such as media studies, architecture, urban studies, cultural and urban geography and sociology \u2013 using in innovative ways and reflecting critically on processes, methods and impacts of public participation and technologies in urban realm, within their theoretical and practical research, teaching, or activism roles.<\/p>\n
Submission
\nPlease submit a paper of between 2 and 4 pages as an extended abstract. The conference language will be English. Papers will be submitted to external review.<\/p>\n
Outcomes
\nSelected papers from the conference will be published in a post-conference volume.<\/p>\n
Important Dates
\n1st October 2007: Extended Abstracts dues
\n1st November 2007: Acceptance notification
\n18-19th January 2008: Conference<\/p>\n