NEWSLETTER: 50th Newsletter of the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies (Berlin)

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

Topics: Urban Governance and local Democracy in European Cities *** GSZ Think & Drink Colloquium *** Application Deadline 16.05.: International Forum “NGOs in Support of the World Heritage Properties” *** Deadline 15.05.: ONE Lab: “Future Cities Summer 2012″ *** GSZ-Graduate Studies Group
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3. European Urban Summer School “Times of scarcity: reclaiming the possibility of making”, 21.-30.09.2012. University of Westminster, London, UK. Deadline: 31.05.12

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European Urban Summer School 2012 – University of Westminster
Link to homepage: http://www.scibe.eu/euss/886/

Times of scarcity: reclaiming the possibility of making

Globalisation, climate change, resource depletion and financial crises are the prevailing – and often crippling – conditions which shape our immediate professional and academic lives and longer-term futures. In our times of rapid change, young planners, architects and designers must develop and adopt new and more holistic approaches to planning and design in order to engage in a meaningful manner with an increasingly urban world and to propose creative interventions that go beyond the immediately physical.

The 3rd European Urban Summer School (EUSS) is a joint project of AESOP / ECTP-CEU / IFHP / ISOCARP and SCIBE, hosted by the University of Westminster, School of Architecture and the Built Environment in September 2012. It aims to bring together postgraduate students, emerging and experienced academics and young and established design and planning professionals from all over Europe (and further away) to develop a better understanding of some of the most pressing contemporary issues related to the built environment and to amplify and strengthen the links between planning- and design-relevant research and professional practice.
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CfP: Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013. London, UK. 17.-18.1.2013. Deadline: 13.7.2012

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Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013
A Conference to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the London Underground
17-18 January 2013
http://www.history.ac.uk/events/london-underground

Deadline for abstracts: 13 July 2012

10 January 2013 will mark the 150th Anniversary of the public opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London. It was the world’s first urban rapid transport system to run partly in subterranean sections. As the precursor of today’s London Underground, it was not only a pioneer of technological and engineering advances, but also instigated new spatial, political, cultural and social realms that are now considered to be synonymous with London and modern urban experiences across the globe.

The Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, is marking the anniversary by organising a two-day conference dedicated to the history and use of the London Underground. Taking the construction and opening of the Metropolitan Railway as a departure point, this conference seeks to explore the past, present and future of the London Underground from a variety of perspectives that investigate its histories, geographies, cultures, politics and social characteristics.
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SEM: Nomad Seminar in Historiography 3. Ankara, Turkey. 9.11.2012

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Nomad Seminar in Historiography 3 – Ankara

The 3rd session of the NOMAD SEMINARS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY will be held in Ankara at Middle East Technical University on November 9, 2012.
The session will focus on “Narratives of Travel Writing and Architectural History”.
Please check the following blogs for more information:

http://www.nomadseminar.blogspot.fr
http://www.nomadankara.blogspot.com

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CfP: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. 6.-9.9.2012 Hamburg, Germany. Deadline: 31.05.2012

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Call for Papers: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity

06.09.2012-09.09.2012, Hamburg, Universität Hamburg
Deadline: 31.05.2012
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/Tagung_2012_narrating_spaces_e.html

It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that a city does not consist of buildings and inhabitants alone, but also of representations: of the stories that are told about it, in literature and art as well as in everyday life – or, as the architect Kevin Andrew Lynch has observed, that “Dickens helped to create the London we experience as surely as its actual builders did.” After all, narrative representations of the city constitute an appropriation of space: they assign meanings and ascribe certain uses to certain spaces.

This implies that there may not just be one version of a city, but several different narratives that constitute different cities: not one Florence, Paris, London, New York, or Berlin – or Hamburg for that matter -, but many. However, that does not necessarily mean that there is a happy pluralism of different narratives existing side by side. Thus, some stories are endowed with more cultural authority than others, depending, among other things, on who does the telling. The different stories that are told about a city are, therefore, in conflict with each other, creating conflicting spaces even in the same place.

Thus, formation and reception of said stories constitute space as a network formed by various relations, which has to be read and thus interpreted. In literary texts, it is therefore not to be regarded as a mere backdrop for the plot. Instead, its cultural formation as a relational network can be described and analysed. However, it is not only in the arts that space is produced relationally, through a system of meanings which can be read and decoded like a text. The performative production of space is always also narrative, and can be studied as such.
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FUNDING: Visiting Fellowship Announcement Research Center for Urban Cultural History. Boston, USA. Deadline: 1.9.2012

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The Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH) at the University of Massachusetts Boston is offering a 3-4 week short-term visiting fellowship for Spring 2013. The RCUCH Flaherty Visiting Fellow will pursue a research project pertaining to urban cultural history; the project must be interdisciplinary, and be focused on the cultural history of cities, urban life, urban networks, urban materials or urban experience. We define urban cultural history broadly; projects treating pre-urban sites as well as contemporary situations fall within the fellowship’s parameters. During the fellowship period the Fellow is required to offer a Faculty Lecture for the RCUCH on work-in-progress related to the research project, and to provide a talk for a graduate seminar or student group where this can be arranged; other than these lectures, and the research project itself, the Fellow will also have numerous opportunities to attend on-campus lectures and symposia, and to take advantage of lectures, exhibits, and other events in Boston and its environs, The RCUCH invites applications, giving preference to scholars at associate professor rank or above.
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CfP: The 8th Savannah Symposium: MODERNITIES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE. Savannah, USA. 7.-9.2.2013. Deadline: 15.7.2012

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The 8th Savannah Symposium: MODERNITIES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
February 7-9, 2013
http://architecturalhistoryscad.wordpress.com/symposium-series/8th-savannah-symposium/

Keynote Speakers: Mark Jarzombek, MIT and Dell Upton, UCLA

The art historian T. J. Clark spoke for many scholars when he declared that modernity marked a special historical transition when “the pursuit of a projected future – of goods, pleasures, freedoms, forms of control over nature, or infinities of information” overcame tradition and ritual. He distinguished the last 500 years against all previous time, and the west against the rest of the world. But such a bold assertion has opened itself to diverse interpretations. Is there a single modernity? If so, how was it created, disseminated and adopted? Or, alternately, are there actually multiple modernities? How then can we appreciate the diversity of different cultures and different times?
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CONF City of Flows, The City in Transition – Creating and Interconnecting Spaces of Possibility. Potsdam, Germany. 12.-14.07.2012

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http://www.stadt-der-stroeme.de

The City in transition - creating and interconnecting spaces of possibility.

International conference from the 12th to the 14th of July 2012, organised by the “City-
Climate Potsdam” Innovation Institute at Fachhochschule Potsdam (University of
Applied Science) in cooperation with Potsdam city council

The future development of urban environments is the subject of controversial discussion and action all over the world. Programmes range from technologically driven Smart City concepts to local grassroots democracy initiatives. The one thing that these otherwise highly diverse movements have in common is that changes in the city climate mean they will and must fundamentally alter our city lives. But how can cities be sustainably designed and developed without losing sight of the needs of their residents? What roles are played by analog spaces and local commitment? Which options are generated by the global use of digital technologies? How and where can these digital and analog opportunities be connected to each other? Continue reading “CONF City of Flows, The City in Transition – Creating and Interconnecting Spaces of Possibility. Potsdam, Germany. 12.-14.07.2012” »

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SEMINAR Urban photography summer school 2012 Goldsmiths, University of London. Deadline: June 3rd 2012

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www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/summer%20school/

Urban photography summer school 2012
Goldsmiths, University of London

Designed for photographers, artists and urbanists whose work addresses notions of urban space and culture the international Summer School provides a highly intensive two week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice. The course aims to offer participants a wide range of relevant skills resulting in the production of a photography portfolio drawn from London’s urban environments combined with a collective final exhibition.

The programme has been developed in collaboration with Urban Encounters and the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR). The course will be taught by tutors from Goldsmith’s Sociology Department and the international MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. The programme draws on the advanced theoretical, research and practical image-making specialisms of key practitioners in the field. Summer School tutors include: Paul Halliday (MA in Photography and Urban Cultures Convener), Beatriz Véliz Argueta (Coordinator/Goldsmiths), Les Back (Goldsmiths), Caroline Knowles (CUCR Director), Mandy Lee Jandrell (Goldsmiths), Peter Coles (Oxford/ Goldsmiths), Alex Rhys-Taylor (Goldsmiths), Manuel Vazquez (Goldsmiths), Michael Wayne Plant (Goldsmiths), Laura Cuch (Goldsmiths) and Jasmine Cheng (Goldsmiths).

The programme will explore how the practice of urban image making informs the development of a reflexive and critical research perspective and will include assignments and guided fieldtrips focusing on (1) urban landscape, (2) street photography and (3) material objects.

Application deadline: June 3rd, 2011
For more information: www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/summer%20school/

Jerome Krase, Ph.D.
Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor
Brooklyn College
The City University of New York

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JOBS Vacancy Professor of Architectural Design and Engineering. June 1, 2012

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Vacancy Professor of Architectural Design and Engineering

Deadline for applications: 1 June 2012

Introduction
The education and research of the Architectural Design and Engineering chair at TU/e focus on the study of building design. An essential aspect of this work is finding the right balance between functional and technical core design and expressive art form. Can you combine architectural design and scientific research?

Function description
Together with three other chairs, the Architectural Design and Engineering (ADE) chair forms the Architectural and Urban Design and Engineering (AUDE) unit in the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
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