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CALL FOR PAPERS

announcement: confirmed KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
reminder: deadline for abstracts 4th May 2015


This Thing Called Theory
12th AHRA International Conference

http://www.thisthingcalledtheory.org/
http://cagd.co.uk/public/research/design_and_creativity.php

Leeds Beckett University
School of Art, Architecture and Design
Leeds, United Kingdom


19th-21st November 2015

This conference proposes Theory as a form of architectural practice
which opposes the instrumentalization of its use. It aims to explore
the status of Theory in architecture through an examination of
instances in current practice, and invites critical reconsiderations
of the role of Theory in architecture, its successes and shortcomings.
It seeks to trigger discussions, arguments and polemics around this
thing called Theory.


SYNOPSIS

Since the Architectural Humanities Research Association was created
twelve years ago to promote and develop research in the architectural
humanities, the practices of architecture have transformed and
diversified, and so has the relationship between the designs,
representations and makings of architecture and their surrounding
discourses.

After semiotics, psychoanalysis, deconstructionâs flirt with Derridean
philosophy, and Deleuzian redefinitions of folds and diagrams, the
impact of the digital in architecture seemed to have vanquished the
âneedâ for architecture to refer to discourses from the humanities.
Whilst concerns of the humanities are converging with the sciences,
they are also simultaneously diverging and dissipating with notions of
network, apparatus and agency. The recent imperative in architecture
to withdraw from claims of singular design visions has also been
characterised by the gathering of individuated credits and subjecting
to commodified distribution in the production of theory.

Today, in an age of extreme specialization and thus far inconceivable
intersections of fragmented strands of knowledge, architecture
continues to reinvent itself. As architecture reconsiders its status
as a discipline in relation to digital technologies, material
sciences, biology and environmental transformations, it continues to
resort to and introject thoughts and practices developed âoutsideâ
architecture. It is indeed the very openness and connectedness of
architecture that can offer a line of continuity in the ongoing
process of self-definition and reinvention that has always
characterized architecture as a practice of the multiple and of the
critical.  As a discipline that never simply makes physical
environments, architecture will continue to act in and through all its
intersections with its âotherâ as a critical and cultural agent.


KEYNOTES

Andrew Benjamin
Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the Faculty of Arts at
Monash University in Melbourne and Anniversary Chair at the Faculty of
Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University in London

Cynthia Davidson
Executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation in New York and
editor of ANY (Architecture New York) magazine (1993-2000), the ANY
books series (1991-2000), Log (2003-present) and the Writing
Architecture book series (1995-present) published with MIT Press

Marco De Michelis
Professor of History of Architecture at the IUAV University in Venice,
and Visiting Professor of Architecture at Leeds Beckett University

Mario Carpo
Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

Mark Cousins
Director of History and Theory Studies at the Architectural
Association in London, and Guest Professor at South-Eastern University
in Nanjing

Sylvia Lavin
Professor of Architecture and Director of Critical Studies and of the
MA/PhD programs at the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at
the University of California Los Angeles


CALL FOR PAPERS

While architectureâs discourse seemed to have been muted with the
shift from the alphabet to the algorithm (Mario Carpo, 2011), it has
more recently emerged that even for the digital it is already not only
possible but indeed necessary to construct an archaeology (Greg Lynn,
2013), and this has to be both historical and critical. Logâs
âStocktakingâ issue (summer 2013) borrowed Reyner Banham 1960âs
instrumental opposition of tradition and technology to resume (or
restart) a critical discourse on contemporary architectural practices,
attempting to relate them to recent and not so recent disciplinary
pasts, while the âWays to Be Criticalâ proposed by Volume 36 (Archis
2013, no. 2) seems to reduce the issue of criticality to a series of
positions of militant criticism.

Beyond the mediatory function of theory (Michael Hays, 2000) and its
problematic tag of authorship and authority (Giorgio Agamben, 2002),
this conference proposes that theory, far from dead, extinct or
rejected, remains crucial to the discipline. In the age of
post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called
Theory aims to explore current practices of theory.

We have identified three main areas for discussion and argumentation:

THIS THING CALLED THEORY

THOUGHT
Theory as Criticism
Theory as Architecture
Theory as History

ACTION
Theory as Politics
Theory as Praxis
Theory as Material

SPECULATION
Theory as Utopia
Theory as Science
Theory as Media

We invite individual and group proposals for 20 minute papers and full
sessions from architectural historians, theorists, designers and
practitioners, as well as those working on the issues identified in
the synopsis from other disciplines, including film-making, art
practice and performance. Please indicate clearly if submitting a full
session panel proposal.

We welcome proposals of papers with the intention or possibility to be
supported by or delivered through performance-, installation- or
film-based presentation.

We welcome contributions that explore contemporary developments and
project future trends, as well as those that offer retrospective
theoretical and critical interrogations.

Please send a 500 word abstract, including title, and a 50 word
biographical note to
T.Stoppani@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
and
D.Bernath@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Deadline for abstracts of papers: 4th May 2015
Received abstracts will be blind peer reviewed and we expect to
announce decisions by the end of June 2015.

Please note that full papers will be required prior to the conference
for panel chairs and to begin the editorial process for publication in
the This Thing Called Theory volume of the Routledge âCritiquesâ
series, and for a special conference issue of Architecture and
Culture, the AHRA journal.


CONFERENCE
Thursday 19th - Saturday 21st November 2015

VENUES
Rose Bowl Building, City Campus, Leeds Beckett University, and other
venues in Leeds (UK) city centre.

WEBSITE
http://www.thisthingcalledtheory.org/
http://cagd.co.uk/public/research/design_and_creativity.php


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Professor Teresa Stoppani, Head of The Leeds School of Architecture,
Leeds Beckett University

Dr Doreen Bernath, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Leader of the
BA Architectural Studies course, Leeds Beckett University

Braden Engel, Undergraduate History and Theory Coordinator, Academy of
Art University, San Francisco and PhD Candidate, Leeds Beckett
University

George Themistocleous, Part Time Lecturer and PhD Candidate, Leeds
Beckett University

Giorgio Ponzo, Part Time Lecturer and PhD Candidate, Leeds Beckett University

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