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Past Conferences

Techniques and Technologies: Transfer and Transformation

4th International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
27 September - 29 September 2007

Specific technologies are continually transferred to architecture from fields such as logistics, psychology and medicine, media and entertainment, warfare, transportation, mining, food and agriculture. Technology transfer includes ´hard´ material technologies of manufacturing and construction as well as ´soft technologies´ of imaging and information that are taken up in the design process and penetrate the very structure of architectural practice. Such technology transfer is sometimes seen to threaten the supposed internal consistency and specificity of architectural techniques at the same time as it is keenly sought after. Its effect on notions of design intentions and their realization is a key problematic of interest to this conference.

For more information please visit the AASA 2007 conference web site.

Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries Conference

Centre for Social Theory & Design
20 - 21 February 2007

Drawing together scholars from a broad interdisciplinary field, the Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries Conference aims to encourage discussion of queer space conceived in its broadest sense, by scholars working in disciplines as diverse as architecture, history, urban geography, design, visual communication, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It aims to explore ways in which the built environment contributes to the construction and maintenance of queer sub-cultures, and articulate how both architectural space and the city can represent ideas such as ´queerness´.

Using the city of Sydney as one example, the conference opens to broader international approaches by proposing that, while in many spheres of world affairs Australia is seen as peripheral, in the already ´marginal´ space of queer culture Sydney is a major international location, especially during events such as the Mardi Gras. Drawing upon this reversal of definitions of ´centre´ and ´periphery´, this conference asks what is central, and what is peripheral, to the study of queer space.

For more information please visit the Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries Conference website.

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity Conference 2006

Centre for Social Theory & Design
17 - 19 August 2006

Walter Benjamin´s work remains central to discussions of modernity within the Humanities, Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. This conference will bring together scholars working on all aspects of Benjamin´s work as well as those who deploy the insights of that work in developing projects of their own.

The conference has been organised by the Centre for Social Theory and Design, in particular: Dr Tara Forrest, Professor Andrew Benjamin and Dr Charles Rice.

The aim of the Centre for Social Theory and Design is to provide a location for research that draws on the traditions of Critical and Social Theory, Philosophy, Design Theory and History, and Architectural History and Theory.

Please visit the official Walter Benjamin Conference 2006 web site for more details.