Architecture in the Space of Flows

This recently received notification is of interest to both the discussion about Gosford city planning and to the RRP:0 research about the space of flows and Gosford CBD.
(See Translocality post)

Architecture in the Space of Flows: buildings - spaces - cultures
21 - 24 June 2007
Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK.

Call for papers: http://www.apl.ncl.ac.uk/flows/

Flows of energy, libido, capital, water and information make our lives possible. The buildings and spaces that support our activities inflect the flows; we tap into them, surf them, block them at our peril, or we may be excluded from them. Flows are global, but have local effects. Buildings are local, but their embodied energies flow from great distances, and their embodiments can cause local or distant turbulences. Everything is moving, intensifying, dispersing; growing, decaying, proliferating, networking, sedimenting, eroding.


Understanding ourselves, our buildings, our cities as modulators of flows
represents a fundamental shift in sensibility away from the perfect
Euclidian geometries of Vitruvian man, to the productive consumer, the
desiring subject. Cultures and spaces are fluid and relational, and
designers are searching for ways to give expression to these telluric
undercurrents that are shaping and re-shaping our worlds. New sensibilities
are taking shape, and it is the aim of this conference to explore and gain
understanding of emergent possibilities.

The conference, or confluence, will be transdisciplinary, bringing together
people who are developing ways of thinking about places and our responses to them, making use of ideas of flux.