Website European City has issued a call for papers "Harmonious and Conflicting Use of Urban Public Spaces"
There is strong and two way interaction between public spaces and their users. The physical and social structure of public spaces are advocating certain uses and users while on the other hand users form and re-create the public spaces through the sheer act of using them according to their needs and pleases. Therefore any intrusion let it be physical, design based, regulatory or hygienic into a public space will prefer or advocate some groups while it could drive out other users, and thus create tensions between present and future user-groups.
It is of vital importance therefore to understand how the space and its users interact and what happens when there is a radical physical intervention in the physical space. How it is possible to influence the social environment of a public space or in contrary how are changing social environments influence the perception of a given public space. The different stakeholders and what their interests are should be evaluated and taken into account when regenerating a public space. Put is more precisely to understand how changing aspirations and claims are articulated and how is it possible to act upon them and recreate public space.
We would like to invite contributions, papers about the multifaceted uses of urban public space, and especially focusing on changing perspectives. Papers dealing with the following three sub-topics are encouraged.
1. Sport and public space
2. Consuming and public space
3. Art and public space
Submission in English.
Deadline: 30 November 2008
Kravalik Zsuzsanna
Studio Metropolitana Kht.
H-1075 Budapest Madách I. tér 3.
Tel.: + 36 1 411 0976;
Fax: +36 1 461 0270
Mobil: + 36 20 229 5281
E-mail: kravalik(at) studiometropolit ana.hu
Web: www.studiometropoli tana.hu
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