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active 1 month agoUrban Representations
The Interest Group on Urban Representations aims at assessing, contextualising, and theorising urban still and moving imagery. In the context of the “spatial turn” issues about the relationship between urban space and its visual representation have become focus of a number of publications. This interest group hopes to expand the field of urban imagery studies by focusing on the urban subject beyond the core European model. European metropolises and rural life are the point of departure for a transnational and transdisciplinary discussion that takes into consideration the growing challenges of defining what a city is in the age of globalisation and of the increasingly immaterial city or what Manuel Castells calls the “city of flows”.
The issues the Interest Group on Urban Representations is raising are threefold: 1) What are the functions and modes of representation that have developed in the city and to what extent is the city a responsive subject for these modes and media? 2) What kind of readings and narratives of the city can we harvest from urban imagery and how are they different from literary and other readings and narratives? 3) How can we theorize the urban image acknowledging, for example, the social construction of space, everyday routines and experiences of the city, the center-periphery dichotomy, the tension between nature and culture/technology, and the formation of collective and individual memory in the city?
This interest group operates via casual and more goal oriented exchanges that lead to thematic sessions at international conferences, workshops and symposia and to the establishment of a durable and broadly embedded scholarly community around this theme.
For more information please contact the EAHN Office at office@eahn.org or one of its leaders:
Miriam Paeslack, paeslack@buffalo.edu
Anat Falbel, anatfalbel@uol.com.br
Jeffrey Cohen, jcohen@brynmawr.edu
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Stavros Alifragkis joined the group
Urban Representations 3 years, 2 months ago
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Bimo Hernowo joined the group
Urban Representations 3 years, 3 months ago
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Iñaki Bergera joined the group
Urban Representations 3 years, 4 months ago
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Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen joined the group
Urban Representations 3 years, 5 months ago
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Stylianos (Stelios) joined the group
Urban Representations 3 years, 5 months ago
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dubravka joined the group
Urban Representations 4 years, 1 month ago
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Anooradha Siddiqi joined the group
Urban Representations 4 years, 3 months ago
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Jeffrey Cohen joined the group
Urban Representations 4 years, 9 months ago
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Miriam Paeslack uploaded the file: Dublin Workshop Program Update to
Urban Photography, Film and Video 4 years, 10 months ago
This is the final program for the Urban Photography, Film and Video (“Urban Representations”) Interest Group’s workshop in Dublin.
With best regards from Miriam, Anat, Jeff and Conor. -
Davide Deriu posted an update in the group
Urban Photography, Film and Video 4 years, 11 months ago
A PHOTOGRAPHER’S SENSE OF SPACE: LOOKING AT THE WORK OF GABRIELE BASILICO
University of Westminster
Marylebone Site, M/416 (Evans Room)
18 May 2016, 17:30–19:00This seminar aims to reassess the work of Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013), whose contribution to the development of urban photography remains relatively little k…[Read more]
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Danielle Willkens joined the group
Urban Representations 4 years, 11 months ago
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Claire Zimmerman joined the group
Urban Representations 5 years, 7 months ago
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Belgin Ozkaya joined the group
Urban Representations 5 years, 7 months ago
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Marina Epstein joined the group
Urban Representations 5 years, 9 months ago
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Shelley Hornstein joined the group
Urban Representations 5 years, 10 months ago
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Merlijn Hurx joined the group
Urban Representations 6 years ago
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Tijana joined the group
Urban Representations 6 years ago
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Yara M. posted an update in the group
Urban Photography, Film and Video 6 years, 6 months ago
CALL FOR PAPERS. BITÁCORA 29: ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND LIGHT:
From XIX century onwards the effervescence produced by technological development made itself clear in Western culture. The creation of new theories, devises, systems and artifacts, all of them illuminated by the light of Science, redefined collective imaginary, with a new perspective…[Read more]
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Jasmine Benyamin joined the group
Urban Representations 6 years, 7 months ago
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