NEW EVENTS by Megha Rajguru UniBrighton
Oxford Garden and Landscape Studies Seminar, September 2017
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To date, scholarship... more Oxford Garden and Landscape Studies Seminar, September 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
To date, scholarship on the history of gardens has tended to focus on private and élite gardens and only recently have academics turned their attention to the landscapes of institutions. (Hickman, 2013; Chance, 2017). While the genealogy of institutional landscapes, with their functional and metaphorical allusions to divine order, political power and collective identity have been traced to Antiquity (Von Stackelberg, 2013) the institutional landscape, a didactic space which became more visible and diverse with the growth of social and political institutions such as public parks, museums, asylums and factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has not so far been examined comparatively and culturally. In this one-day seminar we will study a variety of institutional landscapes-factories, hospitals and asylums, public houses, museums, community gardens-to discuss the ideologies implicit in their design, use and afterlife. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to: • Design and the performance of democracy and citizenship in the institutional landscape • Individual and collective identity in public gardens • The institutional landscape and public ritual • The institutional landscape as a contested space • The institutional landscape and public history • Institutional landscapes as heterotopias • Place identification and branding in the public landscape • Embodiment and display in the institutional landscape Papers/presentations will be in English. The organisers propose that the papers from this seminar might form the basis for an edited book on the didactic landscape.
Date: sept 2017.
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NEW EVENTS by Megha Rajguru UniBrighton
CALL FOR PAPERS
To date, scholarship on the history of gardens has tended to focus on private and élite gardens and only recently have academics turned their attention to the landscapes of institutions. (Hickman, 2013; Chance, 2017). While the genealogy of institutional landscapes, with their functional and metaphorical allusions to divine order, political power and collective identity have been traced to Antiquity (Von Stackelberg, 2013) the institutional landscape, a didactic space which became more visible and diverse with the growth of social and political institutions such as public parks, museums, asylums and factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has not so far been examined comparatively and culturally. In this one-day seminar we will study a variety of institutional landscapes-factories, hospitals and asylums, public houses, museums, community gardens-to discuss the ideologies implicit in their design, use and afterlife. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to: • Design and the performance of democracy and citizenship in the institutional landscape • Individual and collective identity in public gardens • The institutional landscape and public ritual • The institutional landscape as a contested space • The institutional landscape and public history • Institutional landscapes as heterotopias • Place identification and branding in the public landscape • Embodiment and display in the institutional landscape Papers/presentations will be in English. The organisers propose that the papers from this seminar might form the basis for an edited book on the didactic landscape.
Date: sept 2017.
CALL FOR PAPERS
To date, scholarship on the history of gardens has tended to focus on private and élite gardens and only recently have academics turned their attention to the landscapes of institutions. (Hickman, 2013; Chance, 2017). While the genealogy of institutional landscapes, with their functional and metaphorical allusions to divine order, political power and collective identity have been traced to Antiquity (Von Stackelberg, 2013) the institutional landscape, a didactic space which became more visible and diverse with the growth of social and political institutions such as public parks, museums, asylums and factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has not so far been examined comparatively and culturally. In this one-day seminar we will study a variety of institutional landscapes-factories, hospitals and asylums, public houses, museums, community gardens-to discuss the ideologies implicit in their design, use and afterlife. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to: • Design and the performance of democracy and citizenship in the institutional landscape • Individual and collective identity in public gardens • The institutional landscape and public ritual • The institutional landscape as a contested space • The institutional landscape and public history • Institutional landscapes as heterotopias • Place identification and branding in the public landscape • Embodiment and display in the institutional landscape Papers/presentations will be in English. The organisers propose that the papers from this seminar might form the basis for an edited book on the didactic landscape.
Date: sept 2017.