Visuality
/ Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice
at
The Royal Institute for British Architects, London, 9th - 11th July, 2009
Convenors
Professor Gillian Rose (Geography, Open University)
Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Geography, Durham
University)
Plenary
Speakers
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Dr Paul Frosh, Professor Jane Jacobs
Media
Paper Presentations, Visual Art, Film, Workshops, Participatory Methodologies
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Visuality/Materiality
attends to the relationship between the visual and the material as a way of
approaching both the meaning of visual and its other aspects. The interrogation
of image as sign, metaphor, and text has long dominated the realm of visual
theory and analysis. But the material role of visual praxis in everyday landscapes
of seeing has been an emergent area of visual research; visual design, urban
visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies of domestic spaces, including
the formation and structuring of practices of living and political being,
are critical to 21st century grammars of living. The relationship between
Visuality/Materiality here is about social meaning and practice;
where identity, power, space, and geometries of seeing are approached here
through a grounded approach to material technologies, design and visual research,
everyday embodied seeing, labour, ethics and utility. This conference is aimed
at providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a contemporary
visual theory and practice can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice,
the affective, performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs
our intellectual critique. The organisers are keen to encourage contributions
based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality
and visual critique including concern with: