CALL FOR PRESENTERS - SESSION #2
Session Theme: Un-Thinking Mixed
The term “mixed” has become synonymous with “good urbanism”. Yet, the term "mixed" is often not explored beyond the obvious. In town planning and architecture, “mixed” usually denotes two or more adjacent land-uses or modes of occupation that do not disrupt each other. It is adjacency rather than mixed as in forces being intermingled to create something new. The prosaic "mixed" is un-mixed. As Slavoj Žižek wrote, “Today’s liberal tolerance towards others, the respect of otherness and openness towards it, is counterpointed by an obsessive fear of harassment.” In this, the conventional mindset of separating out different noise, smells, socio-economies and cultural groups remained intact.We invite presenters to unthink and rethink the term “mixed”, to question the unmixed within the celebrated “mixed”. To speculate and experiment with ways in which smells, sounds, and socio-cultural functions, and importantly persons, can exchange territorial grounds so that “mixed” may be founded in equity and dialogue rather than adjacencies in strata.
Curation Outline
Two to
three presentations per session (approx. 20 to 40 minutes each). Format may
include:
- Papers exploring and extracting philosophical themes from existing/proposed design and/or policies
- Structured Workshops with participants breaking into groups to discuss and present their own findings on the session’s theme
- Combination of the above
Venue
To keep
the dialogue-nature of these sessions, the sessions can be held on the
weekends/ evenings at:
- Pubs/ cafes (quieter ones though)
- Academic Institutions’ small meeting rooms
- A firm’s meeting room
Website
facebook.com/archosophyvancouver
archosophy-vancouver.blogspot.ca
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