Analogous Spaces
David Vanderburgh, Unité d’Architecture et d’Ingénierie architecturale, Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, and Alok Nandi will speak about “Urban exhibitionism, or representing the recalcitrant city”, reflecting on an exhibition they worked on in 2006/07.
ANALOGOUS SPACES - INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
GHENT UNIVERSITY - 14-17 MAY 2008
Analogous Spaces refers to the fact that every science or knowledge, every thought, every memory, every action creates its own space and that these spaces are organised according to a similar structure or architecture.
Themes and Topics
14-17 May 2008
Ghent University, International Conference ANALOGOUS SPACESThe International Conference on Analogous Spaces interrogates the analogy between spaces in which knowledge is preserved, organized, transferred or activated. Although these spaces may differ in material, virtual, or operational ways, there are resemblances if one examines their ’structure,’ ‘form’ and ‘architecture’. How do these spaces co-exist and interrelate?
The conference will be organized around three main themes:
* The first theme (15 May) explores spatial analogies in terms of social and intellectual networks. What are the geographic relationships and/or technological affordances that support or inhibit the development of such networks? What constrains their development and effectiveness and how do different kinds of network models help in understanding their formation, evolution and dissolution.
* The second theme (16 May) deals with the space of knowledge and memory. How can we compare the encyclopedia and the museum, the book and the library, the diagram and the database? How do they use architecture to structure knowledge and how is architecture used as a metaphor of memory?
* The third theme (17 May) explores the space required for speed, action and decision making. In modernity, fast and effective action generates its own space of organization, intelligence and feedback. What does this space look like, and what are the different ways in which it can be represented?
More on http://www.analogousspaces.com
See you in Ghent on May 17th, 2008