Architecture and Ideology

Conference venue: Belgrade (Serbia)
Period: Sep. 28 - 29, 2012
Deadline for submitting abstracts: Apr. 15, 2012
Deadline for submitting full papers: Jul. 15, 2012

Space and time are inherent parts of our lives (they precede us and outlive us, we are always in them, never on the outside). That is why philosophers have relentlessly tried to find out about their nature, and ideologies have tried to get a key to possessing these two media and control them. Actions in space are the result of complex interest interaction between politicians, investors, city planners and architects, on the one hand, and those who enjoy the results of their actions, on the other. City development means solid construction, therefore mistakes are hard or impossible to amend.

That makes the test of the role of ideology in the fate of a city a good enough reason for exchanging opinions on this topic and for an attempt to critically overview numerous – direct, indirect, hinted and hidden – manifestations of ideology in the 20th century city development.

Conference participants are expected – each from his/her professional angle, with reference to a century worth of experience – to provide their contributions on shedding light on mutual impact of architecture and ideology – with all its positive and negative consequences and contributions – and to bring out hypotheses on the future of that particular, specific and vital relation.

Conference organizers offer four topic segments and give points of reference to simplify the role of participants in multidisciplinary opinion exchange.

Please provide full contact details of authors with your abstract (author’s name and surname, institution, address, e-mail). Abstract should be max 300 words and must be in English.

An abstracts should include: the notification of selected conference topic segment, the title of the paper, text that explains the idea, purpose and content of the paper, and max 6 keywords (sent in MS Word document, format A4, font Times New Roman, 11, single line spacing, all margins 3 cm).

Abstract should be e-mailed to the email address arch.ideol2012@gmail.com - see below for the abstract form.

Konstantin Petrović
Conference Secretary
e-mail: admin@ulupuds.org.rs