21 december 2011

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SYMPOSIUM
CALL FOR PROPOSALS for young scholars and doctoral students: Deadline January 16th 2012. Jean-Pierre Chupin, director of the Research Chair in Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture (CRC, Université de Montréal, Canada), and Joris van Wezemael, director of the Socio-spatial Complexity Lab (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) invite young scholars and doctoral students to contribute to the 2012 CRC International symposium: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY IN THE PLANETARY AGE. This international symposium will gather renowned competition experts, chief editors of architecture journals and researchers studying contemporary architectural issues through the filter of competitions from 8 countries (Canada, Switzerland, France, USA, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and Brazil) or more This gathering will be held at the Université de Montréal, on March 16th and 17th, 2012. There will be three main track sessions and a special session devoted to young scholars, which is addressed by this call for proposals. The themes of the three main track sessions are: 1 – The capacity of international competitions to tackle local issues: 2 – The capacity of competitions in general to activate the critical debate on architectural quality in an international landscape of media; 3 – The capacity of digital archiving of competition projects to enhance the building of a planetary architectural culture. The fourth session will be devoted to short presentations by young scholars and doctoral students. The theme of this special session is: How does the internationalization of design, construction services and construction markets affect (the appropriateness of) competitions? How do the (1) local and the global, and the (2) economic, cultural, ecological and aesthetic, intertwine in jury-based decision-making? -- Please submit proposals in English to both: Professor Jean-Pierre Chupin: <mailto:jean-pierre.chupin@umontreal.ca>; Professor Joris van Wezemael: <mailto:joris.vanwezemael@unifr.ch> Additional information available at: Chaire de recherche sur les concours et les pratiques contemporaines en architecture: <http://www.crc.umontreal.ca> ; Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle: <http://www.leap.umontreal.ca> ; Socio-spatial Complexity Lab: <http://geographiesofarchitecture.net/>


KONFERENSER/CONFERENCES
Call For Papers: KNOWLEDGE IN A BOX: HOW MUNDANE THINGS SHAPE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION. The topic: We invite proposals from scholars in the history of science, technology, and medicine, science and technology studies,the humanities, visual and performing arts, museum and cultural studies andother related disciplines for a workshop on the uses and meanings of mundanethings such as boxes, packages, bottles, and vials in shaping knowledgeproduction. In keeping with the conference theme, we are asking contributors toinclude specific references to the ways in which boxes have played arole—commercial, epistemic or otherwise—in their own particular disciplinaryframeworks. Boxes have always supported the significance of the objects they contained, allowing specific activities toarise. In the hands of naturalhistorians and collectors, boxes functioned as a means of organizing theirknowledge throughout the eighteenth century. They formed the material bases ofthe cabinet or established collection and accompanied the collector from theinitial gathering of natural specimens to their final display. As “knowledgechests” or “magazining tools” the history of box-like containers also go backto book printing and the typographical culture. The artists’ boxes of the earlynineteenth century were used to store the paraphernalia of a new fashionabletrend. In the late nineteenth century the box became the pharmacist’s laboratory and a device for standardizing and controlling dosage of oral remedies. In the twentieth century radiotherapy the box was elevated to a multifunctionaltool working as a memory aid to forgetful patients or as “knowledge package” that predetermined dosages, included equipment, and ready-made radiumapplicators. Furthermore, if we do understand matter and materiality not as given, solid, continuous, and stable but rather as something being done, performed, shaped and embedded in practices, then we should examine closer howbottles and boxes themselves materialize differently in a set of diversepractices. How do they change their ontologies by migrating from the kitchen tothe laboratory, from the workshop to the operating room? -- We welcome innovative understandings of the role that boxes and containers have played historically and continue to play intechnology, medicine, and science. We see the workshop as contributing to anongoing interest in science and technology studies on the importance of mundanethings in scientific practice and technological innovations. Dates: July 26–29, 2012. Submission guidelines: Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2012. Place: The venue of the conference is a wonderfultobacco warehouse renovated to host the tobacco museum of the city of Kavala in northern Greece. Please submit a 300-words abstract alongwith your name, institutional affiliation, email and phone number as a word orpdf attachment to the organizers of the conference. Organizingcommittee: Susanne Bauer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany; MariaRentetzi, NationalTechnical Universityof Athens, Athens, Greece; Martina Schlünder, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany. For further information please contact theorganizers:Susanne Bauer sbauer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Maria Rentetzi mrentetz@vt.edu Martina Schlünder m.schluender@gmx.de
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CALL FOR PAPERS: AIC 2012 IN COLOR WE LIVE – COLOR AND ENVIRONMENT, Interim Meeting of the AIC, International Color Association 22–25 September 2012, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan. Understanding the effects of colors in natural and man-made environments contributes to creating healthier living spheres through color applications. The aim of the conference is to explore and examine how color interacts with or influences our daily life. In order to participate by presenting a paper or poster, please send an abstract in English (not less than 300 words and not more than 500 words), following the model provided in the attached file, to service@aic2012.org. The deadline is 30 January 2012. For details, see the attached file and visit www.aic2012.org
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EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM that will be held in Santiago de Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile between Tuesday 3rd and Friday 6th of January 2012. Regarding SSS8: The opening session will be on Tuesday 3rd January 2012, the workshops and sessions between Wednesday 4th and Friday 6th. Further information on the event are announced and up-dated on the web-site for the symposium, see: http://www.sss8.cl. The aims of the SSS_8 are: 1. To bring together members of the space syntax community to share recent work and theoretical and methodological issues; 2. To exchange ideas and research with neighbouring disciplines in the pursuit of common research goals; 3. To invite practitioners in the fields of urban design and architecture and apace related disciplines.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: THEATRE ARCHITECTURE WORKING GROUP FIRT/IFTR, La Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche de Théâtre International Federation of Theatre Research, 22–28 July, 2012, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE (UC), SANTIAGO. From the visual to the virtual by way of inter-disciplinarity and the interstitial how might understandings of ‘scene,’ ‘media’ and ‘mediation’ be theorized within studies of theatre architecture and performance space? And, how might the theories and practices of theatre be used to explore and question those of architecture (and vice versa)? Papers offered in response to the 2012 themes may be driven by historical / historiographic concerns, by practice / practice-as-research, or by theory. Papers and presentations that re-examine received wisdom, debunking a-critical assertions about theatre architecture, performance and space to produce new modes of knowledge about our field would be particularly welcome. Go to the IFTR/FIRT 2012 web site at: <http://firt2012chile.uc.cl/index.php/en/conference/papers> Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2012 See attached Call for papers-pdf
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Den 16–19 september 2012 är det IFHP’s världskongress 2012 i Göteborg och två halvdagar kommer att ägnas åt strategier för att skapa goda boendemiljöer och ett hållbart samhälle med en åldrande befolkning. Sista dag för abstract är 1 februari 2012. -- See attached file: Call for papers - abstract.pdf
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: I en tid präglad av öppna, internationella och alltmer IT-baserade kunskaps- och utbildningsmiljöer utmanas vi av frågor kring det gränslösa lärandet. Dessa frågor diskuterar vi på NU2012 -- lärare, forskare, studenter och andra intressenter emellan. NU2012 är Sveriges största mötesplats för utveckling av högre utbildning. Konferensen hålls på Clarion Hotel Post i centrala Göteborg den 17-19 oktober 2012. Var med och bidra till diskussionen: Du är välkommen att hålla en presentation, leda en workshop, föra ett rundabordssamtal eller bidra till samverkan på det öppna torget. Skicka in ditt abstract senast den 1 mars 2012. Rubriken för konferensen är GRÄNSLÖST LÄRANDE. Konferensen har åtta teman: 1. Lärande för hållbar utveckling -- grönt, gränslöst, gratis?; 2. Design av lärandemiljöer; 3. Den globala utbildningen; 4. Handledning -- med den lärande i fokus; 5. Kreativa och konstnärliga kompetenser; 6. Vetande och vetenskap; 7. Professioner och kompetenser -- vad sätter gränserna?; och 8. Kärnvärden och kvalitetsutveckling i akademin -- i skön förening? Mer information om konferensen och om hur du lämnar in konferensbidrag hittar du på vår webbplats: www.nu2012.se Värd för NU2012 är SUHF. Arrangörer: Göteborgs universitet i samarbete med Chalmers tekniska högskola, högskolorna i Borås, Halmstad, Jönköping och Skövde, Högskolan Väst samt Karlstads universitet. Huvudansvarig: Bengt Petersson, Göteborgs universitet. E-post: bengt.petersson@ped.gu.se

STIPENDIER

STOCKHOLMS BYGGNADSFÖRENINGS STIFTELSE FÖR DOKTORANDSTIPENDIET: Stiftelsen är bildad 1989 genom medel som tillskjutits av Stockholms Byggnadsförening och enskilda medlemmar. Stiftelsen skall ekonomiskt understödja forskning och utbildning som till allmänt gagn främjar utvecklingen inom byggnadsbranschen. Stipendier som utdelas ur stiftelsen skall bereda forskare - doktorander - vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), och då i första hand vid sektionerna S(Samhällsbyggnads), A(Arkitektur) möjlighet att under åtminstone ett halvt år bedriva forskning och studier vid annan europeisk högskola eller universitet. Doktorandstipendiet skall inges till Stockholms Byggnadsförening inom december månad före det år stipendiet utdelas. Föreningens kansli tillhandahåller ansökningsblanketter. Ansökan skall åtföljas av uppgifter om sökandens namn, ålder och adress, nuvarande forskningsverksamhet och redogörelse med tidplan och budget för ändamålet med stipendiet även som eventuella referenser. Stipendiat skall vara medborgare i något av de nordiska länderna. Stipendiet utdelas årligen på föreningens årsmöte i mars månad. Mer information: <www.sthbyggnadsforening.se>
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VALLE SCHOLARSHIP AND SCANDINAVIAN EXCHANGE PROGRAM

APPLICATIONS FOR AUTUMN 2012: The Valle Program offers outstanding opportunities for graduate students from Scandinavian countries (including the Baltic Countries) to study at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering or in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning which includes Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, Landscape Architecture and Construction Management.

 The Valle Scholarship pays tuition, round trip travel and a monthly stipend of 2314 USD for 9 or 12 months for scholars studying towards a master’s degree or spending a year on PhD research. Visiting Graduate Students to the UW in architecture and urban planning are also eligible to apply for Valle Scholarships, but they are not eligible to earn master's degrees at the UW. 

The Visa process encourages interested students to apply to the UW Graduate School on line in early November or as soon as possible. Valle Scholarship applications are due January 15, 2012 for Architecture and Urban Planning students and February 1, 2012 for Civil and Environmental Engineering students. The application process is described on the following web site: http://www.engr.washington.edu/valle/program_application/index.html.
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SVENSKA INSTITUTET I ROM-STIPENDIET är avsett för arkitekt som utexaminerats från teknisk högskola (eller med motsvarande kvalifikationer) och ämnar bedriva arkitektstudier i Rom. Studierna i Rom kan inriktas på arkitekturhistorisk, konstvetenskaplig eller restaureringsteknisk fördjupning, men också gälla aktuella byggnadsfrågor och miljöstudier. Vid utseende av stipendiat tillmäts särskild betydelse dels vilken relevans ett stipendium vid institutet har för den sökandes studier eller forskning, dels graden av relevanta förkunskaper. Stipendiebeloppet är på 70.000 kr för 6-8 månaders vistelse i Rom. Ansökan ställs till Institutets kontor i Stockholm, och skall vara inkommen den 15 januari 2012. För mer information se medföljande pdf.
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STOCKHOLMS ATELJÉSTIPENDIUM är nu utlyst. Stipendiet består av ett tvåårigt arbetsstipendium från Bildkonstnärsfonden, en ateljé som Stockholms stad tillhandahåller samt möjlighet till en mindre utställning och en katalog. Stockholms ateljéstipendium är ett samarbetsprojekt mellan Stockholms kulturförvaltning och Konstnärsnämnden. Stipendiet delas ut vartannat år till en bild - eller formkonstnär bosatt i Stockholm. För att komma ifråga för ateljéstipendiet ska den sökande: vara mantalsskriven i Stockholms kommun; vara yrkesverksam konstnär (inom bildkonst, foto, konsthantverk, formgivning, arkitektur); inte ha haft Konstnärsnämndens målinriktade arbetsstipendium under åren 2009-2011 eller arbetsstipendium som engångsbelopp under 2010 och 2011. För att ansöka digitalt på Konstnärsnämndens hemsida krävs en digital-ID som tar 4-5 dagar att beställa. Beställ och ansök på Min Sida. Sista ansökningsdag är den 1 februari 2012. En stipendiekommitté med representanter från Bildkonstnärsfonden och kulturförvaltningens kulturstrategiska stab, Liljevalchs och Kulturhuset väljer ut stipendiaten. Beslut fattas under våren 2012 och stipendieutdelningen sker i Stadshuset i slutet av maj. Stipendieperioden löper från den 1 oktober 2012 till den 30 september 2014. Ateljén ligger på Glasbruksgatan 25 och användes tidigare av skulptören K G Bejemark. Under 1950- och 60-talen tillhörde ateljén skulptören Bror Marklund. Lokalen som omfattar cirka 150 kvm ligger på tredje våningen utan hiss. Den har takfönster och utgör ena halvan av en gammal kyrksal. Ateljén ingår i stadens kommunala ateljéhus. Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfond står för ett tvåårigt arbetsstipendium på 120 000 kronor per år. I anslutning till stipendiet erbjuds möjlighet att diskutera en offentlig presentation av konstnärskapet. Efter överenskommelse ordnas en mindre utställning på Kulturhuset, Liljevalchs eller på annan offentlig plats i Stockholm. Till utställningen tas även en katalog fram med bidrag från Konstnärsnämnden. Se gärna www.konstnarsnamnden.se
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LARS ERIK LUNDBERGS STIPENDIESTIFTELSE sökes senast den 3 februari 2012. Stiftelsens ändamål är att stödja vetenskaplig forskning och forskarutbildning inom arkitektur, byggnadsteknik, stadsplanering, boende och fastighetsförvaltning. Inom boende och fastighetsförvaltning är ett viktigt område villkoren för fastighetsägande och förvaltning med hänsyn till skatteregler, statliga och kommunala normer och lagstiftning. Stiftelsens ändamål skall i första hand främjas genom personliga stipendier till unga forskarstuderande verksamma vid tekniska högskolor och universitet i Sverige. Stiftelsen beräknas under 2012 utdela ca 10 stipendier i storleksordningen upp till ca 144 000 kronor. Mer information: <www.lundbergsstiftelserna.se>

COURSES
Kursen FORSKARHANDLEDNING är ett krav för befordran till Docent på KTH. Varje doktorand ska dessutom ha minst 2 handledare av vilka en måste har gått kursen. Det finns fortfarande platser kvar på den svenska versionen av kursen som startar 19 januari 2012. Se bifogat kursschema och länk till anmälan http://www.webforum.com/form/learninglab/form.asp?sid=539274552
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NORDIC LIGHT AND COLOURS, International PhD-course 16th–21th April 2012, NTNU Faculty of Architecture & Fine Art, Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies. Please see the attachment.
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Svenska Institutet i Rom utlyser härmed 6 platser på kursen CHALLENGING ETERNITY. ARCHAEOLOGY, HERITAGE MANAGEMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN ROME. Svenska Institutet i Rom erbjuder fritt boende samt ett resestipendium på 3.000 SEK. Ansökan skickas elektroniskt till info@isvroma.org senast 15 januari. -- The major aim of the course is to confront the participants with critical assessments of past, present (and future) approaches to the archaeological heritage of the city of Rome. In particular, the course explores how urban development, politics, ideology and research results influence the way this material heritage is perceived, preserved and presented.
Course content: Sites and monuments: Detailed comprehension of major archaeological sites and monuments of Rome; History and terminology: Evaluation and history of the concept of archaeological heritage; Archaeology, politics and nationalism: History of the use of the archaeological heritage of Rome for national (and other) political purposes; Urban development: History of the urban development of Rome and its complex relation to archaeology; Archaeology and the public: Ethics and methods of communication with local inhabitants; Challenges for future management: The crossroads between urban development and heritage management; local (community) museums, archaeological heritage and citizenship.
Place: Rome
Period: June 3–17, 2012 (2 weeks).
Working language: The official language of the course will be English. Participants are preferably able to read Italian.
Form: Excursions, lectures, student presentations, essays
Course material: Reader
Lectures: To be held at participating institutions
Excursions: Apart from excursions to the major archaeological monuments of Rome, visits will be arranged to sites that have aroused debate from a heritage perspective or at which particular management and presentation programs can be examined at first hand.
Examinations: On-site student presentations, paper

Participants: Students from Dutch, Swedish and Italian universities with a background in Archaeology, History, Art History, Heritage Studies or comparable areas of study. The course is given at master level (MA)
Admission: Maximum number of students: 20 (6 Swedish students)
Deadline application: January 15, 2012
The course is organised by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and the Swedish Institute in Rome in collaboration with the faculties of Architecture of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and the Sapienza – Università di Roma, the Department of Conservation of the University of Gothenburg and the VU University Amsterdam.
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Announcement from the Research School APULA, Architecture and Planning for the Urban Landscape, SLU. Courses, spring 2012. The courses are free of charge. SLU students are given priority if the number of applicants exceeds the number of maximum of attendees in the course.
PNS0043 CASE STUDY METHODOLOGY, May 2012
Case Study Methodology
Time: Lectures and seminars will be on May 10–11, May 24–25, and May 31 – June 1, 2012.
Location: Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU, Uppsala.
Application and further information: Rolf Johansson, e-mail Rolf.Johansson@slu.se
Apply before March 26
Prerequisites: Participants must be accepted as postgraduate students in social science or humanities subjects, or disciplines of architecture or planning.
University credits: 4,5 HEC
Objective: Case studies have developed within the social sciences and are frequently used in fields such as architecture, planning, economics, law, management, education and environmental studies. A point of departure for the course is that a case study is defined by the choice of object to study, rather than by the choice of a methodology. Different methodologies to study unique cases—a case understood as functioning totality—will be discussed. Upon completion of the course, the PhD-students shall:
- be able to design a case study;
- demonstrate knowledge in case selection, case analysis and quality criteria;
- be able to discuss and explain some principles for drawing conclusions from case studies.
PNG0006 ANALYTICAL WRITING, 4.5 HEC
Time: The course will start at March 5, 2012.
Location: Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU, Uppsala.
Application and further information: Adam Pain, adam.pain@btinternet.com
Prerequisites: Participants must be accepted as postgraduate students in social science or humanities subjects, or disciplines of architecture or planning.
University credits: 4,5 HEC
Objective: 
Develop participant’s abilities to 
- think critically and to clearly express thoughts in writing 
- look for alternative explanations, analyse arguments, look for and test assumptions and consider counter examples 
- organise ideas, arguments and evidence into linear progression and systematically test the structure for holes or weaknesses in the analysis or evidence 
- develop the structure of an article and the style in which it is written
LANDSCAPE THEORY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL AND LANDSCAPE PLANNING PRACTICE IN A MULTIPLE-GENERATIONAL/CULTURAL SOCIETY (7,5 ECTS)
Course Leader: Kenneth Olwig, Professor, Co-Leader: Maria Kylin, Associate Professor
Location: SLU in Malmö/Alnarp; Time: 26/3-1/6 2012.
Application and further information: Maria Kylin, maria.kylin@slu.se
Course Description: This course seeks to give the student insight into how to use critical theoretical concepts to inform and guide a landscape architectural and planning practice that is capable of wedding perspectives taken from the social and natural sciences and the humanities. The course examines this practice on three inter-linked levels, that of the region, that of the urban district and that of the local environment from a multiplegenerational/cultural perspective. In concentrating on the relation between working concepts and practice, the course also seeks to provide the historical and philosophical background that is necessary to grasp the use of concepts that are not fixed and finished, but living and contested tools that enable the conception of new approaches to the planning practice of landscape architects and planners from other disciplines. An important aspect of the course is the insight that society and its landscapes are not uniform, but are made of multiple cultures ranging from those of differing generations to different classes and ethnicities. A focus of the course is thus upon the landscapes of childhood and youth.

JOURNAL ARTICLE
CALL FOR ARTICLES: COLOR: MATTER AND FORM The journal Topicos del Seminario (published in Puebla, Mexico) is making a call for papers to be published in a issue devoted to color in relation to semiotics. For information, see the attached file, pages 10 to 12, in English. The deadline is the second week of February 2012, by e-mail to <soldadero@gmail.com> and <semioticabuap@hotmail.com>

Gertrud Olsson
KTH Arkitekturskolan

100 44 Stockholm

gertrud.olsson@arch.kth.se

08-790 85 44