12 - 14 ottobre 2010, Lisboa (Portugal) >[deadline: 6/04/2010]
Once upon a Place – haunted houses & imaginary cities is an international conference devoted to an emerging theme, as an associated event of the Lisbon Triennial of Architecture 2010 and matching its official opening and exhibitions. The event is dedicated to architects, historians, researchers, essayists, artists and authors, aiming at the reunion of a critical and creative international group for the cultural studies in architecture. What kinds of stories do spaces and buildings “tell” us? What insights on architectural knowledge and experience can literary forms convey? Are designs, buildings and cities somehow a fabrication on the world? Does form follows fiction? Can fiction foresee architecture and urban futures? The conference will tackle the reciprocal influences between architecture and fiction, whether they emerge under literary forms or other means related to visual narratives and popular culture. This is an initiative of CIAUD/Faculty of Architecture Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, with the collaboration of CUC-Centro Cultura Urbana Contemporânea, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and IAWIS – International Association of Word and Image Studies. In order to discuss the possibilities enclosed in the idea that form follows fiction and the relationships between architecture and fiction, this conference will address several themes, based of the different motives and displays of fictional narratives and forms, such as: - literary representation of architectural and city spaces | - current displacements of architectural representation (comics, movie sets, etc.) | - architecture as fictional construction (confabulation/idealization/forgery) | - architectural characters and roles (architecture and architects as protagonists) | - historical approaches to architectural knowledge and their respective fictions | - science fiction and the futures of architecture | - phantasmagories of the domestic | - forms of urban fiction | Info: www.onceuponaplace.fa.utl.pt