CONNECTIONS: Exploring heritage, architecture, cities, art, media

International conference in HISTORIC CANTERBURY, UK. SUMMER 2020. University of Kent. CONNECTIONS: Exploring heritage, architecture, cities, art, media 29-30 June 2020 - This event explores links between digital design and representation in various fields: architecture, cities, history, heritage, art, film, media, cultural studies. Publishers: Routledge / Intellect Books ABSTRACTS: Round 1: Feb 10th / Round 2: Apr 10th Present: in-person, skype, pre-recorded film (for delegates who cannot travel) - Web address: https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-conference/ Enquiries: admin@architecturemps.com Sponsored by: University of Kent / AMPS _ HIGHLIGHT NOTICE 1: Pedaggy Publication Educators who discuss issues of teaching and learning will be considered for the Routledge book series "Focus on Design Pedagogy". HIGHLIGHT NOTICE 2: Media Publication This event is part of the conference and book series 'Mediated Cities'. Previous events in London, Los Angeles, Bristol, Istanbul. Four books in Intellect Book series. Book five will come from this event. HIGHLIGHT NOTICE 3: Connected Events The conference and its publications both form part of a series including: - Florida State University. "Experiential Design – Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments". 16-17 January 2020 - City University of London. "The City and Complexity – Life, Design and Commerce in the Built Environment". 17-19th June, 2020 - FULL CALL: Today the digital is ubiquitous across all disciplines connected with life in cities: urban history, architecture, planning, art, design, media, communications, and more. Examples abound. As the Western world comes to deeper understandings of its heritage in the 21st Century, technology is ever more present in our reading of the past. Data mapping is standard in conservation and social history. Archaeologists use digital tools in geophysics, laser scanning, and compositional analysis. Landscape and architectural visualizations populate museums across the world. In architecture, computational design uses algorithms to replicate biology. Coding produces self-generated architectural form. Information modeling presents planners with interactive design in real time. The city is seen as 'smart'. In film and animation, digital models create fictitious places on scales unimagined. Installation artists make space interactive through digitising motion, sound and heat. Projection mapping allows artists to reinterpret the past in-situ. Photographers use digital cameras to document city stories. Marketing, technology and communication mediates the city experience 24/7. In every field, educators are responding. As the tools we use today merge and blur across disciplines, this conferences asks educators and professionals to consider the following. How can we best manage, direct and utilize the unique potentialities of this interdisciplinary and technological moment? Are we rethinking objects of art and design from the past and future? Are we reconsidering modes of communication, styles of teaching and ways of living? Are we seeing new links between designed objects, visualized spaces and cultural meanings? Are we understanding creative, documentary and media practices in new ways? Are we developing our own knowledge through the technologies, tools or thinking of other disciplines? Based on this interdisciplinary approach, the conference welcomes educators and professionals in: Architecture, Urban design, History, Archaeology, Heritage, Art, Design, Technology, Communications, Media, Film, Cultural studies - https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-conference/ admin@architecturemps.com