City and self
Self and the City: An Exploration of Post-1945 Architecture, Urbanism and Identity
Friday 19 November - Saturday 20 November
Tate Modern
“This is the first conference devoted to the relationship between architecture and selfhood. Selfhood as a concept is familiar to philosophers and social scientists if less so to those involved in architecture. As an approach to the study of architecture and planning it involves the identification and examination of certain assumptions which have been made about the environment in which the human self will best flourish and achieve fulfillment …
This innovative two-day event will bring together a distinguished collection of architects, planners and urban historians. Focussing on the post-War period, they will explore the way proposals for the built environment often contain suggestions not only about ideal lifestyles, but also about the nature of identity, the psyche and human being itself …
The conference will approach the topic from the following perspectives:
1. The creation of meaning in the built environment.
2. The fostering of community, civic value and the public realm.
3. The volatile issues arising from social housing and public choice.
4. The attempt to provide ‘places’ which reconnect us with natural world.”
(via Archinect)