Date: Tuesday 11th of October 2005
Venue: GB051 Brunel University, Uxbridge UKTimetable:
1 pm – 2:30 pm: Postgrad Workshop (reading to be distributed)
3 pm – 5 pm: Staff WorkshopProf Rob Shields will be visiting Brunel in October and has agreed to conduct a series of informal seminars about airports, communications and mobility. Rob Shields is a reputed cultural sociologist whose work on social spaces – urban, virtual, public and private – at a range of scales from the embodied to the global has been widely acclaimed. By focussing on shopping malls, markets, theme parks, tourist attractions, and other consumption sites, his research seeks insights into the implications that spatializations, built environments and architecture have for personal identity and sociability, pleasure and taste, the cultures of public institutions, cities, and of ‘knowledge’ and ‘innovation’ societies. These seminars will give participants the opportunity to discuss and share their thoughts and ideas on airports.
The postgrad workshop is intended as a stimulating forum for students to discuss their thoughts in relationship to the themes and issues at stake in the MA in Media, Communication and Technology but also for any other postgrad students interested in this topic. The base of the discussion will be a reading from G. Fuller & R. Harley (2004) Aviopolis that will be available outside SS149 to be photocopied.
The staff workshop is intended as a forum for researchers interested in sharing preliminary thoughts and ideas on airports with the possibility to develop a research proposal around the topic. Seminar participants interested in developing a possible research agenda around airports will be invited to give a brief 5-10 minute *informal* talk on their interest in and approach to airports BUT of course we also welcome anyone who’d just like to sit in and participate in the general discussion. This will hopefully lead to a first “blue sky” discussion on airports and possible research interests and clusters.
Please RSVP as places are limited. If you have any questions or require further information, please contact: Dr. Monica Degen (monica.degen “at” brunel.ac.uk)
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This is great – I hope we will be able to work on a collaborative research project on airports in the near future; it would perhaps be something worthwhile to try out some forms of interaction via the weblog and involve a larger section of the space and culture network and other interested bloggers.