Spaces of Desire; Remembrance and Civic Power

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We would cordially like to invite you to participate in a two day symposium hosted by the School of Geography and Planning and Welsh School of Architecture.

This event will explore the value of theory in transforming our understanding of space and its formulation and contestation through desire. A prevailing tendency is to consider public spaces as subservient to static mechanisms of remembrance and grand conceptual notions rather than the intimate conduct of the human condition. The aim of this conference is to explore the role of desire in experiencing and forming the urban context. Our objective is to construct an interdisciplinary forum concerned with post-linguistic theories, such as those developed by Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida and Foucault, de-stabilising, de-constructing de-territorialising knowledge in order to re-consider the current civic environment.

This event will take place in the Glamorgan Building on the 30th June and 1st July 2016 and is open to innovative engagements with its core concepts through both academic and artistic interventions.