6th AHRA International Conference
20-21 November 2009
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh College of Art

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Sanne Dijkstra-Downie
AHRA Conference 2009
School of Arts, Culture and Environment
University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1JZ

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Field/work

Fieldwork has always been integral to the work of architects and landscape architects and the many forms of associated scholarship, from the site visit to the grand tour to the social survey. As the sites of design work and scholarship have become increasingly complex and mediated, the questions as to what and where the field is, how we collect data, how we ensure its reliability, and how it informs design work have renewed theoretical and practical significance.

Hosted by The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art, the conference has been developed in collaboration with colleagues at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and VARIE (Visual Art Research in Edinburgh). The conference call for papers outlined an ambition to examine the question of field/work in its historical, contemporary, disciplinary and inter-disciplinary terms. The conference aims to address conventions of praxis/action in architecture and landscape architecture in particular, across media, scales, cultures: to articulate current discourses on the topic, and to identify critical dilemmas and opportunities for future practices of design and research.

Keynote speakers - Professor Andrea Kahn (New York), Professor Sarah Pink (Loughborough), Alan Dein (London), Can Altay (Istanbul) - have been invited to draw attention to, and to enable articulation of, a range of theory-practice knowledges, discourses and hi(stories): architectural, visual, sensory, oral, spatial. 56 parallel paper sessions from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, art history, visual culture, sound design, geography, education and digital technology, will be presented over the two days, and a selection of visual ‘findings’ have become part of an exhibited backdrop to the proceedings.

Website: www.fieldworkconference.net

www.fieldworkconference.net has been set up to act as an ongoing construction, an
archive, depository, network, informal discussion space of the conference. Please feel
free to add to this site during and after the conference, and to connect this to other
sites. FieldSunday is a collation of events taking place on Sunday 22 November in
InSpace, a new exhibition space in the Informatics Forum at The University of Edinburgh.

Suzanne Ewing, Conference Director

A selection of papers will be edited for publication in spring/summer 2010 as part of the AHRA Critiques Series.

 

FIELD/WORK PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER

Opening event

The Talbot Rice Art Gallery

6.00-7.30pm

Darwin’s Edinburgh, An Entangled Bank [ www.ace.caad.ed.ac.uk/Darwin]

Traditions of field/work Iain Boyd Whyte

 

FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER

Coffee and registration

Foyer/ Common Room,

Minto House (20 Chambers Street)

9am onwards

Conference introduction

Lecture Room 1, Minto House

09.30-10.00

Keynote speaker

10.00- 11.00

field : work Andrea Kahn

Paper sessions

11.30-12.30

 

Elliot Room Chair: Alex Bremner

Hi(stories) of field/work: Research

David Knight (University of East London)

The subversive survey: Arquitectura Popular em Portugal

Carolina Blanco (Hokkaido University), Hidetsugu Kobyashi (Hokkaido University)

Magic Realism in Slum Districts: Revealing Fictions and Facts through Fieldwork

Heba Mostafa (University of Cambridge)

The 'Agency' of Spies; Espionage and the Early 20th century Middle Eastern Archaeology

 

Geddes Room Chair: Dorian Wiszniewski

Hi(stories) of field/work: Construction

Prue Chiles (University of Sheffield), Carolyn Butterworth (University of Sheffield)

Field Diaries

Paul Emmons (Virginia Tech University)

Drawing Sites: Site Drawings

Mhairi McVicar (WSA, University of Cardiff)

Contested Fields: negotiations between concept and construction

 

Lecture Room 1 Chair: Peg Rawes

Hi(stories) of field/work: Practice

Emily Scott (University of California, Los Angeles)

Group Pioneering: Robert Smithson and Circle’s Early Forays to the Field

Gwyn Jones (University of Westminster)

On the Road with Frank Lloyd Wright

Catherine Venart (Dalhousie University )

Spatial Practice a Methodology: The documentation of W Riphahn's work

Lunch 12.30

Common Room, Minto House

Paper sessions 1 . 3 0 -3.00

 

Elliot Room Chair: Jérémie McGowan

Trips (to the field)

Michael Ostwald (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Open Fields: the complexities and contradictions of fieldwork in Learning From Las Vegas

Peter Butler (West Virginia University)

'Roadwork' to 'Fieldwork': Pedagogic approaches to the Experience of Travel and Place

Libby Haslam (University of Utah)

Site subtraction: analytical abstraction

Rogério Akamine (University of São Paulo)

Fieldwork to inform projects for urban open spaces

 

Geddes Room Chair: Igea Troiani

Constructions (the wider field)

Adam Sharr (WSA, University of Cardiff)

The Field of Global Capital: On Herzog and De Meuron's Caixa Forum

Robert Proctor (Glasgow School of Art)

Modern Church Architect as Ritual Anthropologist

Florian Kossak (University of Sheffield)

An Architect's Tagwerk- notes on Otto Steidle's work

Michael Chapman (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Love is a battlefield: Architecture and Desire in the spatial fields of Marcel Duchamp

 

Lecture Room 1 Chair: Stephen Cairns

Appropriations (in the field)

Jonathan Hill (University College London)

Working with the Weather

Catherina Gabrielsson (London School of Economics)

Inside the cave, outside the discipline

Richard Coyne (ESALA, University of Edinburgh)

Excursion and return: hermeneutics in action

Stephen Walker (University of Sheffield)

The Field and the Table: Rosalind Krauss’ ‘Expanded Field’ and the Anarchitecture group

Paper sessions 3.15-4.30

 

Elliot Room Chair: Chris Speed

Visual/cinematographic field practices + strategies

Krystallia Kamvasinou (University of Westminster)

Editing the field: video tales from globalised cityscapes

Renata Tyszczuk (University of Sheffield)

Open Field: Documentary Game

Maria Hellstrom Reimer (SLU Department of Landscape Architecture Stockholm)

Land Use Poetics

 

Geddes Room Chair: Dagmar Weston

Spatial field practices + strategies

Tatjana Schneider (University of Sheffield), Jeremy Till (University of Westminster)

The sites of Spatial Agency

Peter Mortenbock (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Helge Mooshammer (Goldsmiths

College, University of London)

Re(in)stating the field - Networked Cultures Dialogues

Paul Jenkins (ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art)

Working across fields of architectural knowledge

 

Lecture Room 1 Chair: Dorian Wiszniewski

material field practices + strategies

Anastasia Karandinou (ESALA, University of Edinburgh), Martin Parker (University of Edinburgh)

Sonic Fields

Matthew Neville (Catholic University, Leuven)

Re-presenting difference in the Cosmopolis. Towards a new cartographic language in urbanism.

Sarah Lappin (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Two-way transmission: identifying, describing and working with social and cultural fields

exhibition openings

coffee and tea

Matthew Architecture Gallery + Maltings

Field/Work cases, city speculations, urban studio

4.30-5.30

Keynote speaker

Lecture Room 1

5.30- 6.30

visual field : work Sarah Pink

Dinner

Edinburgh College of Art

Sculpture Court

Marcellus and Venus

7.15pm

 

SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER

Keynote speaker

Lecture Room 1

09.30-10.30

oral field : work Alan Dein

Keynote speaker

Lecture Room 1

10.30-11.30

spatial field : work Can Altay

Paper sessions

11.45-12.45

 

Elliot Room Chair: Gerry Adler

field/work: articulating method

Martin Beattie (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

The Ethics of Dialogue: Hybrid Ethnographies and Research Approaches

Justin Fowler (GSD, Harvard University)

Distance and Constituency: Locating Al Ain's Cultural Identity (a case study)

Els Vervloesem (TU Eindhoven)

Other Urbanisms. Space-making Processes within the Spanish Community in Rotterdam (1961-1974)

 

Geddes Room Chair: Jérémie McGowan

field/work: articulating method

Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland), Gale Macleod (University of Edinburgh)

Tripping, slipping and losing the way: moving beyond methodological difficulties in social research

Anna Ryan (University of Limerick)

Method as philosophy: fielding the research experience between architecture and geography

Eleni Kyrou (University College London)

Practical Learning Environments and the Emergence of The Learner Planner Practitioner in Fieldwork

 

Lecture Room 1 Chair: Adam Sharr

field/work: articulating method

Ella Chmielewska (ESALA, University of Edinburgh), Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak (University of

Dusseldorf)

The critical where of the field: a reflection on fieldwork as a situated process of creative research.

Flora Samuel (University of Sheffield), Fearghal Murray (University of Bath)

Storytime

Peter Kellett (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Living in the field: ethnographic experiences of place

Lunch

AHRA Update

Common room, Minto House

12.45

Igea Troiani, Jonathan Hale

Paper sessions

1.30-3.00

 

Elliot Room Chair: Chris Speed

contested fields

Gregory Cowan (University of Westminster)

Street Occupations and the Night Economy in Kings Cross, London

Lianne Verstrate (TU Eindhoven)

“A labour of love and community spirit” - The socio-spatial history of playground Afrikaanderplein in

Rotterdam (1914-2009)

Terry Meade (University of Brighton)

In the Field and After the Field - Responding to Events on the Ground

 

Geddes Room Chair: Gordana Fontana-Giusti

contested fields

Yehotal Shapira (Technicon, Israel), Rachel Kallus (Technicon, Israel)

Testimony of and from the Site: Architecture rooted in solidarity and friendship

Karim Hadjri, (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Revitalising the Buffer Zone of Nicosia, Cyprus: A vision from Academia

 

Lecture Room 1 Chair: Igea Troiani

contested fields

Miriam Fitzpatrick (University College Dublin)

How do urban theorists arrive at their method of interrogating the field?

Stephen Cairns (ESALA, University of Edinburgh), Ray Lucas (University of Edinburgh), William

Mackanass (University of Edinburgh), Vlad Tanasescu (University of Edinburgh)

Patch Urbanism in Southeast Asia: A fieldwork report

Kelly Shannon (Cartholic University, Leuven)

Vietnamese Field /work: The Case of Hanoi’s Water Urbanism

Coffee and tea 3.00pm

Paper sessions

3.30-4.30

 

Elliot Room Chair: Jérémie McGowan

practices + experiments: architecture

Aslihan Senel (Istanbul Technical University)

Critical Topographic Practices

Igor Marjanovic (University of Washington) Lindsay Stouffer (University of Washington)

Blighted

Dagmar Motycka Weston (ESALA, University of Edinburgh)

The Language of Stones: From the field to a situated architecture

 

Geddes Room Chair: Suzanne Ewing

practices + experiments: landscape

Ted Cavanagh (Dalhousie University)

Technology in coastal fields

John Stuart Murray (ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art)

How useful are the concepts of Erasure, Origination, Transformation and Migration in Teaching?

Stephen Fai (Carleton University)

Carleton Immersive Media Studio

 

Lecture Room 1 Chair: Stephen Walker

practices + experiments: networks

Lola Sheppard (Lateral Office, University of Waterloo)

From Field/work to Net/work

Jill Seddon (University of Brighton)

Landscape with Statues: recording the public sculpture of Sussex

Ross McLean (ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art)

The Diagrammatic Landscape: A Field Semiotic

Conclusions

Lecture Room 1

4.30-5.30pm

Andrea Kahn, Sarah Pink, Alan Dein, Can Altay + Conference Chairs

Articulation of theory-practice knowledges, discoursesand hi(stories); architectural, visual, sensory, oral, spatial field : work

 

SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER

FieldSunday

InSpace,

University of Edinburgh

www.fieldworkconference.net

10.00am onwards

The FieldSunday practical symposium offers delegates the opportunity to take part in a series of experiences that exploit the creative, spatial and social network capabilities of digital technology and other field practices.

 

 

 

 

 

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