Some might be interested in the workshop below, which addresses
issues of personal technologies in public spaces.
regards
James
Invitation to participate in the Final Non-Place Workshop
9-10 February 2006 at University of Edinburgh
http://ace.caad.ed.ac.uk/nonplace/finalworkshop/
If you are interested in principle in attending this workshop, please
indicate NOW by email to reserve a provisional place..
The final workshop/conference for the non-place network will be held
on Thursday and Friday 9-10th Feb 2006 in Edinburgh and will be
very similar in format to the workshop held June. It will review a
number of design, legibility and identity themes explored during the
past year and include references to the case-study of the Lunar House
Immigration Centre in Croydon.
Four sessions will take place over two half days, allowing travel
time on Thursday morning and Friday afternoon. We invite all non-
place network participants to propose short papers/presentations
relevant to the workshop themes below. Several speakers from outside
the network have also been invited. Feel free to attend if you do
not have a paper to present and only wish to take part in the
discussion. Places are limited so reserve a provisional place now,
and confirm no later than 25 January.
One of the key aims of this workshop is to consolidate topics and
partnerships for future research funding, and we expect a lively
presentation of ideas and informed discussion.
Travel costs, subject to certain limitations, can be reimbursed.
Please indicate whether you are interested in attending this
workshop, and an approximate estimate of your travel costs.
Accommodation will be made for all confirmed participants if
required, and venue details will be forwarded. If you wish to
present a short talk of 10 minutes, please provide the subject area
and preferably a presentation title.
Queries on expenses, accommodation, venue, local transport, should be
addressed to myself ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). To ensure you receive
a prompt reply, please ensure “final NonPlace Workshop” appears in
the subject line of your email.
Queries on the workshop content, or if you would like to present a
talk, should be addressed to my colleague, James Stewart
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
Thursday 9 February 2006
1pm start with lunch
Session 1 : "Backdoor design" in bureaucratic/public sector non-places
How stakeholders negotiate overstretched, regulatory bureaucractic
systems. (case study of Migrant and Asylum Processing Centre)
Session 2 : “Making and unmaking”
The processes by which non-places are created and dismantled,
designed and undone
Evening: Workshop Dinner
Friday 10 February 2006 Flows and Identities
Session 3 : “Designing Legible Cities: Text, Context and Orientation”
Legibility: How the built fabric and information technologies
interact to encourage or inhibit urban legibility, wayfinding and
orientation.
Session 4 : “Signage and identity”
Identity: How selves and groups are configured and re-configured in
and through non-places.
Close with lunch
Full elaboration of the themes and programme are at http://
ace.caad.ed.ac.uk/nonplace/finalworkshop/
NON-PLACE FINAL SUMMATIVE WORKSHOP
Back-Door Design
Examining Commercial, Transportation and Public Service Hubs as Non-
Place Exemplars
Non-places are the everyday spaces of late-capitalist cities:
airports, malls, supermarkets, motorways, hotels, banks, call-
centres, uncertain bureaucratic spaces. In contrast to traditional
places, where orientation and belonging are predicated on the
knowledge that accrues through sedentary and localized inhabitation,
non-places are designed to be experienced by transitory and mobile
subjects: shoppers, commuters, corporate nomads, tourists,
itinerants, migrants, road warriors, virtual workers. Orientation in
non-places is guided and controlled by diverse forms of information
that generate dense, overlapping way-finding and navigation
conventions and technologies.
Complaints about non-place commonly identify a loss of personal
identity, a decline in meaningful relations amongst the users of
spaces, and the forgetting of history. One design response to these
deficits is to restore identity, relations and memory: to make non-
places more homely. A second category of response yields to the grain
of non-places, examining the crevices and interstices of non-place,
its flows and resistances, micro-practices and thresholds, to provoke
liberating and finely-honed design responses.
This concluding workshop draws together the four main threads of this
non-place project.
1. Bureaucratic non-place How stakeholders negotiate overstretched,
regulatory bureaucractic systems. (Migrant and Asylum Processing Centre)
2. Design The processes by which non-places are created and
dismantled, designed and undone. (Making and unmaking)
3. Legibility How the built fabric and information technologies
interact to encourage or inhibit urban legibility, wayfinding and
orientation. (Designing Legible Cities: Text, Context and Orientation)
4. Identity How selves and groups are configured and re-configured in
and through non-places. (Signage and identity)
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