Call for Papers Sep 6, 2015

CFP: Writing Buildings (Kent, 14-16 Jul 16)

University of Kent, July 14 - 16, 2016
Deadline: Sep 30, 2015
Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent
Call for papers:
Writing Buildings
CREAte, the research centre for architecture and the humanities at the Kent School of University,
University of Kent, is holding a conference in collaboration with the Architectural Review which will
bring together quite different traditions of writing about historic buildings. The special character of
this conference is that speakers will be drawn from both academic and non-academic fields, and
from a range of disciplines that touch on architectural experience and history. In this way we aim
to offer a new experience for writers on architecture, interior design and urban space.
We are inviting papers from those in Architecture, English, History, Sociology, Film and Drama,
Landscape Studies and related disciplines with a specialist interest in writing about buildings and
urban spaces or experiences across different time periods. The common theme of the papers will
be the uses of a variety of voices in creating architecture culture.
Writing Buildings will be a two-day conference on the subject of alternative ways of writing
architectural history which will encourage experimentation in criticism through breaking
disciplinary barriers. The programme will include papers from both academic disciplines and
non-academic professions which engage with the built environment, for example, journalism,
interior design and construction, as our keynote speakers demonstrate:
Iain Sinclair / Writer
Matthew Beaumont, UCL / Psychogeographer
Jonathan Meades / Writer and Film Maker
Alexandra Harris, University of Liverpool / Cultural Historian
Barbara Penner, Bartlett, UCL / Material Anthropologist
Jonathan Reed / Interior Designer
Ben Campkin, Bartlett, UCL / Urban Geographer
Ian Dungavell / former director, the Victorian Society
We will organise at least one project-based writing event outside the conference hall. We are
currently planning to hold this in collaboration with Turner Contemporary as part of their innovative
Waste Land project.
We will update news about the conference, including information about events, talks and activities
on this website:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/architecture/conference/2016/writingbuildings/
Publication:
Both previous CREAte conferences have resulted in edited books by leading international
academic publishers and we anticipate that this will happen again this time. In addition, the widely
read and respected international journal The Architectural Review will promote the conference
and intends to publish papers from it.
Conference directors:
Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent
Dr Catherine Richardson, School of English, University of Kent

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Call for Papers Sep 6, 2015

Tom Wilkinson, History Editor, The Architectural Review.

Abstract submission:
Abstracts should be approx. 250 words long.
Abstract submission deadline: 30 September 2015
Notification of acceptance of papers: by 31 January 2015
Conference dates 14th-16th July 2016
Email your abstract to: WritingBuildings@kent.ac.uk<mailto:WritingArchitecture@kent.ac.uk>
Contact for further information: Timothy Brittain-Catlin at tjb33@kent.ac.uk<
mailto:tjb33@kent.ac.uk> or Catherine Richardson on c.t.richardson@kent.ac.uk<
mailto:c.t.richardson@kent.ac.uk>

Reference:
CFP: Writing Buildings (Kent, 14-16 Jul 16). In: H-ArtHist, Sep 6, 2015 (accessed Sep 21, 2015),
<http://arthist.net/archive/10920>.

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