Poiesis: Interdisciplinary Interventions on Urban Transformation
The Poiesis symposium will take place in Cambridge on July 25-27 2012. The symposium is the culmination of a three year research project on the making and remaking of cities led by Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun in partnership with the BMW/Herbert Quandt and Gerda Henkel Foundations. Over three days, the international, interdisciplinary, group of scholars and practitioners involved in the project – from architects and filmmakers to physicists, sociologists and lawyers – will be convened by Cambridge geographer Ash Amin to discuss the future city. Combining plenaries, workshops and roundtable discussions, the symposium will debate the salience of reading the city from its physical and cultural infrastructures, the potential of urban democracy ‘by design’, and the implications of comprehensive urbanism for social thought and political practice.
Poiesis: Interdisciplinary Interventions on Urban Transformation
The Poiesis symposium will take place in Cambridge on July 25-27 2012. The symposium is the culmination of a three year research project on the making and remaking of cities led by Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun in partnership with the BMW/Herbert Quandt and Gerda Henkel Foundations. Over three days, the international, interdisciplinary, group of scholars and practitioners involved in the project – from architects and filmmakers to physicists, sociologists and lawyers – will be convened by Cambridge geographer Ash Amin to discuss the future city. Combining plenaries, workshops and roundtable discussions, the symposium will debate the salience of reading the city from its physical and cultural infrastructures, the potential of urban democracy ‘by design’, and the implications of comprehensive urbanism for social thought and political practice.