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Call for Abstracts - Reconciling Urbanscapes

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The 2010 FORMCities Symposium is hosted by the Jackson Community Design Center with the Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art + Design. The deadline for the call for abstracts has been extended to July 1, 2010.

Reconciling Urbanscapes:

The spatiotemporal evolution of urban landscape in mid size American cities often exhibits landscape sorting - sometimes natural and often intentional. These sorted landscapes are characterized by pronounced lack of diversity, harmony and congruity along lines of race, income, and class. This symposium is an opportunity to generate creative ideas/images that reconcile urban landscapes, that redefine “wrong side of the tracks,” and produce an urban form with its emphasis on the assets of diversity. The symposium welcomes ideas, in which future growth trends reflect inclusion, cooperation, synergy, and mutualism. These ideas will provide temporal guidance to spatial images and become a part of an open set of ideas that guide a shared vision.

Please submit a 1000 word abstract to FORMCities.papers@gmail.com. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to present their full papers at the 2010 FORMCities Symposium on November 5-6 in Jackson, MS. This symposium will partner with the FORMCities Urban Divide Design Competition. More details regarding the competition are coming soon. Please visit our website for more information.

www.caad.msstate.edu/jcdc

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Comments:

ajotero
miami, fl
Sunday, June 06, 2010

I hate to sound like an anti-intellectual, but I couldn't understand a word of the "spatiotemporal evolution" discourse in your RFP. In my apparently overly simplified view of language, I have always used it as a means of communication, never as a tool for intimidation.
I see you work for a university. Do you mind getting somebody from the English department to translate?

Whitney
Jackson, MS
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

ajotero,

The language of our RFP was not meant to intimidate. Spatiotemporal just means existing in both space and time. It is a reference to explain a condition we find prevalent in many cities divided by urban forms, especially those which divide a population by race or class. The occupation of space surrounding these urban forms, such as rail road track or interstate thoroughfares very much relates to time, and the social evolution that parallels this occupation of space. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)