Call For Papers: The City, Literature, and Architecture in Portugal
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Closing date: 15th November 2015
In his novel Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino suggests that the city should never be confused with the words that describe it. However, he emphasises that there is a strong connection between the two. Cities bear witness to the roots of our identity within the world and are the result of the transformation of spaces into human places. Urban spaces are inhabited and created by different languages and discursive forms disclosed by the diverse symbolic elements that are brought together inside its boundaries, once literally walls that are today stylish architectural contours. Besides, the city is itself a discourse that communicates with its inhabitants who shape it while walking, by changing its symbols and reinterpreting its meanings in different ways. Urban space, considered as city-text, is thus a subversive territory that is permanently negotiating different accounts and interpretations of itself.
Literature and architecture are two of the discourses that contribute the most to the shape of the city, since they are responsible for the creation and representation of urban scenarios and for the mythmaking of urban landscapes as alive and circumstantial spaces, which can nevertheless assure and crystalize territorial identities. Literature and architecture share the quality of putting things into perspective while defining ways of seeing and recreating places and stories. Álvaro Siza, quoting Fernando Pessoa, states his belief that architecture does not have a pre-existing language: “What I am, what I do, what I am not capable of, is like a terrace, a terrace on the top of something else. And that something else is beautiful.”
Taking the previous into consideration, dearq is opening a Call For Papers in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, for articles and projects on the subject of literature and architecture relating to the construction and representation of the city. Interdisciplinary proposals will be accepted if they centre on the analysis of literary representations of architecture in Portugal, or examine the interconnected influences between Portuguese literature and architecture.
This edition brings together research that contemplates urban space, not only as a symbolic or metaphorical space where identities are shaped, but also as a territory where individual and collective experiences interconnect, different times and spaces come together, and where discursive conflicts arise.
Guest Editor:
Ana Filipa Prata, PhD
Universidad de los Andes
Leitora Camões, I.P.
http://dearq.uniandes.edu.co/news/2015/convocatoria-ciudad-literatura-y-arquitectura-portugal
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