Ein Call for Papers für eine Konferenz, die verspricht sehr interessant zu werden!
im Mai 2008 an der Universitätsbibliothek Ghent, deren einer Gebäudeteil (Book Tower) noch von Henry van de Velde stammt.
Das Thema der Konferenz liegt im Spannungsfeld zwischen Information, Wissen, Buch sowie Bibliothek einerseits und Geschichte, Architektur, Visualisierung und Netzwerken andererseits. Sie ist eine Art von Nachfolge-Konferenz für die im Jahre 2005 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, stattgefundene mit dem Titel "European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the past" sowie für das Kolloquium "Architecture of Knowledge: the Mundaneum and European Antecedents of the World Wide Web" am Mundaneum in Mons (Belgien) im Jahre 2002.
The conference will be organized around three main themes:
- The first theme explores spatial analogies in terms of social and intellectual networks. What are the geographic relationships and/or technological affordances that support or inhibit the development of such networks? What constrains their development and effectiveness and how do different kinds of network models help in understanding their formation, evolution and dissolution.
- The second theme deals with the space of knowledge and memory. How can we compare the encyclopedia and the museum, the book and the library, the diagram and the database? How do they use architecture to structure knowledge and how is architecture used as a metaphor of memory?
- The third theme explores the space required for speed, action and decision making. In modernity, fast and effective action generates its own space of organization, intelligence and feedback. What does this space look like, and what are the different ways in which it can be represented?