The Aesthetic Anxiety Symposium

AESTHETIC ANXIETY OR PERFORMATIVE SUBJECTIVITY: NATIONAL NARRATIVES ENCOUNTERING MIGRANT ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRALIA

This symposium calls for investigations on the encounters between migrant architecture, urbanism, landscape and national narratives. This may include investigation on the following typologies:
• Migrant houses, housing, hostels, camps, dwelling and gardens
• Migrant desire for non-marked migrant architecture as part of bid to ‘fit in’
• Migrant religious structures, adaptations, translations, heritage sites
• Work sites, industrial projects, industrial migrant communities, market gardens Migrant reception/detention centres including post-war ballrooms, on and off-shore,refugee centres
• Migrant urbanism – ‘street’ developments, espresso bars, ethnic clubs, signage
• Migrant suburban enclaves, children playgrounds We welcome investigations that have developed new approaches to historiography in order to address this field of research, and have developed methodologies that can attend to the complexity.

Details:
9:00 am – 7:00 pm, 17 November, 2017
Geelong Corporate Centre, Deakin University Waterfront Campus

Registration: $120/$50
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For more information, please contact Mirjana Lozanovska, Michele Lobo, Louise Johnson