[Commlist] CFP University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. Digital Arts and Cultures

(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S):

A conference on art, design, culture and technology – past, present, and 
future


Place: Canterbury, UK / Virtual.     Organisers: University of Kent

Dates: 15-17 June 2022.               Abstracts: 30 June 2021 (early)
https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-2022/


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Themes: Digital Art  |  Art Practice  |  Digital Design | Urban 
imaginaries  |  Heritage | Conservation | Preservation |  Technology  | 
 Society and Culture | Architecture |
Disciplines: Art, Design, Art history, Heritage, Design, Architecture, 
History, Technology, Sociology, Cultural studies

Publishers: Intellect Books | Routledge Taylor & Francis | UCL Press | 
Libri Publishing | Vernon Press | Cambridge Scholars Publishing


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Call:

The buildings, towns and cities we inhabit are physical entities created 
in the past, experienced in the present, and projected to inform the 
future. The same can be said of the artefacts we use daily: designed 
furniture in the home, the mobile devices in our hands, the vehicles we 
see on our streets. However, each of these places, buildings and 
products had, at their inception, social and cultural roles beyond their 
‘object’ status. They continue to have them today. What we understand a 
designed object to be then, is a complex question of material and social 
import, and an intricate play of the tangible and intangible identities. 
Increasingly, it is also a question of hybrid experiences and overlaid 
histories. This conference address the range of issues connected to this 
scenario.

Issues:

The complexity described above is even more pronounced in the case of 
digital artefacts and experiences such as computational design, VR 
simulations of ancient buildings, mobile apps, digital photography or 
virtual exhibitions. Intangible at the very moment of their inception, 
such designed artifacts not only blur the difference between the object 
and the experience, but, increasingly, the past and the present. 
Computer generated imagery creates ‘life like’ reconstructions of 
historic sites. Laser scanning gives archeologists glimpses of pasts 
erased long ago. Computational design gives designers instant recordings 
of their work in progress. Coupled with digital cataloguing, it gives us 
the instant asynchronous design archive.

Considered in this context it is not surprising that recently questions 
about the nature of heritage and design have opened up to redefinitions 
of the tangible and the intangible. What cultural impact do digital 
technologies today have on how we live in the ‘real world’? How should 
digital reconstructions of monuments and buildings be interlaced in 
material existence? How are hybrid online and physical events and 
artefacts to be archived in the future? How do the designers of cities 
and buildings engage with ‘being in the world’ through the medium of a 
screen? Indeed, what is the future of our physical artefacts, our 
constructed buildings, our cultural traditions and our interpersonal 
engagement? What, in short, remains of the ‘aura’ of the material 
object, as it relates to social readings and virtual experience.

Picking up strands of art, architecture, design and socio-cultural 
debates found throughout the twentieth century (and before) this 
conference welcomes reconsiderations of ‘heritage’ as both a tangible 
and an intangible concept. It seeks perspectives from design, 
architecture, cultural theory, social history, technology and the arts. 
It seeks to overlay our notions of the digital, on ideas of heritage and 
concepts of physicality and the present.


https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-2022/

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