[Commlist] CFP: Arts & Culture: From the Tangible to the Digital

CULTURAL PASTS – The Tangible, Intangible & the Digital

BARCELONA
Dates: 15-17 July, 2024


A conference track led by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya at 
the Cultural Pasts Conference, Barcelona.


Place: Barcelona & Virtual

Abstracts: 10 Dec, 2023 (Round 1) | 25 April, 2024 (Round 2)

https://amps-research.com/barcelona-cultural-pasts/

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Track Call:

Today’s understanding of what we define as heritage is increasingly 
complex. If we take cities as an example, the notion that its historic 
importance is primarily related to the age of its structures, the 
quality of its buildings and the authenticity of its ancient 
architecture is increasingly questioned. On the one hand, the notion of 
intangible heritage draws our attention to the cultural myths, 
traditions and rituals that emerged from any given place, as well as the 
idea that we have to conserve phenomena such a language, storytelling or 
festivals unique to any given place – whether that be a towns, a village 
or a city.

Simultaneously, increasing digitization in the heritage sector lends 
itself to very different definitions of the importance of place, 
materiality and presence. In an age in which we can digitally 
reconstruct artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods and entire cities, 
questions such as the ‘stylistic authenticity’ of a historic building 
becomes moot. In a context in which tourists visit cultural sites 
through online experiences, the ‘spirit of a place’ becomes a secondary 
question. In a scenario in which visiting a building involves augmented 
reality experiences, the physicality of the historic object can take on 
a supporting role to our digitized immersion in the past.

Seen through these lenses when we think about heritage (whether related 
to the city, an art object, a designed artefact or a cultural product) 
we are obliged to consider issues that are, often at the same time, 
tangible, intangible and increasingly digital. This strand of the 
conference seeks to explore these expanded definitions of the past as 
they relate to the design, cultural and artistic life typical of cities, 
towns and regions. The case study of Barcelona as a host city is useful. 
A city renowned for its built urban form, the work of Antonio Gaudi and 
the variety of its cultural buildings and modernist architecture, it is 
also a city of creative art practice, deep-rooted cultural traditions, 
regional folklore and a strong sense of historical identity captured, 
amongst other ways, by the preservation of the Catalan language.

Picking up on the implications and potentialities of such themes, this 
strand welcomes contributions from a range of disciplinary fields: art 
and architectural history; conservation practice; preservation studies; 
cultural studies; tourism; design; art practice; the humanities and the 
social sciences.

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PUBLISHERS:
UCL Press |  Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ORGANISERS:
AMPS, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain


Part of the Urban Futures – Cultural Pasts conference.

MORE DETAILS:
https://amps-research.com/barcelona-cultural-heritage/


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