Call for abstracts “IASTE 2020 : Virtual Traditions” (deadline: October 18, 2019)
IASTE 2020: VIRTUAL TRADITIONS : THE TRANSIENCE OF TRADITION IN CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES AND GLOBAL LANDSCAPES

Website: IASTE 2020
18th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), September 3–6, 2020, Nottingham Trent University : Nottingham, United Kingdom
Conference Theme
Tradition has multiple forms, manifestations, and influences that
shape the processes used to produce, transform, preserve, and consume
built environments in synch with socio-cultural and economic change.
Over the past 30 years, IASTE has helped shape the discourse around the
political, cultural, economic, and legal frameworks of tradition. As
successive generations hand down building traditions, the endurance of
these traditions typically relies on the continuing significance of the
built environment to the everyday life of communities, societies, and
nations. Yet contemporary societies are increasingly confronted with new
forms of communication that are mobile, digital and remote, and hence
the very notion of tradition is undergoing a rhetorical transition
according to the new global economy and boundary-less conditions of
citizenship that are influencing, mobilizing, and manipulating built
environments.
With the predominance of mobile communication,
social media, and online interaction, the terms “virtual” and
“tradition” are no longer at opposite ends of cultural discourse, as
they seemed to be a decade ago. Virtual space is developing
socio-cultural norms that dictate everyday life, while built
environments adapt to virtual events, spaces, and gatherings. IASTE 2020
Nottingham will explore how the mutual influences between the virtual
and the traditional reconfigure new structures of communities,
societies, and cities — extending and connecting built spaces. In an era
defined by social media and online interaction, new agents manipulate
traditions, values, myths, borders, and even the legitimacy of the built
environment in virtual space. Scientific innovation, data-mining,
algorithms, and spatial and digital modeling have thus led to new
methods of interpretation and mechanisms of decision-making that force a
reconsideration of the link between buildings and people, culture and
its consumers.
The organizers of IASTE 2020 Nottingham invite
participants to revisit the notion, concepts and practices of tradition
at a time when virtual and mobile interaction is increasingly dictating
the terms of everyday life, at home, at work, and in the public sphere.
Participants will investigate the intellectual dialogue and reciprocal
influences at the intersection of physical and virtual landscapes, and
reflect on how new methodologies, practices, policies, information
technologies, and even the parallel presence of virtual space and cloud
communications inform the meaning of tradition in the built environment.
By examining alternative futures of tradition, the conference
organizers anticipate a progressive inquiry and dialogue regarding the
epistemological and philosophical basis of tradition. As in past IASTE
conferences, we invite scholars, professionals, and practitioners from
architecture, architectural history, urban design, art history,
anthropology, archaeology, folklore, geography, history, planning,
sociology, political science, urban studies, conservation, design,
digital technologies, and related disciplines to submit papers that
address one of the following tracks.
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Pascal Fort (27 mai 2019). Call for abstracts “IASTE 2020 : Virtual Traditions” (deadline: October 18, 2019). Carnet de veille UMR AUSser. Consulté le 11 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/v090