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• 03 sep 2016

  Rennes

  Call for papers - History

  Art and the Environment in Britain 1700-today

  Whether one thinks of environment as context, setting, climate change, green spaces or sounds, today’s epistemology invites us to rethink man’s relation to the external world to the extent that the “inside” and “outside” coalesce, nature and culture merge, man and animal are reconfigured. How have British artists responded to these shifting perceptions of the world around them, of this great swirling circle of life and non life in which they found – or imagined – themselves diversely positioned, for a long time at the centre, then in a more undefined place – at the margin even? How has art itself positioned itself in this newly defined environment?

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• 18 jan 2016

  19 jan 2016

  Rennes

  Study days - Representation

  Architectural criticism between public debate and autonomous discipline

  Mapping.Crit.Arch: Architectural criticism XXth and XXst centuries, a cartography

  This first workshop will focus on the relationship of architectural criticism with "public opinion" and on the opposite side, its relations to architecture as an "autonomous" discipline. The various nature and degree of such an autonomy will be examined in different historical, institutional and cultural contexts: to what extent is architectural criticism autonomous from social uses of architecture, from the architectural design and its economic production?

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