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SUMMARY:Agency/Agents of Urbanity Colloquium
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CATEGORIES:Call for proposal
DESCRIPTION:The PhD colloquium\, Agency/Agents of Urbanity\, to be held in
  2015 from June 1st to June 3rd at the École polytechnique fédérale de 
 Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland asks for contributions that shed light on o
 ne or several agents of urbanity. Abstracts of 500 words are to be submit
 ted to contour@epfl.ch by March 1st 2015 using the template provided at ht
 tp://contour.epfl.ch/en/formats/\nContributions can be anywhere from the e
 mpirical to the philosophical\, but should address one or several of the f
 ollowing themes:\nThinking Urbanity Materially and Agentially: What theore
 tical tools exist to help address the elusive nature of urbanity? How can 
 we think urbanity in a way that avoids reducing our investigations to pure
 ly social or spatial categories and interactions? How do we do justice to 
 the material aspects of urbanity—from the agency of urban morphology to 
 that of the seemingly ‘non-material’ (more ephemeral) practices that p
 romote or preclude urbanity’s existence? What is the place of non-human 
 agency in urbanity\nThe Performative Ontology of Urbanity: What is the per
 formative and emergent nature of urbanity? Who and what participates as ag
 ents in its production and what is the nature of this participation? What 
 are the meaningful actions that contribute to urbanity? How and at which s
 cales do the interactions between agents occur? How does the definition of
  urbanity (un)intentionally imply ‘non-urbanity’ and who or what precl
 udes the possibility of urbanity’s coming-into-being?\nFacilitating Urba
 nity: What agencies are at stake in facilitating the emergence of urbanity
 ? How can we measure urbanity or the potential of a place to support its e
 mergence? Are there certain elements of the social and physical environmen
 ts that are particularly important and how can we imagine their enrollment
  as agents within urbanity-enabling practices?\nParticipants should be cur
 rent PhD students or have completed their PhD in the last five years.
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