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SUMMARY:Agency/Agents of Urbanity Colloquium
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150601
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
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. Call for contributions is now open: http
 ://contour.epfl.ch/fr/agencyurbanity/\nUrbanity is an elusive quality of a
 n urban place.  It can be found in an Alpine town and yet be absent from 
 a large American city.  It is neither determined by building density\, po
 pulation density nor good design.  Urbanity is a quality that emerges fro
 m a combination of elements that is greater than its parts.  Nothing that
  contributes to its presence seems to do so intentionally.  The failure o
 f many attempts to artificially create urbanity suggests it will remain ju
 st out of reach.  It is both physical and social\, manifest and ephemeral
 —it cannot be fabricated.\nOr can it?  A contemporary understanding of 
 agency would suggest that each element both human and non-human that compr
 ises the experienced environment engages passively or actively in creating
  the emergent phenomena we call urbanity.  From the people in physical an
 d digital places to the technologies that mediate their interactions to th
 e sensory qualities of the built and natural environments and the affordan
 ces they provide for movement and co-presence\, urbanity as contingent and
  constructed can only be unpacked through the lenses of multiple methods\,
  objects and theories of research.\nInformation concerning registration fe
 es and accommodation possibilities will be available by February 16th.
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