Conceptualising Environment(s): Continuity and Change

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An ‘environment’ fundamentally describes a relationship between an object or subject, and its surrounding conditions or elements (from the French environer: ‘to surround, encircle, encompass’). We can only define our environment – what surrounds us – through an understanding of who and what we are. This conference explores the multiplicity of meanings behind the widely used term ‘environment’ and how they are used in architecture and related subjects, in both contemporary and historical practice. Architects and planners have the unique responsibility to alter environments, whether or not they understand how to navigate or overcome constraints associated with these uncertainties. By retaining socio-political and cultural dimensions at the centre of new explorations along natural environments, human-centred environments and controlled environments, this conference aims to highlight the limitations of technologically-driven innovations and how they can be addressed.

Conference convenors

• Dr Ranald Lawrence, University of Liverpool
• Dr Christina Malathouni, University of Liverpool
• Dr Yat Shun Kei, University of Liverpool

Speakers

• Professor Daniel A. Barber, TU Eindhoven
• Dr Jiat-Hwee Chang, National University of Singapore
• Professor Susannah Hagan, University of Westminster
• Professor Dean Hawkes, Cardiff University/University of Cambridge
• Professor Paul Memmott, University of Queensland
• Professor Alison Page, University of Technology Sydney
• Professor Kerstin Sailer, UCL
• Professor Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield
• Dr Claudia Westermann, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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