ESRC Research Seminar Series

‘Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place’
An ESRC Research Seminar Series

Seminar Two: Senses and architecture

The second seminar seeks to move on from, but be informed by, the more pluralistic understandings of the senses detailed in the previous seminar by focusing on how sensory understandings have filtered into disciplines such as architecture and urban planning.  The specific focus will be on built form and will bring together disparate groups working in areas such as: the relationships between public and private space; buildings and their various uses; the sensory qualities of the material world and their social significance; multi-sensory appreciations of physical urban artefacts; materials and their sensory significance.

Convenors: Professor Simon Guy, Manchester

Keynote Speaker: Professor David Howes, Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Canada
(Editor of Berg's Sensory Formations series)

Date: Friday 29th June 2007

Venue: Urbis, Cathedral Gardens, Manchester, M4 3BG (see http://www.urbis.org.uk/visitors.asp)

Directions: Urbis is located in Cathedral Gardens in Manchester City Centre, just next to Victoria Station and easily accessible by bus, train, tram, car or on foot. See Urbis' webpage for disabled access

Programme Details:

Pre-Programme: Thursday 28th June 2007
Tour of Victoria Baths and Meal

5.25pm: Meet at the Victoria Baths for a tour 5.30-6.30pm. The front entrance is currently scaffolded so enter via a disabled ramp on Bax Street to the left of the baths. Our tour guide will be Neil Bonner. Directions to the baths can be found on the website http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/map.htm

7pm: We will eat together at a simple, cheap but delicious Pakistani Café called AL-FAISAL, 58 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter

8pm: We will explore the pubs and nightlife of the Northern Quarter

Main Programme: Friday 29th June 2007
Seminar

09.30 - 10.00	Registration (refreshments are available from the Café at URBIS)
10.00 - 10.30	Welcome and introduction; Simon Guy, University of Manchester
10.30 - 11.30	Key-note Speaker: David Howes, Concordia University, 'Street Sense: An Archeology of Urban Sensations'
11.30 - 12.00	Steven Milner, University of Manchester 'Making sense in/of the premodern city'
12.00 - 12.30	Group Discussion
12.30 - 13.00	Lunch
13.00 - 13.30	Sensewalk around Manchester City Centre led by Kye Askins. University of Northumbria.
13.30 - 14.00	Tea/coffee
14.00 - 14.45	Jonathan Hines, Architype 'Sustainable design and the senses'
14.45 - 15.30	Anna Liu, Tonkin Liu Ltd 'UltraNatural'
15.30 - 15.45	Discussant: David Howes
15.45 - 16.45	Group Discussion
16.45 - 17.00	Next steps - planning forthcoming seminars

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