ESRC Research Seminar Series

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

Seminar Six: Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place

This final seminar in the SenseScapes series will draw together the themes, issues and questions developed in the course of the previous five seminars. A number of participants who have attended two or more seminars in the series have been commissioned to present their thoughts on the threads, connections and cross-cutting themes emerging in the series, from a variety of different perspectives. The focus of this final seminar will be threefold, returning to three core SenseScapes questions that initiated the series: to what degree do sensory theories and methods fundamentally reshape our understanding of the urban experience (is it a genuine academic 'turn' or a fashionable diversion)?, how well equipped are we to proactively intervene in the sensory production of place?, and, if the SenseScapes agenda is to become further embedded in academic practice what form of research proposals, bids etc will usefully extend the emergent network?

Convenors: Dr Mags Adams, Salford and Prof Simon Guy, Manchester

Date: Wednesday 25th June 2008 (with meal on Tuesday 24th June 2008)

Venue: Hanson Room, Ground Floor, Humanities Building, Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester

Directions: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/az/ (Building 35)
http://www.manchester.ac.uk//visitors/travel/
Nearest train station: Manchester Oxford Road

Programme Details:

Pre-Programme: Tuesday 24th June 2008
Meal
6pm: On the evening before the seminar we will have a meal at the Manchester Museum on Oxford Road. There will be a drinks reception at 6pm followed by a sit-down meal.

Main Programme: Wednesday 25th June 2008
Seminar

09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 11.00	Welcome and 15 minute discussants from previous seminars Dr Kye Askins, Northumbria University Tim Stephens, Artist Dr Mike Fedeski, Cardiff University
11.00 - 11.30	Open discussion
11.30 - 11.45	Coffee
11.45 - 13.00	Break out sessions - small group discussions on emerging themes
13.00 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 15.30	Groups report back - 10 minutes each
15.30 - 16.30	Open discussion and next steps
16.30	Close

Attendance at the seminar will be limited to 35 participants.  Places will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis within 4 categories:  academic/researcher; community-based/voluntary organisation staff; statutory practitioner/policy maker; private sector staff.  Please complete and send a request for registration if you would like to attend. 

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