When: |
24 Jan through 24 Jan 2021 | |
Where: |
Online Event | United Kingdom | |
Website URL: |
https://urbanstudies.lcir.co.uk/workshop/ | |
Sponsoring organization: |
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Academic LAB | |
Categories: |
Arts & Humanities - Other |
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Event description:
Cinema has had its focus set on the city ever since the former's inception. Twentieth century witnessed probably the most radical transformation of urban form, and it was film that came in as the prime medium of inscription, dissemination and reflection on urbanity.
Still, a strictly historical concept of the city, viewed as an amassing of layered pasts, is a relatively new invention, introduced in the post-war years by memory studies and heritage preservation discourse. Nevertheless, even before the Venice Charter (1964) a number of film directors eagerly commented on the modern politics of amnesia.
Their historical vantage point on urban metamorphoses will be the central theme of this workshop. We will inspect filmic cityscapes through the lenses of architectural and urban manifestos and critical writings of Aldo Rossi, Manfredo Tafuri, Anthony Vidler, Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Rem Koolhaas, alongside other key figures in the 20th century's theories o...
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