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<div><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:14px">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">We invite you to contribute with abstracts for the symposium
<b>Transvaluation: Making the world matter.</b> Please, also help us spread this information.
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">With excuse for cross-mailing, kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">conference organisers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-left:3.0pt;line-height:18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><img width="607" height="222" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFF8F0.F92BF200"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-left:3.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Call for abstracts – Brief<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">In the current measurement- and indicator-driven knowledge culture, research in architecture, art and several disciplines within humanities and social sciences may succumb
to economic or scientific models, or be separated from important contexts of invention, risking to reduce research largely to standardized reproduction. Responding to the current proliferation of evaluation systems and the dominant culture of measurement that
comes with it, the Transvaluation international symposium, May 21-22 2015, searches for alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of ‘making and thinking’, and ways to trans- and re-value research cultures from within.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">The ambition is a high quality event with top level keynote speeches, small format seminars and collective forum discussions, with the intent to start a broad debate addressing
fundamental strategic research questions across disciplinary borders, and to instigate possibilities for change.
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Key note speakers are international experts in social, global anthropology,
<b>Arjun Appadurai</b>; art researching practice and doctoral education, <b>Andrea Phillips;</b> and speculative realism and material objects,
<b>Graham Harman</b>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">The symposium will focus two major themes,<b> Poetics
</b>and <b>Politics of Value</b>, referring to the (re-)making of values, both in artistic and architectural practice and in human scientific research, and their related political and systemic aspects. These themes are examined through two conceptual lenses:
<b>Worlding</b> (shaping the world, transforming matter) and <b>U-topos </b>(space for speculative thinking and making).
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">We search for ways in which architecture, art, philosophy, anthropology and other areas of research may challenge, together, the very concept and formation of knowledge,
stretching and enriching it, hence “transvaluing” material and spiritual research cultures from within, disclosing alternative approaches and strengthening their logics of argumentation within the interdisciplinary frame, with potential to change its systemic
conventions.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">We now invite researchers, doctoral students and practitioners to submit abstracts for discussion at the symposium. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and, if selected, developed
into short papers. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Keywords</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">: transvaluation - poetics of value - worlding - architecture
- artistic research<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Deadline for abstracts: December 19, 2014.
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">For more information on the call and the selection process, please see end of this document or conference website,
<a href="http://www.chalmers.se/transvaluation" target="_blank">www.chalmers.se/transvaluation</a> .<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Key note speakers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Key note speakers (confirmed), actively taking part in the entire event:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Arjun Appadurai</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> – world famous social-cultural
anthropologist, discussing cultural activity as the social imaginary forming modernity and global cultural flows into dimensions of e.g. ethno-scapes and mediascapes. From a critical perspective on the global academic system, Appadurai has created the New
School University, New York, and is founder of the academic journal Public Culture.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Andrea Phillips</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> – renowned designer, curator
and Director of the Doctoral Research Programmes in Fine Art and Curating at Goldsmiths College, London University. Phillips also directs several international interdisciplinary research projects and publishes widely on art, curating, politics and public space.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Graham Harman</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> – contemporary philosopher of
metaphysics and professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. With outset in speculative realism and his concept of ‘object oriented philosophy’, Harman investigates alternatives to the linguistic turn in Western philosophy, hereby evoking extensive
debate on our hermeneutic relation to the (technological) world of objects.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Description of the symposium themes<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Transvaluation: Making the World Matter<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">in search for alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of ‘making and thinking’<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Challenges and themes</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
Academic research and education are currently dominated by a measurement-culture and the proliferation of evaluation systems that comes with it. In response to this, the symposium aims to outline the possibilities for
<i>alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of ‘making and thinking’</i>. Its first and most important concern is to start a broad debate on the following subjects: (1) the consequences of the (monopolization of) efficiency-standards
in the spheres of science and creativity – a tendency reinforced by the Bologna educational system – and (2) the search for viable alternatives.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
Efficiency-driven systems of evaluation are less innocent as one may think. They often hide an 'intellectual conformity', having nothing to do anymore with 'the animating spirit of discovery' and tending towards 'the mono-culture of a discipline grown too large
and the accompanying failure of imagination', in one word: to the<i> 'Big Creativity Deficit'</i> (Murphy 2013). The rapidly risen and universalized practices of evaluation-controlled knowledge-production are thought to have led, during 'the past forty years
[, to] a significant decline [of creativity] in the arts and sciences' (Murphy 2013).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
”The exhaustion of creative science and arts” seems to have a hard social and political counterpart in different forms of exclusion, typical of this 'age of globalization': knowledge-systems are increasingly, and anonymously, controlling us from above, whereas
we actually need a 'globalization from below', where imagination – no longer being 'a matter of individual genius, an escapism from ordinary life or just a dimension of aesthetics' – rather becomes a manifold 'faculty through which collective patterns of dissent
and <i>new design for collective life </i>emerges' (Appadurai 2000).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
Being part of a larger, already functioning project, this symposium seeks to initiate the debate, starting from the primarily architectural and artistic experience of working with concrete 'matter' and being, as a consequence, entirely involved in 'processes
of making'. However, we believe that these very processes of making and transforming matter are also crucial to the so-called hard sciences, and to the human and social sciences. That is why we would like to invite representatives of all of them to participate
in this debate.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
<b>Poetics of Value.</b> Using the – historical – familiarity with making and transforming matter of certain disciplines, we introduce the concept of a
<i>Poetics of Value</i>. 'Poetics' itself refers to the ancient Greek practice of
<i>poièsis</i> (producing, making, creating, composing), whereas the focus on 'values' stands for the desired reversal of systemic evaluation-practices in Academia. Thereby, Poetics of Value isn’t merely describing the relation between an
<i>individual</i> (artist, designer, philosopher, scientist) and the matter she or he is transforming; it also takes into account the inventive
<i>collective</i> effort communities all over the world will have to be engaged in as a 're-' and 'transvaluing' response to the challenging problems of our rapidly globalizing societies and economies.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
<b>Politics of Value</b>. That is why we simultaneously call for a <i>Politics of Value
</i>(following Appadurai, <a href="tel:1988" value="+661988" target="_blank">1988</a>), which is concerned with surpassing the possibly atomic relation between researchers and their objects, towards more complex meanings and frameworks of human transactions, attributions and motivations (Appadurai <a href="tel:1988" value="+661988" target="_blank">1988</a>, <a href="tel:1996" value="+661996" target="_blank">1996</a>).
'Practicing value' has an obvious ethical dimension we want to explore in these <i>
'Politics</i>'. The search for renewal, for originality and for the production of meaning, relates to the quest for the unexpected in making or transforming matter. This is essentially a culture-shaping activity which never aspires to reach stable knowledge
or a fixed state, but strives for continuous evolving perfectibility. Hence, the creative processes involved lie beyond sheer knowledge-accumulation, since new or unforeseen artistic forms and designs do not necessarily increase or diminish knowledge, nor
do they primarily seek to do so.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
<b>Worlding</b>. Both the Poetics and Politics of Value are perspectives directed towards an intensive rethinking and redesigning of human relations with the world. In order to get a better view on both perspectives we propose two specific 'lenses':
<i>Worlding</i> and <i>U-topos</i>. They represent a particular kind of practicing values that enables the enrichment and stretching of the concept of knowledge and the academic culture it creates. The idea of 'Worlding' refers to the fundamental task of research
to 'think and, somehow, start living new worldly shapes' (Spivak, Nancy, White, e.a.). Using the lens of 'Worlding' we seek to conceptualize future alternative knowledge-creating practices and future alternative values, instead of merely evaluating existing
knowledge procedures. This illuminates the very meaning of the Poetics and Politics of Value: to look ahead, to discover what remains hidden, to elaborate the speculative dimension of matter and material manipulation, engaging reality through the material
(Harman).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
<b>U-Topos</b>. The concept of 'U-topos' on the other hand is introduced as a place for utopian, speculative thinking. In contrast to preset images of 'Utopia', the U-topos encourages scholars and artists to think the not-yet visible and the not-yet valuable,
a thinking/making propelled by individual and shared, collective curiosities, towards the formulation of future values and learning needs, allowing different topics, concepts, themes, perspectives to collide and combine. U-topos is meant to be an exercise
in transforming both the 'spiritual' and 'material' working places of the future researcher – it represents university itself. The meaning, relevance and applicability of these concepts will be the object of debates during the symposium, from both angles:
'matter' (making, transforming, creating, designing) and 'thought' (critique, quest for alternatives, attempt to think the not-yet-available).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
The overall project is called <b>'Transvaluation'</b>, designed to be an organized and, hopefully, energizing attempt to overcome the possibility of a scientific mono-culture that is actually threatening to sacrifice the whole of academic inventiveness to systems
of calculable, quantitative measurement (creativity-deficit) and which is particularly harmful to many traditional creative disciplines, such as architecture, fine arts, philosophy, literature… The proposed debates are designed to be clear-cut: Can alternatives
be conceptualized? Can they prove to be fruitful? If so, how should they be structured? Can architecture and fine arts, specifically, contribute to this effort? And how? Can the science – both the hard sciences and the human and social sciences make their
contribution? And how? Can all these sciences and disciplines be convinced to join forces on this? Can university be effectively transformed in this sense?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
<b>Sources:</b><br>
Biggs, Michael, and Henrik Karlsson, eds. 2010. <i>The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts</i>. London: Routledge.<br>
Dunin-Woyseth, Halina. 2006. “The ‘Thinkable’ and ‘Unthinkable’ Doctorates. Three Perspectives on Doctoral Scholarship in Architecture.” In
<i>Building a Doctoral Programme in Architecture and Design</i>, edited by Jan Michl, and Liv Merete Nielsen, 149-174. Oslo: Oslo School of Architecture and Design.<br>
Murphy, Peter (2013). <i>Inaugural Lecture </i>at James Cooke University, Australia, School of Creative Arts (Wednesday 25 September 2013).<br>
Schiesser, Giaco. 2013. <i>“A Certain Frustration…”. Paradoxes, Voids, Perspectives in Artistic Research Today. In Practices of Experimentation</i>, edited by The Department of Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts, 97-110. Chicago: Chicago University
Press.<br>
Appadurai, Arjun <a href="tel:%281996" value="+661996" target="_blank">(1996</a>, 2005). <i>Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization</i>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; (2000),
<i>Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination</i>. In <i>Public Culture</i>, vol. 12, #1, pp. 1-19.<br>
Harman, Graham, ed., 2011. <i>The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism</i>. Melbourne: re.press.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Symposium format
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">The symposium aims to be a ‘call for debate’, therefore the emphasis is on conversation and discussion rather than paper presentations. Participants
will be invited to cooperate in exercises of speculative thinking, aiming at creating new places and new spaces for future fundamental research. The ambition is to form this as a 'high quality conversation' centered on
<b>statement-lectures </b>delivered by top level keynote speakers, <b>small salons
</b>where participants discuss each other’s papers (the grouping will be done beforehand and members of a group receive each other’s papers for reading and commenting), and
<b>forum debates </b>on the key themes. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">The statement-lectures (providing the input for debate and topics for the conversation) and the forum debates are plenary. The Salon is organised
in small groups of maximum 5x5 participants, with discussions moderated by members of the planning and review committee. The keynote speakers have already expressed their concerned interest for the themes and confirmed to take active part in the activities
of the entire event. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Preliminary schedule, May 21-22, 2015:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><br>
<b>May 21:</b><br>
09.30 Coffee + registration<br>
10.00 Intro<br>
10.15 statement lecture 1<br>
11.00 Salon 1 (maximum four groups of 25)<br>
12.30 Lunch + walk<br>
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16.30 Forum debate 1<br>
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09.00 Statement lecture 3<br>
10.00 Coffee<br>
10.30 Salon 3 (reshuffled groups) <br>
13.00 Lunch + walk<br>
14.00 Critical connections of discussions + wallpapers (to feed into Forum debate 3)<br>
15.30 Forum debate 3<br>
17.00 Summing up<br>
17.30 End of symposium<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Submission process
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Please submit abstracts of maximum 500 words (references may be added) before 19th of December to
<a href="mailto:transvaluation.arch@chalmers.se" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0072bc;text-decoration:none">transvaluation.arch@chalmers.se</span></a>. If accepted for the symposium, a short paper (maximum 7 pages including images) shall be delivered
to the same email address by the latest on 20 April 2015.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">December 19 Deadline for abstracts
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">January 26 Notification on abstracts
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">April 20 Deadline for full papers
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">April 24 Groups formed, papers distributed, and participants notified
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">May 21-22 Symposium<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Review group:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Nel Janssens, KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels & Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Peter De Graeve, Faculty of Fine Arts University of Leuven & Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Catharina Dyrssen, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Mattias Kärrholm, University of Lund, Department of Architecture and Built Environment.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Hélène Frichot, KTH, School of Architecture, Division of Critical Studies, Stockholm<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Rolf Hughes, Stockholm University of the Arts<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Andrej Slavik, University of Gothenburg, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion & Chalmers University of Technology, Department
of Architecture.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Core planning group</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">: Nel Janssens, Peter De
Graeve, Catharina Dyrssen<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">Planning assistance</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">: Julia Fredriksson (symposium
contents), Nidal Yousif (facilities)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">For more information
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#212121">on research contents etc., please use the symposium mail address,
<a href="mailto:transvaluation.arch@chalmers.se" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0072bc;text-decoration:none">transvaluation.arch@chalmers.se</span></a>. Questions can also be mailed directly to Julia Fredriksson,
<a href="mailto:julia.fredriksson@chalmers.se" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0072bc;text-decoration:none">julia.fredriksson@chalmers.se</span></a>, or Catharina Dyrssen,
<a href="mailto:dyrssen@chalmers.se" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0072bc;text-decoration:none">dyrssen@chalmers.se</span></a>. For practicalities, travel and accommodation, please contact Nidal Yousif,
<a href="mailto:nidal.yousif@chalmers.se" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0072bc;text-decoration:none">nidal.yousif@chalmers.se</span></a>. Also see symposium website:
<a href="http://www.chalmers.se/transvaluation" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0072bc;text-decoration:none">www.chalmers.se/transvaluation</span></a>.
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