“City Street” conference provides a platform for multi-disciplinary interaction and discussion which aims at projecting new perspectives and initiating creative prospects about the city.

The 20th -21st centuries ideologies and technologies, the post-industrial societies, the postmodern cultures, the deconstructivist urbanism and architecture, the multi- media art and graphics, and the cybernetics, all form now the themes in which the city’s street is to be (re)considered.

The “City Street” conference invites international researchers, architects, designers (graphic, interior, media) urbanists, artists, photographers, film makers, geographers, anthropologists, philosophers, and thinkers to present full papers, posters, workshops and projects/exhibitions.

The street’s interactivity and sustainability
the street’s physical context, its interaction and sustainability, heritage, vernacular, cycles.

The street’s mobility
pedestrian, vehicle, crossing, networks, and patterns
and speed, common and public transportation, itineraries (parcour).

Dialectical relations in the street
Cultural dialectics: cultural expressions and manifestations, cross and diverse cultures, performances, festivals and spectacles, scenography, tags and graffiti, contemporary disciplines (plurisciplinary).
Spatial dialectics: context (spatio-temporal), terrain vague, urban morphology/debris,boundaries/interfaces
/limits, appropriations of and into the street, iconic landmarks, topography, typology, morphology.
Social-political dialectics: social; struggles and segregations, ghettos, confessions and beliefs

Millennium extensions expressed in the street
Globalization, technical advancement and its impact
of the street, the age of digital, cybernetics, street image and mass media

Communication, visualization & semiotics
Signage, codes and street names, codification, street imagery/imagination and fantasy, tags and graffiti, promotional tools, manifestoes, propaganda, tracts

Collective memory-ies & performance(s)in streets
Narrations, history, memory, processions, events and rituals, mental image, virtual lines/places, poetics of the street

Call for Papers

The call for abstracts has been extended until the end of June 2009 - to submit an abstratct, please go to: http://www.ndu.edu.lb/CityStreet/papers.htm