[SYD] RAIA confererence 2008
Critical Visions: Form, Representation and the Culture of Globalisation
Thursday 10 – Sunday 12 April
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
We seem to be in a period of unparalleled excess, spectacle and formal indulgence played out against a backdrop of environmental crisis, extreme social inequity and cultural alienation. At the same time this appears to be a moment of great formal innovation, genuine creative insight and technological potential.
The Critical Visions conference will offer a moment to pause and reflect on the nature of this intense period of extreme architectural production, the globalised exportation of architectural culture and the generation of form and meaningful social representations.
The conference will explore a related series of architectural dialectics; criticism and ideology; form generation and civic representation, materiality and abstraction, and the sensory and the simulated, within our contemporary context of cultural globalisation, climate change and the domination of capital.
Australian and International architects and academics will explore these dialectics through a series of presentations, panel discussions and jury critiques of projects, ideas and propositions.
Richard Francis-Jones, Creative Director
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