StreetSpace - Mapping
Castle Street
You are invited to the workshop: ‘Mapping Castle Street: an
interdisciplinary workshop about the character of the street’, in PLACE NI on November
17-18, 2016.
Streets are scenes of conflict. They are contested public
spaces where fundamentally different people can meet. Architects, planners,
designers and policy makers have designed, managed and controlled the way
streets are used, occupied and transited. Academics have raised awareness of
the value of streets that are diverse, vibrant and inclusive, while urban
policy focuses on the commercial value of city streets, and urban designers in
their aesthetic and formal qualities. But what makes a good street? Is it the
boundaries and thresholds created by buildings binding it? Is it the use of
those buildings? Or is it the street’s identity, history and memory?
We will develop a series of layers of analysis including but
not limited to: mapping, drawings, diagrams, photographs, interviews, archive
work, soundscapes, interviews, and more.
We are not looking for a universal solution to the use,
design and management of streets, but a culturally specific array of
possibilities that our streets could potentially have. Castle Street is an
ideal case study to consider, for it is in the core of the city, it connects
very different areas, and above all it is loaded with meaning and potential.
We invite students, academics and
professionals of architecture, planning, anthropology, sociology, history,
psychology, film, media, arts and any other disciplines interested in the
analysis of public space.
Join us for two days of exploration!
The workshop is free of charge.
Location: PLACE NI –
Garfield Street. Belfast
Date: Thursday 17 and Friday 18 November 2016
Please RSVP Agustina Martire to
confirm your attendance before November 16th. a.martire@qub.ac.uk
Facebook event: Check for updates
on presentations and participants.
