USAS
The international Conference on Utopian and Sacred Architecture Studies 2019
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About USAS
This conference aims to explore the theories and practices stimulated over the last five centuries in a wide range of areas of thought, historiography, political sciences, social sciences, literary and art studies, social activism and in the conception of possible worlds. The conference aims to address directly the controversy surrounding Utopia and its successors from its origin to our present.
Topics
Utopian studiesCall for Papers
Topics:
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1. The Advent Of Utopia
- Utopia and religious and spiritual architecture.
- Historical influence of ancient cities on new life.
- Reconstruction of old theological buildings.
- Architectural and liturgical reforms in the first half of the twentieth century.
- Twentieth-century monastic architecture.
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2. The Utopian Realm
- Utopian history.
- Utopian new life style.
- Real life environmental architecture.
- Reality and utopian anthropology.
- Difference between utopia and reality.
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3. Utopia: The City And Human
- Envisioning the sustainable city
- Art, life, and prefiguration: stories of contemporary art and intentional communities.
- Unions as utopian spaces: intersecting narratives of potentiality in the fight against marketised education.
- Mapping the ‘modern attitude’.
- Translation movements as historic ‘points of solidarity’ among human beings: prerequisite for utopian human society.
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4. Architecture And Art
- Fictional spaces and imagery places: the language of built space.
- Interior and literature.
- Icons and meaning.
- Architectural and visual cultures.
- Gothic architecture and literature.
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5. Religious Architecture And Philosophy
- Religion enquiry in art & architecture.
- Sacred foundations of architecture.
- Culture: The context for theology, liturgy, sacred architecture and art.
- The responses of the churches to cultural shifts.
- Theology, liturgy, and sacred architecture and art in the post-constantinian.
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