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Call For Papers
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Ecologies
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Unspoken
Borders 2009 Publication |
This year’s Unspoken Borders Conference theme,
Ecologies of Inequality, takes on an investigation of the systems, which create
or maintain inequity within societies and of how these systems interrelate to
each other. In the face of the growing global necessity for sustainability in
all undertakings, the conference asserts that inequalities are unsustainable,
not only in terms of socio-economic injustices, but also in regards to the
amount of resources invested in maintaining or creating these inequalities.
The publication is organized around a three-tiered
approach:
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Expose concealed systems, existing and historical, that reinforce or
promote stratification of society; |
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Examine the mechanisms of recognized systems; |
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3) Recommend
proposals to re-engineer existing systems or to create alternative systems
that promote socio-economic and environmental sustainability. |
This publication is a collection of articles
and design proposals describes current trends, introduces relevant case studies
and forecasts future design challenges and visions. The featured authors mostly
come from design professions (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City
Planning and Urban Design) that speak to a range of topics including the
environment (constructed, cultivated or untended), communication public health,
mobility and access, race, class and culture.
The publication will also feature interviews
from a number of conference
presenters, discussing their insights into the theme,
Ecologies of Inequality.
When you register, please be sure to indicate on
the form whether you would be interested in purchasing a copy of the
publication. The first part of the publication will be available for viewing
during the conference. The full publication will be made available in May 2009,
following the conference.
If you do not plan on attending the
conference and would like to receive a copy of the publication, please email
your name and mailing address to ub09proposals@gmail.com by April 30, 2009.
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Mario Ballesteros |
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Paper Title:
Juarez: Spurious Urbanism |
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Julie Behrens and Kaja Kühl |
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Paper Title:
Ecologies of Urban Migration |
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Jennifer Chamberlin |
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Paper Title:
Exploring the Role of the Hidden Curriculum Perpetuating Inequalities in
Architectural Education |
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Michael Chen and Jason Lee |
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Paper Title:
Continuity and Discontinuity |
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Michael Ford |
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Paper Title: Le
Corbusier: The Godfather of Hip Hop? |
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Kian Goh* |
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Paper Title: Queer
Spaces: Homeless LGBT Youth and New Architectural Activism |
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Diane Jones |
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Paper Title:
Highway Development: Shaping Settlement, Dividing Communities – A New Orleans
Case Study |
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Brad Leibin |
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Paper Title: A New Approach
to Addressing Inequalities in the Global Built Environment |
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Julia Murphy* |
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Paper Title:
Liberia: A Case Study for West Africa |
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Adriana Navarro |
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Paper Title: Water
Border |
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DK Osseo-Asare* |
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Paper Title: Global
Networks and Power Dynamics in Tema: A New Town Built in Ghana, West Africa |
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Nida Rehman |
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Paper Title: The
Canal in the “City of Gardens” |
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Dahlia Roberts* |
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Paper Title: Museum
of the African Diaspora |
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Matthew Soule* |
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Paper Title: Confronting
an Ecology of Gentrification through Landscape |
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Marcel Wilson |
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Paper Title:
Hunters Point Shipyard/Candlestick Point Development |
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Cody Williams |
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Paper Title: Urban
Tactic: Towards a socio-economic sustainability in New York City |
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-- Names with an asterisk (*) indicate that the writer is also
a conference presenter. -- |
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reserved.