PTCSC- 2020: Philosophy of The City Summer Colloquium 2020 Warsaw Warsaw, Poland, June 15-17, 2020 |
Conference website | https://philosophyofthecity.org/summer-colloquium |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=potcsc2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 15, 2020 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2020 |
Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium 2020: “Everyday Life and the City” Warsaw, Poland, 15th — 17th June 2020
Everyday life has been long analysed in the humanities and so has been the urban space. Even if these two strands of research have repeatedly overlapped, focusing on everyday life in the city seems to require much more than their collaboration. Philosophy together with its potential to ask fundamental questions concerning aesthetics, environment, ethics, politics, society, technology, law etc. offers a good ground to consider the particular nexus between everyday life and the city as one of the major factors shaping the world
Submission Guidelines
Submission of Abstracts: Submit abstract (350 words) via EasyChair online form https://easychair.org/my/conference? conf=potcsc2020 by 15th February 2020. Please indicate your main references (up to five). The references do not contribute to the word count. Questions to Colloquium Chair Dr. Adam Andrzejewski, a.andrzejewski@uw.edu.pl All abstracts will be reviewed by at least one member of the executive committee and one member of the programme committee.
Committees
Executive Committee
Adam Andrzejewski (University of Warsaw), Sanna Lehtinen (University of Helsinki), Mateusz Salwa (University of Warsaw), Michael Nagenborg (University of Twente), Piotr Szczepański (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw), Piotr Welk (Institute of Public Space Research) Programme Committee: Executive Committee & external reviewers (tba)
Organizing committee
Philosophy of the City Research Group (PoTC) & University of Warsaw & Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to a.andrzejewski@uw.edu.pl
MY ABSTRACT
Geography of my hometown
How much do we care about the space we share with others? Often we remain oblivious to the public space until it gets used by someone in a way we do not expect or agree with. We imagine holding certain rights over the common properties - places such as parks, roads or squares - and hold our own expectations about the way they should be used. Sometimes we hardly realize who sets up the rules for using public spaces. Michael Foucault introduces in his essays the idea of how the structure of a town can mediate power and also introduces a relationship between the shape of a city and the art of governance. In this point I am interested in the impact of those two factors on cultural life and active citizenship. There is a way in which the Foucault theory relates to Lefevbre’s idea of active citizenship. On the basis of this connection, we can consider whether our towns are made to support a good and sustainable life and cultural activities. Are they a product of governance without a potential for human development? My observations are made from the point of view of an active urban citizen and a philosopher. One could consider the public space to be a battlefield and a melting point of different approaches and interests. I would like to present my research of relationships between power mechanisms and active citizenship in my hometown - Hradec Králové. I will support my discussion with case studies of communal activities which I am a part of.