Second International Conference Kyoto Seika University, Japan 26 - 29 June 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS In continuation of the first Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, held in Haifa, Israel in May 2007, the Second Architecture and Phenomenology Conference explores diverse relationships between phenomenology and architecture. The conference committee members invite papers on the relation between architecture and phenomenology, and on phenomenological interpretations of architecture at various levels. Phenomenology has been one of the most productive and inspirational arenas of thinking in the discourse of contemporary architecture since the 1960s. Despite criticisms made by other schools of philosophy such as neo-Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism and post-colonialism, phenomenological lessons on life-world, language, perception, body, creation and ethics have consistently inspired leading architects and writers in architecture. This second International Conference on Architecture and Phenomenology seeks to open a new chapter in the history of phenomenological scholarship and practice in architecture. The Conference will revisit how phenomenology has been understood and employed in the scholarship and practice of architecture and urbanism. It will explore architectural and urban lessons of recent development in phenomenology itself such as the ideas of `being given` and `saturated phenomenon` by Jean Luc-Marion and `generative phenomenology` by Anthony Steinbock. It will engage with the contemporary situation in which discourses on materiality, sustainability, and digital design and fabrication claim to have opened new arenas in the manner that we apprehend and design environments. The Conference investigates how phenomenology offers itself as a valuable lens through which the openings and limits of these discourses can be evaluated. A unique aspect of the second Architecture and Phenomenology Conference is that it is to be held in an East Asian country. This venue is particularly meaningful in that phenomenology in the West has shown a great affinity to traditional and modern East Asian thinking. Most phenomenology-based studies in architecture have employed as their references the philosophies of Western thinkers such as Edmund Husserl {1859-1938}, Martin Heidegger {1889-1976}, Maurice Merleau-Ponty {1908-1961}, etc. Despite the fact that, in the area of philosophy, East Asian tradition has been studied by many Asian and Western intellectuals, it still remains an uncharted territory of intellectual potential for the discipline of architecture. Accordingly, this Conference will set up a momentous stage not only to balance this tendency, but also to explore the phenomenological tradition of East Asia represented by the Kyoto Philosophical School and its view of nothingness, horizon, body, perception, creation, and art and architecture. Some of the keynote speeches and general paper sessions of the Conference will be devoted to this cross-cultural relationship in phenomenological thinking at the level of both philosophy and architecture. The Committees of the Conference invite outstanding paper proposals which explore one of the following themes from the perspective of phenomenology: 1} Memory and imagination 2} Time and place 3} Representation 4} Material, body, figure and space 5} Ethics of in-between, the other and the world 6} Digital design and fabrication 7} Ecology, nature and culture 8} Technology 9} Sacred architecture and religious experience 10} City 11} Historic preservation 12} Asian Tradition and/or Cross-cultural encounter between East and West SUBMISSION GUILDELINES Abstracts of no more than 400 words are invited from architects, scholars, philosophers with a keen interest and understanding of art and architecture, and students in their advanced research stage. A separate cover page should include the title of the paper, the author`s name, affiliation, full contact information, and the theme {one only fro
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