Call for abstracts

This conference invites scholars and practitioners working within landscape architecture, architecture, urbanism, green technology, botany, urban forestry, cultural studies, and others with special interest in the role of plants in the physical environment; that is how we sense, read, understand, measure, overlook, suppress, transform, co-exist and interact with plants in the building, garden, city and landscape. The organizers encourage scholars working with a broad variety of different perspectives to submit abstracts related to the arching theme – City PLANTastic – and the following tracks:

 

T1: Practices
Landscape architects, urbanists, and architects have developed various practices and have used plants in different ways. How is the role of plants understood within these fields? How are present-day practices affected by the ecological agenda and the related ethics and technologies? Papers are encouraged to reflect on and contribute to the development of critical standpoints that can strengthen and deepen future practices.

 

T2: Theories and history
History demonstrates that the origin, the use and the treatment of plants are ideological and highly contested activities. Which theories are dominating the current fields encompassing plants? What is their origin and how are these theories positioned in a wider context – culturally, technologically and historically?

 

T3: Politics
Shared values are located in both time and space. They are the result of the dynamics between various actors and events. The use of plants implies stressing certain qualities while inevitably excluding or overlooking others. This activity is always based on certain mind-sets, agendas and values that can be contested in the specific situation. Papers in this track are encouraged to investigate how different agents engage with this issue against the backdrop of politics, e.g. of ‘grand challenges’ and economic crises.

 

T4: Education
Knowledge of plants is historically linked to botany. However plants occur in multiple realms. Being such a cross-cultural field; how are knowledge, skills and competences related to plants taught within various professions? And how can the pleasure of working with plants be encouraged?

Submission Requirements

Submission Requirements
Following the proforma for abstract submission the length of the abstract must not exceed 350 words and must be sent by mail to no later than 27th Februar 2012.

 

Further information concerning submission of abstract can be found on the proforma, which can be downloaded here. This scheme must be used when submitting abstract.

 

The abstracts will pass a double blind peer reviewed process and those who pass will be published in a printed conference proceedings.

 

All papers must be written and presented in English. Proposals for complete panels are welcome. All accepted papers will be published online immediately before the opening of the conference and afterwards.
 
Contributors whose abstracts are accepted must register for the conference, pay registration fees, and prepare a full-length paper of 4000 words excl. references. Registered students and Ph.D.-fellows qualify for a reduced registration fee.




For further inquiries, please contact the conference secretary, Virginie Le Goffic, or Prof. Ellen Braae,
 

Conference Schedule (2012):

• Deadline abstracts 27th February
• Notice on accept 23rd March
• Deadline for registration 29th May
• Deadline full paper 29th May
• Conference 27th-28th June
• Post Conference Trips 29th June