2021 Architecture & Film Symposium
Symposium Chairs
James Kerestes | Ball State University
Vahid Vahdat | Washington State University
Of movement offers a critical forum for presenting creative practices and scholarship of historical, theoretical, realized, and speculative work involving film, architecture, and design. More specifically, it endeavors to promote innovation in design theory, pedagogy, and practice. The symposium invites interdisciplinary research and collaborations that include, but are not limited to architecture, urbanism, cinematography, scenography, spatial design, interiors, landscapes, adaptive reuse, preservation, industrial design, graphic design, fashion, media studies, the humanities, and the performing arts. The symposium seeks the work of directors, producers, artists, architects, designers, theorists, historians, and others engaged in making, sharing, critiquing, and celebrating the cinematic arts.
Suggested Themes:
- Memory, Identity, and Space
- Modernity
- Globalization
- Urbanity
- Inhabitation
- Interiority
- Domesticity
- Suburbia
- Nostalgia
- Utopia/Dystopia
- Sci-Fi Urbanism
- Post-Apocalyptic Ecologies
- The Anthropocene
- The Sublime
- Architecture of the Uncanny
- Noir Cityscapes
- Terror
- Postmodern Space and Humor
- Social Justice
- Race, Class, and Spatial Segregation
- Gender Studies and Sexuality
- Virtual Realities
- Interdisciplinary Collaborations
See submission instructions here.