2012 International Human Science Research Conference. Montreal, Canada. CALL FOR PAPERS

Renewing the Encounter between Human Sciences, the Arts, and the Humanities

The 2012 International Human Science Research Conference will take place on the 25th to the 29th of June, on the campus of the University of Quebec at Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In our preparations for the International Human Science Research Conference of Montreal, 2012, we are guided by the hope that the conference may lead us all to a deeper questionning of the inherent, ancient and interdependent relationship between the human sciences, the arts and the humanities. We therefore warmly invite presentations inspired by that theme, but with the understanding that we do not mean to discourage others from addressing different topics of interest to our community.

Both Husserl and Gadamer –and many others– have extensively commented on the perverse effects of narrow scientism, materialism and objectivism on our culture in general and on the practice of the human sciences in particular. Their criticism remains as relevant today as when it was first formulated by Husserl more than three quarters of a century ago.

The conference at Montreal wants to be an occasion to reflect on the distorting effects of narrowly conceived methods, theories and practices that forever send the human sciences on new paths that do not connect with the older, nor set the stage for future ones.

http://www.ihsrc2012.uqam.ca/

The conference is the perfect occasion to share the product of your researches, your experiences and your reflections with your colleagues from around the world. We invite you to submit your contributions, including academic papers, posters, and other type of scientific report before de January 29th, 2012. Lectures will last 30 minutes, if the number of attendees permits it, and 1.5 hours periods are planned for the symposium. Symposia Organizers will be free to use the 1.5 hours as they wish to accommodate their presentation requirements. Also, they should discuss ahead any particular or unusual proposals with the conference organizers to plan the details of their symposium.

Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words (maximum) if you wish to present a standard talk or poster using the online form below.

For other formats, please attach a brief (up to 500 words) outline of your proposed contribution (including time and space requirements), details of contributors and contact details.

Please take note that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is January, 29th 2012.

http://www.ihsrc2012.uqam.ca/?page_id=371

Should Delhi go vertical?

Projects of towers in India. From http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=610384

Should Delhi go vertical? Town planners believe it is a wrong question to begin with. The question we should ask is how best we can house our people and manage population densities within the city, says author and urban studies expert Gautam Bhan, who is currently pursuing a PhD in urban planning at University of California, Berkeley.

While talk of Delhi going vertical - an idea mooted by urban development minister Kamal Nath - conjures up images of gigantic highrises painted across the Delhi skyline, experts in urban design say the best way to solve Delhi's housing woes lies in high-density low-rises . "When we think of Delhi going vertical, why are we thinking of going from three floors to 45 floors? Why don't we think, instead, of going from three to five floors?'' asks Bhan. He believes that the debate about Delhi going vertical has more to do with the image of the city as a worldclass metro like Manhattan and not about filling the gap in Delhi's housing market.

While Manhattan may have ten times the density that Delhi does, New York, unlike Delhi, has the infrastructure to support high-rises, says AGK Menon, convener, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Delhi Chapter).

REFERENCE:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Unshackle-land-go-for-high-density/articleshow/11346969.cms

Flowers that blow at midnight

Photo: Zarko Vijatovic. Courtesy: Gagosian Gallery. 

Sharing from arcspace.com:

As fall cedes to winter, the Jardins des Tuileries in Paris will be enlivened by Yayoi Kusama's vibrantly colored Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, a series of unique large scale sculptures. This is the first time these sculptures will be seen in France.

Read the full article:

http://www.arcspace.com/architects/kusama/flowers/flowers.html

Bulldozing a 12 million dollars house

I really don´t like this house, even it it´s worth 12 million dollars. But, if somebody tells me to demolish it completely, I´d think it twice, can we rescue something, anything?

But, when you get 100 million dollars for a divorce, you can do it without pain :)

¨There are times when divorce forces people to do strange things. Burn sheets. Throw out clothes. Toss rings into the ocean. But when you get $100 million in your divorce, you can trump just about anything and that's what happened with Tiger Woods' ex-wife when she bought a $12 million home and bulldozed the whole thing.

Yes, according to TMZ, Elin Nordegren bought a $12 million home in North Palm Beach, Fla., but didn't like it, and has plowed the whole thing.

The house, which had six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is now just rubble, with no word yet on what is going to replace the beautiful building you see above, but I guess when you have nine figures in the bank, it doesn't really matter what you want.¨

From Shane Bacon´s article:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/tiger-woods-ex-wife-bulldozes-12-million-home-232405259.html

Pictures courtesy of Pacific Coast News and With Leather

El Guggenheim de Frank Lloyd Wright con una muestra colgante en su espacio central

Caballo embalsamado (¿Muerto o vivo? Ud. decide!) colgando de la espiral del Guggenheim, New York. De la obra de Maurizio Cattelan. Foto de http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1436825-por-que-le-habran-puesto-caballos

¿Maurizio Cattelan abandona mientras está ganando o antes de quedar demasiado rezagado? La pregunta sobrevuela la muy anticipada retrospectiva de 21 años del Guggenheim donde, como es ampliamente sabido a estas alturas, todo el arte está suspendido en el aire. Esta muestra inusual ha sido descripta por Cattelan como "su canto de cisne". Aunque sólo tiene 51 años, lo que en años artísticos es poco, ha anunciado que se retira del trabajo de hacer arte. Quizá para celebrar, ha convertido su retrospectiva en un estallido, hecho de piezas anteriores -128, para ser precisos-, lo que exige una delicada ingeniería. Toda la producción de Cattelan, salvo dos obras cuyos dueños se negaron a prestarlas, cuelga en una masa gigante distendida de cables conectados a una viga de aluminio cerca del techo de la rotonda del museo. Titulado Todo , llena uno de los vacíos arquitectónicos más grandes del mundo con lo que sin duda figurará como uno de los móviles más complicados y visualmente fallidos de la historia del arte.(....)

Visto desde abajo especialmente, Todo es un catálogo completo razonado, en la forma de una piñata explotada. Al ascender la rampa, el caos continúa: todo parece venirse hacia uno a la vez. Desplegadas aquí y allá, por ejemplo, hay piezas conceptuales de sus primeros años de "estética relacional".

Fragmento de la nota de Roberta Smith (The New York Times). Traducción de Gabriel Zadunaisky.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1436825-por-que-le-habran-puesto-caballos

Las siguientes fotos son del New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/design/maurizio-cattelan-at-the-guggenheim-review.html

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PRESERVATION EDUCATION. CALL FOR PAPERS

The editors of Preservation Research & Education invite paper proposals for the fifth (2011) edition of the journal. Papers and special reports on all topics related to preservation education, research, and scholarship are considered. In addition, we invite essay proposals for PER Forum, which address articles published in PER’s previous volumes.

The deadline for submission of papers is FEBRUARY 15, 2012. Papers will be blind reviewed and authors notified of publication status by April 2012.

Complete guidelines for paper submission can be accessed on NCPE website (http://www.ncpe.us) or are available through the co- editors, Anat Geva and Kevin Glowacki, Texas A&M University (PERjournal@gmail.com).

http://www.ncpe.us/

My last pictures from Chinatown, San Francisco

That´s me at the plaza

The oldest building

Cesar Pelli´s tower at the rear

Cathay´s restaurant at the left corner

San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attractions in San Francisco. Learn more about Chinatown:

http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/

My last pictures from Walt Disney Concert Hall. Los Angeles, California

 Downtown L.A. from Walt Disney Concert Hall. By Frank Gehry

 An entrance from the plaza level.

  Downtown L.A. from Walt Disney Concert Hall. By Frank Gehry

 The rose sculpture at the Plaza Level.

 That´s my sister and me.

That´s my architect husband