[Bilimsel Haber] "Inside and outside: How is the City Shaped by the Square?" (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Nov. 6-8, 2008)

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Call for Papers

International Conference

"Inside and outside: How is the City Shaped by the Square?" 
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut) Nov. 6-8, 2008

Deadline: May 15, 2008

As distinctively urban creations city squares attract particular activities
by their accessibility and open un-built form; in fact, they create the very
possibility of such activities. This is determined not least by the square's
buildings and decorative elements but also by the streets and connecting
thoroughfares, which constitute the space of the piazza. The modelling of
the square as urban space, therefore, is subject to a wide range of factors,
not least of which is the decisive caesura it has undergone in the modern
era when it exerted its influence on the city by subordinating its
surrounding walls to a series of spatially integrated sightlines and axes.

Through this symposium we would like to position this double function of the
piazza - its determination by the city on the one hand, its counter effects
on the city on the other - at the centre of discussion. The space of the
city square is by no means only a "stage;" rather, through specific means,
it constitutes and continually shapes the city's social relations. As
exterior space the piazza becomes simultaneously an inside, whose elements
the different forces in the city integrate into the public experience. Here,
the relevant question concerns how different media (architecture, sculpture
and other plastic arts, heraldry, ephemeral decorations, etc.) organise the
square as space and how wider urban structures shape its form. At the same
time the piazza binds itself formally with the social and political orders
of space (of the city, of the territory, of the nation, as well as other
political formations). Constantly reworked and rearranged, there is,
therefore, no particular point in time when it can be deemed a finished
"work." It continually undergoes further transformations, modernizations,
and reconfigurations, which always newly rebuild it as a complex urban
space.

Such spatial and temporal problems emerge clearly in research concerning the
city square, where there is as yet little awareness of how the temporal
potential of the piazza operates as a compositional factor. In this context,
the goal of the conference is to initiate a methodologically reflective
discussion on what constitutes the longue durée of the urban square.
Therefore, no particular epochs or regions will be privileged so that,
through contrasts and confrontations, the nature of the issues noted above
becomes clearer. In this spirit, contributions from a range of disciplines
are most welcome. Sought after are themes from Antiquity to the contemporary
era, which should be arranged around the following themes:

1. Insights: (inter-)Disciplinary Views of the City Square
2. Centre and Periphery: How the Square Configures the City
3. From the Margins to the Centre, from Bodies to Space: Monument and Square
4. Citing the Piazza
5. Time and Place: (de-)Formations of the City Square

Papers should not exceed 25 minutes in length and can be delivered in
German, Italian, English, or French. Abstracts of approximately 300 words
are kindly requested by May 15, 2008, and should be sent to:

Dr. Cornelia Jöchner 
joechner at khi.fi.it
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Max-Planck-Institut
Via Giuseppe Giusti, 44
I-50121 Firenze
Italia
 <http://www.khi.fi.it> http://www.khi.fi.it

Niall Atkinson
"Piazza und Monument"
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Max-Planck-Institut
via Giuseppe Giusti 44
I - 50121 Firenze
Italia
Tel: +39 055 24911-89
Fax: +39 055 24911-55

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