Celtic Powerhouse; Bridging Scotland and Ireland

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Celtic Powerhouse; Bridging Scotland and Ireland Event

Urbanism at Borders Conference 2018 in Aberdeen, Northeast Scotland

19 Aug 2018

From Wednesday 5 to Friday 7 September 2018

Location: Garthdee Campus, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Professor Alan Dunlop Architect Keynote Speaker

Celtic Powerhouse; Bridging Scotland and Ireland Talk

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture
Robert Gordon University

5th September 2018

Celtic Powerhouse Bridging Scotland and Ireland
Drawing © Alan Dunlop

Urbanism at Borders Conference 2018

Interdisciplinary Global Workshop for Research Network

Robert Gordon University is proud to be hosting the inaugural Interdisciplinary Global Workshop from Wednesday 5 to Friday 7 September 2018. The event will take place at the Garthdee Campus, on the banks of the River Dee.

Border research emphasises on the discourse analysis on critical issues and connotation of separation – demarcation – segregation and conflicts and translated and theorizing these issues in various patterns of urbanism. Borders determine the degree of how regions are positioned in the global maps with the condition with which regions are valued, categorised and marked by its capacity to create individual geographical identities and unique settlement patterns.

Borders define socially and economically incompatible systems that influence the nature of mobility of goods, human traffic, and economic transactions that suggest temporal, subdued, blurring socio-cultural entities defined by urban orders. Borders create these blurring urban orders along its boundaries defined by lack of cohesiveness with either side of a border.

Borders are more than geographically defined separations, but accounts of metamorphoses and metaphors that two neighbouring states are defined by the economy, politics, culture, and religion – manifested by its typological entities.

Mapping Borders reflecting on the following issues

Characteristics of social displacement at the borders
Transient/temporal settlement
Typologies and Form of Settlement
Conflict and Cultural hybridity
The architecture of weak forms on borderlines
Regenerative architecture as a socio-cultural policy
A phenomenology of generic places
Borders invoke centres: is there a new foundation?
The occupation of place: between reality and authorities
Crisis communication and the ‘architecture’ of media
Quick solutions: the printed habitat
New Social formation/Social Capital

Borders Research Scopes

Collaborative research initiation among partnering countries – Intermediate actions
Collaborative thematic conferences – September 2018
Publication as monographs – post conference monograph with Springer
Filming and documentation – part of conference submission
Design charrette – school-level masters design studio projects

For more information

Celtic Powerhouse; Bridging Scotland and Ireland images / information received 190818

Aberdeen Architecture Designs – chronological list

Website: Alan Dunlop Architect Limited

Location: Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen, Northeast Scotland, United Kingdom

Aberdeen Architecture Designs

Aberdeen Architecture News

New Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre
Design: Keppie Design Ltd, architects
New Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre
image from architect
AECC in Aberdeen

Aberdeen Art Gallery Building Redevelopment
Design: Gareth Hoskins Architects
Aberdeen Art Gallery atrium
photo : Mike Davidson, Positive Image
Aberdeen Art Gallery Redevelopment

Marischal Square Hotel Building
Design: Halliday Fraser Munro, Architects
Marischal Square Hotel Aberdeen

Robert Gordon University Aberdeen Garthdee Campus Development
Design: BDP
Robert Gordons
image from architect
Robert Gordon University Garthdee Campus

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture – Tower Building, Robert Gordon University
Jeremy Dixon / Ed Jones Architects
Robert Gordon University
photo © Adrian Welch
Postmodern influence from Aldo Rossi and local Castles
Scott Sutherland Building design by Dixon.Jones Architects, London, UK

Robert Gordon University Aberdeen

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