CinemArchitecture: Urban Legibility
One Day Symposium Programme
Monday 20th July 2009

Location: The University of Liverpool, Liverpool School of Architecture, Leverhulme Building, Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX
Room: Budden Lecture Theatre
Time: 9:30-17:00

Speakers include: Dr Francois Penz (Cambridge), Helmut Weihsmann (Vienna), Dr Jueri Soolep (Tallinn), and Luis Urbano (Porto).

CinemArchitecture is a symposium linked to an intensive summer programme that brings together scholars in film and architecture as well as architectural students from Liverpool, Cambridge, Porto and Tallinn/Estonia to learn about the relationship between architecture and film. 

The aims and objectives of the symposium are to offer a forum for scholars, practitioners and the public to explore the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches to architecture, urban design and digital film practices, this symposium aim to make a contribution to the advancement of knowledge in a filmic (spatio-temporal; visual, acoustic, social practices etc.) discourse on the ‘legibility’ of contemporary cities. 

Considering topics such as Cinematic Aided Design, Space and Politics, the Building of film, this symposium hopes to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue among international scholars, and to point to a theoretical as well as practice-oriented framework of urban/architectural design that goes well beyond the notion of film being a medium for screens. 

Tickets will be issued on entrance: Full delegate fee £25, student delegate fee £10. Fee includes lunch pack and tea/coffee. 

Contact: Dr Richard Koeck, rkoeck@liverpool.ac.uk
Further information: http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cinemarchitecture/