**Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape

**Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape
Saturday 23 May, 2009: 10am-6pm
Tate Britain, London

£25 (£15 concessions), with post-conference reception
For tickets, please book online at:
**https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=3586&Source=web** *
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or call: 020 7887 8888


This one-day symposium, organised with the Tate Britain and the Centre for
Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London, uses the
lens of urban photography to bring together international researchers,
academics, photographers and artists, concerned with the nature of
contemporary urban spaces and cultures. It will be of particular relevance
to those engaged with urban image-making, analysis and research. *
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Following on from last year’s conference at Goldsmiths, this year’s event
will focus on photographic interpretations of urban landscapes. The three
panels will address the themes of mapping, human, and changing landscapes.
Speakers will discuss the nature of urban photography in relation to
migration and change, place, identity and the cultural geographies of city
life. The conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue
about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.


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Panel themes
* Mapping landscapes: Cartographies of looking
* Human landscapes: Place & identity
* Changing landscapes: Archives & activism


Keynote speaker: Markéta Luskačová

Speakers
Les Back Goldsmiths, University of London
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, the New School & Goldsmiths, University of London
Janet Delaney, University of California, Berkeley
Davide Deriu, University of Westminster
Tiffany Fairey, PhotoVoice
Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain
Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, University of London
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Schwartzenberg, the exploratorium
Alison Rooke, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Trangmar, Central Saint Martins


For more information:
**http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/17657.htm*
*https://tickets.tate.org.uk/*
*http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/*