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Drawing the Lines:
International Perspectives on Urban Renewal through the Arts
November 2 - 4, 2006

Indiana University Northwest
Gary, Indiana (USA)

Sculptures  from Passages and Portals Exhibit,
Neil Goodman (Gary, Indiana—USA)

While links among arts, culture, and urban renewal have been the subject of debate for much longer, in the late 90s the transformative effects of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum made themselves known across the world.  Now, cities from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Johannesburg, South Africa, are implementing a variety of programs that harness creativity to revitalize their communities. 

• How do creativity and culture influence community change? 
• What role do the arts and culture play in urban renewal? 
• How can communities revitalize themselves through arts and culture?
• What models exist for community renewal through arts and culture? 
• Who needs to be “at the table” to develop effective urban renewal policies and practices? 
• What are the positive and negative results of certain approaches to urban renewal?  Why and how do art and culture act as catalysts to urban renewal? 
• What local factors need to be taken into consideration when advancing urban renewal initiatives? 
• How have approaches to urban renewal changed over time and across geographical space?

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Franco Bianchini, Reader in Cultural Planning and Policy and Director of the Cultural Planning Research Unit, De Monfort University, Leicester (England); author of Planning for the Intercultural City; The creative city; Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: The West European Experience.
• Richard Economakis, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; Board member of International Making Cities Livable;  co-editor of  Building Cities:  Towards a Civil Society and Sustainable Environment (with Crowe and Lykoudis) and editor of Visions for the Future and Building Classical:  A Vision of Europe and America.
• Malcolm Miles, is Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he convenes the Critical Spaces Research Group and co-ordinates research methods courses in the Faculty of Arts. He is author of Urban Avant-Gardes (2004) and Art Space & the City (1997), co-author of Consuming Cities (2004, with Steven Miles), and co-editor of the City Cultures Reader (2nd edition 2003, with Tim Hall and Iain Borden). His next authored book will be Cities & Cultures (2007) in the Routledge series, Critical Introductions to Urbanism, of which he is series co-editor, with John Rennie Short. He has contributed to Space & Culture, Urban Studies, and Parallax, among other journals. He is currently researching utopian theory and the built and social architectures of alternative settlements for a further book, Building Hope. He continues to work in a field triangulated by contemporary art, critical theory, and aspects of the social sciences.
• Sharon Zukin, Brokelundian Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College, New York, NY; author of The Culture of Cities and Landscapes of Power:  From Detroit to Disney World.
• Joseba Zulaika, Director of Center for Basque Studies, Reno, NV; author of Crónica de una seducción:  el Museo Guggenheim Bilbao and editor of Learning from the Bilbao Guggenheim.

The organizers of Drawing the Lines seek a range of papers addressing issues related to arts/culture and urban renewal including models, methods, and results and encompassing a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. We invite individuals interested in presenting at this innovative conference to submit 200-word abstracts.

Deadline for submission: September 15, 2006

Send abstracts to:

Drawing the Lines
IU Northwest
3400 Broadway
Hawthorn, Room 471
Gary, Indiana 46408

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Optica especial  by
Jesús Lizaso (Bilbao, Spain).