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Domes: Past, Present and Future

Event Details

Time: November 29, 2012 from 2pm to 5pm
Location: Cinema, School of Arts, Birkbeck
Street: 43 Gordon Square
City/Town: London
Event Type: symposium
Organized By: Leslie Topp
Latest Activity: Oct 23, 2012

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Event Description

A symposium organised by the Architecture, Space and Society Network in the School of Arts, Birkbeck.

Thursday, 29 November 2012, 2-5pm

Cinema, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

A symposium exploring continuities and ruptures in the use and meanings of the dome across periods and media.

Peter Draper, Visiting Professor of History of Architecture, Birkbeck

Domes of the Past: Typology, Symbolism and Decoration

Caspar Pearson, Lecturer, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex
From Renaissance Urbanism to the Urban Renaissance: Domes and the Making of Cultural History

Barry Curtis, Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture, Middlesex University, and London Consortium

Utopian Domes: Buckminster Fuller and 'Spaceship Earth'

Nick Lambert, Lecturer in Digital Art and Culture, Department of History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck

From the CAVE to Fulldome: Virtual Space Returns to its Roots

This event is free, but booking is required. To book:
http://domespastpresentfuture.eventbrite.com/

The ASSN is organised by Tag Gronberg, Zoe Opacic and Leslie Topp of the Department of History of Art and Screen Media

For more information on ASSN events, see

http://assnbbk.blogspot.co.uk/