Cultural economies of space design - Call for Papers

Call for Papers - AAG 2008 Boston, USA 15th-19th April 2008



Organisers: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University UK) and Donald
McNeill, University Western Sydney, Australia)





Cultural economies of space design



This session aims to consider how detailed studies of the agents and
conditions of the production of urban space can invigorate existing
theoretical discussions of the city. Architectural firms, property
developers, interior designers, and software firms are now receiving
increasing attention, not least because of the implications of their
work for local/regional economies and development. In this session we
aim to explore the business practices and strategies of these and other
space designers. Potential topics of interest might include (but are not
limited to):





* the organisational tactics of firms and the way these influence
the geographies of design;

* theoretical debates relating to how space designers shape
regional economies and milieu.

* Evaluations of the conceptualisations of such agents as
'symbolic analysts' and alike

* the way designers and their firms interact with and are part of
the development of 'creative', 'cultural' industry clusters;

* the geographical practices of architects and other designers;

* the new international division of labour and design firms;