New Urban Routines Conference 2014
The world of urban everyday is complex and under researched. Mundane routines, rituals, habits and beliefs form an amazing fog of the ordinary, which seems not be worthy of attention, next to the grand events and battles of history. Despite monumental efforts of such twentieth century thinkers as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau or, for instance, Georges Perec, we still do not quite know how to monitor, reveal, and interpret the micro processes of the everyday life, in our times of fast change and ubiquitous innovation. Small and subtle mutations in the very texture of the quotidian often remain unnoticed, while, in fact, they could be the first manifestations of the future tectonic shifts.
New Urban Routines Conference brings together those researchers who explore and analyse multiple routines of contemporary cities and those designers - in the widest possible sense of the world – who try to format or reinvent the everyday. Historians, sociologists, urban anthropologists, curators, urbanists, and architects will join the discussion about how our ordinary life evolves under pressure of rapid modernisation and politico-economical fluctuations and how cities change along.
The conference was supported by innovation partner Megafon.
