OPEN CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Calling for contributors and expressions of interest for our first volume of publication, 'Atlas Deathscape', themed 'Real-and-Imagined Places'.
We conceptualise death as a place for intense transformation and renewal; moments of death demand attention, care, and a sense of dignity and reverence in humans. Join us in charting the underexplored terrain of your preferred place for being in the world at significant moments in life.
[Expression of interest (close on 17th December 2023)]
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ATLAS DEATHSCAPE
RESEARCH & PUBLICATION, 2023 (SELF-INITIATED)
WE ARE CALLING FOR YOUR HELP TO ASSIST US IN CHARTING THE UNDEREXPLORED TERRAIN OF YOUR PREFERRED PLACE FOR BEING IN THE WORLD AT SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS IN LIFE.
A PART OF OUR ONGOING ENDEAVOUR PRACTISING TO INQUIRE, RETHINK, AND EXPERIMENT WITH ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF PROBLEM-SOLVING BY CREATING NEW DESIGN PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES FOR FLOURISHING DEMOCRATIC CULTURES, ATLAS DEATHSCAPE IS A PROJECT INITIATED BY LIMIT LANDSCAPE SITUATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART, DESIGN, HEALTH, SCIENCE, HUMANITY, AND RESEARCH.
WE CONCEPTUALISE DEATH AS A PLACE FOR INTENSE TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL; MOMENTS OF DEATH DEMAND ATTENTION, CARE, AND A SENSE OF DIGNITY AND REVERENCE IN HUMANS.
THROUGH THE SYSTEMS THEORY FRAMEWORK, WE EXPLORE ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGIES FOR DECISION-MAKING IN URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES. ATLAS DEATHSCAPE PROBES THE POTENTIAL OF URBAN MORPHOGENESIS AND THE EVOLUTION OF ‘SELVES’ DRIVEN BY THE FREE PURSUIT OF LOCAL (PERSONAL) GOALS IN ALL THE SUBUNITS (INDIVIDUALS) IN SOCIETIES.
WE ARE BUILDING A COLLECTION OF DATA ON INDIVIDUALS’ NARRATING THEIR PERSONAL IMAGINED PERFECT MOMENTS OF DEATH AND DYING, ELUCIDATING THE REAL, IMAGINED PLACES AS THE IDEAL EXPERIENTIAL SPATIOTEMPORAL-MATERIAL COMPOSITE.
AN EXPERIMENTAL HEURISTIC DEVICE, THE PROJECT AIMS TO CONSTRUCT A FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING AND INTERPRETING THE COLLECTED INFORMATION TO BETTER UNDERSTAND INDIVIDUALS’ INTUITIVELY PREFERRED STATES OF PLACES: THEIR PHYSICAL MAKE-UP, THE AMBIENT QUALITIES, AND THE STRUCTURAL PATTERNS.
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THE COMPILATION OF COLLECTED DATA WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC VIEWING VIA OUR WEBSITE RESOURCES PLATFORM, ONLINE AND PAPER PUBLICATION, AND VIDEO DOCUMENTATION IN JULY 2024. WE INVITE YOU TO CONTRIBUTE TO AND CO-AUTHOR OUR UPCOMING PUBLICATION.
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FURTHER READING Place facets: a systematic literature review https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337328811_Place_facets_a_systematic_literature_review Design Discourses of Transformation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872622000041 The Place and Influence of Intuition in the Creativity of the Architecture Designing Process https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361342079_The_Place_and_Influence_of_Intuition_in_the_Creativity_of_the_Architecture_Designing_Process Conceptualising ‘materialities of care’: making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12663 Flat Ontology and Evolving Governance: Consequences for Planning Theory and Practice https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2021.1981017 New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781802202397/9781802202397.xml Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/710 Spiritualizing the City: Agency and Resilience of the Urban and Urbanesque Habitat https://www.routledge.com/Spiritualizing-the-City-Agency-and-Resilience-of-the-Urban-and-Urbanesque/Hegner-Margry/p/book/9781138339507 Aesthetic Preference as Starting Point for Citizen Dialogues on Urban Design: Stories from Hammarkullen, Gothenburg https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/1648 Aesthetic justice and urban planning: Who ought to have the right to design cities? https://www.jstor.org/stable/41147759 Examining the Role of Dignity in the Experience of Meaningfulness: a Process-Relational View on Meaningful Work https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41463-022-00133-5 Integral Ecology and Spiritual Dialogues https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/82173 Qualia of God: Phenomenological Materiality in Introspection, with a Reference to Advaita Vedanta https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317821089_Qualia_of_God_Phenomenological_Materiality_in_Introspection_with_a_Reference_to_Advaita_Vedanta Locating Matter: The Place of Materiality in Urban History https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315772375_Locating_Matter_The_Place_of_Materiality_in_Urban_History Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities https://www.routledge.com/Sacred-Civics-Building-Seven-Generation-Cities/Engle-Agyeman-Chung-Tiam-Fook/p/book/9781032059112 Consciousness as an Emergent Causal Agent in the Context of Control System Theory https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-2196-5_8 General ecological information supports engagement with affordances for ‘higher’ cognition https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6874517/
