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Event Details
Art & Design: Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice
London Heritages Conference 2025
Dates: 25-27 June, 2025
University of Greenwich, London
Event Partners:
UNESCO World Heritage Site, Maritime Greenwich; University of Greenwich; The Royal Parks; National Maritime Museum; AMPS; UCL Press; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
https://amps-research.com/conference/london-heritages/
Call
A little over 25 years ago, the site of this conference, Maritime Greenwich, London, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Home to the first Palladian building in England, the Royal Naval College by Sir Christopher Wren, the National Maritime Museum, the Old Royal Observatory and the University of Greenwich, it is one of the UK’s most important historical sites. As such, it is ardently protected by the UK’s Listed Buildings and Conservation Acts and can be considered a quintessential site of world heritage.
However, it is also home to groundbreaking projects in digital art, the Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and a cutting edge contemporary university. It hosts a variety of major art, design and cultural events annually and is promoted by its ‘state-of-the-art’ visitor centre. In this regard, it is a site of modern creative expression and sometimes a site of contestation between contemporary design and historic preservation.
Looking to explore these creative tensions this call hopes to highlight work being done in art and design as it relates to historical contexts and concepts. The conference welcomes case studies, theoretical papers and presentations of contemporary projects.
Abstracts: 10 April, 2025
https://amps-research.com/conference/london-heritages/
