Lecture "Language of the city: how do we think and talk about the urban environment?"

Give
Nov 15, 2022
Location
Lviv, str. Kubiyovycha, 35A (lecture hall of the Academy of Sciences)
Organizer
Kharkiv School of Architecture
Час
19:00
Site
https://cutt.ly/eMoHGSr

On November 15, the Kharkiv School of Architecture invites you to a public discussion entitled "Language of the city: how do we think and talk about the urban environment?", which will take place at 19:00 p.m.

In the professional circle of architects and urban planners, considerable attention is paid to visual images. Instead, the statements that people use to describe their environment every day are perceived rather as a given and something separated from the spatial experience. Orientation in the city, meeting places, reputation of neighborhoods and even time and distances are measured by linguistic constructions that we repeat, often without even thinking about where they come from and how they shape the idea of ​​the city, the organizers of the event explain.

Therefore, an art critic Boris Filonenko and a writer Ostap Slyvinsky will talk about this topic during an open discussion. In particular, the following topics will be discussed:

⦿ How are space and language connected? 

⦿ How do our words affect the life of the city? 

⦿ What vocabulary do we use when describing the city, and what ideas are behind it? 

⦿ What we talk about and what we don't talk about.

⦿ Which parts of the city are we keeping quiet? 

⦿ What do we not see in cities? 

⦿ What places do not exist on our mental map? 

⦿ How do narratives shape visions of cities? 

⦿ What are the stories that define reality? 

⦿ About the parallel existence of many realities of one city. 

⦿ Cities of Ukraine from east to west - what are the images of these cities, where do they come from and how much do they reflect the present.

During the discussion, the organizers invite visitors to try to understand how exactly a person and society can influence their city and change it, how the awareness of the right to the city is born and consolidated and, most importantly, to first understand how the city is perceived by its inhabitants and how this perception reflected in their language.

Those who wish to attend the lecture are invited register here.