A marquee part of the University of Manitoba’s 2018 Atmosphere Symposium, the Fabrications Symposium is now accepting paper and installation proposals. Set to be held February 1-3, 2018, the three-day symposium explores manifold concerns beyond the digital: complexities of urban and social fabrics; intricacies of environmental skins; potentials of building sites and workshops; as well as the stories and arguments through which we craft shared understandings of our fabricated world.
Fabrications implicate diverse artifacts and modes of making, together with the places, practices, contingencies and intentions that enable and contextualize making. In other words, this symposium will examine not simply what, how and why we make, but sites and situations of making. The aim is to explore how cultural and environmental circumstances become meaningful catalysts of design, building, teaching and research. This theme encompasses manifold concerns beyond the digital: complexities of urban and social fabrics; intricacies of environmental skins; potentials of building sites and workshops; as well as the stories and arguments through which we craft shared understandings of our fabricated world. Due by November 1, 300-word proposals are being accepted for either 20-minute paper presentations or temporary installations exploring Fabrications via one of the four sub-themes identified for the 2018 Fabrications Symposium. Detailed descriptions of the  four sub-t...