Conference Schedule

Abstract

With the predominance of mobile communication, social media, and online interaction, the terms "virtual" and "tradition" are no longer at opposite ends of cultural discourse, as they seemed to be a decade ago. Virtual space is developing socio-cultural norms that influence everyday life, while built environments adapt to virtual events, spaces, and gatherings. IASTE 2021 Nottingham will explore how the mutual influences between the virtual and the traditional reconfigure new structures of communities, societies, and cities-extending and connecting built spaces. In an era defined by social media and online interaction, new agents manipulate traditions, values, myths, borders, and even the legitimacy of the built environment in virtual space. As in past IASTE conferences, scholars, professionals, and practitioners from architecture, architectural history, urban design, art history, anthropology, archaeology, folklore, geography, history, planning, sociology, political science, urban studies, conservation, design, and digital technologies have submitted papers that address three tracks.