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#mediabuilding2021

Conference organised by Carole O'Reilly and E. James West. Supported by the University of Salford, Northumbria University, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Scroll down to see draft programme. Please note all times are in British Summer Time (UST + 01:00)

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 7 JULY

[1230-1330 BST] PANEL 1: MEDIA SPECTACLE

The CN Tower and the Production of Vertical Spectacles

- Ira Wagman

Race, Spectacle, and the Johnson Publishing Headquarters

- ​James West

[1400 - 1500 BST] PANEL 2: ALTERNATIVE + INSURGENT MEDIA SPACES

Rebuilding Mainstream Media in Turkey. Spatial Dimensions of Two Online Media Venues (Medyascope and T24)

- Erkan Saka

​The Prison as a Publishing House: Negotiating Carceral Spaces in American Women’s Prison Zines

- Olivia Wright

[1530 - 1630] PANEL 3: MEDIA MAPPING + MODERN ACOUSTICS

Moving Offices, Mapping Cantons: Das Werk and the Idea of Switzerland

- Linda Stagni

Architectures of the Air: New Broadcasting Buildings and Creative Practices with Sound Recording, 1930-1945

- Carolyn Birdsall

[1700 - 1800 BST] KEYNOTE 1: KIMBERLEY PETERS

Rebel Radio, Pirate Programming: Floating Architecture and Intimate Geopolitics at Sea

THURSDAY 8 JULY

[1300 - 1430 BST] PANEL 4: MEDIA SPACES + ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM IN ENGLAND

Modernism at Queen Anne’s Gate

- Jessica Kelly

Broadcasting House and the Architectural Review

- Elizabeth Darling

Architectural Review and the MARS Group Exhibition 1938

- Harriet Atkinson

[1500 - 1600 BST] PANEL 5: (RE)CONCEPTUALISING MEDIA BUILDINGS

Horizontal systemics: Making Sense of Modern News Architecture via the ‘Organizational Complex’

- Scott Rodgers

Media Museums, the City Dump, & the Green City

- James Hay

[1630 - 1830 BST] SCREENING AND ROUNDTABLE

A Screening of BBC4 Documentary The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs, followed by a roundtable conversation.

FRIDAY 9 JULY

[1300 - 1400 BST] PANEL 6: DEVOLUTION AND REGIONALISM

From ‘Dingy and Incommodious’ to ‘Quite Palatial’? The English Local and Regional Newspaper Offices’ Presence in the Townscape, c. 1850-1980

- Andrew Walker

“Grand Designs?”: Investigating the Cultural and Spatial Logics of Channel 4’s Media Hub Workspaces in Leeds and Glasgow

- Katherine Champion | David Lee

[1430 - 1530 BST] PANEL 7: THE MATERIAL NEWSROOM

Air Conditioning News Machines and Their Workers: the Role of AC in Newsroom Computerization

- Will Mari

Place, power and the pandemic: the disrupted material settings of television news making during COVID-19 in an Indonesian broadcaster

- Endah Saptorini | Xin Zhao | Daniel Jackson

[1600 - 1700 BST] KEYNOTE 2: FLORENCE LE CAM

The Media Building: More than a News Factory