Alleyways, boulevards, corners, foot paths, motorways, squares… Asphalt, bricks, cobblestones, grass, mud, pavement, pebbles, sand, stepping stones, tarmac, tiles… Art galleries, bakeries, boundary markers, candy stories, doorbells, inscriptions, name plates, plaques, road signs, statues, windows, wheel chairs… Artists, beggars, cyclists, drivers, joggers, passers-by, shoppers, refugees… Admiration, anguish, belief, critique, desire, destruction, disappointment, grief, hunger, nostalgia… The ABC of streetscape dynamics calls for a focused examination of the ways in which people create, move through, and use public space, and the manner in which the materiality of street life inspires, affords, shapes and limits discourses, practices and embodied experiences of, and in, streets. The session invites ethnographically informed papers that explore affective encounters between people and things in concrete street environments. Both conventional paper presentations and creative experiments are welcome.

Convenor: Maruska Svasek (Queen's University Belfast)