CCFT Colloquium – Nicosia

Creative Centre for Fluid Territories: people–place–processes
Exhibition, Presentations and Round Table Discussion

Friday 11 November 2016
Hosted by the Department of Architecture [ARC]
University of Nicosia

Colloquium Outline: Artists, architects, designers and cultural theorists from England, Scotland, Norway, South Cyprus and Lithuania came together at the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia, South Nicosia in November 2016, under the umbrella of the Creative Centre for Fluid Territories [CCFT], with the aim of establishing an international inter-disciplinary research dialogue between their respective higher education institutions and invited external partners, including from cultural institutions and independent practitioners, to discuss current ideas related to questions of place identity.

'PAUSE; a year in rubble, a work in progress' is the title of a lecture given as part of this colloquium. Looking at a series of images of architectural destruction, collected from newspapers during 2016 - 2017, the presentation discussed the role of the media in creating a collective amnesia and the potential consequences for a society and culture trying to process and understand current geo-political contexts.