Imagining the Suburbs: Closing Conference at University of Exeter 2014

Cultures of the Suburbs Closing Conference ‘Imagining the Suburbs’ 19-21 June 2014.

Keynote Speakers were: Professor Roger Keil, Professor of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; Principal Investigator, Major Collaborative Research Initiative, Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century (2010-2017) and Michael Rosen, author, poet, broadcaster and Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmith’s, University of London.

Conference Programme

Exeter Abstracts

Imagining the Suburbs Conference Report by Jo Gill

Conference Report by Sarah Foxen

Children's author, Michael Rosen, prior to his keynote speech at the Imagining the Suburbs Conference, University of Exeter (June 2014).

Children’s author, Michael Rosen, prior to his keynote speech at the Imagining the Suburbs Conference, University of Exeter (June 2014).

Michael Rosen admiring the 'Suburbs in Cinema' exhibition (curated by Sarah McKenna and Emily Pickthall using materials from the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum), Imagining the Suburbs Conference, University of Exeter, June 2014.

Michael Rosen admiring the ‘Cinema in the Suburbs’ exhibition (curated by Sarah McKenna and Emily Pickthall using materials from the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum), Imagining the Suburbs Conference, University of Exeter, June 2014.

 Delegates to the Imagining the Suburbs Conference, University of Exeter, June 2014

Delegates to the Imagining the Suburbs Conference, University of Exeter, June 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A special Suburbs edition of Riptide was also released, with a foreword by Michael Rosen. The following are photographs from the Launch of the special edition, held in the Forum at the University of Exeter on Friday 20th June.

 

The Riptide Launch

The Riptide Launch

The Riptide Launch

The Riptide Launch

The Riptide Launch

The Riptide Launch