Roundtable Discussion Examining Ritual, Technology, and Community in Urban Communication

Pervasive technologies that now exist in the urban setting have greatly improved the ability to connect on a macro-level, but have minimized the intimate shared experience of community on a micro level. This paper explores how technology has changed rituals within the global community and has contributed new methods to the process of human interaction. Technology’s influence on civic engagement, business meetings, shopping and socializing are examined to assess the impact technology has on human connections

Contestation Between Ghosts and the Living: The Example of the Little Big Horn Battlefield, Toronto and Montreal, and Great Neck, NY Iranians

This symposium builds on previous work regarding 'contestation' in public space. Issues of contestation are particularly relevant to the theme of the EDRA conference this year, because contestation, or a desire to control it, heavily influences both the design and management of spaces.This abstract is from Space Design and Management for Place Making: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, edited by Maurice S. Amiel and Jacqueline C. Vischer (Edmond, OK: Environmental Design Research Association, 1998): 127. Posted with permission.</p