IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1238: Design at the Border: Liminality in Medieval and Postmodern Contexts
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Laura Hollengreen, School of Architecture, University of Arizona Rebecca Rouse, Institutionen för Informationsteknologi, Högskolan i Skövde |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Laura Hollengreen, School of Architecture, University of Arizona |
| Paper 1238-a | Light in the Borderlands of Time and Space (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General |
| Paper 1238-b | Knocking on the Door to Salvation: Crossing the Threshold in Miniature Models of Nuns' Cells (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Monasticism, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1238-c | Virtual Reality and the Cartographic Imagination (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1238-d | Architectures of Engagement: Storyworld Experience Design from Medieval Immersion to Digital Games (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Performance Arts - General |
| Abstract | This session arises from an investigation of liminality that itself crosses borders between the past and the present. While cognizant of period differences in technology, we investigate similarities in the creation of immersive environments, virtuality (defined not as illusion but rather as the potency to create an altered or transcendent state), and natural or designed portals to personal transformation. The project draws on media archaeology but also adds to it by focusing on threshold spaces and experiences, and on permanent personal change. In addition, liminal experience can be productive of communitas, as Victor Turner first asserted when identifying the potential for societal change via reflexive, relational, and ritualized processes. |