Domes: Past, Present and Future

Please click here for a blog on the symposium by Ruth Harriss, student on Birkbeck's MA History of Art.

Thursday, 29 November 2012, 2-5pm

Cinema, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

A symposium exploring continuities and ruptures in the use and meanings of the dome across periods and media.

2-2.10 - introduction (Tag Gronberg)

2.15-2.45

Peter Draper, Visiting Professor of History of Architecture, Birkbeck

The Early Exploration of Domes: Typology, Symbolism and Decoration

2.50-3.20

Caspar Pearson, Lecturer, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex
From Renaissance Urbanism to the Urban Renaissance: Domes and the Making of Cultural History 

3.20-3.30 - discussion

3.30-4

Barry Curtis, Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture, Middlesex University, and London Consortium

Utopian Domes: Buckminster Fuller and 'Spaceship Earth'

4.05-4.35

Nick Lambert, Lecturer in Digital Art and Culture, Department of History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck

From the CAVE to Fulldome: Virtual Space Returns to its Roots

4.35-5 - discussion

This event is free, but booking is required.  To book:
http://domespastpresentfuture.eventbrite.com/