Art and Globalization: Urban Futures and Aesthetic Relations considers the ways processes of globalization are transforming the cultural experiences and productions in contemporary urban spaces. The overall concern is to identify and map how cultural production, including art, contributes to the re-imagining of identity and place through art- events, artefacts and attitudes.  This will re-cast our understanding of cities: the ways knowledge of urban spaces might be formed, framed and transferred through art and other forms of cultural production; and the means by which knowledge is mediated to construct meaning and value for inhabitants of urban spaces. The symposium seeks to locate the sites of 'codified' and 'tacit' knowledge of civic space, place and identity and analyse how such sites can be read to invigorate a re-imagining - and greater understanding - of urban landscapes in the context of global economies.

Papers delivered will address themes of relevance to the symposium topic, including but not limited to: Globalization and aesthetics; Creative knowledge economies; Artists as creative knowledge workers; Public art and civic spaces; Place, space and identity; Urban cultural events and festivals; The changing role of museums and galleries; and Intercultural exhibitions and exchanges.

Following the symposium presenters will be invited to develop their papers into chapters for a book with an international publisher titled Art and Globalization: Urban Futures and Aesthetic Relations, co-edited by Professor Elizabeth Grierson and Dr Kristen Sharp.