Session1238
TitleDesign at the Border: Liminality in Medieval and Postmodern Contexts
Date/TimeWednesday 6 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
 
OrganiserLaura Hollengreen, School of Architecture, University of Arizona
Rebecca Rouse, Institutionen för Informationsteknologi, Högskolan i Skövde
 
Moderator/ChairLaura Hollengreen, School of Architecture, University of Arizona
 
Paper 1238-a Light in the Borderlands of Time and Space
(Language: English)
Laura Hollengreen, School of Architecture, University of Arizona
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)
Donna L. Sadler, Department of Art History, Agnes Scott College, Georgia
Index Terms: Art History - General; Monasticism; Women's Studies
Paper 1238-c Virtual Reality and the Cartographic Imagination
(Language: English)
Alison Griffiths, Department of Communication Studies, Baruch College, City University of New York
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)
Rebecca Rouse, Institutionen för Informationsteknologi, Högskolan i Skövde
Index Terms: Art History - General; Performance Arts - General
 
AbstractThis 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.