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21-22 March 2012, Manchester, UK

The MFS at Heathrow Terminal 4

Multi-faith Spaces Conference – expressions of interest request

30 August 11

This conference will bring together key outputs from the three year research project Multi-Faith Spaces: Symptoms & Agents of Religious and Social Change, funded by the AHRC/ESRC under the Religion and Society Programme. The project considers how individuals from different religious and cultural backgrounds might be brought together, concretely, within new types of ‘faith space’ that are often simultaneously religious, spiritual and secular. The conference will coincide with the launch of a touring photographic exhibition.

Further details can be found at: www.manchester.ac.uk/mfs

In addition to presenting our findings, we hope to encourage contributions from stakeholders within the extended project, alongside a number of individuals working in the area of multi-faith provision (from academic, professional or practitioner backgrounds). To facilitate conversations across disciplinary boundaries, we envisage a range of attendees and contributors from academia, architectural practice, chaplaincy, interior design, public policy, and a host of other fields.

We are currently preparing our programme, and would welcome expressions of interest within the following areas (note: this list is not exhaustive, and other contributions are encouraged):

• Multi-faith theologies and spatial practice
• Theorising multi-faith space
• The architecture of multi-faith space
• Design and ‘best practice’ issues in multi-faith space
• Public policy around multi-faith space
• Multi-faith space as sacred space
• The management of multi-faith space

Please indicate whether you would be interested in:

• Contributing a long paper (20 min. presentation)
• Contributing a short paper (10 min. presentation)
• Taking part in a panel
• Contributing to a workshop
• Attendance only

Please email chris.hewson@manchester.ac.uk.

Further information regarding registration and programme will be sent in early October 2011. We currently envisage that there will be no cost for the conference itself, with limited bursaries for meals/refreshments, travel and accommodation, considered on a case-by-case basis.

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