Date: Monday July 16, 2007
Opening Reception : 5:30pm onwards
Start Time: 6:00pm sharp
Location: Lecture Theare 2 , Level 2, Faculty of Architecture (G04, Wilkinson Building), 148 City Road, University of Sydney.
Admission: Free
RSVP:joanne@jakovich.net
The Urban Islands Symposium brings together international guests and local specialists from the urbanism, culture, planning and architecture domains to discuss the topic of contemporary myth-making in the realm of the political economy.
| Topic: Urban Myth, Spectacle and the Industrial Landscape |
The simultaneity of both being and becoming appears for many writers to be the defining condition of modernity, a technology induced haze in which both time and space seem to have collapsed into a unitary plane and where we are simultaneously engaged in a retrospective of a future yet lived and the rewriting of a past already evidenced. Such paradoxes confront our anxieties and heighten our sensibilities especially when faced with the prospect of prioritizing multiple spatialisations of time in the one moment.
Here in the depth of time we bare witness to the stacking of histories, colliding states of being, and infinite modes of representation that allow the condition of becoming to reveal itself for what it really is, a continuum upon which the illusion of being attempts to secure a foothold.
Paradoxically, architecture has always found itself to be both an integral device in the mitigation of change and yet also a pivotal conduit through which we change the present in order to establish our own footholds.
The struggle between the past as present and the present as a marker in the future is further complicated by the imagining of others to which we are held captive by. How then do we imagine we are altogether elsewhere in a way that is relevant and represents that we were all here together?
Chair:
Ingo Kumic [ Urban Strategist, Sydney ]
MPIA Urban Design Chapter, Economic Development Chapter |
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Welcome:
Thomas Rivard [ Producer / Artist ]
lean productions / AltogetherElsewhere, Sydney |
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International Guest Panelists:
Juan Pablo Corvalan [ Architect / Guerrilla Urbanist ]
Supersudaca, Chile / Universidad de Talca, Chile |
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Yolande Daniels [ Architect / Academic ]
SUMO, USA / Columbia University, USA |
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Manuel de Rivero [ Architect / Urbanist / Academic ]
Supersudaca, Peru / Universidad Catolica del Peru |
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Manit Rastogi [ Architect ]
Morphogenesis, India |
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Sonali Srivastava Rastogi [ Architect ]
Morphogenesis, India |
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Local Panelists:
Nick Hollo [ Planner / Artist ]
Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
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Olivia Hyde [ Architect / Educator ]
Bligh Voller Nield Architects / AltogetherElsewhere, Sydney |
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Joanne Jakovich [ Interaction designer / Researcher ]
University of Sydney |
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Inquiries: Please call 0409 204 236 or use the contact form in the left column.
The 2006 "Business of Culture" Urban Islands Symposium information can be viewed here: http://altogetherelsewhere.org/urbanislands/2006/symposium.htm
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