Enabling Spaces - Program
Monday July 15
8:45 ARRIVAL (tea and coffee)
9:15-9:45 WELCOME Professor Jane Burry, Dean, School of Design
Professor Kim Vincs, Co-director, Centre of Transformative Media Technologies
9:45-10:30 FRAMING THE SYMPOSIUM
Carmen Popescu and Flavia Marcello
10:30-10:50 MORNING TEA
10:50-12:30 Session 1: READING PUBLIC SPACE: RIGHTS AND USES
10:50-11:00 Introduction – session chair
11:00-11:20 Richard Mohr, Reclaiming the common from ‘public’ and ‘private’: An illustrated reflection on urban space, rights and practices
11:20-11:40 Angelique Edmonds, Exploring the obligations of proximal dwelling
11:40-12:00 Yvonne Meng, The architecture of Footpaths
12:00-12:20 Discussion
12:30-1:30 Lunch at Siteworks
1:30-2:30 Travel from Siteworks to Enterprize Park (by public transport TBA)
2:30-4:30 The Aboriginal Yarra River Walk ~ 'Walkin Country, Walkin Birrarung' by Dean Stewart, Wemba Wemba-wergaia man
4:30-7:30 Free time
7:30 PM Symposium dinner at Tiba’s Lebanese Restaurant, 504-508 Sydney Rd, Brunswick (NB: venue is alcohol-free)
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Tuesday July 16
9:00 ARRIVAL (Tea and coffee)
9:30-11:00 Session 2: POLICIES AND POLITICS OF CRAFTING PUBLIC SPACE: ARCHITECTS AND URBANISTS AT WORK
9:30:9:40 Introduction – Session Chair
9:40-10:00: Isun A. Kazerani & Kirsten Day, Designing for New Typologies of Communal Spaces Through Activating Movement in Multi-residential Buildings
10:00-10:20: Adeola Enigbokan & Gavan Blau, Private Commons: Design Strategies for Public Space in the Netherlands
10:20-10:40: Iman Al-Attar, The discrepancy of Baghdad's public spaces between the 19th and the 20th centuries
10:40-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:40 Session 3: POLICIES AND POLITICS OF CRAFTING PUBLIC SPACE: SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE
11:20-11:30 Introduction – Session Chair
11:30-11:50 Caterina Frisone, Individuals in Crowded Places
11:50-12:10 Pavel Kunysz & Eric Le Coguiec, The long-term consequences of temporary urbanism. Effects on place identity negotiation and instrumentalization of public participation
12:10-12:30 Zeynep Küçük & Hülya Imge Yilmaz, Monumentalizing the Present: The Case of Atatürk Cultural Center in Istanbul
12:30-12:50 Discussion
12:50-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:45 Round Table – Technologies of Public Space (Ian Woodcock, Director of Urban Design, School of Design/Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University; Professor Angela Ndalianis, Co-director of Centre of Transformative Media Technologies; invited scholars)
3:45-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:00 WRAP-UP & Discussion
Flavia Marcello and Carmen Popescu (and all participants)