Graduate Students Conference,
The University of Hong Kong
31^st May – 1^st June

Organizing committee:
Ting Wang, Diego Javier Caro, Sben Korsh, Charles Lai

Faculty advisers:
Cecilia Chu, Eunice Seng

Keynote speakers:
Giovanna Borasi Chief Curator, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Jiat-Hwee Chang Associate Professor National University of Singapore

Kelly Shannon Associate Professor, University of Leuven (Belgium)

While modernity is widely perceived as a universal phenomenon encompassing different localities in Asia, we posit that the forms of our cities and urban landscapes are actually continuously reshaped by specific cultural histories, shifting geopolitics, and more recently, the growing ramifications of denuding ecologies. Through analyzing the exchange and transfer of knowledge and people employed by the built environment disciplines, this conference aims to interrogate the role of agents and institutions involved in the production of Asia’s built environment and beyond.

This conference pulls together graduate students and emerging professionals from architecture, landscape architecture, anthropology, and the arts in order to gather in discussion about diffusions, mobilities, and transference in built landscapes. The focus of these investigations include buildings, infrastructures, regional and urban plans, construction sites and ecological engineering.

PANEL 1: Building Cultures, Constructing Identity

PANEL 2: Urban Governmentalities in Knowledge Production

PANEL 3: Shifting Geographies of Power: One Belt One Road

PANEL 4 Vernacular Forms, Colonial Histories

KEYNOTE 1 – We Won’t Be the Same After This Conversation…Well, At Least We Shouldn’t Be
Giovanna Borasi

KEYNOTE 2 – Designing Territories of Resistance: Coproducing Urbanism in Vietnam
Kelly Shannon

KEYNOTE 3 – Transferring, Translating and Transforming Air-Conditioning Complexes: Histories of Sociotechnical and Built environmental Hybridities in Singapore and Doha
Jiat Hwee Chang

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