Date 20.02.2025
Time HKT 12:00pm – 01:00pm
Location Zone F, LSK Architecture Building, CUHK
In recent years, critiques of conventional architectural and planning practices have underscored two fundamental issues: an over-reliance on expert-driven, prescriptive solutions to tackle complex social and economic challenges in development projects, and a failure to recognise the agency of diverse social actors in the ongoing appropriation of everyday environments and the construction of the public realm.
The two talks in this seminar will examine the limitations of technocratic approaches to architectural design and planning, which tend to prioritise expert knowledge while sidelining local practices and the insights of those outside the professional sphere. The seminar discussion will illustrate the production of space is interdisciplinary and time-sensitive, necessitating collaboration that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Speakers and Topics:
Architecture and the Public: Representation and Appropriation
Inge Goudsmit
Priests and Programmers: Balinese Farming in the Double Bind
Adam Jasper
Discussants
Francesco Rossini
(CUHK, School of Architecture)
Ximena Aguilar Ocampo
(CUHK, School of Architecture)
Keren Zou
(CUHK, School of Architecture)
