Date 3 May 2024

Location LT9, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK

Questions of space are universal in architectural research, but they are also a part of many other disciplines. From the scale of the city down to the distance between cutlery, spatial questions bedevil all our investigations. Space is produced and eliminated, used and misused, divided and assigned. Spatial questions are also always part of your research.

And mistakes are sometimes made. Within architecture, public policy, and engineering, professionals continuously make decisions that are not necessarily reversible. The same can be said of our research. Decisions are an unavoidable part of our commitment to science. But they also entail the risk of making mistakes. Interdisciplinary approaches are crucial to addressing complex problems from multiple perspectives.

The program was selected in two stages: the contributions from pre-confirmation candidates in the School of Architecture CUHK (roughly half the presentations), were selected by an internal vote. The Hong Kong wide contributions have been selected by the visiting respondents, and a couple of cases by direct invitation. The result is both an extremely diverse conference, but also one with a pronounced bias towards qualitative and socially driven research. Quantitative research is underrepresented, but perhaps later forums can address this gap.