Posted at : 2012-05-16
The International Workshop
On
Urban Utopianism
cum
China-India Forum
On
Beyond Gentrification
By
Department of Geography
Hong Kong Baptist University
In Collaboration with
Urban Research Plaza
Osaka City University
On
15th – 17th May, 2012
At
WLB 208
Lam Woo International Conference Centre
Shaw Campus
Hong Kong Baptist University
Co-Sponsors: Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist
University
Research Grant (HKBU 244808),
Hong Kong Research Grants Council,
The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Hong Kong Critical Geography Group
Hong
Kong
24th
April, 2012
Programme
15th May, 2012
9:00 – 9:10 Registration
9:10 – 9:15 Welcoming
Ceremony
Adrian BAILEY, Dean,
Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University
Urban Utopianism
Understanding Urban Utopianism in the World
Chair: Anne
HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
9:15 – 9:45 Wing-Shing
TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Many Facets of
Urban Utopianism”
9:45 – 10:15 On-Kwok
LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
“Eco-utopian
Urbanism and East-Asia’s Glocalization in the Informational Age: Choreography
of New Media-enhances Human Rights Movements in Urban Transformation”
10:15 – 10:30 Tea Break
Utopia in the Politics of Differences
Chair: On-Kwok
LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
10:30 – 11:00 Angela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne
“Building
Utopia? Pedagogy and the Right to the City in Latin America”
11:00 – 11:30 Solomon
Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
“Urban
Utopianism: Some Thoughts from the Imperfect City”
11:30 – 12:00 Bhuvaneswari
RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry
“Utopian Ideals
and the Production of Urban Space: The Case of Chennai Metropolis, India”
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
The Role of Science (1): Spatial Metaphors
or Participatory Action Method
Chair: Bhuvaneswari
RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry
1:30 – 2:00 Wing-Shing
TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Joanna
Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management and The Centre
for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong
“A Utopia for
the Bay Area of the Pearl River Estuary: The Spatial Metaphor of Planning
Concepts”
2:00 – 2:30 Tianxin
ZHANG, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University
“A Current
Western Image for the Future Chinese Cities?”
2:30 – 3:00 Jackie
YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong
Kong Polytechnic University
“We Do Not Want
Utopia. We Only Want Better Living Environment”
3:00 – 3:15 Tea Break
The Role of Science (2): Diversity and
Sustainability
Chair: Solomon
Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
3:15 – 3:45 Uwe Altrock,
Department of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel
“The Quest for
Post-Modernist Urban Planning 50 Years After Jane Jacobs: Utopia, Background
Music of Neoliberal Trends in a Post-Fordist World or Reformist Reality?”
3:45 – 4:15 Surajit
CHAKRAVARTY, Department of Urban Planning Department, Alhosn University
“Utopia,
Sustainability and the Anxieties of Development in Abu Dhabi”
4:15 – 4:30 Tea Break
The Role of Community Capacity Building
Chair: Pelin,
TAN, New Media Department, Kadir Has University
4:30 – 5:00 Young
A. LEE, Geography Education Department, Daegu University
“How to Build
Community Capacity in Urban Development Process”
5:00 – 5:30 Kwok-kin
FUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
“‘Dialectical
Utopianism’ and Alternative Community Practice in Hong Kong”
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner Break
8:00 – 9:00 Field Trip
Hong Kong
Critical Geography Group
“‘Occupy
Central’, A Movement Not So Like ‘Occupy Wall Street'”
16th May, 2012
Activism: Negotiating Culture
Chair: Jackie
YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong
Kong Polytechnic University
9:00 – 9:30 Pelin,
TAN, New Media Department, Kadir Has University
“Ways of
Common-ing and Imagination of Counter-urban Pracatices”
9:30 – 10:00 Ran
MA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“The Dazhalan
Project and Disappearing Beijing: Negotiating Urban Regeneration in Mainland
China”
10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break
Alternative Organisations (1): Praxis and
Socio-economic Restructuring
Chair: Shenglin
Elijah CHANG, The New Ruralism Research and Development Center, Graduate
Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University
10:15 – 10:45 Christina
WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim
“Urban Utopias
and Heterotopias: Theorising, Analyzing, and Evaluating the Praxeological “How?”
of Urbanisation – Creative Power or Powerlessness of the Public in
Barcelona/Spain”
10:45 – 11:15 Shinya
KITAGAWA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“Searching for
an Alternative Social Space in the City: Some Aspects of Spatial Practices of a
Social Center ‘Leoncavallo’ in Milan”
11:15 – 11:45 Tomonaga
HORIGUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“The Change of
the District Resulting from Formation and Collapse of Industrial Accumulation:
A Case Study of the East Germany City”
11:45 – 1:15 Lunch
Alternative Organisations (2): Housing for
the ‘Deviants’, the Poor and the Rich
Chair:
Kwok-kin FUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
1:15 – 1:45 Yingfang
CHEN, Department of Public Economics and Social Policy, Jiaotong University
“Everyday Life
of Migrant Population in Shanghai”
1:45 – 2:15 Geerhardt
KORNATOWSKI and Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“An Alternative
Approach toward Inner City Regeneration and its Possibilities for a Practical
Urban Utopianism”
2:15 – 2:45 Maren
Godzik, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo
“Discussing the
Emergence of Alternative Housing in Japan”
2:45 – 3:15 Tea Break
Alternative Organisations (3): At the Fringe
Chair:
Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
3:15 – 3:45 Jin
Yong WU, Ding Xiong XIAO, Ru Ci HUANG and Shenglin Elijah CHANG, The New
Ruralism Research and Development Center, Graduate Institute of Building and
Planning, National Taiwan University
“The Hope of
Hopeless Homes: Along the Riverside in New Taipei, Taiwan”
3:45 – 4:15 Yun-Chung
CHEN, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University and Mirana May
SZETO, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong
“Rebuilding an
Eco-Village from the Ruin of Developmentalism: Making Utopia in Choi Yuen
Village, Hong Kong”
4:15 – 4:30 Tea Break
Urban Utopianism in Art and Literature
Chair:
Christina WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim
4:30 – 5:00 Anne
HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki
“Hope and
Criticism in the Contemporary Southeast Asian Art”
5:00 – 5:30 Gordon
GAMLIN, Department of Literature, Kobe National University
“Walls of
Wisdom: Early Literary Accounts of Utopian Cities”
Roundtable Discussion
5:30 – 6:15 Chair:
Wing-Shing TANG
6:30 – 9:00 Dinner
17th May, 2012
Beyond Gentrification
Possible Ways Ahead
Chair: Uwe
Altrock, Department of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of
Kassel
9:00 – 9:30 Wing-Shing
Tang, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
“China-India
Comparative Urban Research Beyond Zero-Point Epistemology: The Example of Gentrification”
9:30 – 10:00 Solomon
Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning
“Constituting
Property: Some Thoughts to Take the Gentrification Narrative Forward”
10:00 – 10:30 Bhuvaneswari
RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry
“The Every Day
Politics of Territorial Transformation & Property in Indian Cities”
10:30 – 10:45 Tea Break
Emphasis on Everyday Life
Chair:
Angela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne
10: 45 – 11:15 Tak
Chuen LUK, Visiting Professor, Centre of Design and Social Development, Yunnan
University
“Gentrification
and the Coping Strategies of Migrants: A Case Study of the Hyper-urban Renewal
of Kunming City in the Second Great Transformation of Post-socialist China”
11:15 – 11:45 Megan
BLAKE, Department of Geography, Sheffield University
“Rebuilding the
Market Economy: Gentrification and the Values of Hong Kong’s Wet Markets”
11:45 – 12:15 Rupali
GUPTA and Prad SHETTY,
“After-life of
Gentrification: Mumbai Stories”
12:15 – 12:45 Roundtable Discussion
Chair:
Wing-Shing TANG
12:45 – 2:15 Lunch
Urban Utopianism
2:15 – 6:00 Field Trip (including Dinner)
The Concerned
Group of Choi Yuen Village
“The New Choi
Yuen Village as an Urban Utopia”