{"id":3801,"date":"2011-05-03T01:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/2011\/05\/03\/20110512-14_workshop_on_urban_utopianism_in_hong_kong\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:48:07","slug":"20110512-14_workshop_on_urban_utopianism_in_hong_kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/2011\/05\/03\/20110512-14_workshop_on_urban_utopianism_in_hong_kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Urban Utopianism in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n
\n\"Utopianism.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The International Workshop<\/span><\/p>\n

On<\/span><\/p>\n

Urban Utopianism<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

By<\/span><\/p>\n

Department of Geography<\/span><\/p>\n

Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

In Collaboration with<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Urban Research Plaza<\/span><\/p>\n

Osaka City University<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On<\/span><\/p>\n

12th<\/sup> -14th<\/sup>\u00a0 <\/span>May, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>At<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

NAB 211<\/span><\/p>\n

Lam Woo International Conference Centre<\/span><\/p>\n

Shaw Campus<\/span><\/p>\n

Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-Sponsors: Research Committee, Hong Kong Baptist
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Grant (HKBU 244808),
\n<\/span>Hong Kong Research Grants Council,
\n<\/span>The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region<\/span><\/p>\n

Hong Kong Critical Geography Group<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hong
\nKong<\/span><\/p>\n

26th<\/sup>
\nApril, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Proceedings:\u00a0<\/span><\/i>2011HKWS.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

<\/i>
\n<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Programme<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

12th<\/sup>
\nMay, 2011<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

9:00 – 9:15 Registration<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

9:15 – 9:25 Welcoming Ceremony<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernie OWEN, Head, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Setting the Scene; Many Facets of Urban
\nUtopianism, the West and the non-West<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n

9:25 – 10:05 Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong
\nKong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Many Facets of Urban Utopianism when Lefebvre Meets the East
\nNowadays, with the Example of the Wedding Card Street Movement in Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

10:05 – 10:20 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Role of Art: Fantasy or Cultural
\nMaterialism<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Michelle Tsung Yi HUANG, Department of Geography,
\nNational Taiwan University<\/span><\/p>\n

10:20 – 11:00 Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies,
\nKorea University<\/span><\/p>\n

“In defense of utopian thinking”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

11:00 – 11:40 Stuart CHRISTIE, Department of English Language
\nand Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

“‘Country Writing’: Reading the Limits of Raymond Williams The Country and the City<\/i> in the Chinese
\ncontext”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

11:40 – 1:10 Lunch<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Role of Urban (1): The
\nPrevalence of Differences<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University
\nof Helsinki<\/span><\/p>\n

1:10 – 1:50 Angela STIENEN,
\nPedagogical University of Berne<\/span><\/p>\n

“Building Utopia: Pedagogy and the Re-Signification of the City in
\nMedellin, Colombia”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1:50 – 2:30 Solomon Benjamin<\/span>,
\nManipal School of Architecture and Planning<\/span><\/p>\n

“Urban Utopianism: Some thoughts from the Imperfect City”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2:30 – 2:45 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Role of Science (1): The
\nInvocation of Spatial Metaphors<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Uwe Altrock<\/span>,
\nDepartment of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel<\/span><\/p>\n

2:45 – 3:25 Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research,
\nUniversity of Helsinki<\/span><\/p>\n

“A Perfectly Just City or Reducing Injustice”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3:25 – 4:05 “A Utopia for the Bay Area of the Pearl River
\nEstuary: The Spatial Metaphor of Planning Concepts”<\/span><\/p>\n

Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist
\nUniversity, and Joanna Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource
\nManagement and The Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The
\nChinese University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4:05 – 4:20 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Role of Science (2):
\nDiversity and Sustainability<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Mee Kam NG, Department of Urban Planning and Design,
\nThe University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n

4:20 – 5:00 Uwe Altrock<\/span>,
\nDepartment of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Quest for Post-Modernist Urban Planning 50 Years After Jane
\nJacobs: Utopia, Background Music of Neoliberal Trends in a Post-Fordist World
\nor Reformist Reality?”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5:00 – 5:40 Surajit CHAKRAVARTY, Urban Planning Department,
\nAlhosnu University<\/span><\/p>\n

Sustainability in the Desert<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Role of
\nScience (3): The Interaction between the Inside and the Outside<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Solomon Benjamin<\/span>,
\nManipal School of Architecture and Planning<\/span><\/p>\n

5:40 – 6:20 Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, French Institute of
\nPondicherry<\/span><\/p>\n

“Countering Hegemonic Utopias: The Dialectics of Identity Politics:
\nAccumulation and the Production of Urban Space in Chennai, India”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

7:00 – 9:00 Field
\nTrip<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i>Society for Community Organization (SoCO)<\/span><\/p>\n

“Hong Kong, Hong Kong, We Can Live a Better Life!: A Tour of
\nCubicles and Homeless”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

9:00 – 10:00 Dinner Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

13th<\/sup> May, 2011<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

The Role of Science (3): The
\nInteraction between the Inside and the Outside (Cont’d)<\/i> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

9:00 – 9:40 Tianxin ZHANG, College of Architecture and
\nLandscape Architecture, Peking University<\/span><\/p>\n

“A Current Western Image for the Future Chinese Cities?”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

9:40 – 9:45 Morning
\nBreak<\/i> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Agent of Change: The State
\nor the Community<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies, Korea
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n

9:45 – 10:25 Hyun Bang Shin<\/span>,
\nDepartment of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and
\nPolitical Science<\/span><\/p>\n

“Privatisation of ‘Public Interest’: State Power and Land Assembly
\nin East Asian Urbanisation”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

10:25 – 11:05 Jackie YC Kwok<\/span>,
\nSchool of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Communitarian Trap: Some Observations in Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

11:05 – 11:20 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Role of Community Capacity
\nBuilding<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong
\nBaptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

11:20 – 12:00 Young A. LEE, Geography Education Department,
\nDaegu University<\/span><\/p>\n

“How to build community capacity in urban development process”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

12:00 – 12:40 Kwok-kin FUNG, School of Continuing and
\nProfessional Education, City University of Hong Kong, and Suet-lin HUNG,
\nDepartment of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

“‘Dialectical Utopianism’ and the Experience of a Community
\nDevelopment Project in the Tin Shui Wai North”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

12:40 – 2:10 Lunch<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Activism (1): Negotiating
\nIdentity<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Jackie YC Kwok<\/span>,
\nSchool of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/span><\/p>\n

2:10 – 2:50 Iam-Chong IP, Department of Cultural Studies,
\nLingnan University<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Spatial Turn in Contemporary Social Movements in Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2:50 – 3:30 Liling HUANG, Graduate Institute of Building
\nand Planning, National Taiwan University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Red Memory, Green Hope: Citizen Mobilization against the
\nPrivatization of Thong-Nhat Park in Hanoi, Vietnam”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3:30 – 3:45 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Activism (2):
\nNegotiating Culture<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Chair:<\/u> Iam-Chong IP, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan
\nUniversity<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

3:45 – 4:25 Pelin, TAN, Program of Art, Technology and
\nCulture, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts of Technology<\/span><\/p>\n

“Possibilities of Counter-Cultural Urban Space in Istanbul”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4:25 – 5:05 Ran MA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Dazhalan Project and Disappearing Beijing: Negotiating Urban
\nRegeneration in Mainland China”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5:05 – 5:15 Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Activism (3): Encountering
\nHegemony <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Liling HUANG, Graduate Institute of Building and
\nPlanning, National Taiwan University <\/span><\/p>\n

5:15 – 5:55 Mee Kam NG, Department of Urban Planning and
\nDesign, The University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n

“Whose Utopia? A Tale of Two Urban Regeneration Battles in Hong Kong
\nand Taipei” <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6:30 – 9:00 Welcome
\nDinner<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

14th<\/sup> May, 2011<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Activism (4):
\nThe Role of Media<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: <\/i>Hyun Bang Shin<\/span>, Department of Geography and
\nEnvironment, London School of Economics and Political Science<\/span><\/p>\n

9:00 – 9:40 On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies,
\nKwansei Gakuin University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Urban Utopianism and East-Asia’s Glocalization in the Information
\nAge: The New Media-enhances Human Rights Movements in Urban Transformation”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

9:40 – 10:20 Chloe LAI, Department of Urban Planning and
\nDesign, The University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Politics of Journalism Objectivity in Post-Handover Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

10:20 – 10:35 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

10:35 – 11:15 Alternative
\nOrganisations: Social Economy and Politics<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Ngai PUN, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong
\nKong Polytechnic University<\/span><\/p>\n

Terence YUEN and Pauline CHAN, Department of Applied Social
\nSciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Rediscovering Social Economy in Hong Kong – An Urban Utopian
\nProject”<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

11:15 – 11:55 Shinya KITAGAWA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka
\nCity University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Search for an Alternative Social Space in the City: Some Aspects of
\nSpatial Practices of a Social Center ‘Leoncavallo’ in Milan”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Alternative Practices (1):
\nHousing for the Homeless<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies,
\nKwansei Gakuin University<\/span><\/p>\n

11:55 – 12:35 Toshio MIZUUCHI and Geerhardt KORNATOWSKI,
\nUrban Research Plaza, Osaka City University<\/span><\/p>\n

“An Alternative Approach toward Inner City Regeneration through
\nHomeless Self-dependency Support”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

12:35 – 2:05 Lunch<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

WLB 206<\/span><\/p>\n

Alternative Practices (2):
\nHousing for others <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Kwok-kin FUNG, School of Continuing and Professional
\nEducation, City University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n

2:05 – 2:45 Yinfang CHEN, Department of Sociology, East
\nChina Normal University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Everyday Life of Migrant Population
\nin Shanghai”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2:45 – 3:25 Maren Godzik<\/span>,
\nGerman Institute for Japanese Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

“Discussing the Emergence of Alternative Housing in Japan”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3:25 – 3:40 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alternative Practices (3):
\nParticipatory or Faith<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Suet-lin HUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong
\nBaptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

3:40 – 4:20 Jin Yong WU, Ding Xiong XIAO, Ru Ci HUANG and
\nShenglin Elijah CHANG, The New Ruralism Research and Development Center,
\nGraduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Leave Me Alone, I Live along the Riverside: Case Studies of the
\nXiZhou Tribe Village and the 535 Shelter adjacent to the XinDian Rivers in
\nMetropolitan Taipei, Taiwan”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4:20 – 5:00 Tatsuya SHIRAHASE, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka
\nCity University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Social Roles of Faith-Related Organizations in Homeless Support”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roundtable Discussion<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

5:00 – 6:00 Chair<\/u>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6:30 – 9:00 Farewell
\nDinner<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The International Workshop On Urban Utopianism \u00a0 By Department of Geography Hong Kong Baptist University In Collaboration with \u00a0Urban Research Plaza Osaka City University \u00a0 On 12th -14th\u00a0 May, 2011 \u00a0At NAB 211 Lam Woo International Conference Centre Shaw Campus Hong Kong Baptist University \u00a0 Co-Sponsors: Research Committee, 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 \u00a0\u00a0 Hong Kong 26th April, 2011   Proceedings:\u00a02011HKWS.pdf   Programme \u00a0 12th May, 2011 9:00 – 9:15 Registration \u00a0 9:15 – 9:25 Welcoming Ceremony \u00a0 Bernie OWEN, Head, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,60,59,54,19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3933\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}