{"id":3820,"date":"2012-05-16T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T05:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/2012\/05\/16\/20120515-17_the_international_workshop_on_urban_utopianism\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T23:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:42:32","slug":"20120515-17_the_international_workshop_on_urban_utopianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/2012\/05\/16\/20120515-17_the_international_workshop_on_urban_utopianism\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Workshop on Urban Utopianism"},"content":{"rendered":"


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

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

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

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

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

China-India Forum<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Beyond Gentrification<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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15th<\/sup> – 17th<\/sup>\u00a0 <\/span>May, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

WLB 208<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Co-Sponsors: Faculty of Social Sciences, 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><\/p>\n

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

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

24th<\/sup>
\nApril, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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15th<\/sup> May, 2012<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

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

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

9:10 – 9:15 Welcoming
\nCeremony<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Adrian BAILEY, Dean,
\nFaculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Understanding Urban Utopianism in the World<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

9:15 – 9:45 Wing-Shing
\nTANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Many Facets of
\nUrban Utopianism”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

9:45 – 10:15 On-Kwok
\nLAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Eco-utopian
\nUrbanism and East-Asia’s Glocalization in the Informational Age: Choreography
\nof New Media-enhances Human Rights Movements in Urban Transformation”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

10:15 – 10:30 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Utopia in the Politics of Differences<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

10:30 – 11:00 Angela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne<\/span><\/p>\n

“Building
\nUtopia? Pedagogy and the Right to the City in Latin America”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

11:00 – 11:30 Solomon
\n<\/span>Benjamin<\/span>, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

11:30 – 12:00 Bhuvaneswari
\nRAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry<\/span><\/p>\n

“Utopian Ideals
\nand the Production of Urban Space: The Case of Chennai Metropolis, India”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

The Role of Science (1): Spatial Metaphors
\nor Participatory Action Method<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Bhuvaneswari
\nRAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry<\/span><\/p>\n

1:30 – 2:00 Wing-Shing
\nTANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Joanna
\nWai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management and The Centre
\nfor Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The Chinese University of
\nHong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n

“A Utopia for
\nthe Bay Area of the Pearl River Estuary: The Spatial Metaphor of Planning
\nConcepts”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

2:00 – 2:30 Tianxin
\nZHANG, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

2:30 – 3:00 Jackie
\nYC Kwok<\/span>, School of Design, Hong
\nKong Polytechnic University<\/span><\/p>\n

“We Do Not Want
\nUtopia. We Only Want Better Living Environment”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

3:00 – 3:15 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

3:15 – 3:45 Uwe <\/span>Altrock<\/span>,
\nDepartment of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Quest for
\nPost-Modernist Urban Planning 50 Years After Jane Jacobs: Utopia, Background
\nMusic of Neoliberal Trends in a Post-Fordist World or Reformist Reality?”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

3:45 – 4:15 Surajit
\nCHAKRAVARTY, Department of Urban Planning Department, Alhosn University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Utopia,
\nSustainability and the Anxieties of Development in Abu Dhabi”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

4:15 – 4:30 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Chair<\/u>: Pelin,
\nTAN, New Media Department, Kadir Has University<\/span><\/p>\n

4:30 – 5:00 Young
\nA. LEE, Geography Education Department, Daegu University<\/span><\/p>\n

“How to Build
\nCommunity Capacity in Urban Development Process”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

5:00 – 5:30 Kwok-kin
\nFUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

“‘Dialectical
\nUtopianism’ and Alternative Community Practice in Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

6:00 – 8:00 Dinner Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

8:00 – 9:00 Field Trip<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i>Hong Kong
\nCritical Geography Group<\/span><\/p>\n

“‘Occupy
\nCentral’, A Movement Not So Like ‘Occupy Wall Street'”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

16th<\/sup> May, 2012<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Activism: Negotiating Culture<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Chair:<\/u> Jackie
\nYC Kwok<\/span>, School of Design, Hong
\nKong Polytechnic University<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

9:00 – 9:30 Pelin,
\nTAN, New Media Department, Kadir Has University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Ways of
\nCommon-ing and Imagination of Counter-urban Pracatices”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

9:30 – 10:00 Ran
\nMA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Dazhalan
\nProject and Disappearing Beijing: Negotiating Urban Regeneration in Mainland
\nChina”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Alternative Organisations (1): Praxis and
\nSocio-economic Restructuring<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>: Shenglin
\nElijah CHANG, The New Ruralism Research and Development Center, Graduate
\nInstitute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University<\/span><\/p>\n

10:15 – 10:45 Christina
\nWEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim<\/span><\/p>\n

“Urban Utopias
\nand Heterotopias: Theorising, Analyzing, and Evaluating the Praxeological “How?”
\nof Urbanisation – Creative Power or Powerlessness of the Public in
\nBarcelona\/Spain” <\/span><\/p>\n

\n

10:45 – 11:15 Shinya
\nKITAGAWA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Searching for
\nan Alternative Social Space in the City: Some Aspects of Spatial Practices of a
\nSocial Center ‘Leoncavallo’ in Milan”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

11:15 – 11:45 Tomonaga
\nHORIGUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Change of
\nthe District Resulting from Formation and Collapse of Industrial Accumulation:
\nA Case Study of the East Germany City”<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

11:45 – 1:15 Lunch<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Alternative Organisations (2): Housing for
\nthe ‘Deviants’, the Poor and the Rich <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>:
\nKwok-kin FUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

1:15 – 1:45 Yingfang
\nCHEN, Department of Public Economics and Social Policy, Jiaotong University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Everyday Life
\nof Migrant Population in Shanghai”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1:45 – 2:15 Geerhardt
\nKORNATOWSKI and Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University<\/span><\/p>\n

“An Alternative
\nApproach toward Inner City Regeneration and its Possibilities for a Practical
\nUrban Utopianism”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

2:15 – 2:45 Maren
\n<\/span>Godzik<\/span>, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

2:45 – 3:15 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Alternative Organisations (3): At the Fringe<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

3:15 – 3:45 Jin
\nYong WU, Ding Xiong XIAO, Ru Ci HUANG and Shenglin Elijah CHANG, The New
\nRuralism Research and Development Center, Graduate Institute of Building and
\nPlanning, National Taiwan University<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Hope of
\nHopeless Homes: Along the Riverside in New Taipei, Taiwan”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

3:45 – 4:15 Yun-Chung
\nCHEN, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University and Mirana May
\nSZETO, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n

“Rebuilding an
\nEco-Village from the Ruin of Developmentalism: Making Utopia in Choi Yuen
\nVillage, Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

4:15 – 4:30 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Urban Utopianism in Art and Literature<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair:<\/u>
\nChristina WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

4:30 – 5:00 Anne
\nHAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki<\/span><\/p>\n

“Hope and
\nCriticism in the Contemporary Southeast Asian Art”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

5:00 – 5:30 Gordon
\nGAMLIN, Department of Literature, Kobe National University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Walls of
\nWisdom: Early Literary Accounts of Utopian Cities”<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

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

5:30 – 6:15 Chair<\/u>:
\nWing-Shing TANG<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

17th<\/sup> May, 2012<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Beyond Gentrification<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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

Possible Ways Ahead<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

9:00 – 9:30 Wing-Shing
\nTang, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n

“China-India
\nComparative Urban Research Beyond Zero-Point Epistemology: The Example of Gentrification”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

9:30 – 10:00 Solomon
\n<\/span>Benjamin<\/span>, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning<\/span><\/p>\n

“Constituting
\nProperty: Some Thoughts to Take the Gentrification Narrative Forward”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

10:00 – 10:30 Bhuvaneswari
\nRAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Every Day
\nPolitics of Territorial Transformation & Property in Indian Cities”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

10:30 – 10:45 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Emphasis on Everyday Life<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>:
\nAngela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne<\/span><\/p>\n

10: 45 – 11:15 Tak
\nChuen LUK, Visiting Professor, Centre of Design and Social Development, Yunnan
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n

“Gentrification
\nand the Coping Strategies of Migrants: A Case Study of the Hyper-urban Renewal
\nof Kunming City in the Second Great Transformation of Post-socialist China” <\/span><\/p>\n

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

11:15 – 11:45 Megan
\nBLAKE, Department of Geography, Sheffield University<\/span><\/p>\n

“Rebuilding the
\nMarket Economy: Gentrification and the Values of Hong Kong’s Wet Markets”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

11:45 – 12:15 Rupali
\nGUPTA and Prad SHETTY, <\/span><\/p>\n

“After-life of
\nGentrification: Mumbai Stories”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

12:15 – 12:45 Roundtable Discussion<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair<\/u>:
\nWing-Shing TANG<\/span><\/p>\n

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

12:45 – 2:15 Lunch<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

2:15 – 6:00 Field Trip (including Dinner)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The Concerned
\nGroup of Choi Yuen Village<\/span><\/p>\n

“The New Choi
\nYuen Village as an Urban Utopia”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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The International Workshop \u00a0On Urban Utopianism \u00a0 cum China-India Forum On Beyond Gentrification \u00a0 By \u00a0 Department of Geography Hong Kong Baptist University \u00a0 In Collaboration with \u00a0 Urban Research Plaza Osaka City University \u00a0 On \u00a0 15th – 17th\u00a0 May, 2012 \u00a0 At \u00a0 WLB 208 Lam Woo International Conference Centre Shaw Campus Hong Kong Baptist University \u00a0 \u00a0 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 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hong Kong 24th April, 2012 \u00a0 \u00a0 Programme \u00a0 15th May, 2012 9:00 – 9:10 Registration \u00a0 […]<\/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\/3820\/"}],"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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/3913\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}