2012年05月15-17日 国際ワークショップ Urban Utopianism

 

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

 

15^th - 17^th  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

24^th April, 2012

 

Programme

 

15^th 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'"

 

 

16^th 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

 

 

17^th 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"