2011/05/12-14 Workshop on Urban Utopianism in Hong Kong

Programme

 

12^th May, 2011

9:00 - 9:15 Registration

 

9:15 - 9:25 Welcoming Ceremony

 

Bernie OWEN, Head, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Setting the Scene; Many Facets of Urban Utopianism, the West and the non-West

Chair: Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

9:25 - 10:05 Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

"Many Facets of Urban Utopianism when Lefebvre Meets the East Nowadays, with the Example of the Wedding Card Street Movement in Hong Kong"

 

10:05 - 10:20 Tea Break

 

The Role of Art: Fantasy or Cultural Materialism

Chair: Michelle Tsung Yi HUANG, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University

10:20 - 11:00 Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies, Korea University

"In defense of utopian thinking"

 

11:00 - 11:40 Stuart CHRISTIE, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University

"'Country Writing': Reading the Limits of Raymond Williams The Country and the City in the Chinese context"

 

11:40 - 1:10 Lunch

 

The Role of Urban (1): The Prevalence of Differences

Chair: Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

1:10 - 1:50 Angela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne

"Building Utopia: Pedagogy and the Re-Signification of the City in Medellin, Colombia"

 

1:50 - 2:30 Solomon Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning

"Urban Utopianism: Some thoughts from the Imperfect City"

 

2:30 - 2:45 Tea Break

 

The Role of Science (1): The Invocation of Spatial Metaphors

Chair: Uwe Altrock, Department of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel

2:45 - 3:25 Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

"A Perfectly Just City or Reducing Injustice"

 

3:25 - 4:05 "A Utopia for the Bay Area of the Pearl River Estuary: The Spatial Metaphor of Planning Concepts"

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

 

4:05 - 4:20 Tea Break

 

The Role of Science (2): Diversity and Sustainability

Chair: Mee Kam NG, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong

4:20 - 5:00 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?"

 

5:00 - 5:40 Surajit CHAKRAVARTY, Urban Planning Department, Alhosnu University

Sustainability in the Desert

 

The Role of Science (3): The Interaction between the Inside and the Outside

Chair: Solomon Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning

5:40 - 6:20 Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry

"Countering Hegemonic Utopias: The Dialectics of Identity Politics: Accumulation and the Production of Urban Space in Chennai, India"

 

7:00 - 9:00 Field Trip

Society for Community Organization (SoCO)

"Hong Kong, Hong Kong, We Can Live a Better Life!: A Tour of Cubicles and Homeless"

 

9:00 - 10:00 Dinner Break

 

13^th May, 2011

The Role of Science (3): The Interaction between the Inside and the Outside (Cont'd)

9:00 - 9:40 Tianxin ZHANG, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University

"A Current Western Image for the Future Chinese Cities?"

 

9:40 - 9:45 Morning Break

 

The Agent of Change: The State or the Community

Chair: Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies, Korea University

9:45 - 10:25 Hyun Bang Shin, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

"Privatisation of 'Public Interest': State Power and Land Assembly in East Asian Urbanisation"

 

10:25 - 11:05 Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"The Communitarian Trap: Some Observations in Hong Kong"

 

11:05 - 11:20 Tea Break

 

The Role of Community Capacity Building

Chair: Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University

11:20 - 12:00 Young A. LEE, Geography Education Department, Daegu University

"How to build community capacity in urban development process"

 

12:00 - 12:40 Kwok-kin FUNG, School of Continuing and Professional Education, City University of Hong Kong, and Suet-lin HUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

"'Dialectical Utopianism' and the Experience of a Community Development Project in the Tin Shui Wai North"

 

12:40 - 2:10 Lunch

 

Activism (1): Negotiating Identity

Chair: Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2:10 - 2:50 Iam-Chong IP, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

"The Spatial Turn in Contemporary Social Movements in Hong Kong"

 

2:50 - 3:30 Liling HUANG, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

"Red Memory, Green Hope: Citizen Mobilization against the Privatization of Thong-Nhat Park in Hanoi, Vietnam"

 

3:30 - 3:45 Tea Break

 

Activism (2): Negotiating Culture

Chair: Iam-Chong IP, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

3:45 - 4:25 Pelin, TAN, Program of Art, Technology and Culture, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts of Technology

"Possibilities of Counter-Cultural Urban Space in Istanbul"

 

4:25 - 5:05 Ran MA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"The Dazhalan Project and Disappearing Beijing: Negotiating Urban Regeneration in Mainland China"

 

5:05 - 5:15 Break

 

Activism (3): Encountering Hegemony

Chair: Liling HUANG, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

5:15 - 5:55 Mee Kam NG, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong

"Whose Utopia? A Tale of Two Urban Regeneration Battles in Hong Kong and Taipei"

 

6:30 - 9:00 Welcome Dinner

 

14^th May, 2011

Activism (4): The Role of Media

Chair: Hyun Bang Shin, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

9:00 - 9:40 On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University

"Urban Utopianism and East-Asia's Glocalization in the Information Age: The New Media-enhances Human Rights Movements in Urban Transformation"

 

9:40 - 10:20 Chloe LAI, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong

"The Politics of Journalism Objectivity in Post-Handover Hong Kong"

 

10:20 - 10:35 Tea Break

 

10:35 - 11:15 Alternative Organisations: Social Economy and Politics

Chair: Ngai PUN, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Terence YUEN and Pauline CHAN, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"Rediscovering Social Economy in Hong Kong - An Urban Utopian Project"

11:15 - 11:55 Shinya KITAGAWA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"Search for an Alternative Social Space in the City: Some Aspects of Spatial Practices of a Social Center 'Leoncavallo' in Milan"

 

Alternative Practices (1): Housing for the Homeless

Chair: On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University

11:55 - 12:35 Toshio MIZUUCHI and Geerhardt KORNATOWSKI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"An Alternative Approach toward Inner City Regeneration through Homeless Self-dependency Support"

 

12:35 - 2:05 Lunch

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Alternative Practices (2): Housing for others

Chair: Kwok-kin FUNG, School of Continuing and Professional Education, City University of Hong Kong

2:05 - 2:45 Yinfang CHEN, Department of Sociology, East China Normal University

"Everyday Life of Migrant Population in Shanghai"

 

2:45 - 3:25 Maren Godzik, German Institute for Japanese Studies

"Discussing the Emergence of Alternative Housing in Japan"

 

3:25 - 3:40 Tea Break

 

Alternative Practices (3): Participatory or Faith

Chair: Suet-lin HUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

3:40 - 4:20 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

"Leave Me Alone, I Live along the Riverside: Case Studies of the XiZhou Tribe Village and the 535 Shelter adjacent to the XinDian Rivers in Metropolitan Taipei, Taiwan"

 

4:20 - 5:00 Tatsuya SHIRAHASE, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"Social Roles of Faith-Related Organizations in Homeless Support"

 

Roundtable Discussion

5:00 - 6:00 Chair:

 

6:30 - 9:00 Farewell Dinner