Schedule
Session 1: The Long View
Other ways of perceiving and measuring time
We mark time in the split seconds it takes for a message to load or an app to refresh. While expectations of instantaneity and immediacy shape political processes and determine design outcomes, the climate crisis compels us to think about consequences that extend beyond our lifespans and for generations to come.
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Introduction
Andrew Mackenzie
Keynote
Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton is a Texan-based philosopher and Rita Shea Guffey Chair at Rice University and prolific author. They are also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement advocating for a radical rethink in the way humans conceive of, and relate to, non-human animals and nature as a whole.
Keynote
Sarah Lynn Rees
Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of North-East Tasmania. As an Indigenous woman she brings a unique perspective to her role in architecture, underpinned by her personal experience, heritage and research into the Indigenous built environment.
Keynote
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man who has published widely in both adult and young adult literature. Best known for the critically acclaimed book Dark Emu, Pascoe is also committed to research on traditional food growing processes through his latest project, Black Duck Foods.
Conversation
Timothy Morton, Sarah Lynn Rees
and Bruce Pascoe
Moderated by Andrew Mackenzie
Session 2: Real Time
Precarity, ownership and structural disparities
In today’s world, your lot in life is largely determined by whether you are considered a citizen or an alien, own or rent, have steady or precarious employment. Beyond whether this reality is fair or desirable, does it make sense for the city? Accelerated by the pandemic, the ongoing convergence of home life, daily work and free time demands that we rethink how we plan our cities.
12:00 PM - 1:05 PM
Keynote
Tega Brain
In conversation with David Neustein
Tega Brain is an Australian-born, New York-based artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems and infrastructure. She has created wireless networks that are coupled to natural phenomena, systems for obfuscating personal data, and an online smell-based dating service.
1:05 PM - 1:35 PM
Session 3: Over and Over Again
Circularity, reharvesting and re-education
Faced with finite reserves of land and resources, diminishing biodiversity and globally declining birth rates, it has never been more important to do less! Formerly predicated on the use of raw materials and the production of new buildings, city-making must now adapt to regimes of recycling, repurposing and re-use.
1:35 PM - 4:00 PM
Keynote
Anupama Kundoo
Anupama Kundoo is a celebrated, Indian-born, Berlin-based architect, educator and researcher. Her research-oriented practice has generated people centric architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact, while being socio-economically beneficial.
Keynote
Maarten Gielen
Maarten Gielen is an award-winning, Brussels-based designer and researcher, and a leading practitioner in changing the way materials are used in architecture and construction engineering. He is co-founder of the collective Rotor—a cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment with the aim of helping designers salvage building produce to reduce waste.
Conversation
Anupama Kundoo and Maarten Gielen
Moderated by Andrew Mackenzie
Closing Remarks
Andrew Mackenzie
Session 4: MAP studio (Venice)
4.00 PM - 4.30 PM
MPavilion 2021 design reveal
Introduction by Sam Redston and Jen Zielinska
Speakers:
Francesco Magnani and Traudy Pelzel in conversation with Amy Muir
MAP studio (Venice)
MAP studio is an architecture, urbanism and design practice based in Venice, Italy.
It is renowned for responding to existing sites in a way that is both sensitive and celebratory.
Located at Palazzo Foscarini in the historic centre of Venice, MAP studio is a young and exciting practice that considers architecture to be a process of constant dialogue, between client and creative, past and present, environment and inhabitant.
Living Cities Forum 2021 is proudly brought to you by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, in particular:
CEO - Sam Redston
Creative Director - Jen Zielinska
Program Producer - Molly Braddon
Marketing & Communications Coordinator - Claire Curnow
Office Manager - Gabriela Holland
Living Cities Forum Advisory:
Facilitator and Strategic Advisor - Andrew MacKenzie, City Lab
Creative Advisor - David Neustein, Other Architects
Artist - Keg De Souza
Creative Consultant - Alexis Kalagas
Graphic Design - Tait Oosthuizen, Lightyears
Video Production - Sam Carmex and the nimble team at Unknown Visions
With special thanks to: Fleur Watson, Brianna Carroll and the team at Open House Melbourne; Lauren Arthur, Josh Guy and the team at Federation Square; Nornie Bero and the team at Mabu Mabu
The Living Cities Forum will return in July 2022