Cultural Creativity
Workshop on Urban Utopianism in Hong Kong

Posted at : 2011-05-03




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The International Workshop

On

Urban Utopianism

 

By

Department of Geography

Hong Kong Baptist University

In Collaboration with

 Urban Research Plaza

Osaka City University

 

On

12th -14th  May, 2011

 At

NAB 211

Lam Woo International Conference Centre

Shaw Campus

Hong Kong Baptist University

 

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

  

Hong
Kong

26th
April, 2011

 
Proceedings: 2011HKWS.pdf
 


Programme

 

12th
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

 

13th 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

 

14th 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

WLB 206

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