Architecture - City Making - Political Economy
A collaboration between UNSW Australia, the Jørn Utzon Research Network (JURN) and the Utzon Research Center (URC), the University of Portsmouth, UK and Aalborg University, Denmark, the Fourth International Utzon Symposium will extend previous research on Utzon’s oeuvre and ask the question: ‘What would Utzon do now?’
Centred around the themes of Architecture, City Making and Political Economy, the Symposium is designed to be inter-disciplinary - reflecting Utzon’s diverse influences and attributes – and explore advances in the design, delivery and management of architecture and, more broadly, urban environments.
The Symposium’s objectives are: to promote debate about the role of cultural production within urban contexts; encourage dialogue across cultural, political and economic boundaries; and contribute to the current thinking in academia and practice regarding the tensions and synergies between cultural production, politics, economy and the city.
THEMATIC FRAMES:
Contributions are invited within the following frames of discourse.
Political Economy
Branding; Culture; Cultural Production; Development Finance; Globalisation; Identity; Infrastructure; Place; Public Policy
City-Making
City Economy; City-Scape; Form; Icons; Landscape; Place-scape; Philosophy, Significance and Practice of Heritage; Urbanism; Urban Design
Architecture
Architecture; Contemporary Heritage; Digital Media; Interior Design; Performance Design; Practice; Product Design; Structures; Tectonics; Theory/Non-theory; Transcultural Influences
The Symposium will be followed by a week-long Utzon Workshop located on Bruny Island, Tasmania, where key symposium themes will be further examined and tested.