An annual assembly of leading architects and urban thinkers exploring the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society.

 

 

In 2021, Living Cities Forum invites globally celebrated thinkers, architects and urbanism experts—including author Bruce Pascoe, philosopher Timothy Morton, architect Anupama Kundoo, designer Maarten Gielen, architect Sarah Lynn Rees and artist Tega Brain—to discuss The Long View, a theme that asks how different perspectives on time can affect the growth of our cities. 

Joining the Forum from across the world, these guests will deliver a series of keynote addresses that speak to modern expectations of instantaneity and immediacy, the pandemic-induced convergence of home life, daily work and free time, ownership and structural disparities, circularity and re-education, harnessing a commitment to ‘the moment’, and many more temporal considerations that determine the form and function of the spaces in which we meet, work and live. 

Full program details to be announced soon.

 

 

Speakers

 

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 c0-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.

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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.

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Tega Brain

Tega Brain is an Australian-born 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.

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Satellite Events

 
Imagined Cities: Urban Futures Prototyped through Film, Liam Young

Imagined Cities: Urban Futures Prototyped through Film, Liam Young

Living Cities Film Series

In collaboration with Open House Melbourne & ACMI.

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Living Cities Forum is committed to staying COVIDSafe.

 

 

MELBOURNE

 

The Edge
Federation Square
Swanston & Flinders Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

Living Cities Forum 2021 was originally scheduled to be a live event at The Edge theatre. 

It will now premiere online on Friday 23 July.  

Watch online here.


 
 
 

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