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Living Cities Forum 2022 will be streamed online on Thursday 21 July, 9am AEST
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.
Watch, Learn, Listen
In the lead up to the Living Cities Forum program, we have curated a series of online content that delves deep into the 2021 program theme The Long View.
This includes videos, essays, films and conversations from brilliant people around the world that will open your mind to the ways in which we design, record, and imagine time.
Timothy Morton in conversation with Andrew Mackenzie
Liam Young in conversation with Jen Zielinska
Imagined Cities: Urban Futures Prototyped through Film, Liam Young
The Capitol Theatre, RMIT University, image by John Gollings
Can I have 9 minutes & 54 seconds of your time?
Essay by Alexis Kalagas
Urtzi Grau
Provocations on Time
Timothy Hill
Provocations on Time
Helen Hester
Provocations on Time
Xu Tiantian
Provocations on Time
Jack Self
Provocations on Time
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tega Brain
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.