SHIFT 2020 Explores the Complex the Relationship Between “Architecture” and “Community”
Today, the relationship between “architecture” and “community” is inextricably complex, paradoxical and evolving. On one hand, the impact of technology such as social media has enabled virtual communal space resulting in formation of global communities across borders and continents.
*SHIFT2020 Building Communities*KL Convention Centre Plenary Hall14-15 March, 2020www.domainitiatives.orgToday, the relationship between “architecture” and “community” is inextricably complex, paradoxical and evolving. On one hand, the impact of technology such as social media has enabled virtual communal space resulting in formation of global communities across borders and continents. Conversely, the impacts of globalization, migration and climate change have resulted in concepts of local communities, displaced communities, resilient and contested communities. These circumstances have opened up a contemporary discourse on the role of architecture in building communities. How is the notion of “community” defined and re-imagined through architecture? Through this inquiry, the challenge that architecture faces in these circumstances is two folds: how do we begin to define a commonality and differences that is necessary to forge a community, and in what way can architecture enact this through its physical space and built form.Register at www.domainitiatives.org
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Conversely, the impacts of globalization, migration and climate change have resulted in concepts of local communities, displaced communities, resilient and contested communities. These circumstances have opened up a contemporary discourse on the role of architecture in building communities. How is the notion of “community” defined and re-imagined through architecture?
Through this inquiry, the challenge that architecture faces in these circumstances is two folds: how do we begin to define a commonality and differences that is necessary to forge a community, and in what way can architecture enact this through its physical space and built form.
Held at the Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on 14 and 15 March 2020 from 9am to 6pm, the upcoming SHIFT 2020 International Architectural Conference will be bringing together a panel of esteemed speakers from different parts of the world to share their thoughts about these ideas.
The speakers include:
Alison Brooks (Alison Brooks Architects)
James Shen (Public Architecture Office)
Jo Jinman (Jo Jinman Architects)
Shui Yanfei (Naturalbuild)
Takashi Fujino (Ikimono Architects)
David West (Studio Egret West)
Patama Roonrakwit (Community Architect for Shelter and Environmental)
Massimo Lepore (TAMassociati)
Marina Tabassum (Marina Tabassum Architects)
Saif Ul Haque (Saif Ul Haque Sthapati)
For more info, visit www.domainitiatives.org
