programme
The conference hosts 29 projects across three rooms at the Department of Architecture. These projects are organised thematically by panel - click the room names to find out more about each session.
ROOM A: Urban Lives
ROOM B: Action
ROOM C: Making
Imagining Planning
The beast in the jungle: The spectre of Solent city and the failure of the planning imagination for South Hampshire
Nicholas A. Phelps
University of Melbourne
Beyond Statutory Boxes: The Role of Senior Residents as Informal Civic Intermediaries in Situated Public Engagement
Chloe Street Tarbatt,Marwa Al Khalidi
University of Kent
The Urban Climate Commons: Morphology and the Production of Resilient Urban Futures
Julie Futcher, Ana McMillin
RIBA London Climate Literacy Group, BPTW
Contestation from Below
Granular Control, Deep Discipline: Re-Imagining Urban Futures through Pedestrian Agency
Sing Hang Tam, Helen M. Lu
University of the Arts London, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Retrofit Politics: Struggles over housing, infrastructure, and vacancy in São Paulo, Brazil
Nate Millington
University of Manchester
Infrastructure(d) imaginaries: Analysing the practices of lake groups in Bengaluru, India
Aditi Natarajan (Juliana E. Gonçalves)
TU Delft
Embodied Imaginaries
The body as site of collective imagination: encountering the Meuse river
Julia Schasfoort, Luisa Maria Calabrese
Independent, TU Delft
Imagining Nicosia Through its Fragments: Collage as a Situated Spatial Practice in a Divided City
Ceren Centurk
Ondokuz Mayıs University
Pits and Pansies: Weaving collective dreams in the North East of England lead mines
Max Cooper-Clark
Central Saint Martins
Energy Futures
Fixing the Future: Imaginaries and the Authorisation of Energy Infrastructure
Joseph Smithard (David Bauer)
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, TU Berlin
Energy Futures and Everyday Landscapes: Situated Design Imaginaries and Dilemmas in the Rural Open Landscape of Denmark
Greta Samulionyte (Tina Vestermann Olsen, Søren Risdal Borg, Mette Bjelke, Ditte Bendix Lanng, Anders Sø Busk Fredsgaard)
Aalborg University, NIRAS, City of Aarhus
Countervisions Off the Map
Counter-Mapping as Situated Spatial Practice: Reflections from Karail
Sadia Sharmin
Habitat Forum Berlin
Indexical Cartographies of Social Death: The Scroll as a Spatial Tool in Contested Imaginaries of the Yangtze River
Jincheng Meng
University of Edinburgh
Building the Dream (Factory): Situated Imaginaries and Material Futures from Cape Town's Urban Margins
Luke Boyle
Arizona State University
Digital Imaginaries in Action
Empowering imagination and visualising imaginaries through Augmented reality (AR)- enabled participatory urban design in Bandung, Indonesia
Meriky Lo
University of Auckland
Situated Imaginaries of AI-Mediated Public Space: Cultural Policy, Media Art, and Urban Futures in Seoul
Mika Jaeyun Noh
Independent
Imaging and Imagining Domesticity: Mapping the infrastructural image and its production of a distributed, subscription-based and on-demand domesticity
Dave Loder
Edinburgh College of Art
Infrastructure Imaginations
From Idea to Infrastructure: The Archaeological Imagination in Urban Futures
Michael Shanks, Chris Ford
Stanford University, Infra-X.org
BiodiverCity Without Biodiversity: Performative Sustainability as Infrastructure in Penang
Azreen Azlan
Manchester School of Architecture
Islanding Otherwise: World-Making at the Water’s Edge
Angus Taylor
Independent
Sociotechnical Imaginaries from Luanda: (re)Imagineering practices from the ground
Lavínia Pereira
University of Lisbon
Homemaking: imaginaries of belonging
Situated Imaginaries of Everyday Commoning in Walled Nicosia
Alice Buoli, Popi Iacovou, Socrates Stratis
Politecnico di Milano, University of Cyprus
Three Londons, Three Yugoslavias: Urban Homing and Geopolitical Imaginaries across Migration Waves of the Yugoslav-Serb Diaspora
Nikola Lero
University of Sheffield
Cognitive Steppe: Situated Spatial Imaginations and Cultural Persistence in Urban Inner Mongolia
Lingchen Kong
University of Cambridge
The Promise of Social Housing at Senegal’s Urban Frontier
Anna Wood
University of Cambridge
Training Imaginations
Urban Nature Imaginaries from Lisbon: from official discourse to everyday practices
Olivia Bina (Andresa Ledo Marques, Lavínia Pereira Fiona Kinniburgh)
University of Lisbon
Data as Relational Infrastructure: Tethering Ecological Imaginaries to Urban Futures Through Modelling Practices
Isabella Bhoan
WW+P Architects
Utopía as Infrastructure: Situated Tools for Democratic Futures in Latin American Cities
Isabel Serra, Pablo Levine Mardones
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, ETH Zurich
The role of imaginaries in expanding or constraining urban climate adaptation, experimentation and learning
Marta Olazabal and the IMAGINE Adaptation team
Basque Centre for Climate Change