READING INDONESIAN CITIES PANEL DISCUSSION

"Indonesian cities are challenging environments for those who call them home and complex readings for their observers. The nation’s unfinished shaping is ingrained in the cities’ fragmented urban forms, multifaceted cultures, and unfolding transformations. Imagined identity and power relations have been constructed, enforced, and challenged, sometimes silently other times violently, through the pragmatic realities of the cities’ built fabrics and polarised social landscapes. This makes Indonesian cities a rich field to reflect on the stage of the nation today."

Featuring Amanda Ahmadi - Indonesia Forum - The University of Melbourne

Reading Indonesian Spaces (Image © Amanda Achmadi)

TWO TALKS AT YANGON UNIVERSITY

June 29:

Indigenizing the Colonial City:Massive transformation of 19th century Colombo

June 30:

Asian Urbanism: Intellectual blindness

Part of Lecture Series organised by Centre of Excellence for Urban and Regional Development University of Yangon and University of Cologne

Featuring Nihau Perera - LinkedIn

RESEARCH 21: PETER SCRIVER - BUILDING MODERN INDIA: A LONG VIEW OF INDIA’S ARCHITECTURAL PRESENT

"Modern architecture was of ‘enormous importance’ in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for the development of postcolonial India. As he saw it, ‘…it hits you on the head, and makes you think!’ Though rarely invoked with such a critical and cognitive purpose, architecture has entered in and out of political consciousness over the course of India’s long march from colonial to global modernity, with its potential both to project change and to drive economic investment on the one hand, or to recruit symbolic resistance to it. But Architecture, in the broader sense of the everyday built environment, is also a ubiquitous spatial and conceptual system in which social structures and cultural identities are continuously being framed or reproduced."

Featuring Peter Scriver - The University of Adelaide - Faculty of the Professions

Research 21: Building Modern India (Image © Peter Scriver)