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The ‘South City’ Symposium seeks to provoke a stimulating
interaction between the heritage and future of modernist urbanism
in the southern hemisphere. Organized jointly by Docomomo International
Committee on Urbanism Landscape, the Scottish Centre for Conservation
Studies (ECA) and the University of Edinburgh, it brings together
a range of experts on urbanism in South America, Africa and Southern
Asia, together with a range of original films, to pose the question
of what contribution the considerable legacy of modernist planning
and architecture, dating mainly from the postwar years, can make
to the challenges of the vastly expanded urban growth of the C21.
The event opens on the evening of Thursday 22 January with a keynote
address at ECA by Frederico de Holanda (Universidade de Brasília,
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo), one of the foremost experts
on the history and development of the Brazilian capital, focusing
on how its revolutionary utopian design concept, with all its myths
and its vernacular life, has fared in the decades since its initial
launch.
Prof. Holanda will also be contributing a research paper to the
all-day session at University of Edinburgh Architecture on Friday
23 January, along with Edinburgh-based international experts on
the modernist city in South America, Africa and Asia: the 23 January
session will also, appropriately, be the venue for the launch of
a new Docomomo International liaison group, chaired by Ola Uduku,
aimed at helping expand Docomomo’s activities beyond its current
predominantly Northern Hemisphere focus.
PROGRAM
Thursday 22 January
Masterclass by Prof. Frederico de
Holanda: ‘Brasilia, Modern City/Eternal City’
(17.30 to 20.30)
Friday 23 January
Main Symposium
09.30–09.55: Prof. Paul Jenkins
(Heriot-Watt University/ECA): Introductory/overview paper: ‘Brazil
and Lusophone Africa: the contextual relevance of modernism for
the future’
10.00–10.25: Dr Soledad Garcia
(Edinburgh College of Art): ‘Urban transformations in the
River Plate Delta: Modernism and the challenges of globalization’
10.30–10.55: Dr Stephen Cairns
(University of Edinburgh): ‘Big cities, little narratives:
Jakarta and the unbounded city’
10.55–11.30: Coffee break
11.30–11.55: Dr Ola Uduku (ECA):
‘Modernist built heritage and contemporary challenges in W
and S Africa’
12.00–12.30: Dr Richard Williams
(University of Edinburgh): ‘Sexuality, Modernism, and Architecture:
the case of Brazil’
12.30–13.00: Lunch break
13.00–14.00: Prof Frederico
Holanda: ‘Metropolitan Brasilia: metropolitan
aspects of the capital and the Brazilian city in general’
14.00–14.30: Concluding discussion and launch of Docomomo
South Group. Chair: Ola Uduku
14.30–16.30: Selection of MoMo Urbanism films on Africa and
South America
BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS
Thursday 22 January Masterclass: Tickets should
be pre-booked through Mrs. Moira Seftor, Administrator of ECA School
of Architecture, 0131-221-6072, <m.seftor@eca.ac.uk>:
£20 for general public, £7.50 for students, £5
for ECA students, free for Conservation students.
Location: Hunter Lecture Theatre, ECA, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh.
Friday 23 January session: Admission free of charge;
no need to pre-book. Location: Common Room, University of Edinburgh
Architecture, 20 Chambers St, Edinburgh. (directions from Chambers
St main entrance: at back of entrance hall turn right; Common Room
is on right side of corridor beyond this).
Information forwarded by the International committee for documentation
and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern
movement
Docomomo International
Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
Palais de Chaillot
1, place du Trocadéro
F-75016 Paris
t +33 -1 58 51 52 65
e docomomo@citechaillot.fr
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