The Small Urban Conference Wellington is pleased to bring international speakers together with local practitioners , artists and iwi to explore how and why small urban thinking can make a big difference .
Join us in Wellington Thursday 6th to Friday 7th April , 2017 for a conversation on the small urban .
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Small Urban conference themes :
APRIL 6 :
SOCIAL URBAN - Practicing the small
How can we design cities to empower people to take control , especially when left to their own devices ? Landscape architects are beginning to show how small incremental adaptations of our landscapes have big impacts by focusing on place , people and culture . Keynote : Professor Lisa Diedrich , Editor of European Landscape Architecture
ADVOCATING URBAN - Empowering the small
Small boutique design practices and big interdisciplinary practices both contribute to environmental and social change . But do design practices have influence on political , and economic systems ? Can design change institutional-thinking and policy-making ?
Keynote Lukas Pauer , AA , London ( Vertical Geopolitics Lab http :// www . vg-lab . net /)
MOVING URBAN - Connecting the small
The friction between centralised urban planning and self organisation tends to leave urban dwellers with a paralysing choice between remoteness / sprawl / commuting and intensity / compactness / being right there . A 21C alternative to the binary opposition between city and country living might be a network of big and small cities , which are connected to their landscape , and have ultra efficient transport between them . Keynote : Elizabeth Mossop and Michael Spackman , Sydney ( spackmanmossopmichaels . com )
APRIL 7 :
WILD URBAN - Opening up the small
The wild happens in the gap between cultures , disciplines , ecosystems , world-views and frames of mind . In that gap nothing is known for sure , but the possibilities are endless . This theme explores the possibilities offered by the contemporary wild and where we can find them . Keynotes : Associate Professor Luis Callejas , Aho Oslo School of Architecture and Design ( www . luiscallejas . com ) and Marco Casagrande , Helsinki ( www . casagrandelaboratory . com )