Series 4 (August) - Webinar 2
Innovative Approaches and Creative Practices in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thursday August 13, 2.00 - 3.30pm CET
Series 4 (August) - Webinar 2
This webinar is part of the initiative '2020: A Year without Public Space under the COVID-19 Pandemic'.
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Event Managers
Ying Fen Chen & Stephanie Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hosts and Moderators
Luisa Bravo, City Space Architecture & The Journal of Public Space, Italy
Hendrik Tieben, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Architecture, Hong Kong
Speakers
David McGillivray, Strategic Hub for Culture and Creativity, University of the West of Scotland / FESTSPACE, United Kingdom
Ali A. Alraouf, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar / ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Clarissa Lim, Malaysian Institute of Art / Hubs for Good program from the British Council, Malaysia
Laura Sobral, Instituto A Cidade Precisa de Você [The City Needs You Institute], Brazil
Magdalena Rembeza, Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), Poland
Round Table Discussion, moderated by Luisa Bravo, City Space Architecture & The Journal of Public Space, Italy
Q&A with the audience, moderated by Ying Fen Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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David McGillivray
David McGillivray is Chair in Event and Digital Cultures at University of the West of Scotland. His research focuses on the contemporary significance of events and festivals (sporting and cultural) as markers of identity and mechanisms for the achievements of wider economic, social and cultural externalities. He is interested in the ways in which major and mega sport events can be more effectively leveraged to produce meaningful social outcomes, most recently focusing on parasport events through two international collaborative projects (SSHRC funded) with Canadian colleagues. He is co-author of three books: Event Policy: From Theory to Strategy (Routledge, 2012); Event Bidding: Politics, Persuasion and Resistance (Routledge, 2017) and; Leveraging Disability Sport Events: Impacts, Promises and Possibilities (Routledge, 2018). He is currently Deputy Editor of the Annals of Leisure Research and sits on the Editorial Board of Leisure Studies, and he is Project Lead on a pan-European project funded by HERA called FESTSPACE which explores the relationship between festivals, events and public space in the context of inclusivity.
Ali A. Alraouf
Ali A. Alraouf is an architect, urban designer and planner interested in research and practice related to comprehensive sustainable architecture and urban design, the sociability of public spaces and human-centric urbanity. He was a Visiting Scholar at University of California at Berkeley, USA. Alraouf has held permanent and visiting teaching and research positions at regional and international universities. He published more than 130 journal refereed papers, critical reviews, essays, in addition to books and book chapters. Alraouf’s current research interests are: Knowledge-based Urban Development, Post-Carbon Contemporary Gulf Cities, Creative cities. He has been invited to present his research work at international institutions in over 30 countries. Alraouf is the recipient of a number of professional, research and education awards. In addition to teaching at HBK University in Qatar, Alraouf currently acts as Head of capacity building and development unit at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment. He is also the leader of Green Urbanism Group at Qatar Green Building Council and board member of ISOCARP.
Clarissa Lim
Clarissa Lim is a Architectural Designer / Researcher based in Kuala Lumpur working in the interstices between visual culture, art and architecture. She is currently a scholar from the Hubs for Good program, funded by the British Council, Cultural Centre at University of Malaya and Yayasan Sime Darby investigating the notion of a creative hub. Concurrently, she lectures Interior Architecture at Malaysian Institute of Art. She is also 1 half of Inven_tory, a visual culture collective currently embarking on a research project about object histories, identity and informal collection. Previously she worked at the Urban Ecologies Design Lab, Community Project Workshop and studied at The University of Hong Kong, The University of Malaya, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and University of Bicocca, Milan.
Laura Sobral
Laura Sobral holds a BA and MA in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, she was a German Chancellor Fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and is currently in Lisbon, Portugal doing her PhD. Laura is one of the founders of The City Needs You Institute, an organization that improves public spaces through social actions such as publications, projects, seminars, workshops, and other activities. She is the autor of the book ‘Doing it Together - cooperation tools for the city co-governance’ (ZKU Press, 2019).
Magdalena Rembeza
Magdalena Rembeza is an architect, urban planner and researcher. Currently she is an assistant professor at the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), Poland, where she completed her doctorate. Since 2009 she has been the head of the GUT’s postgraduate studies in urban regeneration. She is also a Member of a Board of Revitalization Forum Association, which was founded in 1998 as a place of integration of those involved in revitalization.
Since 2004 she has also been a member of IFHP (International Federation of Housing and Planning), an international organization focused on urban development issues and the member of the Society of Polish Urban Planners – TUP. From 2020 she is a member of the Municipal Urban and Architectural Commission in Gdańsk. Her research interests lie in revitalization of contemporary public spaces and also in transformation of place identity as an effect of art interventions.
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>>> Recorded video of the webinar
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