“Questioning the Space of Modernity: Informality and the City” conference
BACKGROUND
Critics have observed a rise of entrepreneurial urbanization in different Asian cities since the late 1990s. Along this growth trajectory, we have also witnessed a great collection of urban informality, from street vending, squatter housing to unregistered manufacturing, that has formed the backbone of Asian economic modernization. Given that international scholars have discovered a newfound interest of urban informality in both developing and developed countries, the Department of Landscape Architecture of Fu Jen Catholic University wants to organize an interdisciplinary conference—Questioning the Space of Modernity: Informality and the City—addressing the pressing issues of informal urbanism and its influence on urban development process in various geopolitical contexts.
SCOPE and THEMES
We invite you to submit the abstracts and full papers. The word limit of the paper is 10000 words or so. Topics on urban informality include (but are not limited to):
1. Underground economy, unlicensed services, street business and the spaces and landscapes formed
2. Laymen or non-professional building, unlicensed construction, illegal or irregular housing/factories, squatting, and their urban planning issues
3. Informal production or consumption of nature, networked infrastructure, agriculture, ecology, energy, and environment.
4. The informality in everyday life including leisure, art, mobility, transportation and urban space/culture they create
5. All the other topics on modernity, informality and cities
Authors are invited to submit abstracts in English. For authors who submit Chinese papers, both Chinese and English abstracts need to be submitted. The abstracts and papers should be sent in Word format. All abstracts should include the following:
Title:
Preferably less than 15 words.
Author(s):
Authors’ names, surnames, affiliated organization/company, and contact details including phone/fax number, e-mail and full postal address.
Keywords:
Provide up to 5 keywords.
A brief summary of the paper:
Provide a no more than 500 words summary outlining relevant background, problem addressed, research objectives, and the methodology used.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Tim Bunnell, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore , Singapore
Kim Dovey, Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, the University of Melbourne, Australia
Jeff Hou,Professor and Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington , USA
Jun Wang,Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong
HOST
Department of Landscape Architecture of Fu Jen Catholic University
VENUE
Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan
IMPORTANT DATES
l June 30, 2017 Deadline for submission of abstracts.
l September 15, 2017 Deadline for full papers.
l November 18-19, 2017 Conference
CATACT US:
Abstract and paper should be sent to: fjula.2017@gmail.com