Incomplete Urbanism: The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) Conference: Keynote Lecture in Honour of William S. W. LimContesting Modernity in Asia: Reaching Towards a Non-West Modernist Past; Reflections on the Thinking of William Lim by Prof Leon van Schaik (South Africa/Australia), Innovation Professor of Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
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Incomplete Urbanism: The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) Conference: Keynote Lecture in Honour of William S. W. Lim
Contesting Modernity in Asia: Reaching Towards a Non-West Modernist Past; Reflections on the Thinking of William Lim by Prof Leon van Schaik (South Africa/Australia), Innovation Professor of Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
Contesting Modernity in Asia: Reaching Towards a Non-West Modernist Past; Reflections on the Thinking of William Lim by Prof Leon van Schaik (South Africa/Australia), Innovation Professor of Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
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Monday, 14 November 2016, 6.30 – 8.30pm URA Function Hall, Level 5, The URA Centre, 45 Maxwell Road
“We are the creatures of our mental space, a space formed through our life experience.” In this lecture, Professor Leon van Schaik argues, as he has in his book Spatial Intelligence (2008), “that we have a responsibility to uncover and analyse how our histories in space have formed the intellectual and experiential assumptions that are the frame of our lives as professionals and as citizens”. Professor Van Schaik’s keynote lecture addresses the influence of William S. W. Lim over his career and manifold collaborative practices.
6.30 – 7.00pm
Registration and Reception
7.00 – 8.30pm
Welcome Address Larry Ng, Group Director, Architecture & Urban Design Excellence, URA; and Khim Ong, Deputy Director, Exhibitions, Residencies & Public Programmes (Singapore)
Introduction by Chairperson
Keynote Lecture by Professor Leon van Schaik
Response by Dr Lilian Chee (Singapore), Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore
Followed by a Q&A
“We are the creatures of our mental space, a space formed through our life experience.” In this lecture, Professor Leon van Schaik argues, as he has in his book Spatial Intelligence (2008), “that we have a responsibility to uncover and analyse how our histories in space have formed the intellectual and experiential assumptions that are the frame of our lives as professionals and as citizens”. Professor Van Schaik’s keynote lecture addresses the influence of William S. W. Lim over his career and manifold collaborative practices.
6.30 – 7.00pm
Registration and Reception
7.00 – 8.30pm
Welcome Address Larry Ng, Group Director, Architecture & Urban Design Excellence, URA; and Khim Ong, Deputy Director, Exhibitions, Residencies & Public Programmes (Singapore)
Introduction by Chairperson
Keynote Lecture by Professor Leon van Schaik
Response by Dr Lilian Chee (Singapore), Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore
Followed by a Q&A
Date
2016-11-14
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Incomplete Urbanism: The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) Conference: Keynote Lecture in Honour of William S. W. Lim
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“Incomplete Urbanism: The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) Conference: Keynote Lecture in Honour of William S. W. LimContesting Modernity in Asia: Reaching Towards a Non-West Modernist Past; Reflections on the Thinking of William Lim by Prof Leon van Schaik (South Africa/Australia), Innovation Professor of Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/2298.
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