On Thursday 23rd of June and Friday 24th of June our Department of Architecture organizes the World Urbanisms Seminar for the third consecutive time. This seminar bundles a series of diverse urban contexts in the world that form the subject of a debate, mainly built on the thesis work of the Master students of Architecture (MIRA) and the studio and thesis work of the students of the Master of Human Settlements (MaHS), Master of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (MaUSP) en European Master of Urbanism (EMU). The seminar also includes ongoing PhD work.
Interested staff and students are invited to this open seminar that will take place in the Arenberg castle in Heverlee. The detailed program can be found below:
Thursday 23rd of June
9.00 Studio Requalifying Infrastructure, SÃO PAULO, Brasil
13.30 Insurgent Urbanisms, SÃO PAULO, Brasil
15.45 Ecological Urbanisms, GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador
17.00 New Towns, BEJING, China
17.45 Estuarine Urbanisms, MAPUTO, Mozambique
Friday 24th of June
9.00 Landscape Urbanism Studio,
KATHMANDU, Nepal
13.00 Water Urbanisms, SEMARANG, Indonesia
13.45 Mixed Cities of the Levant, LOD, Israel
15.15 Developing Urbanisms in Development, ACCRA, Ghana
16.15 F(r)ictions. Landscape as ally of urban growth, CAPE TOWN, South Africa