Buildings and Borders in Asia 17th to 20th Centuries

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Buildings and Borders in Asia
17th to 20th Centuries

Borders, like architecture, are physical and conceptual constructs that encompass a range of political, social, cultural, religious, economic and environmental implications across time. This two-day HKU research postgraduate student symposium is organized around the oscillations between material form and immaterial abstraction that borders and architecture often comprise. Seemingly fixed and stable for certain periods, fluid and immaterial at others, borders have long shaped politics, societies, economies, religions, environments and cultures in Asia. Buildings have been active if underexamined participants in these processes.

Keynote Speakers

Teddy Cruz is a Professor of Public Culture and Urbanism in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

Fonna Forman is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, San Diego and Founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice.

Anoma Pieris is a Professor of Architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Presenters

Kehao Chen, Tongji University

Anthony Ho-fai Li, The University of Hong Kong

Cassandra Ying Xian Luk, University of Coimbra

Francisco Garcia Moro, Polytechnic University of Madrid

Bradley O’Dell, The University of Hong Kong

Putrikinasih Ririh Santoso, The University of Hong Kong

Yan Wan, The University of Hong Kong

Zihao Wong, National University of Singapore

Tianyi Zhang, Macau University of Science and Technology

Schedule

• All times are in HKT (GMT+8)

Friday April 8
09:45-10:15	Welcoming Remarks
10:00-11:15	Keynote Lecture: Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman Unwalling Citizenship Discussant: Joshua Bolchover
11:30-13:00	Panel 1: Making Borders Natural Bradley O’Dell Political Borders Influence Ecological Dynamics: Three Case Studies Zihao Wong (Re)drawing Wet Borders: An Architecture of Care for a Fragile Landscape Francisco Garcia Moro Wood Architecture in the Border Towns of Thailand and Myanmar: A Study of Vernacular Construction Practices in Umphang and Pho Phra Districts in Tak Province Discussant: Xiaoxuan Lu
13:00	Day 1 Closing Remarks
Saturday April 9
10:00-11:30	Panel 2: Liminal and Fluid Borders Kehao Chen Tung Wo Market, or When The Sha Tau Kok River Bended Yan Wan Housing as Cross-Border Communities: A Case Study of Sheung Shui and Hubei Anthony Ho-fai Li Development of Urban Space at the Cold War’s Frontier: The Case of a Market Town in Colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1970s Discussant: Cecilia L. Chu
11:30-12:30	Lunch Break
12:30-14:00	Panel 3: Borders in Urban Spaces Cassandra Ying Xian Luk More than Space: Historic Embassy Architecture and the Axioms of Statecraft Tianyi Zhang A Study of the City walls of Macao based on Ancient Maps Putrikinasih Ririh Santoso de-fence-less: Acts of Terror and the Fences along Thamrin Road, Jakarta, Indonesia Discussant: Tao Zhu
14:00-15:15	Keynote Lecture: Anoma Pieris Rethinking Sovereignty: Border Effects Discussant: Eunice Seng
15:30-16:00	Roundtable Discussion
16:00	Closing Remarks

Student Committee

Moyun Zhou, Wenxin Zeng, Xiaoxu Yan and Xiaoqing Liu

Faculty Advisors

Eunice Seng and Cecilia L. Chu