Fast Forward 2023: Zhang Ye - Sharing, space and space-sharing practices
Schedule
Tue Jun 13 2023 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location
Design Lecture Theatre 423-348, University of Auckland Building 423, 22 Symonds Street, Auckland Central, Auckland, New Zealand | Auckland, AU
About this Event
Zhang Ye
Sharing, space and space-sharing practices
Format: In-person
Design Lecture Theatre 423-348, University of Auckland Building 423, 22 Symonds Street, Auckland Central.
A well-known and respected event in the community, Fast Forward is generously sponsored by GIB® and supported by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
10 NZRAB CPD points are available at each lecture. Attendance at each talk is free. All welcome.
About the lecture
Claimed to be fairer, more sustainable, more transparent, and more socially connected, the sharing economy has been increasingly dampened by the scepticism on these promises. If the sharing economy refrains ‘true sharing’ from being more fully practised, what could be done to foster sharing and attain its transformative values?
Recently, there has been an emerging urban phenomenon that has so far accreted in new forms of sharing spatial resources, the creation of new shared spaces, and, more importantly, the production of new socio-spatial sharing relations. However, the space is often merely presumed as the background reality that accommodates sharing activities, especially from the views espoused by the sharing economy. The spatial dimension of sharing, especially the intertwined relation between sharing practices and the physical environment, has yet to be recognised as an essential variable in elucidating sharing.
There needs to be an understanding that the physical space could be transformed into a productive shareable resource but also shaped and configured to help more fully unleash the potential of sharing.
About the speaker
Zhang Ye is an Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Urban Design (MAUD) programme at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, UK. Ye was a fellow of Cambridge Overseas Trust from 2008 to 2011 and a visiting academic at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London in 2015. Now he serves as the Director General of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), an international network of universities and research institutes with the task of strengthening the collaboration in the field of Urbanism.
Where is it happening?
Design Lecture Theatre 423-348, University of Auckland Building 423, 22 Symonds Street, Auckland Central, Auckland, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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