- CITY + LANDSCAPE – 02
- Wednesday 23rd November at 17:00
- Lecture Theatre M055
What is a Smartcity? The lecture represents the culmination of CJ Lim’s ongoing explorations into sustainable city design that began with a proposal to revitalise the community landscape of Chicago’s DuSable Park and matured with Guangming Smartcity, a new town in Southern China for 200 000 inhabitants. The smartcity is a vision of an urban future from an architectural perspective as opposed to a planning, environmental engineering or socio-economic one. Current discourse on sustainability appears to focus either on the technical aspects of ecological design at the scale of individual buildings or establishes the general principles for planning urban environments; ‘Smartcities + Eco-warriors’ attempts to address what the spatial and phenomenological implications are when sustainable design is applied to a city, what new hybrid typologies of programme and landscape are birthed, and the role that we as citizens rather than designers will play in the production of a relevant social space. A central component of the smartcity is urban agriculture and the establishment of an ecological symbiosis between nature and built form. This lecture is structured around a series of international case studies, some commissioned by government organisations, others speculative and polemic.
Bio:
CJ Lim is the founding director of Studio 8 Architects (www.cjlim-studio8.com), a multi-disciplinary practice in architecture, landscape and urban planning, focusing on cultural, social and sustainability issues. He is also the Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett, UCL. The Royal Academy of Arts London awarded CJ the Grand Architecture Prize. His projects are part of the permanent architectural collection of the Victoria + Albert Museum London, and Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain du Centre [FRAC] Orleans France. His celebrated ‘Virtually Venice’, architecture as builtcultural assemblage, is an investigation of East-West cultures and identities, commissioned by the British Council UK for the Venice Architecture Biennale. Recent award-winning Smartcities proposals are for the Chinese and Korean Governments. His publications include ‘441/10…we’ll reconfigure your space when you’re ready’ (1996), ‘Sins + Other Spatial Relatives’ (2001), ‘Realms of Impossibility: Air, Ground, Water’ (2002), ‘How Green is Your Garden?’ (2003), ‘Museums [work in process]’ (2004), ‘NeoArchitecture: Studio 8 Architects’ (2005), ‘Devices’ (2005), ‘Virtually Venice’ (2006), and ‘Smartcities + Eco-warriors’ (2010).
Copies of his book “Smart-cities and Eco-warriors” for sale to students. Books to sell at discounted price of £20 (normal retail price is £29.99) – cash only.