Dezeen promotion: Living Cities Forum in Melbourne examines different perspectives on time and how they can influence urban design, in a series of panel discussions available to watch online.
Under the theme "The Long View", the annual architecture and design forum considered the implications of varying ways of perceiving and measuring time ? including from the perspective of Australia's First Nations people and the long scale of geological processes.
Living Cities Forum took place online on 23 July 2021, with speakers including architect Anupama Kundoo and designer Maarten Gielen appearing at a mix of keynote lectures, cross-disciplinary panel discussions and Q&As.
Architect Anupama Kundoo, whose work includes the Residence Kanade in India, is among the speakers at Living Cities Forum Session One addressed the event's theme, with Aboriginal Australian author Bruce Pascoe, a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man who has chronicled Indigenous architecture, technology and farming practices.
He was joined by British philosopher Timothy Morton, who argued for a radical rethink of how humans relate to animals and nature, and Aboriginal Australian architect Sarah Lynn Rees, who descends from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania and curates the BLAKitecture forum.
Session Two, titled "Real Time ? precarity, ownership and structural disparities" was anchored by a keynote address from the Australian-born artist and environmental eng...