2012 Chulalongkorn University
February 16-19
BANGKOK, THAILAND
(Un)Anticipated Futures is an international Symposium bringing together
research from three universities – Chulalongkorn University in Thailand,
The New School in New York, and University of Buenos Aires in
Argentina. This international collaboration brings together historians,
social researchers, and designers in a context of unprecedented economic
and ecological uncertainty. As financial crisis and environmental
disasters appear around the globe, cross-disciplinary and international
approaches are urgently needed to address design and development in
urban landscapes increasingly in flux.
The Symposium is part of a four-day workshop, from 16-19 February
2012. The first day will consist of fieldwork in development sites
throughout metropolitan Bangkok. The Thai-Ministry of Foreign Relations,
expanding on the Thai-US Creative Partnership Seminar for Green Building and Design
held at the Ministry in September of 2011, will be co-hosting the
second day of the symposium, which will be open to the public. On the
third and fourth days, a workshop with visiting academics, faculty, and
students from the International Program in Design and Architecture
(INDA) at Chulalongkorn University will take place. This symposium is
the first of three collaborative events within the Design and Social
Development Program which will be held in Buenos Aires and New York in
2013.
Through the analysis of similarities and differences across cities
from different disciplinary perspectives, the Design and Social
Development Program focuses not primarily on the disciplines themselves
but rather on how to build a common language. The program works at the
intersection of design and social science in an effort to identify
innovative ways of interpreting urban phenomena.
HOSTED BY Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Chulalongkorn University FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE DEAN Prof. Dr. Bundit Chulasai INDA PROGRAM DIRECTOR Dr. Preechaya Sittipunt ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT Pornprom Mannontaratana Pannasarn Sombuntham Dr. Kanwipa Methanuntakul Suwapat Srikassapa ACADEMIC COORDINATION AND PUBLICATIONS Kerrie Butts Nilay Mistry PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University Parson The New School for Design, The New School Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires (FADU UBA) SPECIAL THANKS The Observatory on Latin America The Embassy of Argentine Republic in Bangkok, Thailand The Embassy of the United States in Bangkok, Thailand NEW YORK COORDINATOR AND RECORDS Mandy Goodgoll, Coordinator, The Observatory on Latin America |
 The Symposium Handbook can be downloaded here.Full papers and Symposium Proceedings can be downloaded here. |