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UPDATE 3: Welcome to Day 4, Friday, October 13th. Don't forget the closing party at 7PM!
Map to Dorchester is HERE.
Plan of The Corn Exchange is HERE.
PROGRAMME
(Updated Friday, October 13 1:20 PM
Lunch Break: 1:00 PM
Visit Dorchester, or make your way to
Poundbury for afternoon breakouts
AFTERNOON BREAKOUTS
In the Corn Exchange, or in Jubilee Hall, Poundbury
Breakout 5A: 2:30 PM
Christopher Alexander’s Unfinished Work
Main Hall, The Corn Exchange: 2:30 PM
Building Beauty in Theory and Practice
Susan Ingham, KASA Architecture and
Building Beauty
How Patterns Contribute to Achieving
SDG 11 Goals in Urban Design
Robert Krasser, SIR- Salzburg Institute for Regional
Planning and Housing
Delight's Muse: Exploring Christopher
Alexander's Magnum
Opus, The Nature of Order
Jenny Quillien, Sustasis Foundation
The Wholeness Generates the Design:
Unifying Beauty and Function
Yodan Rofè, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev and Building Beauty
Breakout 5B: 2:30 PM
The Ecology of Cities I: The Nature of Cities
Town Hall, The Corn Exchange
Toward an "Ecology of Place:" Civic Intentions,
Actor Networks, and Spatial Patterns
David Brain, New College of Florida
Coding the Ecology. Form-based Codes
and the Logic of Continuity
Michał Dominczak, Łódź University of Technology
The Ecology of Urban Centers and Corridors
Kathleen Galvin, Renaissance Planning
Urban Planning in Colonial Contexts: Case
Study of Morocco
Noussayba Rahmouni, Kyoto University
Breakout 5C
Ecological Placemaking: Tools and Strategies
Magistrates’ Room, The Corn Exchange
The Edible Metropolis: Designing a City Around
Food
Ryan Smolar, PlacemakingUS
Enhancing Public Understanding and Adoption of
Ecological Placemaking Principles through
Simulation and Gaming
Louis Burns, Urban Prosperity Network
Breakout 5D: Inside Poundbury, Part 1
Jubilee Hall, Poundbury
Join leading Poundbury architects Ben Pentreath
of Ben Pentreath LTD. and George Saumarez Smith
of ADAM Architecture for an insider’s tour!
Refreshments and Networking: 3:45 PM
Coffee and snacks, exhibit and book sales upstairs
Breakout 6: 4:15 PM
Breakout 6A: Public Space Tools and Governance
Main Hall, The Corn Exchange
Public Space Toolkit for Wales: Co-producing
Knowledge with Local Authorities
Patricia Aelbrecht, Cardiff University
Public Space in Contemporary Practice
Korkut Onaran, University of Colorado
Impromptu Encounters in Public Spaces:
Promoting Well-being and Public Health
Maya Ljubojevic, University of Strathclyde
Modern Religious Influence and the Public Square
Josh Stewart, Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints
Breakout 6B
The Ecology of Cities II: Cities and Nature
Town Hall, The Corn Exchange
Living on the Edge: Preserving and Integrating
Agricultural Lands into Urbanization
Mahdi Tavanpour, Independent Researcher
Deviation in Material Flow as a Method towards Circularity
Jingxi Miao, Architectural Association Material Arcade
The Critical Role of Ecosystems Services:
Case Study of Sweden
Shuqi Li, Harbin Institute of Technology
Breakout 6C: Environmental Structure Research Group
(ESRG) Symposium
Magistrates’ Room, The Corn Exchange
An assessment of the work of Christopher Alexander
and the ongoing research done by former associates
and other interested parties in architecture,
planning, computer science, biology, mathematics,
and other fields
With David Brain, Or Ettlinger, Susan Ingham, Robert
Krasser, Michael Mehaffy , Jenny Quillien, Y odan Rofe,
others TBD
Breakout 6D: Inside Poundbury, Part 2
Jubilee Hall, Poundbury
Join leading Poundbury architects Ben Pentreath
of Ben Pentreath LTD. and George Saumarez Smith
of ADAM Architecture for an insider’s tour!
Breakouts End
Closing Party!
Jubilee Hall, Poundbury: 7:00 PM
Coaches depart for hotel areas at 9:00 PM
SATURDAY, October 14
In-Depth Poundbury Tour: 10:00 AM
Starts in front of the Duchess of Cornwall
Hotel and Pub