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GLOBAL STUDIO VANCOUVER: June 15-July 03, 2006

Invitation to participate
Global Studio Vancouver will bring together students, academics and professionals in the city building professions from developed and developing countries to take part in an interdisciplinary studio, forum and related events in Vancouver in June 2006. Global Studio provides opportunities to develop new modes of professional education and practice with policy and research implications as well as possibilities for developing networks and partnerships. Global Studio is an on-going teaching and research project.

We invite you to consider joining us – as a student participant, or as a Friend of Global Studio.

Building on Global Studio, Istanbul in 2005  where around 70 students from 20 countries took part in a weeklong studio and four days of sessions titled People Building Better Cities, GSV will take up aspects of the UN World Urban Forum agenda and work with in Vancouver in a participatory design and planning project. In addition, special Global Studio events, the Future Directions Forum, Supersaturday, and the UN World Urban Forum will be part of the Global Studio experience.

Almost one billion people around the world live in slums, including 56 million in developed countries. If nothing is done this number will likely reach two billion by 2020. The Millennium Project’s Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers spearheaded the Global Studio concept in 2004 .Global Studio Istanbul   and Vancouver have been  developed by a consortium  of universities, and proposals under consideration for GS 2007 and 2008.

To assist the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to meet the urbanization challenges, the task force’s report, A Home in the City (Earthscan 2005) advocates the need for city building professionals to contribute more effectively to improving living conditions of the urban poor by fully engaging with these communities and placing them at the centre of development plans and decisions that affect their lives. It advocates city building strategies and policies that are economically, socially, culturally and environmentally sustainable. Young professionals and communities from developing and developed countries have a crucial role to play in inventing this future.

The 30th anniversary of the historic UN Habitat conference, the UN World Urban Forum and the many other events in Vancouver this June provide a unique opportunity for dialogue with a global community on sustainable cities and turning ideas into action.  Registration for The UN World Urban Forum is free and a complimentary weekly bus pass is provided with registration to facilitate venue access throughout the city.

What can city building students, academics and professionals learn?

What can they contribute?

Global Studio will be part of the action.

 

Vancouver  June/July 2006

Vancouver in June 2006 is shaping up to be a very exciting time which began last December with the Habitat JAM  when over 39,000 people expressed their views on urban issues. There are several international events, including the UNWorld Urban Forum, the World Planners Congress, Planners for Tomorrow, the Earth Festival and pps:r_06 (people, places, situations: response).  There are also a multitude of locally run events ranging from music to the arts, planning, landscape architecture, architecture exhibits and an urban films festival.

Events

Planners for tomorrow, June 14-16. 06

How can planners accelerate ideas into action for urban sustainability?
Who should be the planners for the cities of tomorrow?
What should be their knowledge, skills and attitudes?
How should the capabilities of planners for tomorrow be developed?

Landscape Architects Conference  14-17 June, 06

Shifting Ground: Landscape Architecture in the Age of the New 

Urbanism. Environmentalism. Consumerism. Globalization. Poverty. Urban decay. Today’s world is continually undergoing massive changes and reconfigurations. The urban landscape must accommodate commercial and residential needs, transportation requirements, diverse ethnicities, leisure spaces and so much more. Our increasingly pluralistic societies have countless crossovers and what was acceptable yesterday is untenable today. We require spaces to live and breathe and connect not only with nature, but also with ourselves.

World Planners Congress    June 17-20, 06

Sustainable Urbanisation: Turning Ideas into Action  

Registration  

Urbanization and its many forms, facets and factors, is a powerful ongoing force of change in human society and one that has many effects across the planet - from the largest sprawling metropolis to the smallest rural hamlet. The conference theme seeks to explore the dimensions of sustainable urbanization for diverse variety of communities and environments, including those facing challenging rates of growth, migration, and decline.

Super Saturday Inter-Professional Day of Activities  , June 17, 2006

Three Canadian urban planning and design professions - Planning, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture - are working together to offer a day of professional inter-disciplinary sessions, networking opportunities and social activities. Global Studio will present an interactive, interdisciplinary session.

RAIC Festival of Architecture, June 14-17  

Habitat Reloaded

World Youth Forum, June 6-18

UN World Urban Forum June 19-23, 06

* Our Future: Sustainable Cities – Turning Ideas into Action.

No charge, but registration is required – register now to hear what’s going on.

The UN World Urban Forum 2006 celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first UN Habitat Conference. Habitat 1976 profoundly changed the way that cities and the built environment were viewed and acted upon, and the conference led to the establishment of the United Nations organization for human settlements - now called UN-HABITAT. It is projected that in the next fifty years, two-thirds of humanity will be living in towns and cities. A major challenge is to minimize burgeoning poverty in cities, improve the urban poor's access to basic facilities such as shelter, clean water and sanitation and achieve environment-friendly, sustainable urban growth and development. Global Studio will host a networking session.

Global Studio Vancouver June 15 – July 3

Global Studio Vancouver will build on the successful Global Studio Istanbul program and will bring together students, academics and professionals in the city building professions from developed and developing countries to take part in an interdisciplinary international studio, forum, the WUF and related events. Global Studio provides opportunities to develop new modes of participatory professional education and practice with policy and research implications, as well as possibilities for developing networks and partnerships. Students participants are expected to stay at the Global Studio accomodation to help achieve one of Global Studios objectives of "building friendships and peace, network and capacity building at major international professional events".

PPS:r_06
pps:r_06  - people, places, situations: response- a multidisciplinary exhibition, film and literature festival,  is pleased to announce their alliance with Global Studio Vancouver during the World Urban Forum and World Planners Congress in June 2006.

pps:r_06  examines themes of political and ecological crisis, displacement, exile and urban poverty the convergence of community engagement, protest and design through the fields of architecture, planning, photojournalism, film, fine art, literature to provide a context and stimulate critical debate of refugee issues.

 

 

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