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(Un)Anticipated Futures Symposium 2012 : Proceedings Titulo McGrath, Brian - Autor/a; Poyatong, Pirasri - Autor/a; Clemente, Adriana - Autor/a; Autor(es) Gutman, Margarita - Autor/a; Versace, Ileana - Autor/a; Morrish, William R. - Autor/a; Wanichwiwata, Amorn - Autor/a; Mera, Carolina - Autor/a; Lacarrieu, Mónica B. - Autor/a; Rao, Vyjayanthi - Autor/a; Thaitakoo, Danai - Autor/a; Srithanyarat, Suebsiri - Autor/a; Palopakon, Ying - Autor/a; Fernández Castro, Javier - Autor/a; Scaglia, Juan Pablo - Autor/a; Senar, Pedro - Autor/a; Misurac, Ariel - Autor/a; Butts, Kerrie - Autor/a; Mistry, Nilay - Autor/a; Paranulaksa, Narin - Autor/a; Ekapod S., Moe - Autor/a; Lacadee, Camille - Autor/a; Drake, Scott - Autor/a; Sittipunt, Preechaya - Autor/a; Bangkok Lugar Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs Editorial/Editor Chulalongkorn University The New School Universidad de Buenos Aires 2012 Fecha Colección Diversidad; Crimen; Marginalidad; Pobreza; Ciudades; Inclusión; Tailandia; Estados Temas Unidos; Argentina; Libro Tipo de documento "http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/Estados_Unidos/ola/20161227031109/pdf_1181.pdf" URL Reconocimiento-No Comercial-Sin Derivadas CC BY-NC-ND Licencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.es Segui buscando en la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de CLACSO http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) Conselho Latino-americano de Ciências Sociais (CLACSO) Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) www.clacso.edu.ar NEW YORK CITY 40°43’N 74°00’W BANGKOK 13°45’N 100°29’E + + BUENOS AIRES + 34°36’S 58°22’W (UN)ANTICIPATED FUTURES SYMPOSIUM 2012 Chulalongkorn University February 16-19 BANGKOK, THAILAND PROCEEDINGS Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Architecture | The New School | Universidad de Buenos Aires BANGKOK SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION HOSTED BY Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Chulalongkorn University FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE DEAN Prof. Dr. Bundit Chulasai INDA PROGRAM DIRECTOR Dr. Preechaya Sittipunt ACADEMIC COORDINATION AND PUBLICATIONS Kerrie Butts Nilay Mistry ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT Pornprom Mannontaratana Pannasarn Sombuntham Dr. Kanwipa Methanuntakul Suwapat Srikassapa 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 A digital version of this document can be downloaded at: http://www.unanticipatedfutures.blogspot.com/ TABLE OF CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN 1 Bundit Chulasai INTRODUCTION 3 Kerrie Butts and Nilay Mistry SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT 6 DAY ONE: CITY EXPLORATIONS 7 DAY TWO: PAPER PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE 15 INTRODUCTORY SPEECH 17 Brian McGrath HISTORY ACADEMIC PAPERS VISIONS FOR VENICE OF THE EAST: MAPPING AND PLANNING OF 21 BANGKOK 1850-1950 Pirasri Poyatong POVERTY AND MARGINALITY IN THE BUENOS AIRES METROPOLITAN 57 AREA, COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT, FORMALITY AND INFORMALITY Adriana Clemente, Margarita Gutman, Ileana Versace, et al TUXEDOS, LANDSCAPES, COMMUTERS AND URBAN INTERIORS AN 91 ALTERNATIVE URBAN HISTORY OF NEW YORK William Morrish SOCIAL SCIENCE ACADEMIC PAPERS SURVEY OF CRIME REDUCTION THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: 97 A CASE STUDY OF BANGKOK METROPOLITAN, PRATHUMWAN DISTRICT Amorn Wanichwiwata (UN)ANTICIPATED FUTURES SYMPOSIUM 2012 PROCEEDINGS DESIGN, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: DEBATES FOR A FUTURE VISION 115 OF THE CITY Carolina Mera and Mónica Lacarrieu SPECULATIVE CITY 135 Vyjayanthi Rao DESIGN ACADEMIC PAPERS VANISHING LANDSCAPE: THE HYDRO-AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF 145 BANGKOK,THAILAND Danai Thaitakoo, Brian McGrath, Suebsiri Srithanyarat, and Ying Palopakon THE FORMS OF INFORMAL. ELEMENTS OF READING INCLUSIVE PROJECT 159 MANAGEMENT FROM PROJECTIVE RESEARCH Javier Fernandez Castro, Juan Pablo Scaglia, Pedro Senar, and Ariel Misurac (UN)ANTICIPATED DESIGN FUTURES: NEW YORK 185 Brian McGrath DAY TWO PHOTOS 193 DAYS THREE & FOUR: WORKSHOPS INDA PHILOSOPHY 199 MAPPING THE POST-FLOOD LANDSCAPE OF BANGKOK 200 Kerrie Butts and Nilay Mistry THE ARCHITECTURAL APPARATUS 208 Narin Paranulaksa and Pannasan Sombuntham THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO PASS 216 Moe Ekapod S and Camille Lacadee SUPERSKYWALK 218 Scott Drake and Preechaya Sittipunt BIOGRAPHIES 232 MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN This symposium entitled (Un)Anticipated Futures is hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand and Chulalongkorn University. The second day of the four-day workshop is graciously hosted by the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affair as part of its Thai- US Creative Partnership program. The program consists of three panels consisting of historians, social scientists and designers from Chulalongkorn University, the University of Buenos Aires, and The New School in New York. What captivated me in the discussion leading up to this event was the fundamental question: where are we going? At a time of dramatic social, economic and environmental uncertainty, how can we know how to move forward? We at the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University are committed to answer this question through sustained dialogues across disciplines and national boundaries. This event is also made possible by the planning and organization of INDA The International Program in Design and Architecture at Chulalongkorn University. INDA was founded in 2004 with the goals of introducing a broad, English language, non- professional undergraduate degree in design and architecture to compliment our many Thai language degree programs at the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn. Under the leadership of Dr. Preechaya Sittipunt, INDA has been a hugely successful initiative growing to more than 300 students, but also achieving a high quality of innovative pedagogy in a short period of time. In addition to a rigorous on-campus curriculum in design and liberal arts, the program also requires students to participated in international workshops abroad and community design programs during the summer. INDA has also begun a dialogue with Parsons The New School for Design about integrating strategic design thinking into the curriculum. I welcome you all – from Argentina, the United States, and Thailand to participate in the dialogue during the symposium in Bangkok, and I look forward to continuing this discussion in Buenos Aires and New York in the future. Sincerely, PROF. DR. BUNDIT CHULASAI Dean of Faculty of Architecture Chulalongkorn University (UN)ANTICIPATED FUTURES SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS 1 INTRODUCTION Today 1,000,000 meters3 amount of raw sewage released into Bangkok’s canals per day 2% of households connected to water treatment plants wa ter t able floodplain 100 m 1800 agriculture with canals 1850 road additions 1900 mass transit 1950 BANGKOK ? 13°45’N 100°29’E 2000 14,600,000 PEOPLE ESTABLISHED 1782 2050 2 METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL (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 gathers historians, social researchers, and designers in a context of unprecedented economic and ecological uncertainty. As inancial 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 lux.1 After the opportunity for cooperation between the three participating universities materialized for a series of symposia, the format of the inaugural event was extensively discussed by teams residing in Bangkok, New York, and Buenos Aires. A historian, social researcher, and designer from each institution would attend and each present a paper illustrating the urban condition of city of their respective institution. The beneits of collaboration between the invited speakers would set expectations for future projects between these institutions. Through a series of meetings in Bangkok and teleconferences across several time zones, the symposium was programmed to not only feature conventional paper presentations but also actively engage with the host city through small workshop projects. These workshops would enrich the curriculum of the International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) by directly involving undergraduate students with experienced academics from foreign countries. The outcome would not be an imposition of preconceived solutions or prescription of action based on a supericial reading of the context. The format of the workshops would call for reactions to rigorously developed student investigations by a cross-disciplinary, and trans-institutional, panel of critics. 2 (UN)ANTICIPATED FUTURES SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS The challenge remained to quickly introduce the new visitors to the host city, Bangkok, in order to promote correlation of local issues with academic paper discussions. A single day tour of sites was selected for visit by the Bangkok symposium organizers that forms a path transecting ecological, social, and economic conditions to begin to illustrate the complexities of modern Bangkok. This tour took place the irst day of the visit from symposium speakers with paper presentations commencing on the second day. Workshop critiques