BOOKTALKS| Urban Landscape Lecture Series—Our Shared Future: Public Space through Multiple Perspectives

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“Prov. The public. The Decisive Tomorrow World series of lectures extends to a late-night reading session for selected books in the arts of literature. Launched by the Wen Shin Arts Foundation, Liu Huifang, Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Culture University, invited experts in digital architecture to submit their favorite theoretical works in the fields of landscape, cities, architecture, and more. Unlike previous discussions of pure architecture, we look at cities, buildings, and public spaces from a more diverse perspective, discussing concepts such as Urbanism, Commonality, Publicity, and Future Cities in the book. The final play “Our Common Future: Public Spaces under Multiple Views” will be brought to “The Future of Public Spaces” by Professor Lau Huifang (The Future of Public Space) An introduction to “Gender: The Production of Behavior” and invited architect Chow Shu-yin as a special guest and talk.

The Future of Public Space is a series of works by SOM thinkers published in 2017 that explores these potential issues and possibilities. For example, challenging Americans' preconceived notions of the wild, vast West by discussing surveillance issues; the myths and filth accumulated by public art, and its potential for future development; and even, architecture and social life in outer space beyond Earth. The book's author group includes Allison Arieff (critic), Michelle Nijhuis (environmental observer/editor), Jaron Lanier (scientist/visual artist/writer), Rachel Monroe (writer/host), China Mieville (novelist), Christopher DeWolf (architecture and cultural critic), Ben Davis (artist critic), Sarah Fecht (writer/editor), Lawrence Weiner (artist) The atypical spatial professional programmer's gaze and wonder at public spaces helps open up the imagination of our shared future.

Communality: The Production of Behavior consists of 8 chapters that explore topics such as “the commonality of architecture” in the form of articles, dialogues, case studies, reading notes, and more. In the discussion section, Japanese artist Tanaka Kung, historical technologist Nakatani Ryren, and social philosopher Shinobara Yabu interpret the concept of “community” and human behavior from their respective professional perspectives, providing a diverse perspective on understanding the essence of “coexistence”; the “Cogendered Reading Conference” section is listed 33 These books on the concept of “commonality” expand the theoretical underpinnings of this concept; case studies involving spatial observations of more than ten cities in Japan, China, and the European Commune, as well as a detailed introduction to the project on the practice of barking workshops, provide readers with a sensory perception of the commonality of architecture.