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February 6, 2018 | 14:00 – 17:30
The Marble Hall, Ayuntamiento de Manila, Bureau of the Treasury,
Cabildo Street, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines
Manila’s extraordinary 500-year recorded history—written, erased, and rewritten—has rendered a current urbanized condition that is among the world’s most extreme, with great tensions. This mega-city of 25 million is ripe with poverty and affluence, congestion and release, pollution and ecological diversity. Yet amidst these contradictions and extremes is a vibrant, dynamic human fabric with global aspirations and vast potential.
Manila is the subject city of the third and final year in the Southeast Asia research studio co-organized by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and AECOM. With the theme “Manila: Future Habitations”, this studio will focus on three strategic areas within or adjacent to Manila’s historic core: the Port of Manila, The Baseco Compound, and the historic Intramuros and “Burnham Plan” monumental core and Adjacent Pasig Riverfront, where infrastructure, architecture, and challenged ecologies are in need of alignment.
This studio will focus on the design of human settlements, new types of dwellings, the connective tissue and common ground of cities, and the challenge of designing for the human condition against future tensions. The February forum is an integral, first part of a months-long research studio program where thoughts and ideas will be presented and discussed by the faculty and students of Graduate School of Design as well as some of Manila’s most prominent urban designers and planners.
Event Agenda
13:30 – 14:00 |
Guest Registrations |
14:00 – 16:30 |
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Introduction Sylvester Wong |
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Welcome from AECOM Philippines Arnel Casanova |
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Welcome from Intramuros Administration Guiller Asido |
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Opening Remarks Sean Chiao |
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Philippines Keynote Senator Sonny Angara |
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Harvard GSD Welcome and Remarks Mohsen Mostafavi |
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Presentations by Harvard GSD Students Students led by
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Panel “Reclaiming the heart of the City: The Role of Manila in the Socioeconomic Growth of the Philippines Nation”
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Closing Remarks Sylvester Wong |
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