Greater Bay Area IFOU 2019 Spring School (PolyU Design+TU Delft+IFOU)

Colloquium 1
Spatial Urban Futures: Complex Interiority

Colloquium 2
Spatial Urban Futures: Mapping, Smart City and Integral Territories

PolyU Lecture 1 
Critical approaches to 'mega' planning (KK Ling)

PolyU Lecture 2
Urban agglomeration GBA^ex Strategies and Systems of Planning - HK^ex and GBA^ex and 4 approaches (Peter Hasdell)

TUD Lecture 1
Spatial Planning in the Globalised City (Diego Sepulevda BK TUD)

TUD Lecture 2
Urban Villages: Past, Present and Future GBA prospectus (Qui Lei BK TUD)

Field trip and Workshop

Final Roundup | 
Presentation and Summation
Invited Jury: Peter Hasdell, Gerhard Bruyns, Yixuan Eveline Peng, Darren Nel, Diego Sepulveda, Qui Lei

Sping School Closure - Steps forward

Peter Hasdell, Gerhard Bruyns, Suzie Attiwill & Roger Kemp
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design & RMIT University

Spatial Urban Futures: Complex Interiority is the first in a series of colloquia that outline (interior) urban futures in the context of the Greater Bay Area (GBA). Incorporating 11 cities into an urbanised population of well over 70 million people, planning for the GBA focuses on the development of key sectors and large scale infrastructural connectivity to position the region as a future global mega region. Integration raises complex issues: including the ‘One Country Two Systems,’ different languages and cultural bases, integration of infrastructure and logistics, regional duplication, redundancy and over capacity of many urban areas, not to mention issues of citizenship, public space and civic life.  How do we plan for these issues, using what urban models and through which interior types? Does the development of large scale morphologies - such as we might find in Macau's casino complexes or in large multi-scalar cross-programmed developments – address these issues? Clearly the mega-block and interior complexes will be part of the GBA’s integration processes but what is their contribution to urban futures in the region?

V514, 5/F Jockey Club Innovation Tower, PolyU

Peter Hasdell, Gerhard Bruyns, Frank Heidemann, Tobias Schröder, Christopher HIGGINS
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, PolyU Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics

Spatial Urban Futures: Mapping, Smart City and Integral territories is the second in a series of colloquia that outline critical issues in the context of the Greater Bay Area (GBA). In this, discussion focuses on the urban futures proposed within the GBA framework, and its valance with the Smart City and Big Data strategies of current planning models. In the differentiated field of the GBA, the consideration of other factors – such as the influences of a ‘One Country Two Systems’ approach, cultural diversity, major population shifts and governance – brings into question new live-work patterns, social credit systems, economic cycles and territorial mobilities. How can spatial and urban planning incorporate concepts as the IoT, Big Data and Smart City imperatives to develop future urban visions? How are we to conceive territories, regions and ‘mega’ development using these instruments? What other alternatives do these instruments provide within the activities of formulating responsive urban strategies? And furthermore what gets left out in the initiation of the technocratic?