Jacquie Clarke, Phd. candidate, The University of Auckland.
Simultopia: syncretic ecology and liquid perception in urban space.
Simultopia dreams of inventing new paradigms for city production, ones which neither transcend nor simulate place but inhabit space as different layers of reality
Associate Professor Of Urban Design, Brian McGrath.
Quote taken from Bangkok Simultopia.
Simultopia: syncretic ecology and liquid perception in urban space
‘Simultopia’ is a portmanteau term combining the meanings of the Latin prefix ‘simul-’; meaning ‘together’ and ‘at the same time’; and ‘-topia’ meaning place. Simultopia is in the first instance an idea, a perception, an urban design concept, or an ‘ecology of mind’, before it is a specific locality or a tangible urban materiality. The idea of simultopia is the forming of a perception of environment. It is minds and bodies that inhabit space (not just governments, planners and developers) and in doing so give them not only form but also meaning. Thus a simultopia is created via the experiential phenomena of context, ie. by the imprint of our own embodied perceptions both interpreting and forming the spaces and places in which we breathe, play, transit, talk, work and rest.
Jacquie Clarke is a PhD candidate and writer on visual culture, ecology and aesthetics. She will be lecturing in Contemporary New Zealand Art in the Art History Department in Semester 2 2009. Jacquie writes for Landscape Architecture New Zealand Magazine and was the founding editor/producer of www.thebigidea.co.nz - the largest online
community in New Zealand's creative sector that now has 17,000+ members.
Communiqué 09
All talks take place at 12.00 – 1.00pm
Venue: Design Theatre
School of Architecture and Planning
The University of Auckland
Room 348, Building 423, 26 Symonds Street, Auckland
Image: Lars Spuybroek’s Maison Folie De Wazemmes, Lille, France.
Photo Jacquie Clarke
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