Unsitely! – Leveraging Design to Improve Urban Construction Sites

October 08 - 09 2014

Conferences

Here is the summary of the talks at the Colloquium that have been authorized for distribution on the Web. The official program contains abstracts of all the talks and a short biography for each speaker.

Session 1: Worksites and Culture

Design communication

Annemike BANNIZA Architects, KSV Architecture, Berlin, Germany
Humboldt Box PDF

Patrick ROUX, Associate Executive Director, Saguez & Partners, Paris, France
Jean-Marc FRITZ, Associate Architect and Co-Manager, SEURA
Paris les Halles : Transforming the Heart of the City through Design PDF

Patrick Roux Video

 Jean-Marc Fritz Video

Session 1: Worksites and Culture / Giving the worksite an artistic face

Sherry DOBBIN, Director of Public Art, Times Square Arts, Times Square Alliance
The Times Square Transformation PDF

CHOI, Jeong Hwa, Artist, Director, Ghaseum Studio, Seoul Korea
Interpreter : CHOI, Soo Yeon
"Under Construction" PDF

Session 2 : Worksites and Society

Social design

Keynote speaker: Colin ELLARD, Professor of cognitive Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The Psychology of Construction Sites: Field Investigations and Recommendations PDF

Florent CHIAPPERO, Architect, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Spokesperson for Collectif Etc.; PhD, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Marseille (ENSA-M)
Alexis GANTE, Châteaucreux Project Chief, Chappe-Ferdinand, Établissement Public d’Aménagement de Saint-Étienne (EPASE), France
“Room for Change”: Open Worksites asthe Key to Collectively Constructed Public Spaces PDF

Gante Video

Chiappero Video

Donald HYSLOP, Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships, Tate Modern
Skirt of the Black Mouth: Architecture, Audiences and Art. Continuing Conversations through Construction

Teddy LEGUI, Consulting Urban Planner and project Manager, SAMOA, Nantes, France
Prefiguration, Mobilization and Scenographic Design of Change: A review of the creative Worksites of Ile de Nantes PDF

Session 3 : Worksites and Innovation

Industrial design

Keynote speaker : Andrew HOLLWECK, Vice-President Policy and Programs, New York Building Congress, United States
Making New York City Construction sites Better Neighbours PDF

Susanna SIREFMAN, President, Dovetail Design Strategists
The Design Competition: The Power of the Process PDF

Dror BENSHETRIT, Industrial designer, Dror Studio, New York, US
The QuaDror Construction Barrier PDF

Charles ORMSBY, Civil Engineer, Arup, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Culture throughout Construction at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Site, in Athens, Greece PDF

Erik S. CHURCHILL, Project Manager, SHoP Construction, New York, US
Introduced by Geoffrey MORRISSEY, Civil Engineer at Arup, New York
Design and Construction in a Hot, Flat and Crowded World

Session 4: Inspiring cases

Ross ATKIN, Senior Research Associate, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK
The Sight Line Street Works System PDF

Éric MONIN, Lecturer, Research Fellow, Laboratoire Conception, Territoire,Histoire (LACTH), École normale supérieure d’architecture et de paysage de Lille
Éric SEIDLITZ, Director, Commerce – Tourisme Department, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Grand Lille, France
The « Unsitely » Street PDF

Monin Video

Seidlitz Video

Howard CHAMBERS, Designer, Professor at Parsons School of design, co-founder of Softwalks, New York, US
Softwalks: Pop-up Urban Parklets for all PDF

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