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TOPOS
TOPOS
The twentieth century witnessed an ambitious range of planning projects for new town capital cities around the world. While these projects were motivated by very different political, economic, and geographic conditions, many of them shared an enthusiasm for landscape as a medium of urbanism. Given the well documented and generally accepted flaws of modern planning, many of these projects have been received as failures in social, environmental, and cultural terms.
The 1st Seminar Topos - Landscape of Power: Reconsidering the Twentieth Century Capital Cities proposes cross disciplinary discussion into the historical claims, present status, and future potential of these modern capitals through their reconsideration around theory and practice. By presenting a range of lenses that include urbanism, architecture, ecology, and social engagement, this symposium will provide a space for imagining future possibilities of contemporary urbanism, and the role of equity in design.
TOPOS - Landscape, Design and Planning (University of Brasília) invites you to participate in the event, scheduled to take place in 22nd, 23rd and 24th of June, 2022, in a 100% online format.
Schedule of Events (Brasilia time zone)
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
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Opening Keynote - 2 pm - 4 pm
Prof. Dr. Álvaro Domingues - University of Porto, Portugal
Evening Session - 5pm
Cinema Session
"A rua da estrada", Graça Castanheira, 2012, 35’
"Brasília ano 10", Geraldo Sobral da Rocha, 1970, 11’
​Thursday , June 23rd, 2022
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1st Thematic Session - 9 am - 12 am
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Canberra, Australia
From Federal Capital to Metropolitan City:
Prospect, Power and Paradigm in the Making of Canberra
Prof. Dr. Robert Freestone - University of New South Wales, Australia
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Chandigarh, India
Ecological Urbanism:
The Hydrologics of the Modernist Master Plan of Chandigarh
Prof. Dr. Vikramaditya Prakash - Washington University, USA
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Facing the Conflict Between Capital and Metropolis:
The 1925 Plan for Buenos Aires
Prof. Dr. Ana Maria Rigotti - University of Rosario, Argentina
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Brasília, Brazil
Brasília and Modernist Void:
Drawing Landscapes of Recognition
Prof. Dr. Luciana Saboia - University of Brasília, Brazil
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Keynote Lecture - 2 pm - 4 pm
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New Towns and National Development in Twentieth-century Brazil
Prof. Dr. Renato Leão Rego - University of Maringá, Brazil
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Evening Session - 5pm
Cinema Session
"Plan para Buenos Aires", Gerardo Panero, 2021, 79’
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Friday, June 24th, 2022 2nd
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2nd Thematic Session - 9 am - 12 am
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Islamabad, Pakistan
Nature-City Dialectics in Doxiadis’s Plan for Islamabad
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Z. Khan - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Ankara, Turkey
Ankara: Challenges of Transformation from a
Medieval Town into a Modern Capital
Prof. Dr. Ali Cengizkan - Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, Turkey
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Abuja, Nigeria
Nigeria’s National Assembly Complex Abuja: Decolonizing Africa’s Modernity and
Building Epistemes in the Era of Contentious Democratic Movements
Prof. Dr. Nnamdi Elleh - University of Witwatersrand (WITS), South Africa
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Brazil
Comparative Perspectives on Brazilian´s Capital Cities
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Trevisan - University of Brasilia, Brazil
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Keynote Lecture - 2 pm - 4 pm
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São Paulo - Metropolis of Urgency
Prof. Arq. Fernando Viégas - Escola da Cidade, Brazil
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Closing Keynote - 5 pm - 7 pm
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Landscape as Urbanism in New National Capitals
Prof. Arq. Charles Waldheim - Harvard University, USA
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Keynote Speakers
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Avenir Light is a simple and elegant font favored by designers. Pleasing to the eye and great for headings, paragraphs and more.
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Avenir Light is a simple and elegant font favored by designers. Pleasing to the eye and great for headings, paragraphs and more.
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Avenir Light is a simple and elegant font favored by designers. Pleasing to the eye and great for headings, paragraphs and more.
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Avenir Light is a simple and elegant font favored by designers. Pleasing to the eye and great for headings, paragraphs and more.
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Avenir Light is a simple and elegant font favored by designers. Pleasing to the eye and great for headings, paragraphs and more.
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Avenir Light is a simple and elegant font favored by designers. Pleasing to the eye and great for headings, paragraphs and more.
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Maria do Carmo de Lima Bezerra
Graduated at Architecture and Urbanism from Faculdades Integradas Architect and Urban Planner from the Federal University of Ceará, she holds a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Brasília and a PhD in Urban Environmental Structures from the University of São Paulo. Postdoctoral researcher at AAP, Cornell Univiersity, USA (2009-2010) and at DUyOT at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Maria do Carmo is a Full Professor at the University of Brasília, working at the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism since 1996. She is currently the recipient of a Research Productivity Grant - PQ / CNPQ and leads the Research Group on Urban Environmental Management (UnB / CNPq). As a researcher, she has been working on Urban Land Regularization Projects, Urban and Regional Planning, Green Infrastructure, Mobility, Sustainable Drainage and Environmental Assessment, topics on which she has published several articles in journals and organized National and International Congresses.