Urban change in Southeast Asia: what role for citizens?

28/01/2021
Local: 7:00 pm
Paris: 1:00 pm
Alliance Française de Bangkok, 179 Witthayu road, Khwaeng Lumphini, Khet Pathum Wan, Bangkok, TH
Thailand
English

From 5.30 pm: video projections on screens installed in the lobby of the Alliance Française de Bangkok.

18h-19h: Official opening and cocktail

19h-20h30: Round table enriched/interspersed with video excerpts

 

Speakers :

  1. Ms Niramon SERISAKUL, Director of Urban Design and Development Center and professor at Chulalongkorn University
  2. Mr Surayut SUPSOOK, representative of Museum Kadeejeen community
  3. Ms Dominique ALBA, Director of Atelier parisien d'urbanisme (APUR) (by visio)
  4. Ms Adèle ESPOSITO, CNRS / IRASEC
  5. Ms Jiratip DEVAKULA, Co-founder of the "Young-Thon" group, graduate of the Institute Housing & Urban Development Studies

Moderator: Ms Krittika "JEAN" CLOITRE, presenter and reporter for the NBT channel

Videos used :

  1. "Flows of sand", by Monika Arnez - CRISEA project: 5 mn
  2. "Modern Wars: Sihanoukville, a Chinese or Cambodian City", by Judith Kohl & Carol-Anne Telenis: 5mn
  3. Bangkok towards Walkable City (& Community involvement): Uddc Projects: 8 mn
  4. Reflections of the youth (AF students) on the City or their living areas by AF Bangkok : +/- 8 mn

Note 1: This event is co-organised by IRASEC, SCAC Bangkok, univ Chulalongkorn & UDDC, Alliance Française de Bangkok, Heinrich Böll Stiftung (HBS) with the collaboration of UNWomen.

Note 2: It should be noted that a plan B has been put in place for an event entirely by videoconference (Live FB) with the holding of the round table (in person) from a room of the French Embassy in Thailand.

Note 3: A series of activities related to the central theme is also planned for March or April 2021: cinema, urban visits, video games, "urban" exhibition, human bookshop (with UN Women).

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