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urban coherence, intercultural learning

Abstract:

In parallel with ICCPP annual Conference, the Program of Urban Design of the Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa organises this Students’ Workshop (UDW) in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven since three years. It provides a platform where Bachelor and Master students in architecture, town and country planning, urban design and related disciplines (engineering, landscape architecture, sociology, anthropology, etc.) acquire new insights in urban issues and the complexities and subtleties of urban environments through exchange and interaction with academics, professionals, researchers and other urban practitioners. This year, the seminar and workshop specifically want to raise students' awareness that urban coherence is continuously challenged by various social and cultural practices, discourses, policies and visions that all seek to achieve a resilient urban future. It also seeks to point out that the dialectics between the urban forms of the wholesome organic city and the chaotic realities of contemporary urban life make it difficult to delineate where urban coherence starts and where it ends.