DAY 1: GUEST LECTURE
Wednesday 20 February 2008

INTRODUCTION
Francesca Ferguson, Urban Drift / SAM

GUEST LECTURE
Prof. Lars Lerup, Rice University, Texas

Q&A
Lars Lerup and Francesca Ferguson

DAY 2: SYMPOSIUM
Thursday 21 February 2008

Architects, planners and artists draw upon the core aspects of new town development, based upon research and experience gathered from seminal new town planning. The panel combines intuitive analysis with pioneering comparative research conducted on new towns worldwide.

WELCOME
Rowan Moore, The Architecture Foundation
Francesca Ferguson, Urban Drift

PANEL ONE
PAST: THE EXPERIENCE OF PLANNED TOWNS

Architects, planners and artists draw upon the core aspects of new town development, based upon research and experience gathered from seminal new town planning. The panel combines intuitive analysis with pioneering comparative research conducted on new towns worldwide.

1ST SPEAKER
Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett, UCL

PANEL TWO
PRESENT: MODELS FOR CONTEMPORARY LIVING

In an increasingly urbanized culture, it is no longer enough to rely solely on suburban dreams of cleaner, safer, quieter living in order to attract buyers to new residential developments. Nor can the planning of new settlements be founded upon rigid design parameters and formats; one needs to cater for increasing flexibility and adaptability in both the architecture and the lifestyle that new settlements can offer. The panel will examine the key ingredients to the development of urbanity for new settlements, new models that meet present day conceptions of an urbanised lifestyle.

PANEL THREE
FUTURE: HOW TO CREATE NEW SETTLEMENTS

When looking into the future of new settlements, we may have to challenge our outlook on what constitutes innovative planning strategies. Can architects and planners learn from societies where ad hoc and self-built architecture transforms our perceptions of how people want to live? Where cities are growing at an extreme pace, planning strategies are often confounded by individualised and uncontrollable uses of urban territories. Or should we follow the lead of more planned developments in highly developed countries?