Contemporary Receptions of Kevin Lynch
– A Research Seminar
Venue: Aalborg University, Department of Architecture and Design, Tegnesalen, Gammel Torv 6
Date: March 12, 2007
Organiser: Professor Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University (AAU), Department of Architecture and Design
Research seminar background
Through his life long commitment to urban design and urban planning, the legacy of American urban scholar Kevin Lynch is today influential in urban design practice as well as in education. The research seminar ‘Contemporary Receptions of Kevin Lynch’ will present key ideas in the work of Lynch with the agenda of exploring how Lynch’s work can add to the understanding of contemporary urbanism.
Drawing upon invited academic researchers’ work the aim is to facilitate a highly informed discussion and reflection upon the reception of Lynch. The seminar aim at covering various themes within the works of Lynch and with relevance to contemporary urban design and urban studies such as; the legacy of Kevin Lynch, contemporary urban mapping seen in the light of Lynch, urban mobility and flows, pragmatism and the Lynch legacy, and contemporary urban mapping after Lynch.
Programme
10.00-10.15 Welcome and Introduction / Ole B. Jensen, AAU
10.15-10.45 The Legacy of Kevin Lynch / Grahame Shane, Columbia University
10.45-11.00 Questions and comments
11.00-11.30 Pleasure, Fun and Flow – urban travel in the works of Lynch / Ole B. Jensen, AAU
11.30-11.45 Questions and Comments
11.45-12.30 Lunch Break
12.30-13.00 Mapping from Lynch and Onwards / Tom Nielsen, Aarhus School of Architecture
13.00-13.15 Questions and Comments
13.15-13.45 Kevin Lynch and Pragmatism / Nicolai Steinø, AAU
13.45-14.00 Questions and Comments
14.00-14.15 Break
14.15-14.45 Understanding and Mapping Large Cityscapes – Outside-in and inside-out
/ Gitte Marling, AAU
14.45-15.00 Questions and Comments
15.00-15.45 What to Learn from Lynch Today? – Plenary Roundtable
15.45-16.00 Closing Session
