Architekturpositionen: PLANETARY REVEBERATIONS – Sustainability Transitions and Territorial Reconfigurations in Southeast Asia 27. Mai 2025 | 18:30 Uhr - 20:00 Uhr

This talk explores how renewable energy production is reconfiguring territorial relations in Southeast Asia. Using Singapore as a vantage point, it examines how diverse urban sites are increasingly entangled through flows of labour and materials and more specifically, electricity, capital, infrastructure, and expertise. These interdependencies challenge binaries like urban/rural, producer/consumer, and Global North/South, highlighting how sustainability transitions reshape both concentrated and extended forms of urbanisation and their interdependencies. Grounded in spatial planning and critical urban studies, the talk reflects on the uneven geographies of decarbonisation and the political and spatial implications of transitioning in the context of planetary urbanisation. Naomi Hanakata is member of the International Advisory Board of the UCFL Urban Climate Future Lab (urbanclimatefururelab.de).

Naomi C. Hanakata is an Assistant Professor for Urban Planning at the College for Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore. She is also Co-Founder and consultant of a research and planning practice in Singapore. In her work she investigates drivers and dynamics of contemporary urbanization and processes of socio-technical transitioning, including digital platformisation, and energy transitions. She was educated at ETH, Tokyo University and LSE, and holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich and has practiced in Zurich, Tokyo, New York and Singapore and has taught at Rice University and ETH Zurich. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Swiss Institute of Advanced Studies and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich.

This lecture is co-organized with the UCFL – Urban Climate Future Lab, funded by zukunft.niedersachsen. For more insights, visit: urbanclimatefuturelab.de

Die Vortragsreihe ARCHITEKTURPOSITIONEN des Departments Architektur präsentiert unter Intendanz des IAD renommierte internationale Architektinnen und Architekten, Planer und Theoretiker.

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Naomi C. Hanakata - Singapur

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