If you've got a moment over lunch in Auckland, nip down to Auckland Uni to catch Kelly Greenop speak on 'Urban indigenous people in Brisbane', and David L. Pike tomorrow on 'An Expanding Subterra'.
The
Communiqué Lecture Series continues this week with two intriguing presentations (one's in about an hour!) at the Design Theatre, School of Architecture, Auckland University, Building 423, 22 Symonds Street. Get running!
Today's presentation at 12pm-1pm will be from Kelly Greenop, who is completing her PhD this year at the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre with the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. "
Urban indigenous people from Brisbane, new forms of place, tradition and indigeneity" will 'reveal the major findings of Kelly Greenop's research to date and discuss the critical questions raised: How can indigenous cultures survive, and thrive in a city? How can a city respond? What changes for Indigenous people living away from their homelands and in city environments? What traditions are preserved and what new forms of cultural expression are found?'
Gudanji Dancers at Inala Civic Centre, NAIDOC opening ceremony 2007. Photo by Kelly Greenop.
Tomorrow's presentation (12pm-1pm, Wednesday 31st April) will be from David L. Pike, a talk titled '
An Expanding Subterra, and the New Life Underground' will discuss the range of subterranean spaces in the modern world and they changin ways in which they have been and continue to be imagined. Professor Pike's books include '
Subterranen Cities: the world beneath' and
'Metropolis on the Styx: the underworlds of modern urban culture', with this talk from Pike discussing
'An Expanding Subterra', the exhibition by New Zealand photographer Wayne Barrar at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery from 13 March to 27 June 2010, which you should definitely check out if you're reading from the deep South.