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SUMMARY:Becoming Urban: Developing Districts Unit by Unit - Joshua Bolscov
 er\, DDU Professor\, University of Hong Kong
DTSTART:20251104T170000Z
DTEND:20251104T190000Z
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CONTACT:Charles Walton
DESCRIPTION:The world’s climatic future hinges on how developing regions
  grow. Developing economies are projected to increase their emissions by 5
  billion tons while the rest of the world plateaus or declines. By 2040 de
 veloping countries will account for 67% of global energy consumption. How 
 we build in these areas will determine how we consume energy and emit carb
 on for generations. To change this detrimental urbanisation process\, we h
 ave to change how people build their homes and their communities.\n\nThe l
 ecture will present prototyping as a method to generate new models of hous
 ing and community infrastructure that offer scalable alternatives to curre
 nt forms of building. Strategies developed in our ongoing work in Nepal\, 
 Mongolia and the Philippines will demonstrate this approach and the challe
 nges of working in rapidly urbanizing emerging economies\, struggling with
  the processes of becoming urban.\n\nJoshua Bolchover is an architect and 
 Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His work focuses on innovating d
 esign strategies in regions undergoing rapid urban transformation. He star
 ted a new impact enterprise in 2020 - District Development Unit - to scale
  initiatives designed to change how developing regions grow. DDU’s housi
 ng prototype for Mongolia\, The Ger Plug-In 3.0 was awarded the Holcim Sil
 ver Medal for Sustainable Construction Asia Pacific Region in 2023. He has
  written three books\, Becoming Urban: The Mongolian City of Nomads\, 2023
 \, Border Ecologies: Hong Kong’s Mainland Frontier\, 2017\, and Rural Ur
 ban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside\, 2014. Joshua’s wor
 k has been acquired by MOMA\, New York (2020)\, the CCA (2020) and MPlus (
 2023). He has exhibited his work internationally notably at the Venice Bie
 nnale (2016\, 2018\, 2021) the Milan Triennale (2025\,2019)\, Lisbon Archi
 tecture Triennale (2022) the Design Museum London (2017) and the Chicago B
 iennale 2015.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 1\, Department of Architecture\, 1-5 Scroope Terrace
 \, Cambridge
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