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<div><b>Aquarius Redux: Rethinking Architecture's Counterculture </b></div>
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<div><span style="line-height: 26px;">University of Sydney, </span>Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, <span style="text-align: center;">The Wilkinson Building, 148 City Road, Darlington </span></div>
<div><span style="text-align: center;">Monday 4 - Tuesday 5 July 2016</span></div>
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<div>How was architecture implicated in the dramatic social, political, economic and cultural shifts of the 1960s and ‘70s?</div>
<div style="line-height: inherit;">Aquarius Redux will move beyond stories of psychedelic design, leaky geodesic domes and failed utopian dreamers. The symposium will rethink relationships between the counterculture and architectural practice, education and
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<p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Speakers will include Simon Sadler (UC Davis), Greg Castillo (UC Berkeley), David Farber (University of Kansas), and Barbara Penner (UCL). Felicity D. Scott (Columbia) will give a free public
lecture, presenting material from her brand new book <em style="line-height: inherit;">Outlaw Territories</em>. Alongside other researchers from around the world, they will present their work on countercultural architecture and its continuing influence. They
will discuss aspects such as:</p>
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the connections between contemporary sustainable design and 1970s’ ecological design experimentation;</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">
the emergence of participatory and social engaged practices from radical challenges to conventional architectural practice in the 1960s, and;</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">
the links between the DIY, networked ethos of countercultural design and current open-source design-sharing concepts.</li></ul>
<p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The symposium is being convened by Associate Professor Lee Stickells. Lee’s current research looks at prototype eco-houses of the 1970s that redesigned everyday living in response to environmental
crisis. He is exploring how these projects resonate with the contemporary interest in “living laboratories” – experiments to imagine alternative, sustainable futures. Lee argues that an understanding of past experiments can help inform current ones.</p>
<p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;">To Purchase Tickets: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aquarius-redux-rethinking-architectures-counterculture-tickets-21320215338">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aquarius-redux-rethinking-architectures-counterculture-tickets-21320215338</a></p>
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