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• ArchiFest Public (AFP) Forum
• ArchiFest October Tours
• UnCommon Spaces Photography Competition

ArchiFest '11 closed on 28 Oct 2011. We will like to thank all our partners, sponsors, contributors and participants for your wonderful support. See you soon at ArchiFest '12.

Snippet from Sir Peter Cook's (Crab Studio, United Kingdom) presentation, the keynote speaker in this year's forum.

View snippets from Kai-Uwe Bergmann (BIG, Denmark), Umberto Napolitano (LAN, France) and Kaoru Suehiro (NKS Architects, Japan) .

This year, ArchiFest looks at the notion of Common Spaces. We are curious of how the nature of shared spaces and experiences are shaped by conditions of our current global environment. This subject is examined in three key aspects of common spaces – our physical surrounding, media and virtual space and our psychological one. The dissolution of shared domains in public realms, threatened by privatisation and commercialisation of these areas has led to questions of what is truly public in today’s context. On the other hand, the emergence of the new media spaces of blogs, chat rooms, with instruments like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc, have empowered us with new means of communication and connectivity, and added a fresh dimension to the way we interact. With the redefinition of conventional meaning of territories, boundaries and communities, how will these spatial parallels influence our perception and of shared experience and collective memories of our surrounding? How will these new ideas of common spaces and networks affect the way architecture and cities are designed? How can we harness its potential to create a sustainable urban environment and enrich our idea of Place?

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