Kim Dovey, professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, led the fourth and final session of the Placemaking Symposium, "Place as Multiplicity." Dovey's research is broadly focused on theories of place and practices of power. Book titles by Dovey include Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form, Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront, and his 2010 publication, Becoming Places, which, through a broad range of case studies, explores place identities in states of becoming. How, as Dovey writes, "closed becomes open, interior becomes landscape, character becomes caricature, illegal becomes legal, hotel becomes brothel, public becomes private – and vice versa in each case." A spirited session of closing remarks and audience discussion were led by the Director of the Urban Placemaking and Management program at Pratt Institute, David Burney, Tim Cresswell and Karen A. Franck.
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