Timothy Jachna: The Production of Public Space in the Digital City

Description

Timothy Jachna’s talk will probe the ways in which production of public space in contemporary urban contexts is conditioned by the suffusion of urban life and spatial practice with digital technologies. It will explore how different affordances of digital technologies are implicated in the production of public space and in the interplay between urban governance and control, urban life and citizenship, and urban commodification.

Speaker biography:
Timothy Jachna is Professor of Architecture and Dean of the School of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati. He earned degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago (BArch), the Architectural Association, London (AADip) and RMIT University, Melbourne (PhD). He has previously held academic and professional leadership posts in architecture, design and urbanism in Hong Kong, Berlin, and Chicago. His recent research and writing span topics including Digital Technologies and the Built Environment, Public Space, East Asian Urbanism, and Design Cybernetics. His writings often explore the intersectionality of these themes, including his recent authored book “Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square: Producing Public Space in the Mediated City” (Springer, 2021) and co-edited volume “The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion” (Routledge, 2021).

Period	11 Mar 2025
Event type	Seminar
Location	Suzhou, ChinaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International