議題內容：
Main Theme
Re-thinking and Re-constructing Modern Asian Architecture
亞洲近現代建築的反思及重構
The main theme of 5th mAAN Conference in Istanbul immediately prior to the UIA Congress is defined as “Re-thinking and Re-constructing Modern Asian Architecture”. The objective behind re-evaluation of modern Asian Architecture in the main theme was for the specific purpose of avoiding cliché and established norms of defining what “modern” is in Asia. It is expected that the papers to be submitted to the 2005 conference will question former premises of this discussion. The content of the conference will entail three sub-themes. In the Conference, “modern” will be re-defined, modernizing the traditional will be re-evaluated and re-habilitating and re-vitalizing the “modern” will be re-exposed. Besides, two special sessions are preparing, which will focus on Architecture in West Asia and mAAN core-members and working groups’ researches.

Session 1 (theoretical)
The Emergence and Re-definition of "modern" as a Concept in Asia
亞洲地區“現代”觀念的原起與重釋
The history of modern architecture in Asia is rather a problematical one. Besides having to deal with the diverse cultural, geographical and historical parameters, these legacies are also the very lenses through which Asian modernity is being viewed and judged. In this context of viewing and judging, the question of what constitutes the modern in Asia often springs and totalizes one's imagination. Totalization leads to a kind of closure and as a result, aspects arising from Asia are often judged as to whether they are in close fit to these assumed categories. The session aims to do away with such belief. Rather than adopt this approach, the session encourages scholars and researchers to present papers that capture moments of modernity in its making; on how architecture and urbanity are involved, implicitly and explicitly, in the shifting of subjectivity and or in the making of new knowledge.

Keywords: modern, diversity, re-definition, discourse, architecture and urbanity.

Session Committee:
Co-chairs:
Ugur TANYELI (Turkey)
Josef PRIJOTOMO (Indonesia)

Members:
Kiran JOSHI (India)
Bobby WONG Chong Thai (Singapore)
ZHAO Chen (China)

Session 2 (practical/case studies)
Revitalization and Metamorphosis: Sustainability of Built Asian Heritage
再強化與變形：亞洲文化資產的永續性
Looking across Asia, we can see the rich inventory of both traditional and modern urban and architectural heritage. Some are left quietly in the dust, others are ignored, abused and scheduled to be dismantled.

At the beginning, the discipline of conservation and its discourses were constructed within the context of duality of "modern versus traditional". The intention was defined to protect and revive the traditional built environment from assault of the sweeping modernity. Now we become face to face with the urgent need to redefine the paradigm as "modern versus modern". Especially in Asia, each new phase of modernity seems to ignore and/or destruct the heritage of its own previous phases. Our present agenda is to discuss the fate of the modern architectural heritage in new ways theoretically different from the paradigm of "modern vs. traditional".
In our session, we will discuss new strategies and approaches to protect and revitalize the buildings and sites. We will feature the process and the results of the energy, commitments and creative maneuvers behind these revitalization projects. The session welcomes the architects, urban designers, government officials and heritage managers to submit their works and experiences with the process of revitalization, which carry the spirit of Asian modernity. Case studies are most welcome.

Keywords: revitalization, metamorphosis, discourse, urban modernity

Topics to be considered:
1. Proposed or completed project
2. Background process of the project
3. Methodology employed in accomplishing the result, i.e. activism, town meetings, client communication.
4. The design process
5. The revitalized and transformed architecture
6. Relevance of the project to the community
7. Technological and technical innovation, if any

Session Committee:
Co-chairs:
Gulsun TANYELI (Turkey)
George KUNIHIRO (U.S./Japan)

Members:
Ahmad DJUHARA (Indonesia)
Katsuhiro MIYAMOTO (Japan)
Hasti TAREKAT (Indonesia/Holland)
Gary YEUNG (Hong Kong)

Session 3 (history)
Living Our Hybridity: Layered Memories of Cross-Cultural Encounters
活在混雜：多元文化交融的多層次記憶
In different parts of Asia, our daily living environment is a constant reminder of our history: both the history of encounters among the different cultures and peoples of Asia as well as the encounters between Asia and the West. This session calls for papers that try to locate our built heritage in the multiple perspectives (temporal and spatial, collective and individual, local and global...) that constitute its complex and layered meaning. Encounter, memory, and hybridity are not to be addressed as normative concepts but as fluid, relational, and possibly even contradictory issues while the stability of meaning is questioned and opened to constant redefinition. Thus, we as historians seek to recapture, reimagine, and retell the stories that make our heritage a dynamic, living legacy.

Keywords: built heritage, cross-cultural encounters, fabric of architecture, hybridity, layered memory, multiculturalism, oral history

Questions that we need to be aware of:
- How have different practices, lives, experiences, and the spaces that people created through time been woven into each other throughout history?
- What would be our tools for writing history, concerning the relations of the existing built heritage with the transience and temporariness of the present and the instability and insecurity of the future?
- How should architects, historians, and conservationists inspire each other and work together in order to address such questions as the ones asked above?

Session Committee:
Co-chairs:
Belkis ULUOGLU (Turkey)
Yasushi ZENNO (Japan/U.S.)

Members:
Jo CHUA (Malaysia)
Miyuki AOKI GIRARDELLI (Japan/Turkey)
Paolo GIRARDELLI (Italy/Turkey)
WONG Yunn Chii (Singapore)

Special Session 1 (West Asian Researches)
Forum for Re-examining West Asian Architecture and Cities: Content, Context, Framework and Vision
重新檢視西亞(中東)之建築與城市：內涵、脈絡、架構與視野
Until now, mAAN has been enthusiastically involved in the discussion of what is "modern" with regard to the architecture and cities of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. This experience has convinced us that the validity and relevance of mAAN's discussions can apply not only to those regions but also to Central and West Asia, to Russia and Eastern Europe, and even Africa when we think about the architectural and urban transformation that these areas had undergone during the 19th and 20th centuries.

As we are holding mAAN 5 in Istanbul, a unique city located at the meeting point of Asia (including the Middle East and Northern Africa) and Europe, we have decided to ask ourselves the following questions through this special session:

1) Content: What are the actual realities of West Asian architecture and cities of the 19th and 20th centuries?
2) Context: What can be learned about the origins and transformation of the domestic and international/regional dynamics (Central and West Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe, Africa) that had surrounded such architecture and cities? What are their temporal and spatial backgrounds?
3) Framework: What kind of intellectual framework is needed for us to grasp all this?
4) Vision: How should we proceed in our future discussions?
Through presentations during this session, which will be selected by the recommendation of session members and our affiliates and not by an open call for papers, we hope to create a forum where the intention of mAAN can be more broadly and deeply shared by architects, historians, and administrators, whose participation is most welcome.

Session Committee:
Co-chairs:
Afife BATUR (Turkey)
Shin MURAMATSU (Japan)

Members:
Gunhan DANISMAN (Turkey)
Marina EPSTEIN-PLIOUCHTCH (Israel)
Mavlude YUSUPOVA (Uzbekistan)

Special Session 2 (mAAN show case)
"Re(de)fining a mAAN Paradigm: Imbricating Research, Theory & Action"
尋回或再定義亞洲近代建築網絡的原始目標：結合研究、理論與行動
This special session will extend the on-going discussion about the methods, practices and goals of mAAN. It is devoted to refining the initial vision created by mAAN four years ago. The presentations and speakers for this special session will be invited to contribute to the discourse on Asian modernity and modern architecture in Asia, and to strengthen the cooperation among scholars and professionals in and around Asia. The participation of the audience members will be vital, as ample time is being given for discussion.

Session Committee:
Chair:
Johannes WIDODO (Indonesia/Singapore)

Members:
Indrajith KURUPPU (Sri Lanka)
Jagan SHAH (India)

完整議程：
27 June Monday
9.00 – 11.00 opening ceremony
11.00 - 11.30 coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 keynote speeches
13.00 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 session 1
The Emergence and Re-definition of “Modern” as a Concept in Asia
16.00 exhibition opening
19.00 welcome dinner

28 June Tuesday
9.00 – 11.30 special session 1
Forum for Re-examining West Asian Architecture and Cities: Content, Context, Framework and Vision
11.30 - 12.00 coffee break
12.00 – 13.00 Visual Presentation
13.00 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 session 2
Revitalization and Metamorphosis: Sustainability of Built Heritage
15.30 - 16.00 coffee break
16.00 –17.30 mAAN / AA (Asian Academy for Heritage Management)
student competition session

29 June Wednesday
9.00 –11.30 session 3
Living Our Hybridity: Layered Memories of Cross-Cultural Encounters
11.30 - 12.00 coffee break
12.00 – 13.00 special session 2
"Re(de)fining a mAAN paradigm: imbricating research, theory & action"
13.00 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 –15.30 special session 2
"Re(de)fining a mAAN paradigm: imbricating research, theory & action"
15.30 – 16.00 coffee break
16.00 – 18.00 discussion & conclusions (Istanbul declaration)
18.00 cocktail prologue and concert

30 June Thursday
9.00 - 10.30 conference evaluation meeting (finalizing Istanbul declaration)
10.30-11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 13.00 mAAN core meeting
13.00 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 – 17.00 excursions
20.00 farewell party

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