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Kim Dovey
University of Melbourne, Australia
Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Head of Architecture at the University of Melbourne. He was educated in architecture at Curtin University, the University of Melbourne and UC Berkeley (PhD). He has published and broadcast widely on issues such as urban iconography, Aboriginality in architecture, the politics of urban space and the meanings of house and home. His most recent books are Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront (Routledge, 2005) and Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form (Routledge, 1999). Current work is focused on constructions of place identity and urban 'character'.
 

John K.C. Liu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

John K.C. Liu is an architect practicing participatory community design in Taiwan at the National Taiwan University Building and Planning Research Foundation.  He is also a professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University.  He was educated in architecture at Cooper Union (B. Arch), University of Washington (M. Arch), and University of California, Berkeley (Ph. D). He has been interested in cross-cultural issues in design, methods of collaboration in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural settings, and community participation.
 

Mohammad Danisworo
Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia

Mohammad Danisworo is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Chairman of Center for Urban Design Studies at Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia. He is also the Vice Chairman of Architecture Review Board at the Municipal Government of Jakarta. He was educated in architecture at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, University of California and University of Washington (Ph. D). He has published widely on urban planning/design, and urban conservation issues.
 
George Kunihiro
Kokushikan University, Japan

George Kunihiro is an architect-activist and Professor of Architecture at Kokushikan University in Tokyo, Japan.

Professor Kunihiro was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1951 and moved to the United States in 1964. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974, and his Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1976. He has taught architectural design at Yale University, Columbia University, Harvard University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Professor Kunihiro had his private practice in Los Angeles and New York for 15 years before returning to Tokyo in 1997 to set up his practice in Asia. Currently, he is the Vice President of the Japan Institute of Architects, Vice Chairman of the modern Asian Architecture Network (mAAN), a non-profit organization and the Alternate Council Member for Region IV (Asia-Oceania) of the International Union of Architects (UIA).
 
Kiho Kim
University of Seoul, South Korea

Kiho Kim is Professor of Urban Design at the Department of Urban Planning, University of Seoul.

He was educated in Architecture and Urban Planning at the Seoul National and University and the TH Aachen in Germany. He has published widely on the issues of urban transformation and preservation. His current research focuses on the formation and transformation of the historic urban center of Seoul.

 

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