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Introduction to Speaker
Dr. Pun-ArjChairatana (PAC) has been recognized as the country’s pioneer in the fields of foresight and innovation management. He is the Founder and managing director of NOVISCAPE Consulting Group (NCG).
PAC has obtained decades of international experience from both private and public sectors. As a consultant, he was a senior consultant for SASIN Consulting, Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University based in Bangkok, Thailand between 2005 and 2006. As a futurist, he has involved with various regional scenario buildings and future exercises since the late 1990s, ranges from agriculture to waste technologies. As an educator, he was a co-founder and program chair for Technology and Innovation Management at Graduate School of Management and Innovation (GMI), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). As a policymaker, he was Director of Policy Entrepreneur and Foreign Affairs at the Public Policy Development Office (PPDO), the Office of Cabinet Secretariat. He was a member of the National Innovation Development Funding Committees, which was finally transformed into the National Innovation Agency (NIA).
Currently, he is a visiting lecturer at Chulalongkorn University’s Technopreneurship and Innovation Management program (CUTIP), and the Technology Management Program at the College of Innovation, Thammasat University. He is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Technology Innovation (AJTI) and Associate Editorial Board for the African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID). He is now engaged with “city innovation system” research in Southeast Asia Megacities. He also manages “Trendnovation Southeast”, the horizon scanning project under the Searchlight Network of the Rockefeller Foundation, and designs “social innovation system” and policy for the Thai social economy.
Synopsis
The lecture outlines an evolution of foresight technique in public policy of Thailand and its networked countries in Asia Pacific for the past two decades. Thailand can be considered as one of leading countries in Southeast Asia that adopts the long term planning technique into their public policy ranges from agriculture to zoology. It will describe both success and failure case studies on foresight exercises and their implications.
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Suggested Readings
Damrongchai, N. and Michelson, E. S. (2009). ‘The future of science and technology and pro-poor applications’, Foresight, 11(4), 51 – 65. doi 10.1108/14636680910982430
http://www.foresightfordevelopment.org/sobipro/54/636-the-future-of-science-and-technology-and-pro-poor-applications
Bezold, C.; Bettles, C.; Juech, C.; Michelson, E.; Peck, J. & Wilkins, K. (2009). ‘Foresight for smart globalization: accelerating & enhancing pro-poor development opportunities’, Alexandria. VA: Institute for Alternative Futures.
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/cf248c9f-3d6c-434a-9d1e-7909bb4c1feb.pdf
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Introduction to Speaker
Back in his (half) native home of Germany, Michael’s passion and expertise on Thailand earned him the title “Mr. Thailand”. Today he’s the Bangkok nerd, experience designer and Managing Director of bangkokvanguards a start-up social enterprise. He and his team were selected as delegates to the “50th international achievement summit 2012”, a 4-day event where changemakers and social innovators mingled with Peace Nobel Price and Pulitzer Price winners, foreign ministers, heads of states, top scientists, military commanders and other big shots at Washington D.C. (Apparently he partied with Colin Powell!).
Bangkok Vanguards is a startup social enterprise known for its creative and dynamic volunteer events and campaigns such as Wipe the Tide, Hugs for Thailand, Add One and Santa Cause as well as its expertise and passion to deliver unique Thailand travel experiences. In March 2013 bangkokvanguards reorganized its organizational structure and temporarily shifts away its focus from volunteer events to developing its first batch of business models to fund bangkokvanguards's non-profit activities and to create sustained volunteer opportunities in the future.
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Introduction to Speaker
Witchaya works as consultant to the UN-HABITAT on the preparation of The State of Asia Pacific Cities 2014 Report. He also writes as a blogger for Next City, a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia, on the topics of informality and urban management. The latter is part of a year-long project called The Informal City Dialogues, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by Forum for the Future.
He has organized various seminars and workshops for the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, at Chulalongkorn University and co-authored several articles with Dr. Apiwat Ratanawaraha for an online newsletter called Trendnovation Southeast.
He graduated from University College London with a B.A. in urban planning and a master’s degree in development administration.
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Suggested Readings
Wikipedia. (n.d). ‘Informal Sector’. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_sector
Next City. (n.d.) ‘Bangkok’. Retrieved from http://nextcity.org/informalcity/city/bangkok
Next City. (n.d.) ‘Bag by Bag, Janitors and Housekeepers keep Bangkok’s Waste System Green’. Retrieved from http://nextcity.org/informalcity/entry/bag-by-bag-janitors-and-housekeepers-keep-bangkoks-waste-system-green2
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Dr. Supitcha Tovivich is a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University. She received her B.Arch and M.Arch from the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, MA. In Humanitarian and Development Practice from Oxford Brookes University and and Ph.D. (Planning Studies) from Development Planning Unit, University College London. She had been a teacher assistant of Prof.Nabeel Hamdi for three years working in undergraduate architectural studio at Oxford Brookes University and postgraduate urban design in development studio at University College London. She has published two books - “Extra-ordinary Slum (2004)” and “Architect, Community, People and Architecture (2012)”. Both are published in Thai. She has co-organized a number of national and international architectural workshops related to community practice. Her interest is in community development, participatory design and integration of action planning in research and architectural education.
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The presentation aims to discuss challenges in participatory design in low-income community development, based on reflection from Thailand. The presentation is divided into four sections. First, the “designing ‘for’ the people” section, conducted either by the market or the state, argues for localizing standard and professional expertise. Second, the “designing ‘by’ the people” section, valuing slum houses as urban vernacular architecture, put a question of “whose creativity counts?” in low-income community design. Third, the “designing ‘with’ the people” section shows different co-housing and collaborative housing design approaches. It also explores various jargons, such as, ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘architecture of empowerment’. Moreover, challenges in participatory design are discussed, using the nation-wide participatory slum upgrading Baan Mankong Programme as a case study. Finally, it explores ways forward, opportunities and challenges focusing on action research, architectural education and the three roles of architects / planners / practitioners as a provider, supporter and catalyst.
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Dr. Banasopit Mekvichai has worked and taught for over 20 years on urban and regional planning matters, including preparation of city and regional plans, urban development, and city administration. She served as Deputy Governor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for two years, responsible for Civil Works, City Planning, Community Development, and Administration. She chaired the committee for City Planning of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration while the city's master plan was revised and approved.
Dr. Banasopit regularly serves as a consultant on urban and regional planning, urban renewal, indicators for liveable cities, and other urban development matters. She is the author of numerous publications in both Thai and English on urban development.
She is Director of the Urban Design Program of the Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
She is also Vice Chairperson of the Mekong Environment and Resource Institute Foundation, and a member of various subcommittees on education and housing of the Human Rights Commission. She holds a degree in architecture from the University of Chulalongkorn in Bangkok and obtained a PhD in Regional planning from Cornell University in the USA.
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