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SUMMARY:Framing the City: Photography, Architecture, and Social Media in Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Classroom NT-104
DESCRIPTION:Across Southeast Asia, cities are transforming architecturally,
  economically, and visually at a breathtaking pace. From the photogenic faç
 ades of Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport to the dense, self-built neighborh
 oods of Bangkok’s informal settlements, the built environment has become a 
 key site where visual, social, and spatial negotiations unfold. This panel 
 examines how photography and social media reshape the ways Southeast Asian 
 urban spaces are framed, imagined, and consumed.\nWe propose that the city 
 in the digital age is no longer only built but continuously mediated, perfo
 rmed, and circulated as an image. Through photography and social media, arc
 hitecture becomes a subject,  a backdrop, and a medium for urban storytelli
 ng. The built environment provides a designed form that structures urban ex
 perience and mediates the visual and spatial engagements with the city.\nTh
 e everyday practices of photographing, posting, and tagging transform build
 ings and public spaces into networked sites of visibility, producing new hi
 erarchies of attention that both democratize and discipline access to repre
 sentation. In this process, architectural form and urban life are reconstit
 uted as aesthetic and affective experiences designed for visual consumption
 .\nThe panel brings together scholars from architecture, visual studies, an
 d media anthropology to explore the intersection of visuality, technology, 
 and spatial politics. Case studies from cities such as Bangkok, Manila, Ho 
 Chi Minh City, and Singapore reveal how local actors, like architects, phot
 ographers, influencers, and citizens, use (digital) imagery to claim, conte
 st, and reimagine the urban space.\nBy situating Southeast Asian visual urb
 anisms within postcolonial and global frameworks, the panel contributes to 
 ongoing debates on digital urbanism, affective labor, and the politics of r
 epresentation. It asks how the networked city is constructed and framed not
  only through planning and design but also through the millions of images t
 hat circulate daily. These images blur the boundaries between the architect
 ural, the social, and the digital.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/framing-the-city-photography-architecture-and-social-media-in-southeast-asia
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