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Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -
Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose -Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin- MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen& Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - jamescorner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - TomCoward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson -Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll- Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - GillianRose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa TzionaSwitkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson- Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold -james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson- Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll- Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - GillianRose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa TzionaSwitkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson- Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold -james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson- Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll- Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - GillianRose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa TzionaSwitkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson- Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold -james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -
Critical Spaces of
TodayA Seminar on Contemporary Theories and Practices of
Planning, Urbanism, Architecture and Geography.
Time - Place - Price:
NALEN, Regeringsgatan 74, StockholmFriday 20 November - Saturday 21 November 2009Members: 150 sekNon-members: 550 sekApply: www.arkitekt.se/criticalspaces
Stockholms Arkitektförening
Sveriges ArktiekterBox 9225102 73 Stockholm
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friday 20 - saturday 21theme:
CRITICAL SPACES OF TODAY A Seminar on Contemporary Theories and Practices of Planning, Urbanism, Archi-tecture, and Geography
“This foreclosure crisis, this fi nancial crisis, has to be thought of as a crisis of the
city, a crisis of urbanization – and if it’s a crisis of the city and of urbanization, then
the solution has to be a reconfi guration of the city and a redirection of what urba-
nization is about.”
That is how the urbanist, David Harvey, starts a conversation about the city in
Baltimore’s Independent Reader in April 2009. No matter what attitude we take to
David Harvey’s challenge, it is still a very important question he asks: Do we have
the strength to contemplate the city in its entire complexity economically, politically,
socially and at the same time esthetically, or do we choose the simple solution,
the one way architecture and the instrumental sense? Do we have the strength to
maintain the complexity, not only when we ask questions but also when answering
in drawings, legal documents and political decisions.
With CRITICAL SPACES OF TODAY A Seminar on Contemporary Theories and Practices
of Planning, Urbanism, Architecture, and Geography, The Association of Architects in
Stockholm want to ask the diffi cult questions and give the diffi cult answers. The last
two decades, the discussion about the city has been very animated around the world.
Quite a few new words - POSTMETROPOLIS, SPATIAL FIX, PARADOXICAL GEOGRAP-
HIES, ZWISCHENSTADT, SPRAWLTOWN - have helped us to obtain a richer picture of
the city. They have not yet been introduced in Sweden. It is about time.
So:
Planners Fantasies: How do we create space for the incredible and fantastic? How
do we make pictures of the future city, the future Stockholm work? Paradoxical
Geographies?
The Question of the Center: What do the confl icts look like between a city consisting
of several cores and the city centre? How does the power of attraction work and do
we need more or less monuments? Spatial Fix? Zwischenstadt?
Violence and Freedom of the City: What is a durable city? How do you get the eco-
logical, economical and social to co-operate? Sprawltown?
From a Crisis Generated Reconstruction to a Reconstruction Generated Crisis: Is it
possible to fi nd a living and constructive attitude to the twentieth century’s modernity
regarding city development. How can micro practitioner and macro practitioner be
co-ordinated? Postmetropolis?
Stockholms
Arkitektförening
20 november-21 november
scheme: friday 20 november
8.30 - 9.00Registration
Planners Fantasies
9.00 - 9.30Introduction9.30 - 10.30 Thomas Sieverts10.30 - 11.30Agent of Change, Tom Coward11.30 - 12.30Urban Splash, Nick Johnson
12.30 - 13.30Lunch
The Question of the Center
13.30 - 14.30Helen & Hard, Reinhard Kropf14.30 - 15.30Gillian Rose15.30 - 16.00Coffe16.00 - 17.00Testbedstudio, Anders Johansson17.00 - 18.00Guerilla Gardening, Rickard Reynolds
20.00Bar at Södra Teatern
saturday 21 november
Violence and Freedom of the City
10.00 - 11.00 Field Operations, Lisa Switkin11.00 - 12.00muf, Liza Fiori12.00 - 13.00Rickard Ingersoll
13.00 - 14.30Lunch
From a Crisis Generated Reconstruction to a Reconstruction Generated Crisis
14.30Final Discussion
sponsors:
WEST PARK - BOCHUM.
A new park on the site of a former steelwork
Thomas Sieverts, Prof. em. Architektur- und Städtebaustudium in Stuttgart, is a German architect
and urban planner. He is the author of Zwischenstadt (Cities without Cities), where he investigates
the characteristics of today’s built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large
conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The
diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the ’meta city’ is mirrored by changes in society
from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals
pursuing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their city. Between Place and
World, Space and Time, Town and Country.
friday 20 November
PLANNERS FANTASIES
9.30 Thomas Sieverts
FROM THE INSIDE LOOKING IN.
AOC is a practice of architects, urbanists and interpreters, established in 2003 by Tom Coward,
Daisy Froud, Vincent Lacovara and Geoff Shearcroft. AOC is committed to exploring and enriching
the relationship between you and the complex, messy world that surrounds you. AOC emerged
from a shared obsession with the uniqueness of places. What they are and what they could be. AOC
is about making things. Some of these things are buildings.
IF CONTEMPORARY URBAN THEORY IS SO GOOD,
why does no-one want to live there? - Lessons learned from the practical side of life.
Award winning property developer Urban Splash is one of the Great Britain’s leading regeneration
companies. It delivers true mixed use schemes including residential property of all tenures,
commercial offi ce, retail and a hotel.
Founded in 1993, the company has delivered challenging and exciting regeneration projects across
the country including Fort Dunlop in Birmingham, Chimney Pot Park in Salford, The Midland Hotel
in Morecambe and Royal William Yard in Plymouth.
11.30 Urban Splash, Nick Johnson
REGNAVATS.
Helen & Hard was founded in 1996 by Chartered Architect Siv Helene Stangeland and Ph.D. Eng.,
Reinhard Kropf. Today, the company has a youthful staff of 16 drawn from different countries. In
their work, H&H explore alternative operational and production methods by means of the appraisal
and integration of local resources.
The fi rm has received international recognition and a series of awards for their work. In 2008
H&H took part in Manifesta, The Venice Biennale of Architecture and in the Tokyo “New trends
of architecture” show. In 2009 H&H have received the Norwegian State´s Prize for good quality
architecture for the Preikestolen Mountain Lodge and are currently working on the Norwegian
Pavillion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai.g.
13.30 Helen & Hard, Reinhard Kropf
LEARNING FROM MILTON KEYNES.
Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University, and her current research
interests lie broadly within the fi eld of visual culture. She’s interested in how different ways of
seeing and not-seeing work in social spaces like living rooms and shopping malls. She has a
long-standing interest in feminist and Foucauldian fi lm and photography theory, but more recently
she has been working with material culture and practice theory. One long-term project has been
looking at family photos as visual objects that circulate between a range of different practices in
the global visual economy. She has recently completed a project with Dr Monica Degen at Brunel
University, in which they compared how people experienced two rather different town centres:
Milton Keynes and Bedford. Books include Feminism and Geography, Visual Methodologies and
next year, Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment.
14.30 Gillian Rose
IRON TRAILS.
Testbedstudio is an architectural offi ce that works within different forms of public space. Their
practice operates in a range from the ”sitting snake” to regional development projetcs for shrinking
cities, all with the question of what meaningful architecture can be and how people may be
engaged in their environment.
Iron Trails is a speculative project about the Kiruna - Narvik region, commissioned for the Pan-
Barentz art triennale and the publication Northern Experiements, organized by the Norvegian
groups 0047 and Pikene på Broen.kind.
16.00 Testbedstudio, Anders Johansson
THE HORTICULTURAL FRONTLINE.
Guerrilla gardening is the ”illicit cultivation of someone else’s land”. Whether to beautify
neglected public space, to grow food that would otherwise be unavailable, or just as a symbolic
provocation, guerrilla gardening is a growing international movement. Richard Reynolds is an
Oxford University geographer by training and an advertising account planner by trade, he has
been a guerrilla gardener for fi ve years. His gardens are in central London, but through his website
GuerrillaGardening.org he has brought together guerrilla gardeners from around the world to share
their experiences and inspire others to begin or come out about their activity. His book On Guerrilla
Gardening was published in 2008 (Bloomsbury) and he regularly speaks on the subject.
17.00 Guerilla Gardening, Richard Reynolds
HIGH LINE.
james corner fi eld operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice
based in New York City. fi eld operations expertise is refl ected in a diverse range of projects, from
the design of entire sectors of cities to intimate garden spaces; the design of large public parks
and urban spaces to housing and mixed-use urban developments; the reclamation of landfi lls,
derelict brownfi eld sites and other post-industrial landscapes for new public uses and private
development; to the preservation of large-scale natural resources.
Lisa Tziona Switkin is an associate principal at james corner fi eld operations and was the Design
Project Manager and Lead Designer for the High Line, a transformation of the 2,200-acre landfi ll
site Fresh Kills into what will be one of the world’s largest urban parks.
10.00 Field Operations, Lisa Switkin
THIS IS WHAT WE DO.
muf is a collaborative practice of art and architecture committed to public realm projects. Since
1996 muf has established a reputation for pioneering and innovative projects that address
the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public realm. The practice philosophy is
driven by an ambition to realize the potential pleasures that exist at the intersection between
the lived and the built. The creative process is underpinned by a capacity to establish effective
client relationships that reveal and value the desires and experience of varied constituencies.
Access is understood not as a concession but as the gorgeous norm; creating spaces that have an
equivalence of experience for all who navigate them both physically and conceptually, muf deliver
quality and strategical durable projects that inspire a sense of ownership through occupation.
11.00 muf, Liza Fiori
SPRAWLTOWN.
Looking for the City on its Edges.
Richard Ingersoll teaches architectural history and urban design at Syracuse University in Florence
and the Facolta’ di Architettura in Ferrara. In Sprawltown, architectural historian Richard Ingersoll
makes the surprising claim that sprawl is an inevitable reality of modern life that should be
addressed more thoughtfully and recognized as its own new form of urbanism rather than simply
being criticized and condemned.
12.00 Richard Ingersoll
10.30 Agent of Change, Tom Coward
friday 20 November
THE QUESTION OF THE CENTER
saturday 21 November
VIOLENCE AND FREEDOM OF THE CITY
FROM A CRISIS GENERATED RECONSTRUCTION TO A
RECONSTRUCTION GENERATED CRISIS.
How do we create space for the incredible and fantastic? How do we make pictures of the future
city, the future Stockholm work? What do the confl icts look like between a city consisting of
several cores and the city centre? How does the power of attraction work and do we need more
or less monuments? What is a durable city? How do you get the ecological, economical and social
to co-operate? Is it possible to fi nd a living and constructive attitude to the twentieth century’s
modernity regarding city development. How can micro practitioner and macro practitioner
be co-ordinated? Paradoxical Geographies? Postmetropolis? Spatial Fix? Zwischenstadt?
Sprawltown?
14.30 Final Discussion