Taksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co. #2 Visuality and Urban Space
The Lab Talk concentrates on the visualisation of urban spaces during civil resistance incidents and protests. The digital sharing of these visuals on social media ‘virtualises’ and instantly ‘internationalises’ these spaces, facilitating the immediate production and transportation of news and laying the ground for interaction among protesters and between protesters and non-protesters.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Taksim, Tahrir, Occupy & Co. #1 Political Meaning of Urban Space
The Lab Talk explores the political meaning of urban space, highlighting how incidents in everyday urban spaces affect (inter-)national politics and focussing on civil resistance and protest movements that frequently occupy streets, public squares, financial and governmental districts or central city parks.
Partners:Dr. Nadine Godehardt, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
Medellín: Topography of Knowledge
Accompanying the Aedes exhibition, the talk introduces the city’s recent history, highlighting how progressive urban planning and architecture are transforming Colombia's second largest city from a war- and crime-ridden place to a prospered and liveable metropolis.
Partners:Alcaldía de Medellín; Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana
Lab Talk Series: Retooling the trades
The ANCB series ReTooling the Trades is about equipping the capable urban practitioner with an upgraded set of working methods, approaches, strategies, processes and systems for effective and responsible professional practice.
Partners: Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
Seoul: Towards a Meta-City
Seoul aims to achieve a harmonious balance between restoration and change by focusing on three key objectives: reviving history, restoring nature, and renewing people's lives, as demonstrated through projects showcased in the Aedes exhibition and discussed in the talk.
Partners:City of Seoul
Design and Politics. #9 Resilient and Democratic Futures
This 9th debate in the 2011/12 programme Design and Politics: The Next Phase explored what design can bring to spatial planning.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environmen, The Hague; German Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development, Berlin; DutchDFA; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
Design as Politics: the next phase #9
As part of the series Design and Politics, students from TU Delft investigate urban regions under stress and develop two tools to assist spatial planning at regional scale using Berlin-Brandenburg as a case study. Partners: The Why Factory, TU Delft; Design as Politics, TU Delft; Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and the Environment, The Hague; German Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development, Berlin; DutchDFA Programme; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
InForming a Smarter Urban – Helsinki
The City of Helsinki is engaged in a number of Smart City projects that explore the use of open data and digital technologies in urban development. The Lab Talk offers perspectives on the scope and implications of the growing trend towards Smart Cities for architecture and urban design.
Partners:Embassy of Finland, Berlin; City of Helsinki; DOM Publishers, Berlin; Forum Virium, Helsinki
Design and Politics. #7 Re-city, the ‘Total Makeover’
Re-city is a bottom-up approach to the restructuring, renovation and reinvention of our cities, stemming not from initiatives, but out of city-ness, through schemes of any scale, any alliance, any 'rules and regulations' rather than through big projects.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
Design and Politics. #4 Learning to Provoke
Standard urban planning approaches are no longer effective. A more politically engaged, pro-active and provocative alternative is necessary, grounded by the primary objective of giving meaning to the challenges and their development in our cities. It is in urban architecture, in planning and urban design, that this 'politicalness' of design emerges.
Partners: Henk Ovink, Netherlands Ministry for Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague; Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Potsdam
