Human Cities Festival 2010
Human Cities Symposium
FOR A MULTI – FACETED PRESENCE IN THE TOWN
One can only speak of urbanism when one is present, is part of the city… such is the challenge of public space. The symposium will adress this issue through two days of conferences and workshops, with almost twenty researchers, urbanists, architects, graphic designers and artists share their ways to be present in the city, and the methods they developed to this aim.
Tickets
€ 100,00
€ 40,00 (-25/+60)
Allows for a free entry at the evening conferences upon booking and subject to available seating.
Booking
Ven. 07 mai 2010, 09:00
Jour 1: Conférences
09:05 — Luca PATTARONI (CH)
La ville ensemble, émancipations et tyrannies dans l’espace commun d’un monde urbain.
Ces trois étapes permettent d’esquisser quelques pistes pour une action publique renouvelée visant à la composition d’une ville véritablement plurielle, qui fasse place aux personnes dans leurs différences de rythmes, de conviction et de capacité et aux expériences qui se tiennent aux limites du politique comme l’attachement, la convivialité et la créativité
HIGHLIGHT 1: THE TOWN AS A TOOL
10:00 — Paolo INGHILLERI (I)
Communautés créatives
Il sera ici question de la façon dont les lieux et les villes peuvent devenir des artefacts créatifs vivants à travers nos expériences, nos conflits et nos désirs.
10:35 — Tim FENDLEY (UK)
Legible London – un système de navigation pour les capitales
Comment concevoir des systèmes de plans destinés aux marcheurs afin de leur donner les informations dont ils ont réellement besoin?
HIGHLIGHT 2: THE LABORATORY TOWN
11:40 — Bas RAIJMAKERS (NL)
Conversations empathiques à travers des Documentaires sur le Design
Comment des histories visuelles peuvent aider des équipes interdisciplinaires de designers à se mettre dans la peau des futurs utilisateurs de leurs créations et à développer des relations avec eux.
12:15 — PUBLIC WORKS (UK) (Kathrin BOHM & Andreas LANG)
Public Works est un collectif d’artistes et d’architectes basé à Londres. Il met l’accent sur l’aspect spatial ou architectural au coeur de l’espace social et contextuel. Le but est d‘éveiller notre conscience à ces réalités et constructions spatiales.
HIGHLIGHT 3: THE MEDIATING TOWN
14:00 — Miodrag MITRASINOVIC (US)
Jeux et divertissements urbains
Le cours “Urban Play and Recreation” a été initié en collaboration avec le département new-yorkais des parcs et espaces de jeux afin d’explorer la relation qui existe entre les pratiques de loisirs et de jeux urbains à New York.
14:35 — Luc LEVESQUE (CA)
Tactiques mobilières et espace public urbain : quelques expérimentations.
Présentation d’une série d’expériences centrées sur l’usage et l’aménagement ciblé de sites urbains sous-utilisés mais propices à la halte.
15:10 — Ezio MANZINI (IT)
Design et construction sociale de l’espace public.
L’histoire des villes, c’est l’histoire de deux systèmes structurellement corrélés, l’un social et l’autre matériel : la ville matérielle et la ville sociale se génèrent mutuellement. Jusqu’à présent, les académiciens et les designers ont principalement concentré leur attention sur la ville matérielle. Face à une telle situation, leur attention bascule vers des aspects liés à la ville sociale, ce qui va profiler une nouvelle manière de concevoir le design.
HIGHLIGHT 3: ORCHESTRATING THE TOWN
16:20 — Mathias HEYDEN (D)
Evolving Participatory Design. Rapport de Berlin, et plus encore !
Mathias Heyden aborde le thème des trajectoires empruntées par le design
auto-déterminé et lié au sens commun afin de favoriser l’émergence de sociétés en devenir, radicalement démocratiques, équitables et durables.
Sam. 08 mai 2010, 09:20
Morning Workshop A
THE TOWN AS A TOOL
09:20 — Jean-Michel DECROLY & Olivier GOSSELAIN (BE)
ULB
Sensory walks in Brussels.
Using the relations between the body and the material environment, they present the results of an experience of an urban itinerary where students were encouraged to discover the town using all their senses, and trying not to give priority to what they see.
09:40 — Sabine GUISSE (BE)
ISACF – La Cambre
Public spaces “empowering” and “disempowering”, users between town as a tool and suffered town.
Describing the capacitating and decapacitating potential of space for each figure of interaction between users and the urban environment.
Sam. 08 mai 2010, 09:20
Morning Workshop B
THE LABORATORY TOWN
09:20 — Matej NIKISIC (SLO)
UIRS
Revealing users’ mental images of urban public space.
Getting to know user’s mental image by in-depth interviewing, revealing the strong relation between the usage patterns of urban spaces and user’s mental images of these spaces.
09:40 — Barbara GOLICNIK MARUSIC (SLO)
UIRS
Mapping of dynamic patterns of users to inform public space design.
This research is a critical inquiry about spatial relationships between occupancy and the physical structure of squares and parks in city centres. It focuses on usability and the spatial capacity of places, from two different angles.
10:00 — Petra MARGUC (F)
Polimorph
Pluridisciplirary approaches, participation and integration into urban projects.
Alongside recent in situ productions, Petra will illustrate the tools and methods Polimorph is developing to investigate and design urban environments in a way to include multiple actors into the process.
Sam. 08 mai 2010, 09:20
Morning Workshop C
THE MEDIATING TOWN
09:20 — Isabelle DOUCET (UK)
Manchester Architecture Research Centre
Interdisciplinary and/or Transdisciplinary city-making.
Cities are to be developed in both a interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner. This talk aspires to look into some of the tensions that continue to sabotage an elaborate mediation of urban questions.
09:40 — Masa CVETKO (SLO)
ProstoRož
ProstoRož association.
ProstoRož is a continuous project of public space cultivation, its goal developing a method of reviving and arranging of the degraded urban spaces.
Sam. 08 mai 2010, 09:20
Morning Workshop D
ORCHESTRATING THE TOWN
09:20 — François JEGOU (BE)
Strategic Design Scenarios
Supporting social change and sustainability on the territory. Residences of the public innovation laboratory 27e Region in France.
Presentation of 15 ‘residences’ intended as long period immersions of multidisciplinary design-driven creative teams in local public institutions.
Sam. 08 mai 2010, 02:00
Afternoon Workshop A
09:20 — Viviana NAROTZKY, Beth GALI, Josep M. SERRA (SP, Santa Cole), Josep BOHIGAS ARNAU (BOPBAA Arquitectes)
Barcelona’s Transformation and visions of the 21st Century City.
Spanish political transition, the rise of the nationalist discourse in Catalonia, design and architecture provided Barcelona with the foundations of its new urban narrative. The concepts of local identity and modernity materialized in urban environments and everyday objects accessible to everyone.
Sam. 08 mai 2010, 02:00
Afternoon Workshop B
14:00 — Wouter VANDERSTEDE (Kind & Samenleving), Peter & Julie Anne VERBEELEN (BE, Turtlewings)
Spatial analysis with/by children.
How can we take advantage of children’s own spatial perspective for analysis and qualitative design of public space? Presentation of several experiments meant to listen to youth and involve them when designing their public spaces.
Ven. 07 mai 2010, 12:00
Afternoon Workshop C
14:00 — Thomas ERMACORA (IT/UK), Clear Village
Clear Village.
The intention of this initiative is not to build a ‘perfect place’, but rather to foster a dynamic, living community which embraces principles, technologies and forms of governance that allow for a more sustainable future of living and can provide a benchmark for other communities to follow.
Ven. 07 mai 2010, 12:00
Afternoon Workshop D
14:00 — Roger BURTON (BE), BRASS
Pas de Quartier.
Presentation of the “Pas de Quartier!” web platform project and its theoretical back office, plus perspectives for developing it as a tool for urban action. “Pas de Quartier” will try to show and to voice this territorial layer-cake, by focusing on creative use of formal and popular maps of the urban environment in a neighborhood.
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