Symposium
Conferences and workshops
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.
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When & Where
Human Cities Symposium
07 & 08.05.2010
BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23
B-1000 Brussels
Tickets
€ 100 / € 40 (-26/+60)
Access to the evening conferences upon booking and subject to availability.
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Info
+32 (0)2 507 82 00
BOZAR Tickets, rue Ravenstein
www.bozar.be
Colloquium
Friday 07 May
Overview of the symposium
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9:05 - Town together, emancipations and tyrannies within the ordinary of the urban world.
Town together, emancipations and tyrannies within the ordinary of the urban world. With this introductive conference, I suggest we explore the tensions between the diversity of presence modalities in a town and the making-up of a common world. Thus, we will have to think the meeting of the town ...
Luca PATTARONI (I)
Researcher from the Urban Sociology Department at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Institut Marcel Mauss
The town as a tool
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10:00 - Creative communities
We will discuss how places and towns can become creative living artifacts through our experiences, conflicts and desires. Our identities are deeply linked to places and to objects of our daily life. Stones, bricks, iron, plastics, constitute buildings, streets, institutions, furniture, clothes. ...
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10:35 - Legible London – a wayfinding system for the capital
The Legible London concept was proposed in 2004 to tackle the problems faced by many travellers throughout the capital. In 2007 a prototype multi-modal wayfinding system was commissioned in a limited area in the West End to trial methodologies, uncover unknown issues and provide ...
The laboratory town
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11:40 - Empathic Conversations through Design Documentaries
How visual stories can help interdisciplinary design teams to step into the shoes of the future users of their designs and develop relationships with them. To achieve social innovation, simple consultations of the people who will use the spaces and services we design is no longer enough. In ...
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12:15 - DIY regeneration – Build it yourself
Who is building what when it comes to public spaces? How do collective and participatory art projects contribute to the shaping of the public realm? Where does the social become spatial? What does it mean for art and architecture collaborations? The focus of this session is the spatial or the ...
PUBLIC WORKS (UK) (Kathrin Bohm & Andreas Lang)
PUBLIC WORKS (UK) (Kathrin Bohm & Andreas Lang)
Collectif
The mediating town
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14:00 - Urban play and recreation
In 2008, the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design launched a comprehensive and systematic approach to the study of urban phenomena, processes, practices, conditions and forms that attempts to integrate design, humanities, the arts, social sciences, and policy. In ...
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14:35 - Furnishing tactics and urban public space: a few experiments.
Furnishing tactics and urban public space: a few experiments. A nomadic, dynamic and incidental modality of public spaces may virtually penetrate any place. That public space in progress may hypothetically form a side and fluctuating constellation activating the frame of the existing town. ...
Luc LEVESQUE (CA)
Architect, Architecture History and Theory professor, University of Laval, Québec
Orchestrating the town
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15:10 - Design and the social construction of public space.
The history of cities is the history of two structurally correlated systems, one social and one material: the material city and the social city generate each other. Up to now, academics and designers have mainly focused their attention on the material city. Confronted with such a situation, they ...
Ezio MANZINI (IT)
Politecnico di Milano
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16:20 - Evolving Participatory Design. A report from Berlin, reaching beyond!
Taking off from a site typical for Berlins crossroads of top-down and bottom-up cultures, the talk focuses the increasing everyday, yet situational urbanism here and abroad, and discusses trajectories of self-determined and common oriented design meant to foster radical-democratic and just, ...
Mathias HEYDEN (D)
Dipl. Ing. Arch. - ISPARA - Institute for strategies of participative architecture and spatial appropriation
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20:00 - Urbiotica: Smart Cities
Urbiotica is the result of the collaboration between Santa & Cole, Grup Iviron and D3K Gestió del Coneixement (UPC), its object being to design, develop and market a complete range of technology-based products intended to improve the management and experience of use of the urban space. The ...
Irene COMPTE LOBERA, Antoni BREY RODRIGUEZ
Irene COMPTE LOBERA, Antoni BREY RODRIGUEZ
Colloquium
Saturday 08 May
The town as a tool
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9:20 - Sensory walks in Brussels
Olivier GOSSELAIN & Jean Michel DECROLY (B)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
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9:40 - Public spaces « empowering » and « disempowering », users between town as a tool and suffered town
This communication is based on a 4-year study done in the heart of public space in Brussels. By observing users in the field, we tried to better understand the way they interact with urban space. The final objective of our study is to propose a method to those who shape the territory ...
Sabine GUISSE (B)
Architect and researcher at he Centre de Recherches Architecturales de la Cambre (CRAC)
The laboratory town
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9:20 - Revealing users' mental images of urban public space
Getting to know user's mental image by in-depth interviewing Decades long researches show strong relation between the usage patterns of urban spaces and user's mental images of these spaces - the less present certain places are in the mental images of users less likely it is that these places ...
Matej NIKISIC (SL)
Researcher – Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
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9:40 - Mapping of dynamic patterns of users to inform public space design
This paper 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. Firstly, it discusses the actual uses mapped in places, using ...
Barbara GOLICNIK MARUSIC (SL)
researcher and assistant professor - Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
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10:00 - Pluridisciplirary approaches, participation and integration into urban projects
Alongside recent productions in situ 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. Moderator: Stefan DECORTE (to be confirmed) Report by: Christine SCHAUT
Petra MARGUC (F)
dipl.-ing.arch TU Stuttgart (D)/MA Berlage Institute (NL)/MA ENBA Lyon (F)
The mediating town
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9:20 - Interdisciplinary and/or Transdisciplinary city-making
It is meanwhile widely accepted that cities are to be developed in both a interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner; according to transversal approaches that allow to take into account the multifarious problématiques cities are dealing with; and in participatory manners as to allow also ...
Isabelle DOUCET
Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development / Manchester Architecture Research Centre
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9:40 - ProstoRož Association
The ProstoRož association sprung into life in 2004 as a spontaneous answer to our desire to explore and understand open city space. It is a continuous project of public space cultivation, its goal developing a method of reviving and arranging of the degraded urban spaces. In doing this, we ...
Orchestrating the town
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9:20 - The Immersion experience of some designers in public institutions
Territoires en Résidences is an on-going programme initiated by the French public innovation laboratory 27e Région. 15 'residences' intended as long period immersions of multidisciplinary design-driven creative teams in local public institutions will be organised over the period 2009-2010: ...
Workshop
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14:00 - 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.
Viviana NAROTZKY, Beth GALI, Josep M. SERRA (SP, Santa Cole), Josep BOHIGAS ARNAU (BOPBAA Arquitectes)
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14:00 - 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
Wouter VANDERSTEDE (Kind & Samenleving), Peter & Julie Anne VERBEELEN (BE, Turtlewings)
Wouter VANDERSTEDE (Kind & Samenleving), Peter & Julie Anne VERBEELEN (BE, Turtlewings)
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14:00 - 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 ...
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14:00 - "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 ...
Roger BURTON (BE)
Director of the Brass (Cultural Centre of Forest)
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20:00 - Dynamic equilibrium
PearsonLloyd is a multi award-winning London based design studio working across a wide variety of disciplines including furniture, product, transport and the public realm. The studio has established a global reputation for producing innovative work for international clients. They have developed ...
PearsonLloyd
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HC Book
06/05/2010