OPEN CITY FORUM

Exploring challenges and opportunities of openness and its implications for theories, perspectives and instruments of the Open City.

VENUE: Stadtwerkstatt

Program

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Speakers

Edgar Pieterse is the founding director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town—the most influential urban research centre on the African continent with a global remit. He is a life long activist determined to find creative and inclusive ways of generating grounded discourses about the city and its potential futures. He has authored/edited fourteen books, over a hundred peer reviewed articles, curates exhibitions and provides urban policy advice to a variety of African and international development agencies. His most recent book is: New Urban Worlds. Inhabiting Dissonant Times (Polity, 2017). He holds the South African Research Chair in Urban Policy.  He currently holds the Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin and was the inaugural Alfred Herrhausen Fellow.

Dr. Tali Hatuka

Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design

Tali Hatuka is an architect and urban planner, is the Head (and founder) of the Laboratory of contemporary Urban Design (LCUD), in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. Her work focuses primarily on two main fields of research: (1) the urban realm and society (public space, conflicts and dissent); and (2) urban development and city design (housing, and industrial areas). She has worked as an architect and a planner on a planning project related urban development and city design, funded by Israeli municipalities and ministries.

Prof.Dr. Harald Welzer

FUTURZWEI. Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit

Herald Walzer is a sociologist and social psychologist, co-founder and director of ‘FuturZwei. Foundation for Sustainability’, Professor of Transformation Design and Mediation at the University of Flensburg, Permanent Visiting Professor for Social Psychology at the University of St. Gallen. He has written numerous books on socio-political issues and sustainability, including ‘Climate Wars. What is being killed in the 21st century’, ‘Self-thinking. A guide to resistance’, lastly ‘The smart dictatorship. The attack on our freedom’, all published in the S. Fischer publishing house. He is also publisher of ‘Futurzwei. Magazine for the future and politics’.

Experts

Dirk Konietzka is professor of sociology at the department of social sciences at TU Braunschweig, Germany. His research interests focus on social change, social demography and stratification.

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schneider

Professor of Architecture Theory and History 

Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City, Tu Braunschweig

In the face of epochal urban transformations and increasing socio-spatial inequalities in many parts of the world, my research and teaching engages with case studies that foster principles of justice. It is particularly concerned with the social, economic and political parameters within and through which cities, territories and architectures are made and the tools and methodologies that allow citizens to intervene transformatively in the (re)production of space.

Prof. Dr. Eckart Voigts

Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies

Institute of English and American Studies,

 TU Braunschweig

Professor of English Literature and Culture at TU Braunschweig, Germany. Co-editor of Transforming Cities. Discourses of Urban Change (Winter 2018), Companion to Adaptation (Routledge 2018), Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse (WVT 2015), Reflecting on Darwin (Ashgate 2014), special issue of Adaptation on Transmedia Storytelling (OUP 2013). Since 2016 co-PI of research project on ‘British-Jewish Theatre’ (VW Foundation).

Call for Abstracts

Submissions are closed!

The Open City Forum  is calling for contributions from research and practice, in which different disciplines have described, operationalized or implemented aspects of openness.

Each selected author will present their abstract as base for an in depth discussion and Workshop sessions.

Publication: 

Accepted papers will be published in a special edition of

A book publication is intended.

Forum Topics: 

# Open City

# Architectures of Openness

# Practices of Openness

# Public Spaces of Openness

# Urban Development and Uncertainty

# City Information Modeling

# Open Urban Systems

# Open Social Structures

# Porosity

# Inclusiveness

# Urbanity of Movement

# Urban Development and Appropriation

# …

Participants (selected abstracts)

Space

Fabio Bayro-Kaiser | RWTH Aachen University, Germany
The desired closed city contested by the unwanted open city

Zinovia Foka | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Contesting the Narratives of Partition: Space Appropriation in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone

Betsabea Bussi & Zeynep Tulumen | Politecnico di Torino, Italy / Turkey
Building social bridges: the case of Porta Palazzo market in Turin

Sara Sako | University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom / Sweden
Synthesis of Feminist Approaches and Architecture – an intervention

Time

Nitin Bathla | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
A dispersed openness – The ‘open cities’ of ex-urbia

Systems

Elena Porqueddu | Italy
Design for the Open City: directing rather than mastering emergent
transformations

Letizia Chiappini, Anastasia Halauniova & Ying-Tzu Lin | University of
Amsterdam/AISSR, The Netherlands
Slutty Urbanism – Blog project

Bianca Herlo, Malte Bergmann & Jennifer Schubert | Berlin University of the
Arts Berlin, Germany
Co-Designing Open Cities

Ananya Ramesh(1), Sachinkumar Rathod(2) & Anurag Jain(3) | 1:CEPT
Research and Development Foundation / 2:National Institute of Advanced
Studies / 3:Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India
Peri-urban Transformation and Adaptation Strategies in Bangalore’s
Periphery. Study Area: Proposed Bidadi Township and Peri-Bidadi Area

Institution

R. Gökçe Sanul | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Spaces of Openness in Istanbul: Solidary Publicness and Experimental Practices

Benedikt Stoll | Guerilla Architects, Germany
Re-tracing Home

Gala Nettelbladt | Leibniz Institute for Research on Society & Space, Germany
Openness as Conflict: Conflictual Politics of Planning in Context of Migration in Cities

Venugopal AV | Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
Tourism Paradox

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