The OPEN CITY FORUM critically examines the principles of openness and how they can be translated into urban space and practice. The public event connects researchers, academics, professionals, experts as well as decision makers of municipalities and the civil society. We seek to explore innovative methods and tools, integrating existing disciplinary concepts and theoretical approaches of openness towards new perspectives and instruments for the sustainable transformation and development of urban areas.
The OPEN CITY FORUM is part of “OFFENE STADT: Theorien, Perspektiven, Instrumente” – a joint inter- and transdisciplinary research project by TU Braunschweig, TU Dortmund and the German Institute of Urban Affairs, in cooperation with the Senate of the City of Berlin and supported by a renowned advisory board, and funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation.
9 AM – 9 PM
OPEN RESEARCH FLOOR
Poster exhibition, networking and exploring
9 AM – 4 PM
OPEN RESEARCH FORUM
20 selected international scientists discussing openness in the dimensions space, time, institution and systems
Moderation: Dirk Konietzka, Tatjana Schneider, Eckart Voigts and Open City Research Group
5 PM – 9 PM
Open City Symposium
Keynote lectures and podium discussion
Speakers: Tali Hatuka, Edgar A. Pieterse, Harald Welzer
09:00 – 10:00
Registration + Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15
Welcome + Introduction Dr.-Ing. Nadine Appelhans and Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Open City research group presents: “Offene Stadt – Theorien, Perspektiven, Instrumente”
10:15 – 10:45
Lightning Round I Moderation: Olaf Mumm and Jan Trapp
Fabio Bayro-Kaiser: The desired closed city contested by the unwanted open city
Zinovia Foka: Contesting the Narratives of Partition: Space Appropriation in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone
Betsabea Bussi & Zeynep Tulumen: Building social bridges: The case of Porta Palazzo Market in Turin
Sara Sako, Michelle Bastian: Synthesis of Feminist Approaches and Architecture: An Intervention
Dimitra Prapa: Openness in academic spaces: three examples from Athens
Nitin Bathla: An extended openness: The ‘open cities’ of the Delhi urban region
Anna Kostreva & Alex Head: Open Society and the Right to Exceed
Edna Peza: Fear in the city: a story of research, photography, and outreach
10:50 – 12:20
Parallel Workshop Sessions
Workshop Session I: Space
Moderator: Olaf Mumm
Rapporteur: Prof. Dr. Vanessa M. Carlow
Provocation: Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schneider
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Workshop Session II: Time
Moderator: Ines Dobosic
Rapporteur: Prof. Dr. Boris Schröder-Esselbach
Provocation: Prof. Dr. Eckart Voigts
12:20 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:30
Lightning Round II Moderation: Olaf Mumm and Jan Trapp
Letizia Chiappini, Ying-Tzu Lin & Anastasiya Halauniova: Slutty Urbanism: Against Pervert Urban Performances
Elena Porqueddu: Design for the Open City: directing rather than mastering emergent transformations
Bianca Herlo, Jennifer Schubert, Malte Bergmann: Social Living Labs: Co-Designing Open Cities
Ananya Ramesh, Anurag Jain: Peri-urban Transformations in Bangalore’s Periphery Study Area: Proposed Bidadi Township and Peri-Bidadi Area
Gala Nettelblad: Openness as Conflict: The Contentious Politics of Planning in the Context of Migration in Cities
Gökce Sanul: Spaces of Openness in Istanbul: Solidary Publicness and Experimental Practices
Benedikt Stoll: Re-tracing Home: Conversations with Syrian newcomers on the “arrival crisis” in Berlin
Anakkara Vadakkath Venugopal: Tourism paradox
Hendrik Weiner: Local collaborative design-projects as catalyst and research-instrument of urban transformations
13:35 – 15:05
Parallel Workshop Sessions
Workshop Session III: Systems
Moderator: Dr. Michael Strohbach
Rapporteur: Jan Trapp
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Workshop Session IV: Institutions
Moderator: Dr. Dagmar Schulze Heuling
Rapporteur: Dr. Nadine Appelhans
Provocation: Prof. Dr. Dirk Konietzka
15:05 – 15:20
Break + Preparation for Plenary session
15:20 – 16:20
Plenary session Moderation: Olaf Mumm and Dr. Michael Strohbach
Reports from Session I, II, III and IV and open discussion with all participants
16:30 – 17:00
Registration
17:00 – 17:30
Welcome + Introduction Dr.-Ing. Nadine Appelhans and Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Open City research group presents: “Offene Stadt – Theorien, Perspektiven, Instrumente”
17:30 – 18:15
Dr. Tali Hatuka: Working the City – New Vision for Openness
Head of the Laboratory of contemporary Urban Design at Tel Aviv University
18:15 – 19:00
Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer
Director of FUTURZWEI. Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit
19:00 – 19:30
Break
19:30 – 20:15
Prof. Dr. Edgar A. Pieterse: Preconditions for “openness” in divided Cape Town
Director of African Centre for Cities at University of Cape Town
20:15 – 21:15
Podium discussion Moderation: Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow and Prof. Dr. Schröder Esselbach
Participants: Tali Hatuka, Edgar Pierterse and Harald Welzer
21:15
Conclusion + Outro Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow and Prof. Dr. Schröder Esselbach
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.
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.
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’.
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.
Professor of Architecture Theory and History
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.
Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies
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).
Dates:
08.10.2018 Closing Date Abstracts
15.10.2018 Authors informed of results
30.10.2018 Final abstract submission
07.11.2018 OPEN CITY FORUM
The Forum language is English.
For further information please contact
OPEN CITY FORUM: forum@offene-stadt.org
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
# …
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
Nitin Bathla | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
A dispersed openness – The ‘open cities’ of ex-urbia
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
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