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Theatrum Mundi/ Global Street

THIS EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

 

 

Presence and Absence in the City
October 12-13
The overall theme turns on the difference between absence and presence in the city.  This difference lies both physically -- who is actually on the street?; and perceptually -- how are people aware of others, accounting or discounting their presence in urban space?.  How are those considered invisible or inconsequential enabled to ‘make presence’ in urban space – through their bodies, actions, activities.  We want to account the roles of technological, trade, design, and politics in constructing presence and absence; finally, we want to pose questions about how to arouse people to want more engagement with one another, rather than retreat into isolation.

Friday, October 12, 2012
9:30am - 6:00pm
Conference Panels
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University
Free and open to the public

Saturday, October 13, 2012
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Workshop
La Maison Française - 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Free, but space is limited.  RSVP to dom.bagnato@nyu.edu

 

Conference Panels - October 12

9:30am
Welcome and coffee

1) 10:00am - 11:15am

THE STATE OF THE STREET: EVICTIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS
This session focuses simply on what makes a street alive or dead: the 'life of the street' is a classic Jane Jacobs trope; what does it mean today?  Have the people who once gave streets life left the city, or been removed, or ceased to wish to interact?  Has the design of streets prevented people from engaging with one another?  One additional key issue is the privatizing of public space.
Chair: Michael Kimmelman (Architecture Critic, The New York Times)
Panelists:
Ricky Burdett (Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Stephen Duncombe (Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, New York University)
Richard Sennett (Professor of Sociology, New York University and the London School of Economics   and Political Science)
2) 11:30am - 12:45pm
TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE
A discussion about what new technological tools can do to make people more aware of one another's presence -- which means departing from the usual discussions of technological coordination and efficiency in cities.  The other side of this is how do technologies constrain the making of publicness.

Chair: Geoff Mulgan (Chief Executive, National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts)
Panelists:
Paul Gillieron (Director, Paul Gillieron Acoustic Design)
Greg Lindsay (Writer)
Susanne Seitinger (City Innovations Manager, Phillips Color Kinetics)

 

12:45pm - 1:30pm
LUNCH BREAK

3) 1:30pm - 2:45pm
THE GLOBAL STREET
We can think of the global street as a space where those without access to formal instruments of making (making buildings, power,..) can make: a politics, the social, publicness.  The global street is not a literal street – it can be a square, an empty space, an ambiguous border zone, a refugee camp. What it is not is the piazza of our European imaginary of public space.

Chair: Edwin Heathcote (Architecture and Design Critic, The Financial Times)
Panelists:
Teddy Cruz (Architect, Architect, Estudio Teddy Cruz)
Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti (Co-Founders, Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency and Palestine's Campus in Camps)
Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University)

 

4) 3:00pm - 4:15pm
THE TRADE OF IDEAS AND GOODS: FROM ARTIFACTS TO CITIZENSHIP
One critical issue is the active and ideational legacy/impact of old and new imperial modes on today’s urban space. More generally, how cities, and the people in them, are connected to one another, through currents of the present and of the past.

Chair: Mamadou Diouf (Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Columbia University)
Panelists:
Clémentine Deliss (Director, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt)
Ioanna Theocharopoulou (Assistant Professor, School of Constructed Environments, The New School)
Sudhir Venkatesh (Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University)

 

5) 4:30pm - 6:00pm
THEATRICAL SPACE
This session’s theme is about how streets can be brought to life -- but the theme is addressed in a special way: what lessons can urbanists learn from the performing arts, whose business is arousing people, about making more engaging, arousing streets?

Chair: Shamus Khan (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University)
Panelists:
Daniel Arsham (Artist and Founder, Snarkitecture)
Jonah Bokaer (Choreographer and Media Artist)
Elizabeth Diller (Architect, Diller Scofidio + Renfro)
Andrew Todd (Architect, Studio Andrew Todd)

 

Conference-Related Workshop - October 13

1:00pm - 3:00pm
PLACES AND SPACES FOR FREE SPEECH IN THE CITY
In a time of cordoned-off "free speech zones" and after the eviction of Occupy from Zucotti Park, a question arises:  What could and should a space for Free Speech and Assembly in New York City look like? To address this question we are bringing together a group of prominent street activists, artists, and architects (and an international human rights lawyer) to have a public brainstorm to discuss the problem and speculate some solutions. No written white papers or preconceived plans, just smart and creative people with an interest in creating spaces for political expression collaboratively creating new possibilities for imagining public space. After an hour of a guided brainstorm, the prompt will be opened up to the audience for public participation.

Participants: Kenneth Bailey, L. M. Bogad, Teddy Cruz, Stephen Duncombe, Will Etundi, Sandi Hilal, Jennifer Homans, Sarah Knuckey, Alessandro Petti, Andrew Todd

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