Debalie, Sat 10th 18:00 in collaboration with Fonds BKVB
In the age of Super-Cities: the question and on-going dialogue of how cities are changing and how citizens interact with cities remains valid and pre-requisite. The city is a dynamic space in, constant flux, and we are excited by this theme and the possibility to explore it together with our guests and participants during the
Re-imagining the city Forum.
PROGRAMME
18:00 > 18:05 : Opening forum & short intro by Özkan Gölpinar, Fonds BKVB
18:05 > 18:25 : Hans Vermeulen (NL) [DUS Architects] en Ekim Tan (TRC) [architect TU -Delft]: Gecekondu
18:25 > 18:30 : Q&A
18:30 > 18:45 : Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis (NL) : Model Citizens
18:45 > 18:50 : Q&A
18:50 > 19:05 : Camila Bustamante (PE), Sandberg Institute : Lima 2427
19:05 > 19:10 : Q&A
19:10 > 19:25 : Henriette Waal from Wilde Westen (NL) [Stedelijk in de Stad +Marjetica Potrc ] : The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour
19:25 > 19:35 : Q&A
19:35 > 19:45 : Closing words by Zef Hemel, Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening
PARTICIPANTS
Hans Vermeulen [DUS] + Ekim Tan [TU -Delft]
Gecekondu
Gecekundu, the Turkish name for shanty building, literally means "built over night”. Because these buildings are built in one night, the founder of the building receives ownership rights. Dus Architects built a Gecekondu Summerhouse Hotel in NL to show the potential of seemingly structured Dutch areas therefore taking inspiration from Istanbul; where over one third of all housing is build in illegal urban setup. Its building stones are the archetypical nomadic bags, the so-called china bags (or “turkentassen”), filled with sand. H. Vermeulen and Ekim Tan jointly investigate and question temporary spontaneous use, the claiming of spaces, bottom up versus
top down, nomadic life, the effects of migration onto towns and the potential of the existing townscape.
Wouter Osterholt + Elke Uitentuis
Model Citizens
The involvement of citizens when it comes to urban planning is a rarely applied practice, not only in Egypt, where Western understanding of democracy is not discerned. Dutch artists Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis, whose works focus on
social contexts, took a look into the selfdetermined capacity of a community in Cairo during a residency at Townhouse Gallery in 2008 and 2009.
!Model Citizens proposes an alternative vision for the future of the neighborhood: One imagined by the community itself.
Camila Bustamante
Lima 2427
Work on Lima#s city railway began in the mid-80#s and was never completed because of the economic crisis and the incompetence of some officials. The unfinished infrastructure remains in the city as a monument to unfulfilled promises. The large cement structures have become part of the chaotic landscape of the city. Lima 2427 aims to bring past promises into the present by means of an imaginative launch for Lima in 2427 According to an analysis of the amount of track completed and the time it took to make (kilometers of rails per year), that is the year when the
railway will be finished.
Henriette Waal [Wilde Westen] + Marjetica Potrc
The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour
The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour, a participatory project by the Slovene artist and architect Marjetica Potrc (b. 1953) and Wilde Westen, a group of young designers, architects and cultural producers, combines visual art and social
architecture to redefine the village green.
Community vegetable gardens become a tool by which the residents of Amsterdam Nieuw West reclaim ownership of their neighborhood at a time when demolition and redevelopment are causing many to feel uprooted. In the 1950s, the garden city of Nieuw West was constructed on former farmland as a modernist project; today this Amsterdam suburb is one of the largest residential redevelopment sites in Europe. With their project The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour, Potrc and Wilde Westen, in collaboration with the residents of the multicultural Geuzenveld–Slotermeer district, reflect on this history and celebrate a return to local food
production. Here, farming and cooking are viewed as a way for people to share knowledge and traditions, and a means for the cultural renewal and rebirth of the neighborhood.
Supported by Fonds BKVB
In collaboration with Genuine Fake |
