Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -

Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose -Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin- MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen& Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - jamescorner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - TomCoward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson -Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll- Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - GillianRose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa TzionaSwitkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson- Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold -james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson- Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll- Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - GillianRose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa TzionaSwitkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson- Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold -james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson- Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll- Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson - Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - GillianRose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold - james corner fi eld operations - Lisa TzionaSwitkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change - Tom Coward - Urban Splash - Nick Johnson- Helen & Hard - Reinhard Kropf - Gillian Rose - Testbedstudio - Anders Johansson - Guerilla Gardening - Richard Reynold -james corner fi eld operations - Lisa Tziona Switkin - MUF - Liza Fiori - Richard Ingersoll - Thomas Sieverts - Agent of Change -

Critical Spaces of

TodayA Seminar on Contemporary Theories and Practices of

Planning, Urbanism, Architecture and Geography.

Time - Place - Price:

NALEN, Regeringsgatan 74, StockholmFriday 20 November - Saturday 21 November 2009Members: 150 sekNon-members: 550 sekApply: www.arkitekt.se/criticalspaces

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friday 20 - saturday 21theme:

CRITICAL SPACES OF TODAY A Seminar on Contemporary Theories and Practices of Planning, Urbanism, Archi-tecture, and Geography

“This foreclosure crisis, this fi nancial crisis, has to be thought of as a crisis of the

city, a crisis of urbanization – and if it’s a crisis of the city and of urbanization, then

the solution has to be a reconfi guration of the city and a redirection of what urba-

nization is about.”

That is how the urbanist, David Harvey, starts a conversation about the city in

Baltimore’s Independent Reader in April 2009. No matter what attitude we take to

David Harvey’s challenge, it is still a very important question he asks: Do we have

the strength to contemplate the city in its entire complexity economically, politically,

socially and at the same time esthetically, or do we choose the simple solution,

the one way architecture and the instrumental sense? Do we have the strength to

maintain the complexity, not only when we ask questions but also when answering

in drawings, legal documents and political decisions.

With CRITICAL SPACES OF TODAY A Seminar on Contemporary Theories and Practices

of Planning, Urbanism, Architecture, and Geography, The Association of Architects in

Stockholm want to ask the diffi cult questions and give the diffi cult answers. The last

two decades, the discussion about the city has been very animated around the world.

Quite a few new words - POSTMETROPOLIS, SPATIAL FIX, PARADOXICAL GEOGRAP-

HIES, ZWISCHENSTADT, SPRAWLTOWN - have helped us to obtain a richer picture of

the city. They have not yet been introduced in Sweden. It is about time.

So:

Planners Fantasies: How do we create space for the incredible and fantastic? How

do we make pictures of the future city, the future Stockholm work? Paradoxical

Geographies?

The Question of the Center: What do the confl icts look like between a city consisting

of several cores and the city centre? How does the power of attraction work and do

we need more or less monuments? Spatial Fix? Zwischenstadt?

Violence and Freedom of the City: What is a durable city? How do you get the eco-

logical, economical and social to co-operate? Sprawltown?

From a Crisis Generated Reconstruction to a Reconstruction Generated Crisis: Is it

possible to fi nd a living and constructive attitude to the twentieth century’s modernity

regarding city development. How can micro practitioner and macro practitioner be

co-ordinated? Postmetropolis?

Stockholms

Arkitektförening

20 november-21 november

scheme: friday 20 november

8.30 - 9.00Registration

Planners Fantasies

9.00 - 9.30Introduction9.30 - 10.30 Thomas Sieverts10.30 - 11.30Agent of Change, Tom Coward11.30 - 12.30Urban Splash, Nick Johnson

12.30 - 13.30Lunch

The Question of the Center

13.30 - 14.30Helen & Hard, Reinhard Kropf14.30 - 15.30Gillian Rose15.30 - 16.00Coffe16.00 - 17.00Testbedstudio, Anders Johansson17.00 - 18.00Guerilla Gardening, Rickard Reynolds

20.00Bar at Södra Teatern

saturday 21 november

Violence and Freedom of the City

10.00 - 11.00 Field Operations, Lisa Switkin11.00 - 12.00muf, Liza Fiori12.00 - 13.00Rickard Ingersoll

13.00 - 14.30Lunch

From a Crisis Generated Reconstruction to a Reconstruction Generated Crisis

14.30Final Discussion

sponsors:

WEST PARK - BOCHUM.

A new park on the site of a former steelwork

Thomas Sieverts, Prof. em. Architektur- und Städtebaustudium in Stuttgart, is a German architect

and urban planner. He is the author of Zwischenstadt (Cities without Cities), where he investigates

the characteristics of today’s built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large

conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The

diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the ’meta city’ is mirrored by changes in society

from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals

pursuing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their city. Between Place and

World, Space and Time, Town and Country.

friday 20 November

PLANNERS FANTASIES

9.30 Thomas Sieverts

FROM THE INSIDE LOOKING IN.

AOC is a practice of architects, urbanists and interpreters, established in 2003 by Tom Coward,

Daisy Froud, Vincent Lacovara and Geoff Shearcroft. AOC is committed to exploring and enriching

the relationship between you and the complex, messy world that surrounds you. AOC emerged

from a shared obsession with the uniqueness of places. What they are and what they could be. AOC

is about making things. Some of these things are buildings.

IF CONTEMPORARY URBAN THEORY IS SO GOOD,

why does no-one want to live there? - Lessons learned from the practical side of life.

Award winning property developer Urban Splash is one of the Great Britain’s leading regeneration

companies. It delivers true mixed use schemes including residential property of all tenures,

commercial offi ce, retail and a hotel.

Founded in 1993, the company has delivered challenging and exciting regeneration projects across

the country including Fort Dunlop in Birmingham, Chimney Pot Park in Salford, The Midland Hotel

in Morecambe and Royal William Yard in Plymouth.

11.30 Urban Splash, Nick Johnson

REGNAVATS.

Helen & Hard was founded in 1996 by Chartered Architect Siv Helene Stangeland and Ph.D. Eng.,

Reinhard Kropf. Today, the company has a youthful staff of 16 drawn from different countries. In

their work, H&H explore alternative operational and production methods by means of the appraisal

and integration of local resources.

The fi rm has received international recognition and a series of awards for their work. In 2008

H&H took part in Manifesta, The Venice Biennale of Architecture and in the Tokyo “New trends

of architecture” show. In 2009 H&H have received the Norwegian State´s Prize for good quality

architecture for the Preikestolen Mountain Lodge and are currently working on the Norwegian

Pavillion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai.g.

13.30 Helen & Hard, Reinhard Kropf

LEARNING FROM MILTON KEYNES.

Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University, and her current research

interests lie broadly within the fi eld of visual culture. She’s interested in how different ways of

seeing and not-seeing work in social spaces like living rooms and shopping malls. She has a

long-standing interest in feminist and Foucauldian fi lm and photography theory, but more recently

she has been working with material culture and practice theory. One long-term project has been

looking at family photos as visual objects that circulate between a range of different practices in

the global visual economy. She has recently completed a project with Dr Monica Degen at Brunel

University, in which they compared how people experienced two rather different town centres:

Milton Keynes and Bedford. Books include Feminism and Geography, Visual Methodologies and

next year, Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment.

14.30 Gillian Rose

IRON TRAILS.

Testbedstudio is an architectural offi ce that works within different forms of public space. Their

practice operates in a range from the ”sitting snake” to regional development projetcs for shrinking

cities, all with the question of what meaningful architecture can be and how people may be

engaged in their environment.

Iron Trails is a speculative project about the Kiruna - Narvik region, commissioned for the Pan-

Barentz art triennale and the publication Northern Experiements, organized by the Norvegian

groups 0047 and Pikene på Broen.kind.

16.00 Testbedstudio, Anders Johansson

THE HORTICULTURAL FRONTLINE.

Guerrilla gardening is the ”illicit cultivation of someone else’s land”. Whether to beautify

neglected public space, to grow food that would otherwise be unavailable, or just as a symbolic

provocation, guerrilla gardening is a growing international movement. Richard Reynolds is an

Oxford University geographer by training and an advertising account planner by trade, he has

been a guerrilla gardener for fi ve years. His gardens are in central London, but through his website

GuerrillaGardening.org he has brought together guerrilla gardeners from around the world to share

their experiences and inspire others to begin or come out about their activity. His book On Guerrilla

Gardening was published in 2008 (Bloomsbury) and he regularly speaks on the subject.

17.00 Guerilla Gardening, Richard Reynolds

HIGH LINE.

james corner fi eld operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice

based in New York City. fi eld operations expertise is refl ected in a diverse range of projects, from

the design of entire sectors of cities to intimate garden spaces; the design of large public parks

and urban spaces to housing and mixed-use urban developments; the reclamation of landfi lls,

derelict brownfi eld sites and other post-industrial landscapes for new public uses and private

development; to the preservation of large-scale natural resources.

Lisa Tziona Switkin is an associate principal at james corner fi eld operations and was the Design

Project Manager and Lead Designer for the High Line, a transformation of the 2,200-acre landfi ll

site Fresh Kills into what will be one of the world’s largest urban parks.

10.00 Field Operations, Lisa Switkin

THIS IS WHAT WE DO.

muf is a collaborative practice of art and architecture committed to public realm projects. Since

1996 muf has established a reputation for pioneering and innovative projects that address

the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public realm. The practice philosophy is

driven by an ambition to realize the potential pleasures that exist at the intersection between

the lived and the built. The creative process is underpinned by a capacity to establish effective

client relationships that reveal and value the desires and experience of varied constituencies.

Access is understood not as a concession but as the gorgeous norm; creating spaces that have an

equivalence of experience for all who navigate them both physically and conceptually, muf deliver

quality and strategical durable projects that inspire a sense of ownership through occupation.

11.00 muf, Liza Fiori

SPRAWLTOWN.

Looking for the City on its Edges.

Richard Ingersoll teaches architectural history and urban design at Syracuse University in Florence

and the Facolta’ di Architettura in Ferrara. In Sprawltown, architectural historian Richard Ingersoll

makes the surprising claim that sprawl is an inevitable reality of modern life that should be

addressed more thoughtfully and recognized as its own new form of urbanism rather than simply

being criticized and condemned.

12.00 Richard Ingersoll

10.30 Agent of Change, Tom Coward

friday 20 November

THE QUESTION OF THE CENTER

saturday 21 November

VIOLENCE AND FREEDOM OF THE CITY

FROM A CRISIS GENERATED RECONSTRUCTION TO A

RECONSTRUCTION GENERATED CRISIS.

How do we create space for the incredible and fantastic? How do we make pictures of the future

city, the future Stockholm work? What do the confl icts look like between a city consisting of

several cores and the city centre? How does the power of attraction work and do we need more

or less monuments? What is a durable city? How do you get the ecological, economical and social

to co-operate? Is it possible to fi nd a living and constructive attitude to the twentieth century’s

modernity regarding city development. How can micro practitioner and macro practitioner

be co-ordinated? Paradoxical Geographies? Postmetropolis? Spatial Fix? Zwischenstadt?

Sprawltown?

14.30 Final Discussion