Barcelona / Madrid
Venerdì 23 Febbraio 2007,
MAXXI – museo delle arti del XX° secolo, Roma
Manuel Gausa
Ana Méndez de Andés Aldama
Franco La Cecla
Elvira Pujol
For the Barcelona seminar have been invited Manuel Gausa on one side, as promoter through Metapolis and HyperCatalunia of a wide reflection on the city and its territory through the projective tools of architectural visions and designs, and groups like Site Size and Area Ciega on the other side, as witnesses of a more critical and political active approach, concerned with the more sociological aspect and costs of the urban dynamics, together with an architect/sociologist like Franco La Cecla that could act as an observer of both the spanish and italian situations.
Berlino
Venerdì 30 Marzo 2007,
MAXXI – museo delle arti del XX° secolo, Roma
Paola Cannavò
Francesca Ferguson
Klaus Overmayer
Alessandro Petti
In the Berlin seminar Francesca Ferguson, curator and founder of Urban Drift, and Klaus Overmeyer, founder of Urban Catalyst and Shrinking Cities, have been the key speakers to tell about the latest transformations in the city, and about the spontaneous strategies to activate creative resources in the urban realm, together with Paola Cannavò, founder of studio eu, and italian berlin-based emerging all-female group of architects.
With a paradoxical feedback that connects the Berlin history to the Israeli and Palestina actual situation, Alessandro Petti, an italian architect now based in Bethlem, autor of a book on the contemporary strategies of spatial control and segregations “Arcipelaghi e enclave”, has focused on the contradictions between opposite strategies - the creative reappropriation of temporary autonomous zones and the fragmentation of the contemporary city in segregated clusters - as parts of the same logic of control over the territory.
Rotterdam
Venerdì 27 Aprile 2007,
MAXXI – museo delle arti del XX° secolo, Roma
Hans Ibelings
The Maze Corporation
Giancarlo Sanguigni
For the Rotterdam seminar, Hans Ibelings has been invited to give an overall view on the recent transformations of the Dutch cities, compared to what's happening in the other european countries, from his point of view as director of the first european architectural magazine, A10.
Dennis Kaspori of the Maze Corporation is expected to give a view on the recent development of Rotterdam, seen through his active practice in architectural and artistic projects, where a deep immersion in the real social context generates strategies and visions for the future development, together with Stealth [u]ltd that could give on the other hand – as they write - “a view on the city driven by dynamics of spatial and programmatic evolution”.
The key element to create a connection with the italian reality could be Emiliano Gandolfi.
Roma
Venerdì 25 Maggio 2007,
MAXXI – museo delle arti del XX° secolo, Roma
Romalab
Giovanni Caudo
Emiliano Paoletti
Mario De Quarto
Lorenzo Romito
The last seminar will bring back real to Rome, presenting the researches on the city that are going on in the romalab collective, and will be an opportunity to call other groups and researchers in the roman scene to join in a permanent observatory on the city transformations.