[rohrpost] Urban Drift 9th - 13th October

[Julia Schneider]

URBAN DRIFT CONFERENCE // FROM FORMALISM TO FLUX: MOBILITY AND NEW URBAN
STRATEGIES

***Café Moskau, Karl Marx Allee 34, Berlin Mitte, 9th - 13th of October***

The conference intends to reflect both the potential generated by flux -
incorporating mobility in design and in the analysis of the urban condition,
and at the same time to demonstrate innovative strategies that confront the
negative impact of a globalised, mobilised economy - peripheral, residual
spaces, and how to "reactivate" them.

DAY ONE / OCTOBER 11th 2002

Introduction: KRISTIN FEIREISS, Aedes, Patroness of Urban Drift

Moderator: OLE BOUMAN, editor, Archis magazine (Amsterdam)

10:30 Keynote Speaker: LARS LERUP - Dean at Rice School of Architecture,
(Houston, Texas) >>Architecture must move!

11:00 Presentation: RUDI SCHEUERMANN, Architect, Ove Arup (Berlin) & ACHIM
HUPFAUF, Architect >>Borderline Flexibility

12:00 Presentation: IRENE MCARA-MCWILLIAM, Professor of Interaction Design,
RCA (London) >>Form and flow: mobility and the ecology of time

(LUNCH BREAK)

14:00 - 15:30 Panel: NETWORK URBANISM

Moderation/Introduction: ARMIN MEDOSCH >>Wireless DIY communities around the
world

JAMES STEVENS - Consume.net (London) >>The question of ownership in
self-organised networks

PIT SCHULZ, Bootlab, Nettime (Berlin)

SIMON WORTHINGTON - Mute magazine (London) >>Mapping wireless communities
and other value added services

SHU LEA CHEANG (self-styled digital nomadic artist) >>On interface building
and alternative market models in social, mobile, wireless networks

WILFRIED HACKENBROICH, (Berlin) Architect, adviser, Trimester "serve city"
Bauhaus (Dessau) >>How do self-organised network structures manifest
themselves in the cityscape?

15:45 - 18:30 Presentations and panel discussion: RE-READING THE CITY IN
FLUX: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

Moderator: ANDREAS RUBY, Architectural critic and theorist (Cologne)

16:00 STEFANO BOERI, Multiplicity, architect and urban planner (Milan)
>>Eclectic Atlases of Europe - an Oblique Gaze (working title)

16:30 GUIDO BORELLI, Director, Urban Management Studies, Domus Design
Academy, (Milan) >>The limits of urban flexibility

17:00 1. Case study: SRDJAN JOVANOVIC WEISS, Normal Group - Architect,
(Belgrad/NY) >>Turbo Space

17:20 2. Case study: RANA HADDAD, Architect, (Lebanon) >>The Edge Condition

17:40 3. Case study: YOSHIHARU TSUKAMOTO, Architect, Studio Bow Wow, (Tokyo)
>>Made in Tokyo


DAY TWO / OCTOBER 12TH 2002

Moderation: REGINA BITTNER, Bauhaus Kolleg, Dessau cultural scientist and
journalist

11:30 Talk: UWE RADA, Journalist on urban development, taz, (Berlin)
>>Berlin as a border city - the undetected opportunity?

12:00 Talk: STEPHEN KOVATS, Architect, curator and media artist, (Montreal)
>>Examining Void as time based and structured immateriality

12:30 Presentation as response: ANDRE DEKKER, artist, Observatorium
(Rotterdam)

(13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK)

14:00-17:00 Short presentations and panel discussion: MOBILITY VERSUS PLACE:
RESIDUAL URBAN LANDSCAPES AND RADICAL SOLUTIONS

Moderator / Introduction: KAI VÖCKLER, Bauhaus Dessau, freelance
architecture critic, curator, and journalist

Response: BERND HEUER, Member of the Board, agenda4-eCommunity e.V (Berlin)
and JOHANNES FIEDLER, Architect and urban planner (Graz)

14:15 - 14:35 THOMAS HERR, D:4 Architects and Consultants (Berlin) >>The
chances offered by open space

14:45 - 15:10 STEFAN RETTICH, L21 Architects (Leipzig) >>Core Plasma Model -
situations for the "shrinking cities" in the East of Germany

15:20 - 15:40 LOUIS PAILLARD, Architect, Péripheriques Paris >>Work with the
context : custom(ize)?

16:10 - 16:30 PHILIPP OSWALT, Urban Catalyst (Berlin) >>Urban Catalyst -
strategies for temporary use

17:00 - 18:30 Panel Presentations & Discussion: TACTICAL MOBILITY

Moderator: STEPHEN KOVATS

Short Presentations:

FRIEDRICH VON BORRIES; Rude Architecture (Berlin) >>Nike's situationist
branding in Berlin

CECILE MARTIN, Cité des Ondes (Montreal) >> Reactivating the public sphere

PLATOON Tom Büschemann and Christoph Frank (Berlin) >>Creative task forces
are occupying Berlin


URBAN DRIFT NIGHTSPACE // 10/11/12 OCTOBER // 20.00 - 23.30

A FORUM FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL URBANISM+++ PRESENTATIONS +++ TALKS +++
SCREENINGS +++ VISUALS +++ PERFORMANCES

THURSDAY, 10.11.02
Archis Magazine: on FLOW, Ole Bouman (NL) // Screenings: "Like City, Like
Son", Etienne Desrosiers, Champ Libre (Kanada), in coop. with Transmediale
// Urban guerilla tactics/culture jamming: Emils Zile, Cleansurface
(Australia) // Discussion: de/re:construction, with Heike Ollertz, F.R.E.d
Rubin, Simone Hain, Berlin Dialog, Werner Sewing // Belfas: Rafael Horzon,
Modocom (Bln) // 9000 qm in Cottbus: Arne Mittig, Philipp Reinfeld (Bln) //
A-NON Mag - influencing public perceptions: Roland Bosbach (Ir)

FRIDAY, 11.10.02
Discussion: Capitalist Urban Development (1970) with the publishers and &
pro qm // City Sensations, the immediate city: Susanne Hofmann (Bln) //
Burning Man Festival & instant urbanism: Leo Villareal (USA), mod. Heidi
Fichtner // The city as a medium & dérives: John Warwicker, Tomato (UK) //
Reading, Kanak Urbanismus: Imran Ayata (Bln) // borderXing: Heath Bunting
(UK) mod. Armin Medosch // Jamaica Avenue Dérive: Claudia Basrawi (Bln) //
Arizona Dérive, Map/Trace/Path: Margareth Otti (Aus) // Psychogeographies:
Socialfiction.org, Wilfried Hou je Bek (NL)


SATURDAY, 12.10.02
Actar, Barcelona: Verb's new issue on "Connection", Jaime Salazar // Urban
Spinoffs, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber (A) // Data Cloud 2.0: Stealth Group,
Marc Neelen & Ana Dzokic (NL/J) // Zapatista Urbanism: Jose Perez de Lama
(S) // Reading: Identi*Park Abhittipura, The Free Cities: Armando Montilla
(Caracas/Toronto) file://Reading: Wonderwoman ready for Wonderland: Tatjana
Turanskji & Claudia Splitt // The OMNIworld condition: Jennifer Hurd,
Platform (USA) // Urban acting and beyond: Transparadiso, Barbara Holub &
Paul Rajakovics (A) // Waste/Wasted/Wasteful spaces: Wiard Sterk & Jereon
van Westen (GB/NL) // Mobile Porch: Saffer/Lang/Boehm (Bln/London) //
Atelier le Balto; temporary gardens - mod. Xavier Laboulbenne //
Performance: Deterritorial Loops- Sven Mann, Tom Kubli (Köln)

NIGHTSPACE INSTALLATIONS:
Atelier le Balto, "La Pièce d'eau" // BTII // City of Laura Mars // Useless
Acts in urban scenes, Hannes Schmidt // AsciiVision: visomat inc. // Public
Offices insight/outside, Eggproductions // instant_architecture; Datenflug
// Unheard Berlin, Jason Kahn // Raumkonzeption café Moskau: Hoyer&Schindele
Architekten, in coop. with Urban Drift.

Curator/Initiator: Francesca Ferguson // Patroness: Kristin Feireiss

Details: http://www.urbandrift.org