[spectre] City of Collision Book Launch and Panel

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THE ACADEMY OF ARTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS BERLIN AND THE  
ALLIANZ CULTURAL FOUNDATION INVITE YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF

CITY OF COLLISION

Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism

Edited by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets
Birkhäuser Publisher for Architecture

6pm – 9pm
21st of August 2006
Academy of Arts
Pariser Platz 4
Berlin
(Entrance free)


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BOOK PRESENTATION: 6.00pm

Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets: Almost eight decades of violent  
urban conflict have transformed Jerusalem into an extreme spatial  
configuration. From a Western perspective, Jerusalem is often  
regarded as unique: a place where colonial and terrorist violence  
blur distinctions between the military and the civilian. But as  
cities worldwide are increasingly subject to dramatic new security  
policies and preventative measures against real or imagined threats  
Jerusalem, as a laboratory of conflict urbanism is in fact closer  
than we think. CITY OF COLLISION presents a vivid picture of a city  
in a permanent state of destruction and reinvention, hostage to  
political planning, collective fear and physical and mental walls but  
also strategies of resilience, individual exchange and transgression.  
Thirty new essays by leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international  
architects, artists, sociologists and political commentators open up  
different perspectives on the complex and ambivalent urban reality of  
contemporary Jerusalem. CITY OF COLLISION also features specially  
commissioned photographs by Bas Princen and Polly Braden and is  
illustrated with over forty new detailed thematic maps. Philipp  
Misselwitz is an architect and writer based in Berlin currently  
running an UN research project on Refugee Camp Development. Tim  
Rieniets is an architect and teaches at the ETH in Zurich (for more  
information about the book see attachment).


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LECTURES: 6.30 – 7.30pm

Sari Hanafi (Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut)
Peter Marcuse (Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, New  
York)
Eyal Weizman (Architect and writer, Goldsmith College, London)


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PANEL DISCUSSION: 7.30 – 9.00pm

Victims, Weapons or Mediators? Recent transformations in the  
relationship between conflict and cities

A panel discussion will explore the condition of contemporary cities  
in a world where distinctions between the military and the civilian,  
between real and constructed threats, between security measures and  
socio-economic or ethnic segregation are increasingly blurred.  
Considering North-American, European and Middle Eastern Cities, the  
panel will discuss how cities increasingly struggle to maintain urban  
settings for the mediation of difference and diversity. Can the  
extreme spatial segregation of Jerusalem be considered as a prototype  
for a future urban condition? Can the city that produced such radical  
conflict urbanism also serve as a laboratory for practices that  
undermine, erode and transgress this condition? Participants of the  
panel include Sari Hanafi, Peter Marcuse, Eyal Weizman, Peter  
Zlonicky (Professor for Urban Planning, Munich). The panel will be  
moderated by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets (editors of CITY OF  
COLLISION).


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The publication was made possible by Allianz Cultural Foundation,  
Robert Bosch Stiftung, Goethe Institute, Bundeszentrale für  
politische Bildung BpB, Mondriaan Stiching, Arthur Goldreich Trust,  
University of the Arts Berlin and the ETH Swiss Federal Institute of  
Technology Zurich.

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Presentations and discussions will be held in English.


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For further info contact:
Philipp Misselwitz
misselwitz at studio-uc.net
+49 177 4107168




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