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> from: V2_Organisation
>
> Symposium TransUrbanism: cities enter atmospheric phase
> As a sequel to ‘The Art of the Accident‘ (1998) and ‘Machine Times’ (2000)
> V2_Organisation organizes on 29 and 30 November a symposium entitled
> ‘TransUrbanism’.
>
> Data: Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November 2001
> Location: NAI Netherlands Architecture Institute, Museumpark 25,
> Rotterdam, The Netherlands
> Symposium runs: 10:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 10:00 a.m.)
> Admission: fl. 100, - (2 days), students fl. 65, -
> More information and reservations: Marije Stijkel, e-mail marije at v2.nl or
> by phone +31(10) 206-7272.
> Lectures by: Rem Koolhaas (NL), Knowbotic Research (D/A), Scott Lash (GB),
> Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MEX/CDN), Edward Soja (USA), Lars Spuybroek (NL),
> Roemer van Toorn (NL) and Mark Wigley (USA).
> The symposium will be moderated by Andreas Ruby (D).
>
> ‘TransUrbanism’ describes how our cities enter the new 'atmospheric phase'.
> The city and her boarders blur. It is no longer a material object of which
> one can easily say where it precisely starts or ends. The urban experience
> is continued in other media and is echoed by other cities. Some sort of
> urban continuity occurs that only condenses and precipitates here or there
> in a ‘city’. Sometimes quite materially, sometimes in a very narrative way,
> sometimes statistic, sometimes economically, sometimes very visually, but
> mostly all these together. Anyhow the city's continuity is in the first
> place temporal and not spatial. Spatial continuity as provided by
> architecture and urban planning seems to be less important than creating a
> coherent stream of experience in the fusion of movement, brands, faces,
> conversations and media. It is the living individual, not the urban
> planning, that synthesizes all of these media streams.
>
> The city's substance is hardly material/architectural anymore. Public
> squares, market places, the layout of streets seem no longer relevant to
> how the city is experienced. Also, cities in general no longer seem to be
> the subject of individual experience. The urban experience is a continuous
> interaction between the city itself, the Internet, television and
> magazines. Consumer behavior and lifestyles are all temporary products of
> all of these different media concurrently and especially of how they
> interact. A lifestyle is the creation of an uninterrupted atmosphere in
> which urban elements such as certain shops and cafés are closely linked to
> a certain brand of shoes, cars, clothing and a certain vernacular.
> Rather than just attempting to analyze this, ‘TransUrbanism’ aims at a
> conscious practice: how can writers, artists and urban developers define
> new methods for inventing our future cities?
> This symposium brings together thinkers and doers, theorists and
> practitioners, analysts and catalysts. Not as passive contrasts but as
> active, mutually influencing ways of putting theory into practice and of
> theorizing about what is being practiced.
>
> More information can also be found on: www.v2.nl/2001
> Production: a project of Las Palmas International Center for Image Culture
> and Media Technology, concept and production by V2_Organisatie.
> Co-financed by: Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur
> Sponsors: Netherlands Architecture Institute, Vereniging Leliman
> Special thanks to: Rotterdam 2001, Cultural Capital of Europe
>
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