[Nettime-bold] 5th GRAZ BIENNIAL ON MEDIA AND ARCHITECTURE - cityscapes conference

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Cityscapes - A Conference as Process
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GET INVOLVED:    www.artimage.at/cityscapes

to what is at stake within contemporary urban debate
and become a respondent of 5th graz biennial on media and architecture.

The on-line debate will be held during October and culminates in the
summit in Graz from November 8th to 11th. Looking forward to interesting discussions
and meet you in Graz.

Join the 3 forums of "Cityscapes - Imagineering the Urban Condition" and
participate in the plurilogues between internationally renowned experts of various fields.
The topics you'll find in the 3 forums:

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Forum 1: Structural Changes and New Realities
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Andreas Ruby, architecture critic, Cologne, Hrvoje Njiric, architect, Zagreb,
Klaus Ronneberger, urban critic, Frankfurt, Patrick Schuhmacher, architect & philosopher,
Zaha Hadid Architects, London, Lars Lerup, Dean Rice School of Architecture,
I. Schaber, artist / J. Stollmann, architect, Berlin, Nigel Thrift, geographer, University
of Bristol, John Urry, Sociologist, Lancaster University

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Forum 2: Perspectives of Urban Design
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Christian Kühn, architect and architecture theorist, TU Vienna,
Christopher Charles Benninger, architect and urban planner, Pune,
Lydia Buchmüller, regional planner, Basel, CRIMSON, architectural historians,
Rotterdam, Jorge Mario Jáuregui, architect and urban planner, Rio de Janeiro,
Bernd Knaller-Vlay, CON:, architectural theorist, Vienna,
Wolf D. Prix, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, architect and urban planner Vienna

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Forum 3: Imaginary Forces + Spatial Practices
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Kai Vöckler, artist and theorist, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, John Fiske, cultural scholar
and communication theorist, Madison, Wisc., Susanne Hauser, cultural scientist,
Humbold Universität, Berlin, Norman M. Klein, art theorist, California Institute
of the Arts, L.A., Walter Prigge, sociologist and urbanist, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation,
Georg Schöllhammer, SpringerIn, Vienna, Brett Steele, architect and architecture theorist,
AA, London, Edward W. Soja, geographer and urbanist, University of California, L.A.
 

In order to implement this process of discussion on the Net, the Belgian architect team Lab[au]
specially designed for our virtual biennial plattform the Cityscapes Interface.

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5th graz biennial on media and architecture November 7-11, 2001
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