[Nettime-bold] Symposium TransUrbanism: cities entering atmospheric phase

[joke brouwer <jb@v2.nl>]

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@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 Bart Lootsma and 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 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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