The World Urban Youth Forum is undergoing a transformation, and it will now be called the World Urban Youth Assembly. This change is expected to help the youth to be better placed to meet the needs of an ever changing urban world.
This development follows the successful World Urban Youth Forums held in Vancouver Canada in 2006 and in Nanjing, China in 2008, where the forum bagged a number of achievements, including the adoption by the UN-HABITAT Governing Council of decisions important to the youth, such as resolution 21/6 which facilitated the establishment of a special fund for Urban Youth-Led Development and resolution 22/4, which provided for the Youth Forum to be an integral part of the World Urban Forum.
Every year, the Festival of Lights welcomes the “Rencontres de la Lumière” organised in collaboration with the LUCI Association (Lighting Urban Community International). These meetings provide a forum for discussions on the theme of urban lighting and the associated social and environmental issues. The 2009 edition will focus on light planning developments in various countries over the past 20 years and will question the social and economic sustainability of urban lighting.
9.00 a.m – 12.45 p.m.: From public image to public space: developments in lighting masterplans over the past 20 years
Since the 1980s, urban lighting and masterplanning have been the focus of attention for urban communities. Urban lighting has changed significantly, from an aesthetic vision to a vision more linked to city rythms, the habits of inhabitants, public space and social issues. The City of Lyon’s celebrations for the 20th anniversary of Lyon’s lighting masterplan is a fitting occasion to reflect on its positive and negative aspects and to compare it to the masterplans of other cities in Europe and beyond, taking into consideration different cultural contexts and methodologies.
Speakers:
- Antoine Bouchet, Public Lighting Department, City of Lyon, and Michel Bouit, former Director of Public Lighting, City of Lyon
- France- Rong Haolei, Beijing Institute of Urban Planning and Design – China
- Jens Jacob Bierring, Architect, Urban Design Department, City of Copenhagen – Denmark
- Margherita Suss, GMS Studio associato, Milan – Italy
Moderator: Alexandre Colombani, Director of LUCI Association
2.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.: Social and economic sustainability of lighting
For several years, technical and economic aspects of sustainability have greatly influenced lighting practices and policies, while environmental, social and cultural factors were generally dealt with in the context of thematic approaches. Taking these factors into account in this way does not offer a sufficiently global approach and many issues are left unexplored. The ‘Rencontres de la Lumière’ do not claim to exhaustively examine sustainability issues but will, through the presentation of diverse case studies, demonstrate the value of taking the environmental, social and cultural dimensions of lighting into consideration.
Speakers:
- Horacio Valencia, Urban Lighting Architect, City of Medellin – Colombia
- Tim Edensor and Steve Millington, Senior Lecturers in Human Geography, University of Manchester – England
- Michael Moradiellos [ecosistema urbano], and Juan José Garcia, Light Engineer, Madrid – Spain
- Chanyaporn Chuntamara, Professor at the School of Architecture and Design, Thonburi, Bangkok – Thailand
Moderator: Jean-Michel Deleuil, Lecturer HDR, EDU-EVS, INSA of Lyon – France
[ecosistema urbano] will be lecturing at Malmö (Sweden) next thursday 23rd.
The event will take place at Malmö University (Malmö Högskola in Swedish), Department of Urban Studies (Urbana Studier) in Ubåtshallen, Östra Varvsgatan 9A.
The Festival is focused on “the Hell and Paradise” of life in contemporary cities. Urbania, the Bologna urbanism festival, proposes to gather urbanists, landscape architects, artists and politicians from Italy and abroad. Lectures, talks and meetings held for three days in order to discuss about urban economy, town life and urban writing. Here, some of the preeminent international figures of architecture, economics, public administration, art and literature aim to exchange views on several themes.
[ecosistema urbano] will be in Istambul next thursday october 16th 11:30 due to a series of lectures organized for the international event ARKIPARC 08.
This day we will be happy to share auditorium with Rem Koolhas.
more info: www.arkiparc.com.
Enormous and reasoned assembling of umbrellas, wood, cables and nets. Composite structure supporting the machine, the installation, the shelter. Compartment that can be reconfigured and can host a user/person. Without any fixation, structurally autonomous, therefore able to move in the space of the yard according to the visitors’/users’ (inside or outside the compartment) desires and interactions. From the inside, the user can make the composition of the surface vary, defining its degree of opacity and privacy.
[ecosistema urbano] has been invited to the Biennale. We are participating with two installations entitled “TEN THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE CITY”.
The first one is at the Italian Pavilion, it consists of a mural in which we show these 10 principles associated to different projects and actions of [ecosistema urbano]. We have used anaglyph techniques to allow the public to expirience the installation in different ways.
The second one is an audio installation. In it we mix sounds from the city with our own voices, discusing these ten concepts. It makes part of the Novissimo events.
Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban planning. Till now, however, there has been no exhibition dealing explicitly with megastructuralists’ vision.
TIMELINE: Friday August 8th 2008 through Friday August 22nd 2008
INTRODUCTION: Professional and student architects, urbanists, designers, artists [and related fields], are invited to Barcelona in August 2008 to engage in a collective investigation of the city through the use of advanced digital tools and computer numerically controlled fabrication techniques. The workshop will facilitate collaboration of individuals from a broad applicant base in order to generate new forms of interventions that will be directly deployed and documented within the urban domain of Barcelona.
the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa and the biennial committee are organizing the 20 biennal d’eivissa, which shall open in autumn 2008 in the museu d’art contemporani d’eivissa and which shall governed by the following rules:
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia launches the digital fabrication summer workshop. The aim is to produce the Venice Biennale installation that Guallart Architects (www.guallart.com), IaaC (www.iaac.net) and the Bcn Fab Lab (www.fablab.es), with the collaboration of Bestiario, will present during the Venice Biennale, based on digital fabrication procedures.
June 30 – July 3, 2008 Architektonika_Oval_Lingotto_Turin
International Exhibition of Products, Projects and Processes for Architecture, Construction and Design plug_in – laboratorio di architettura e arti multimediali
plug_in is a cultural association founded in 2003. It operates as an experimental workshop used by members Emanuele Piccardo, Luisa Siotto and Alessandro Lanzetta to promote the propagation of architecture and contemporary visual arts by inviting the community to actively participate in events and workshops organised in various locations.
fernando casás launches the first of the series of leds which have been set by francis naranjo in a display unit outside expocoruña trade centre. his work _despois de m/arte_, is a contribution to the collective works titled _re:move final release_
ecosistema urbano and osa(office for subversive architecture) will guide a workshop in the School of architecture of the Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany) between 5-8th of June 2008. This experimental workshop under the name Raumpiloten will join professionals, students and citizens from Weimar. We have accommodation for 6 people interested in coming with us to the event. Send us a small portfolio with a tiny text expressing your interest in coming (max. 3MB to: info@ecosistemaurbano.com).
we are glad to inform you that, as part of its European circulation, the S(E)OUL SCAPE. Towards a New Urbanity in Korea exhibition, curated by Francisco Sanin and devoted to the works of six protagonists of contemporary architecture in Korea -Chung Guyon, Joh Sung-yong, Kim Young-joon, Min Hyun-sik, Seung H-sang, Yi Jong-ho- arrived at the Berlage Institute in , where it will be open to the public until June 20th.
Think to a Plaid in the middle of a field, a sunny day and some musical Nerds with their laptops that generate sweet electronic melodies: not a sound from a generator, no stinky fuel but only the sound of the music and the smell of just cut grass.
Play on Plaid is also the occasion to record tracks produced with solar energy and make out of them records with out being totally slaves of oil.
The objective of the workshop is to analyze the physical challenges and problems of the housing area. Though the problems of the area consist of social, economic and physical aspects, this workshop will only focus on the physical aspects.
The intention of the workshop is not to develop solutions but to define the key problems regarding the physical environment: architecture, outdoor spaces and urban planning.
From August 1 through 16, 2008
Submissions Deadline: June 8
Led by: Zachary Lieberman (USA), Leslie García (Mexico) & Alejandro Tamayo (Colombia)
A maximum of 10 projects will be carried out in a workshop held at the Centro Multimedia (National Arts Centre) from 1 to 16 August 2008. At the end of the workshop, the projects will be exhibited at the Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico from 16 August to 14 September 2008.
Del 1 al 16 de agosto de 2008
Envío de proyectos: hasta el 8 de junio
Dirigido por: Zachary Lieberman (EEUU), Leslie García (México) y Alejandro Tamayo (Colombia)
Selección de un máximo de 10 proyectos para su desarrollo en un taller que se celebrará en México DF (Centro Multimedia – Centro Nacional de las Artes) entre los días 1 y 16 de agosto del 2008. Al concluir el taller dichos proyectos serán expuestos en el Centro Cultural de España en México entre el 16 de agosto y el 14 de septiembre del 2008.
Savignone (Genoa), Colonia at Renesso, 3 – 25 May 2008
Press conference: Monday, 28. April 2008, 12 am Palace of the Province (Ge)
Saturday, 3th May 2008
opening: 10 am
- presentation of UPC-ACMA International Master of Architecture of the Landscape [Barcelona/Milan], 11 am
- vernissage photographic exhibition: “Sguardi nel paesaggio. Un resoconto sulla fotografia italiana contemporanea”, 4 pm
- vernissage installations site specific, 6 pm
Landscape Lessons are a series of meetings, happenings, art exhibitions and temporary art installations that will be arranged at the Colonia at Renesso. The building is an example of the first Italian Rationalism, designed by the engineer Camillo Nardi Greco in 1933. It is located in the district of Savignone (Genoa) in the inland parts of Liguria. Since the XXth century it has been a well known resort.
Hoy sale Belinda de viaje hacia Hong Kong para participar en el primer encuentro de profesionales y expertos en sostenibilidad ICONUS 2008 en Asia. Este evento pretende promover el acercamiento entre expertos de diferentes disciplinas: gestores urbanos, planificadores, diseñadores, arquitectos, científicos e ingenieros. Van a tener la oportunidad de intercambiar sus experiencias frente a un público internacional.
La conferencia se dará el día 14 de enero en el auditorio del Kowloon Park en Tsim Sha Tsui de la Kowloon Península. Hong Kong.
Medialab-Prado issues a call to participate in the Second Inclusiva-net Meeting: Digital Networks and Physical Space, directed by Juan Martín Prada, that will take place from 3 to 14 March 2008.
The purpose of this open participation meeting is to explore the relationship between digital networks and physical space in the context of the increasingly widespread use of portable technology and Web applications in connection with the production and management of geographic information.
Through and open call, projects to be collaboratively developed during a production workshop and papers to be publicly presented will be selected.
Submission Deadline: 30th January 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 8th February 2008
More information and application guidelines at www.inclusiva-net.org
*Medialab-Prado *abre una convocatoria para participar en el *2º Encuentro Inclusiva-net: Redes digitales y espacio físico *dirigido por *Juan Martín Prada*, que se llevará a cabo *del 3 al 14 de marzo de 2008*.
El objetivo de este encuentro es abordar la relación entre redes digitales y espacio físico en el contexto de la generalización progresiva del uso de tecnologías portátiles y aplicaciones web relacionadas con la producción y gestión de información geográfica.
A través de una convocatoria abierta se seleccionarán *proyectos* para su desarrollo colaborativo durante un taller de producción, así como* trabajos teóricos* para su presentación pública durante el encuentro.
Fecha límite de recepción de comunicaciones y proyectos: *30 de enero* de 2008
Notificación de aceptación de comunicaciones y proyectos: *8 de febrero* de 2008
We have talked about basurama before. I, Ben, as well as being part of Ecosistema Urbano for nearly a year now, I spend, since 2001, much of my time and energy in organising basurama. In this occasion, we want to talk about the next workshop we are organising: Diseño de sobra 07.
A workshop for the design and creation of objects in real time. An initiative for researching the possibilities of working with industrial waste in the creation process. A collaboration with El Ultimo Grito (a design firm currently based in Berlin, run by Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo, lecturers of Goldsmith University and Royal College of Art in London). A collective experience in a unique setting in Madrid (Palacio de la Prensa, Callao). In continuance of Diseño de Sobra 06.
The workshop will be 3 days long (8-10 january), we will work morning and afternoon to develop together the ideas, design and production of movable devices capable of radically transforming urban conditions of those places where they are temporarily installed. No-identifiable bodies for interacting freely in an urban context.
If you are interested, send an email with your details (full name and telephone number) to inscripciones at basurama.org telling us why you can to take part in DdeS07, together with a representative image of your work. The workshop is free. There are 10 places available. Application deadline: 31st december. The list of selected candidates will be published on the 2nd january.
4th December 2007 to 5th January 2008
Medialab Prado – Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda 15, Madrid
Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 to 20:00h
Saturday: 10:30 to 14:30h and 17:00 to 21:00h
Sunday: 11:00 to 15:00h Medialab Prado is hosting an exhibition with the outcome of 10 projects developed during the workshop Visualizar, a creative space that brought together, for more than two weeks, international authors, collaborators, lecturers and outstanding figures of the field of data visualization.
The audience will have the opportunity of exploring the transformation process and current situation of the projects in an interactive and dynamic exhibition. Human Flows (Miguel Cabanzo, Colombia): migration flows in the 20th Century; Mail Garden: Human Centered Data View (Kjen Wilkens, Alemania): personal data contained in digital communication applications; tweedPad (Elie Zananiri, Canadá): Twitter feeds, modifiable in appearance and meaning by the reader; Spamology (Irad Lee, Holanda): spam in an email account throughout 10 years; Barriblog (M Luz Congosto, Madrid): neighbour relationships between blogs; Cascade on Wheels (Steph Thirion, Barcelona): trafic in streets in Madrid and interaction with levels of acoustic pollution; Casastristes.org (Mar Canet, Reino Unido): number of empty houses in large cities and economical impact on mortgages, renting policies, etc.;foodcultura.org (Natalia Muñoz, Colombia): data base for works included in the virtual museum of culture and food; Memory Islands (Miguel Albadán, Colombia): connections between cave paintings and indigenous legends in South America; Metabolicvisualizer.org (Ricardo Carvalho, Hernani Dias, Miguel Cardoso; Portugal): representation of the bio-chemical reactions within a cell.
More information at http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar
