Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces by Socrates Stratis

Book Launch

12/07/2016, 6:30 pm

AA Bookshop
32 Bedford Square
WC1B 3ES

Can collective urban practices contribute to peace processes in divided cities? How can they be used in a targeted manner as part of urban policy, to challenge dominant divisive narratives and offer alternatives to segregating urban reconstruction approaches? The book is dedicated to this role of architecture and urban planning as a political instrument for transforming ethnic conflicts into urban controversies towards the city’s commons. The town of Famagusta in Cyprus serves as an example, a town characterized by polarizing narratives and burdened by memories loaded with conflict. In order to transform the contested territories into areas of common interest and action, the “Hands-on Famagusta“ project team developed methods for urban transformation. The guide brings together practical examples of this project and international articles from relevant literature, thereby communicating strategies and tactics for the formation and spatial organization of the collective. It actively encourages deeply contested societies to invest in common urban imaginaries.

Socrates Stratis, Peter Bishop and John Palmesino
Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces
Series: Book Launch
Date: Wednesday 7 December 2016
Time: 18:30
Venue: AA Bookshop

Launch price: £25
RRP: £30

Drinks reception and presentation and discussion with Socrates Stratis, Peter Bishop and John Palmesino to celebrate the launch of the new publication Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces.

 
 

90 Years Bauhaus Building and Foundation Stone Ceremony Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Birthday weekend

12/03/2016 – 12/04/2016

Bauhaus Foundation Dessau
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau

A weekend with scenographic and performative elements as well as reflections on cultural history, through which the historical past is connected with contemporary perspectives.

90. years Bauhaus building
Saturday, 3. December 2016, 7–12 pm

Foundation stone ceremony Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Sunday, 4. December 2016, 10 am–3 pm

Information and Program

The Bauhaus Building Dessau is turning 90. At the birthday weekend a new foundation is being laid for the Bauhaus Museum Dessau. 

 
 

URBAN AFRICA!

ISU Talks #04

11/17/2016, 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Architekturpavillon TU Braunschweig
Pockelsstraße 4
38106 Braunschweig

The public event at the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU), TU Braunschweig, will be dedicated to the exploration of the potentials and challenges of the urbanization processes in cities of Africa. We understand URBAN AFRICA! as a commitment to a better city for all. So what can be done to stem this process? What is necessary to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nati- ons such as “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” in relation to the context of urbanization in Africa? And how could we meet the cultural, climatic and religious characteristics with respect to each of the countries?

The event is open to the public (registration requested). Take a look at the conference invitation here.

The fourth annual ISU Talks series is a public one-day conference and will be dedicated to the theme of “Urban Africa”.

 
 

Overlap: Life Tapestries

Exhibition

11/17/2016 – 12/18/2016

A.I.R. Gallery
155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States

The exhibition “Overlap: Life Tapestries” curated by Vida Sabbaghi includes photos, fabric collage, clothing, video, paintings, and drawings. The artists – Alice Hope, Sascha Mallon, Michela Martello, Shari Weschler Rubeck, Bastienne Schmidt, Linda Stein, Martha Wilson, and Kumi Yamashita – imaginatively recreate the tapestry of their lives to diversify the narrative surrounding women and the art they produce, while mapping relationships between personal and public life. Women must continually tell their stories about the ways gender, race, and class discrimination overlap and intersect, and how this defines their lives.

www.airgallery.org/exhibitions

Bastienne Schmidt will be featured in the exhibition “Overlap: Life Tapestries“ curated by Vida Sabbaghi. 
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 17th, 6–8pm
Post Reception Conversation: Thursday, November 17th, 8–9pm
DUMBO Art Walk: Thursday, December 1st, 6–8pm

 
 

Topotek 1: Creative Infidelities

Exhibition

11/16/2016 – 12/08/2016

Architekturgalerie München e.V.
Türkenstrasse 30
80333 Munich

In 2016 Topotek1 celebrates it’s 20th anniversary. On this occasion the monography Creative Infidelities. On Landscape Architecture of Topotek 1 was published by jovis Verlag accompanied by an exhibition held in the office of Topotek 1 in Berlin. Starting in November, this exhibition will be shown in the Architekturgalerie in Munich with selected works by Topotek 1 and its long-standing collaboration partners. The book Creative Infidelities: On the Landscape Architecture of Topotek 1 edited by Barbara Steiner presents the approaches and methods of Topotek 1 in detail featuring ten important works from the office. Collaborators from the fields of architecture, art and design, private and public clients specialist planners and project managers in addition all consider the joint projects from different perspectives.

The Architekturgalerie München shows selected works of Topotek 1 and its long-standing collaboration partners. 

 
 

On Appropriation and Translation—Martin Rein-Cano, Barbara Steiner, Jun Yang

Book Presentation

10/08/2016, 6:00 pm

Art Sonje Location
87 Yulgok-ro
3-gil Jongno-gu
Seoul 03062
Korea

The focus of the presentation at The Parallax Hanok (Art Sonje Center) is on processes of appropriation and translation. These have a special significance against the background of various ideals and quality concepts related to the idea of the original and the copy.

A presentation on the occasion of the book release Creative Infidelities: On the Landscape Architecture of Topotek 1with Martin Rein-Cano (Topotek1), Barbara Steiner (editor) and Jun Yang (artist, The Parallax Hanok)

 
 

International Biennial of Landscape Architecture

Book launch

09/28/2016, 5:30 pm

COAC
Sala de Actes
Placa Nova 5
Barcelona

The International Biennial of Landscape Architecture is an international event, that takes place every two years in Barcelona, gathering architects, professionals, students and professors from all over the world.
On this occasion Martin Rein-Cano from Topotek1 will present the new publication “Creative Infidelities–On the Landscape Architecture of Topotek 1".

Book launch of “Creative Infidelities – On the Landscape Architecture of Topotek 1" at the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture

 
 

TURKOLOGENTAG 2016

Second European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies

09/14/2016 – 09/17/2016

Chair for Turkology at the Asia-Africa-Institute of the University of Hamburg
University of Hamburg
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (East)
20146 Hamburg

With more than 90 panels within 12 sections the Turkologentag 2016 certainly is the largest and most diversified conference of its kind.
In addition we will offer an exciting supporting program including a book fair, an exhibition, film presentations and panel discussions.

If you are interested to attend the Turkologentag 2016 as listener you may check our registration page:
turkologentag2016.org/registration

Led by the GTOT e.V as well as the Chair for Turkology at the Asia-Africa-Institute of the University of Hamburg

 
 

Topotek 1 Exhibition/Office

Exhibition

09/09/2016 – 10/07/2016

TOPOTEK 1
Sophienstrasse 18
10178 Berlin

The exhibition will showcase work from notable architects, artists and designers, Topotek 1 worked with over the years.

Plus presentation of the corresponding monograph release „Creative Infidelities – On the Landscape Architecture of Topotek 1", in celebration of 20 years in the field.

Exhibition and book presentation

 
 

Bastienne Schmidt - Typology of Women

Exhibition

07/21/2016 – 08/19/2016

Ricco/Maresca
529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor,
New York, New York 10011
(located in the 529 Arts Building, in between 10th and 11th ave)

Exhibition and book launch on the occasion of award-winning multi media artist and photographer Bastienne Schmidt’s latest publication “Typology of Women”.

The book comprises a series of hand-painted silhouette cutouts depicting female imagery across cultures and throughout history. Schmidt deliberately uses the term and concept of “typology”—the systematic classification of things according to shared characteristics—as a formal means to explore the symbolic and sociological dimensions of the “type,” thereby offering sharp insights into the complex processes by which female identity is constructed. Schmidt’s silhouettes (rendered in luminous orange as an ironic parallel to a reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”) portray nuances while unfixing received ideas.

www.riccomaresca.com

Opening reception:
July 21, 6 - 8 pm