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> [kunst und technik] news and updates > _________________________________________________ > > > Hello to all of you! > For your information: > >> ++CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS++URBAN DRIFT++OCT 2002 >> >> symposium +++ nightscapes +++ urbaninterfaces >> >> open offices++visuals++urban_soundscapes+++ >> >> URBAN DRIFT is an agency and a network for the development of >> trans-cultural urban strategies. >> >> Over the past 3 years, URBAN DRIFT has formed part of the berlinbeta >> media festival, as a symposium which offers a platform to cutting-edge >> architects and designers for whom the city is a medium, and architecture >> a communicative tool for new urban strategies. >> >> ++The network represented by URBAN DRIFT++ >> Concentrating on urban voids, gaps and residual, or peripheral zones and >> public spaces, members of URBAN DRIFT act as tacticians for a >> contemporary urban praxis, developing a discourse within Berlin as one >> of the primary cities of flux. Our aim is to communicate architecture >> and urban design to a wider audience, to extend the boundaries of >> architectural discourse, and to maximise the potential of >> interdisciplinary practice. We speculate on the need to point the way to >> contemporary architectural practice and urban design as the steering and >> managing of processes; on the need to move from formalism to flux >> management. >> >> ++URBAN DRIFT 2002++ >> This year urban drift is a 5 day event with a rich mix of talks and >> presentations by day, screenings, thematically based visuals, lectures >> and sound-scapes by night, along with open offices, in which >> architecture and design studios engage with the urban drift themes and >> reveal innovative hybrid spaces and working methods. >> >> ++planned location++ >> The event is set to take place in the Umspannwerk, a 19th century power >> station in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which has recently been renovated as a >> location for large-scale cultural events. >> >> ++conference++ >> Mobile cultures and new urban strategies >> >> The two-day conference will examine the impact of mobile >> telecommunications systems and media on architecture and urban design >> strategies. We will involve artists, architects, designers, theorists >> and activists in mutual discourse. >> >> CONFERENCE THEMES >> >> ++ Technical Mobility: Interaction design; the design of flows++ >> an examination of the impact of interactive and embedded technologies on >> contemporary design processes in architecture and design in the urban >> sphere. >> ++ Mental Mobility: Network urbanism++ >> an exploration of new coalitions between architects, artists, designers >> and urban planners. How is the role of the architect and designer >> adapting to the demands of network practice, and �process management�, >> (( what do you think of �flux management?�)) and what tools are being >> employed to visualise increasingly complex, multi-layered urban >> processes? >> ++ Mobility vs. place: Re-humanising technology and �connective >> urbanism�++ >> How do architects and designers recreate a sense of place and counteract >> the speed of the media-driven cityscape? On urban voids, the reanimation >> of residual urban spaces, and on re-engaging the public in urban design >> processes. >> ++ Tactical mobility: effective strategies for urban action++ >> �architecture is threat management� � Mark Wigley >> a discussion amongst architects and media tacticians with relation to >> urban space. On �flexible response�, on hacking and re-politicising >> public spaces, on nomadic urban strategies / intervening in and changing >> perceptions of the cityscape. >> >> ++call for papers++ >> We welcome abstracts and short papers for inclusion in the conference >> and accompanying presentations. >> >> Please send abstracts of about 300 words � to: [email protected] >> +++when+++ initial proposals should reach us by April 20th 2002. >> >> >> ++URBAN DRIFT_THE NIGHT SPACE++ >> The space will provide a temporary, transformational and flexible >> situation for artists, architects and designers to present their >> proposals and investigations within a more informal setting. >> >> Communicating an �emotional urbanism� and drawing from the situationist >> d�rive, Urban Drift�s night space will encompass�talks, readings, slide >> projections, screenings and urban soundscapes. >> >> +++themes+++urban futures � real and virtual, shopping malls and garage >> settlements, the alchemy of urban narrative, nomadism and mobile >> technologies that foster a restless, edgy urban perspective, >> psychogeographies, scanning/mapping the city, displacement, and >> peripheral urban zones, in short, the �inexhaustible inventory of the >> streets� (Benjamin) >> >> ++CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS++ >> We welcome the following from urbanists ++ video works for >> screening@umspannwerk, slide shows, proposals for readings, >> performances, sound-pieces++ >> ++ posters++ will form a significant part of the night-space� we welcome >> polemic, statements and images dealing with the above mentioned themes. >> >> ++ Formats++ >> slides 35mm or larger / vhs / svhs / mini-dv / quicktime files / >> cd-rom / jpeg files / >> >> Initial proposals should reach us by e-mail by April 20th 2002 >> Please mail proposals for participation to: [email protected] >> >> Or - post viewing copies of material/slides/related information to >> >> Attn: Francesca Ferguson >> C/o Datenflug >> Urban Drift Project Space >> Zehdenickerstr 21 >> 10119 Berlin > > > > > _________________________________________________ > [kunst und technik] e.V. leipziger strasse 50 > d-10117 berlin [email protected] http://www.kut-berlin.de > _________________________________________________ > You are receiving this email because you chose > to subscribe to the [kunst und technik] mailing > list. 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