Belgrade.SCAPES:LAB / I Think BG
Thursday, Apr 2, 20159:49 PM — Tuesday, Apr 7, 20159:50 PMEDT
| CZKD, Birčaninova 21 Belgrade, Serbia
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Ten workshops, follow-up discussions and conference will take place within the Belgrade.SCAPES:LAB / I Think BG educational platform. All venues at CZKD, Belgrade / 02 - 07 April 2015. - NUMBER of participants is limited to 100 + registration deadline is March 23 2015. All details and application form here: ithinkbg.blogspot.com follow for updates - facebook.com/scapeslab - Today, Belgrade is in danger of urbanalization. This process can be witnessed not only in radical spatial homogenisation but also within the uncritical importation of mind-numbingly simplistic global trends. New models are being promoted through a few hyper-realistic images and their essence could be resumed in only a paragraph. Of course, we will not transcribe it here. Big discrepancy is evident - between desires, hopes and needs of Belgrade' citizens on one side and proposals, qualities and political standpoints on the other. Promulgated ideas are fundamentally changing even official legislative in the dramatic processes, characterized with ignorance. Belgrade.SCAPES:LAB, established in April 2014, was initiated by complete absence of critique and/or debate within professional, academic and other official milieus, regarding politically promulgated plan for “Belgrade Waterfront” project. Supranational research group of architects, urbanists, activists, young professionals, students, academics with background in architecture & urban planning, urban studies and related disciplines were teamed up for a chain of events “Belgrade.SCAPES:LAB / BiG Projects” (read more here). The goal was to establish a new, independent platform for analysis, understanding and creation of critical outputs on what a BiG project for Belgrade really is - who it is aimed at and how it is being implemented. Finally, instead of dealing with (someone´s) big plans, our intention was to understand and discover possible ways to raise awareness on the (big) needs within the transitional society (society of expectancy). By defying dominant discourses and inefficient pedagogical doctrines, we have established a new channel for knowledge-transfer and critical thinking. Within the 5-days agenda, we have built a way-finding contextualization of a series of (im)posed questions; re-claimed a city as a phenomenon, conceived it as (someone's) object of desire or as an (in)articulate forest of specific interests. Furthermore, through thematic workshops, we have built an argumentation about a series of juxtaposed political, economic, societal and other more or less transparent interests. Results of a group of over 90 participants and about 20 moderators and guest lecturers are published in an e - book - here: http://issuu.com/centar.arhitekture/docs/belgrade_scapes_lab_big_projects . Many outputs revealed that although Belgrade faces loads of challenges, it has an equal share of great possibilities. This is why we really are here, enjoying the process. Through this year´s “Belgrade.SCAPES:LAB / I Think BG” chain of events, we will introduce innovative and thematically determined comparative analysis, guest lecturing and review the position and importance of “Thinking Belgrade” through the proposed set of workshops. We invite you to join our supranational team of younger professionals, students, researchers, academics, activists and other actors from Novi Sad, Belgrade, Zurich, Paris, Chicago, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Skopje, Niš, Podgorica, Sarajevo and Banja Luka that will try to build relevant argumentation on what it takes to “Think BG” here and now. We will generate relevant argumentation and our results are aimed at everyone. All events will take place in the Center for Cultural Decontamination – CZKD, Pavilion Veljković and the agenda includes: A) Ten WORKSHOPS: W1 - Social Context Mapping Katusha Sol & Anna Dekker / placemakers.nl W2 - New Metropolitan Mainstream Iva Čukić / Ministry of Space Collective W3 - Confusing City Andrija Stojanović & Virdžinija Đeković / Tačka Komunikacije W4 - Le Jardin de Belgrade Nicolas Ziesel / koz.fr, Sabina Kerić & Katarina Milenković /Baštalište W5 - Scales 2.0: Expropriation Dragan Marinčić & Goran Govedarica W6 - Project Waterfront Milena Ivković / blok74.org W7 - Maps Lost (For Good) Albert Takashi Richters / PostOffice, Rotterdam & Yasemin Sengil / Hoekpand, Rotterdam W8 - Reanimate Architecture Ljubica Slavković & Luka Tilinger / Belgrade W9 - Urban Tools for Reactivating Belgrade Haris Piplas / Urban-Think Tank, ETH Zurich W10 - S XL B) CONFERENCE “Thinking Cities” _Mitesh Dixit / Founder at DOMAIN + Editor at Chair of Complex Projects TU Delft, Rotterdam, The Netherlands _Eva de Klerk / Founder at NDSM Art City, Amsterdam, The Netherlands _Radivoje Dinulović / Professor of Architectural Design, Scene Design and Ephemeral Architecture at the Faculty of Technical Sciences; Chair in Art Applied to Architecture, Technique & Design, Novi Sad, Serbia _Andrew Balster / Founder at Chicago Complex and Executive Director at Archeworks, Chicago, USA _Edwin Gardner / Office for Romantic Politics - Monnik, Amsterdam C) PANEL DISCUSSIONS, preceded with introductory presentations and divided into two thematic blocks __I Think BG feat. _Ljubica Slavković / Architect and Critic / Ne da(vi)mo Beograd! _Ana Džokic and Marc Neelen / STEALTH.unltd & Who Builds The City? _Radomir Lazović / Founder at Street Gallery, Belgrade _Nicolas Ziesel / Founder at Koz architects, Paris, France __I Am My City _Albert Takashi Richters / Co Founder at PostOffice, Rotterdam _Katusha Sol / Founder at Placemakers.nl, Amsterdam _Dobrica Veselinović / Cofounding Member at Ministry of Space Collective, Belgrade _Milena Ivković / Founder at Blok74 | built environment | urban gaming D) PRESENTATIONS of results of each workshop will be accompanied by discussions with different stakeholders, familiarised with a variety of issues in the development of Belgrade. The panels will also include other experts and associates, in order to accomplish more objective interpretation and interdisciplinary articulation of the results. The outcome will be available in an e-publication and on a web portal, for further evaluations. - SCAPES:LAB is co-initiated by IDnet & Center of Architecture from Novi Sad, Serbia with the support and participation of students & young professionals with background in architecture and urban planning, coming from Novi Sad, Niš and Belgrade / Serbia, Podgorica / Montenegro, Skopje / Macedonia and Sarajevo, Banja Luka / Bosnia and Herzegovina*. Activities are organized with(in) the autonomously built network of collaborators across Europe.
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