DEMO:POLIS. The Right to Public Space
Friday, Mar 11, 20167 PM — Sunday, May 29, 20167 PMCEST
| Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10
Berlin, DERelated
March 12 - May 29, 2016 Exhibition Opening: Friday, March 11, 2016, 7 pm, free admission Symposium: Saturday, March 12, 2016, 11 am - 6 pm The public space has become a political arena; its use and design is a matter of negotiation for the future. DEMO:POLIS introduces the scope and significance of public space for contemporary society. The era of old certainties is past. The public continues to make new demands on the basic principles of democracy and on the design of public spaces in which these are negotiated. Exemplary works, films, models, designs, concepts by artists and architects as well as participatory models, stress the potentials of public spaces for our civil society. Works by the following artists, architects and landscape architects, among others, will be shown: Nuno Cera, Boris Charmatz, Hans Haacke, Birgit Hein, Reinhild Hoffmann, Elfi Mikesch, Michael Najjar, Michael Ruetz, Stih & Schnock, Wermke / Leinkauf, as well as designs and buildings by the architects Barkow Leibinger, Foster + Partners, Seán Harrington, Kleihues + Kleihues, Lacaton & Vassal, Andrés Mignucci, Rozana Montiel, Sadar + Vuga, Michael van Valkenburgh, Zuloark et al. Public and free admission to discussion events, interviews and computer simulations will provide exhibition visitors with opportunities to delve deeper into the designs of public space. In consequence, the exhibition DEMO:POLIS intends to turn an interested audience into participants. Numerous special events will take place during the course of the exhibition: on March 12, 2016, over the weekend that the show opens, several of the artists and architects, whose works are on display, will provide insights into their intentions and working methods; a two-day conference in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut is planned at the conclusion of the exhibition. Every Tuesday from 6 pm – 10 pm, there are talks and special events in the DEMO:POLIS - Universal Declaration of Urban Rights & Urban Parliament, designed by the Spanish architecture collective Zuloark and co-curated in Berlin together with Julia Förster. Admission to the special events and the exhibition is free on Tuesday nights. With their visionary contributions, which were developed during a workshop week with international architects and city planners at the Akademie der Künste in October 2015, students of the three Berlin universities, as well as Potsdam University, are designing alternatives for neuralgic public spaces. The fellows of the Junge Akademie will present critical works, installations and compositions in the exhibition; in addition, they will also be hosting two program nights. The educational program KUNSTWELTEN (ART WORLDS) will offer guided tours and workshops for school groups. A catalogue, published in separate German and English editions, will accompany the exhibition. The exhibition is curated by Wilfried Wang, Berlin, member of the Akademie der Künste and O’Neil Ford Professor, University of Texas at Austin; Barbara Hoidn, Berlin, is the editor of the catalogue. Cooperation Partners: O'Neil Ford Centennial Professorship in Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, USA; Institute of 4D Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, FHNW; Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zürich; Northumbria University; Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg; Technische Universität Berlin; Universität der Künste Berlin; Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee; University of Applied Arts, Potsdam; Goethe-Institut, AC/E Madrid. With the kind support of The Society of Friends of the Academy of Arts. http://www.adk.de/
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