05/12/2018
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DIAGNOSE 1968/2018
Critical Perspectives on the Legacy of Reform and Revolt in Architecture, Planning and Urbanism
International Symposium
13-15 December 2018
https://diagnose1968.com
https://mailchi.mp/3cc134d44f8c/diagnose-19682018
https://www.facebook.com/events/1202590713240033/
The year 1968 has marked a turning point for an array of different social, cultural and political movements and actions, which have had a lasting effect on the way we live together. In architecture and planning – contexts that are otherwise not known for wide-ranging internal disputes – these contestations have led to a process of introspection, fundamental questioning and radical experimentation, some traces of which remain present until today.
The 1968 ‘Diagnose’ exhibition at TU Berlin is representative for a range of reform initiatives in architecture faculties and planning approaches across European cities at the time. More and more, especially urban conflicts became an important issue in architecture and planning discourses: from housing shortages in Prague, the car-friendly remodelling of London, to the mass demolitions and ensuing monotony of standardised housing in Belgrade and Paris. The politics of urban development and increasingly also the implicit role of architects and planners were questioned. New and more critical practices were developed.
This international symposium aims to revisit reforms and revolts of 1968 and their impact on architecture, planning and urbanism aiming to critically examine their continuous influence up until today. Thus, 50 years after, the symposium aims to revisit and reflect on the development of urban practices in Europe since 1968, when Berlin’s planning and building development was denounced as a 'public assassination of a city'. Besides a retrospect, the symposium follows three main topics, which were central for the formulated critique in 1968 and still urgently need to be addressed in 2018: Housing, Land, and Critical Practice.
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Thursday - December 13, 2018
16.00 – 16.30
Introduction and Welcome
Nina Gribat & Philipp Misselwitz
16.30 – 17.30
Wohnen Stadt Markt – A film lecture
with Florian Wüst
17.45 – 19.30
Session 1 – 1968 in Retrospect: Architecture and Urbanism in Times of Revolts
with contributions by Ljubica Slavković (Belgrade), Tobias Zervosen (Munich), Eléonore Marantz (Paris) and Matthias Heyden (Berlin); Discussants: Christian Haid & Hannes Langguth
19.30 – 20.00
Opening Diagnose 2018 Exhibition
& Presentations by Current Student Initiatives
20.00 – 22.00
Tavolata foresta – Joint Dinner Performance
with La Foresta – Academia di Comunità, Rovereto, Italy
Friday - December 14, 2018
9.00 – 10.45
Session 2 – Housing
with contributions by Alexander Vasudevan (Oxford), Jelica Jovanovic (Belgrade) and Mara Ferreri (Barcelona/Malmö); Discussant: Andrej Holm
11.00 – 12.45
Session 3 – Land
with contributions by Sabine Horlitz (Berlin), Laura Calbet Elias (Berlin), Stavros Stavrides (Athens); Discussant: Nina Gribat
14.00 – 15.45
Session 4 – Critical Practice
with contributions by Isabelle Doucet (Gothenburg), Tatjana Schneider (Braunschweig), Oliver Clemens (Berlin), Dagmar Pelger (Berlin/Hamburg); Discussant: Philipp Misselwitz
16.00 – 17.00
Closing remarks
Saturday - December 15, 2018
11.00 – 13.00
City Walk: Berlin Mitte-Kreuzberg and the Legacy of 1968 for Urban Development
with POLIGONAL, Berlin
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Attendance is free of charge. We kindly ask you to register.
https://diagnose1968.com/registration/
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IfA Forum
Institute of Architecture
Technische Universität Berlin
Strasse des 17. Juni 152
10623 Berlin
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U2 Ernst-Reuter-Platz
Bus 245 Marchstraße
Bus M45 Ernst-Reuter-Platz
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