CITY LIVING
LIVING CITY
The 6th Biennial of Towns and Town Planners
CITY LIVING
The 6th Biennial of Towns and Town Planners
The Street Creativity Sessions will highlight the creative potential that is unfolded in the everyday practices of the living city. These are practices that enrich and give meaning to urban life, but are often overlooked in the grand strategies and master plans of contemporary urbanism.
The Sessions are an opportunity for young European planners, artists and students and others working with urban space in innovative ways to participate in an international event. The participants will have the possibility to exhibit their ideas for a European audienceand. To develop the ideas in an interdisciplinary workshop prior to the Biennial. To discuss their ideas with Keynote speakers from the Biennial. To be part of the team shaping the Street Creativity Charter that will be presented on the final day of the Biennial. To take part in the big final party and the launch of the Yellow Arrow global public art project. And last but not least to built up an international network, and get out and make their ideas real!
FREE* - Participation in the Street Creativity Sessions is free and includes admittance to the main biennial lectures.
The Sessions will comprise the following elements:
Street Creativity Exhibition: Participants in the Street Creativity Sessions will prior to Biennial be asked to forward visualized examples of Street Creativity. The examples will be published on the Street Creativity website and exhibited in the main Biennial area.
Pre-biennial workshop: In the three days preceding the Biennial 30 participants will work in the South Harbour of Copenhagen to produce a charter presenting fresh and inventive perspectives on future urban planning. The workshop will focus on ideas and methods to use the creative potential of everyday life to enrich city living.
Lectures: Participants in the sessions will have free of charge access to the Biennial lectures.
Master Classes: In the afternoon selected keynote speakers will head Master Classes discussing the results of the pre-biennial workshop. The Master Classes will be open to the public.
Harbour Ride:
Late Friday evening a ride through the harbour showing new ways of using cell
phones and text messages will be organised in collaboration with
YellowArrow.
Presentation: The final presentation of the Charter will take place on the final day of the Biennial as part of the lecture program.
Match Making Session: To maximise the outcome of the sessions a match making event will take place Saturday afternoon. The aim of the session will be to match people with creative initiatives with partners interested in supporting projects that enrich everyday urban life (urban investors and developers, municipal authorities, private companies, etc.)
YellowArrow Party: On Saturday the Street Creativity Sessions will close with a big party to celebrate the launch of the global public art project YellowArrow in Denmark.
* A small fee will be charged for food and drinks.
Monday 6th: Workshop
9:30 Brunch: Arrival and registration
10:15 Introduction to Urban Task Force & Street Creativity Sessions
10:30 South Harbour Walk and Talk:
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Workshop
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Southern Comfort lounge
Tuesday 7th: Workshop
9.30 Brunch
10:00 Workshop
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Workshop
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Southern Comfort lounge
Wednesday 8th: Workshop
9.30 Brunch
10:00 Workshop
13:00 Lunch
13:30 Workshop: Preparation of Charter for Master Classes
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Southern Comfort lounge
Thursday 9th: Lectures and
Master Class
9.00 Registration for lectures
10.00 Welcome address by Freddy Avnby, President of the Biennial
10.20 Saskia Sassen:
The greatest challenges of Europe in regards to an increased globalisation
10.50 Panel debate: Saskia Sassen and the European Mayors: Mads Lebech (Copenhagen, North), Emilio D’Alessio (Ancona, South), and Edi Rama (Tirana, East).
11.30 Intermission
12.00 Use [nostalgia]: an alternative, critical approach to the use of European references in new architecture all over Europe.
Panel: Dr. Cor Wagenaar, Copywriter Morten Kold, Architect Anna Maria Indrio and sociologist Henrik Dahl.
13.00 Lunch at the School of Architecture.
14.00 Master Class with Dr. Cor Wagenaar
15.00 Charter Re-workshop
17.00 Break: Explore Copenhagen
19.00 Reception at Copenhagen City Hall
Friday 10th: Morning Lectures
9.00 Presentation of today's programme by Göran Rosberg, Malmö City Planning Office.
9.10 Professor Meric S. Gertler, University of Toronto: The cities of Europe in an economic perspective and the European Creative Index
Professor Anne Power, London School of Economics: How can the social and cultural diversity of the European city be utilized as a potential for urban planning?
Professor François Ascher, Université de Paris IIIV Vincennes-Saint Denis: on the spatial aspects.
10.30 The European Lounge. 'A gentlemen's discussion'
The three speakers discuss the potential of the European city in a relaxed 'arm chair environment'.
11.00 Intermission
11.30 Use [religion] questions the idea of the diverse city and the role of Islamic culture in urban planning.
Panel: Imam Fatih Alev, Architect Furkan Köse, Mayor Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard and Professor Stefano Allievi
13.00 Lunch at the School of Architecture.
Friday 10th: Afternoon and
evening:
Master Class & Harbour Ride
14.00 Master Class with Anne Power
15.00 Preparation of final Charter
18.00 Dinner on Holmen
Evening break: Explore Copenhagen on your own
23.00 Harbour Ride: Midnight harbour cruise with Yellow Arrow. The Boat leaves from the quay at Masteskurene.
00.00 Bedtime
Saturday 11th: Presentation,
Lectures, Match Making and
10.00: Good morning
10.10: Street Creativity Charter presentation addressed to the Directors of Planning in the Øresund Region
10.45: Reinier de Graaf, director of AMO (think tank of OMA) on how to explore future opportunities beyond the borders of architecture and urbanism in Europe.
11.15: Professor Jens Kvorning, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture: Planning The Øresund Region, long term strategies and ad hoc solutions.
11.45: Conclusions and Closure
12:00 Break: Relax and enjoy the harbour area of Holmen
14.00 Matchmaking Session. The sessions take place in Masteskurene
16.00 Break: Explore
Copenhagen on your own
Saturday 11th: Yellow Arrow Launch party
Join the TXTmob for the Yellow Arrow Denmark launch! Find out where the secret launch party will take place and get text message updates of the roving Yellow Arrow lightbox.
Register on:
http://denmark.yellowarrow.net/
Clement Blanchet Rotterdam Architect
Mads Bech Paluszewski Roskilde University, Denmark Performance Design / Geography
Maria Teder Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Sweden Architecture
Pi Dehli Kolbye Skaarup & Jespersen, Denmark Architect
Stina Jørgensen University of Copenhagen European Ethnology
Jakob Exner Copenhagen Architect
Ion Cotenescu Universitatea de Arhitectura, Bukarest Architecture
Alexandra Stupar Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade PhD and MSc in Architecture
Tanja Vlajinic Belgrade Architecture
Jan Hatt-Olsen Copenhagen Poet/Artist - Master in History
Gudmundur Arngrimsson Iceland Landscape Architect Student
Marianne Trouelsen Aalborg University, Denmark Urban Design
Signe Westergaard Danish Centre for Forest & Landscape Planning Landscape architect
Kristian M. Kristensen Aalborg University, Denmark Urban Design
Nemanja Rankovic University of Rome Architect
Cizmic Milica Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro Architect
Maja Luna Jørgensen Aalborg University, Denmark Urban Design
Spiering Julia Hamburg, Germany Urban planning
Martin Schwegmann Berlin Architect
Ivana Kancir Musuma of Contemporary Art, Zagreb Curator/working in multimedia design
Ayca Taylan Istanbul Technical University University student
Jens Rex Christensen Aalborg University, Denmark Urban Design
Marko Zivkovic Ljubljana, Slovenia Architecture and Urban design
Ida Mared Urban vision, Architect Office, Sweden Architect
Duane De Witt University of California at Berkeley Masters Candidate City Planning
June Maestri Ditlevsen University of Copenhagen Art history
Rune H. Jensen CityNova R&D, Copenhagen Journalist, MsC Information Tech
Sophie Dodelin Grenoble (Fr) and Budapest Public artist
Djawed Kimouche Roskilde University, Denmark BA in Geography
Vasiliki Tsolak Roskilde University, Denmark Architecture
Melanie Birwe Essen, Germany Spatial Planner
Trine Skammelsen Aalborg University, Denmark M.Sc. Engineer in Urban Design
René Lindsay Copenhagen School of Architecture Architect
Anne Mette Boye Schønherr Landskab, Aarhus, Denmark M.Sc. Engineer in urban design
Steven Tomlinson Transport for London Engineering
URBAN TASK FORCE
The Street Creativity Sessions are presented by the Urban Task Force and the Biennial Secretariat. Urban Task Force is an independent non-profit organisation. The aim of Urban Task Force is to develop a mobile unit that periodically enters a new local area in search of the overseen potentials of the city.
An “onsite incubator” is established in each local area, where local citizens, new and more established agents in the city and students can meet up in workshops, games, exhibitions and events. Through this meeting new ideas emerge and the best ones are tested in real experiments, such as local city guides based on the use of mobile phones or new uses of derelict industrial buildings for community purposes.
Through new kinds of workshops, games and events Urban Task Force aims to involve people that do not usually take part in the political development of the city. Overseen potentials can be traced and new ideas can take form by letting local communities, students and artists challenge the urban agenda usually set by municipal officials and private investors.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Arrival and departure
The Street Creativity Sessions start in
South Harbour of Copenhagen Monday the 6th at 9:30. However we
encourage participants from outside Copenhagen and the Øresund Region to arrive
Sunday the 5th of the June, so as to have time to settle in with
their hosts and to be fresh and ready for the workshop Monday morning.
The Sessions end with the Yellow Arrow
Party Saturday the 11th of June. If you should wish to stay longer,
you will have to provide your own accommodation.
Copenhagen and the Øresund Region
For background information on Copenhagen and the Øresund Region and tips for visitors visit the Biennial website:
http://cityliving-livingcity.org/oresund.php
Food
Food and soft drinks will be provided by Urban Task Force and the Biennial Secretariat for a fee of 500 Danisk kroner (about 68 Euros). This includes a light brunch Monday to Wednesday, lunch Monday to Saturday and Dinner Monday to Friday.
Weather
Expect temperatures form 15-25 degrees celscius.
Problems/Emergencies
In case of problems you can call Urban Task Force on +45 6168 9924. In case of emergencies call 112.
What to bring
Following items will be useful:
Cell phone
Digital
camera
Wrist watch and alarm clock
Raincoat
Warm Sweater
This guide you are now reading
Papers (passport, money, credit card)
Address of the Embassy of your country
English Dictionary
Medicine
Etc.
SITE: SOUTH HARBOUR
The Pre-Biennial workshop that runs from Monday the 6th til Wednesday the 8th will take plave on the premises of Urban Task Force in and old industrial part of the South Harbour of Copenhagen.
The address is:
Borgmester Christiansensgade 55
2450 København SV
The easiest way to find us is from Sydhavnsgade. Find the singpost with the “HILTI” sign across the road form the “Sonofon” building. Continue into the backyard area and find the HILTI shop. Urban Task Force is just beside the shop.
Transport:
By train: Take the S-train line A og A+ towards Køge. Get off at Sydhavnen Station and walk the rest of the way along Sydhavnsgade (see map).
By bus: Take bus nr. 3A towards Valby Parken, get off at Sydhavns Plads and walk along Sydhavnsgade.
Or take nr. 4A and get off at Mozarts Plads. Walk along Borgmester Christiansens Gade and find the small road leading into the backyard area where nr. 55 is located.
SITE: INNER HARBOUR (HOLMEN)
The lectures, the master classes and the exhibition running from Thursday the 9th to Saturday the 11th will take place in the main biennial area on the Island of “Holmen” north of the canal neighborhood Christianshavn.
The lectures will take place in the School of Archiecture:
Address:
Danneskjold Samsøes Allé
København K
(see green dot on the map)
The master classes and the exhibition will take place in Masteskurene, a red row of former sheds for building shipmasts.
Address:
Masteskursvej
København K
(see blue dot on the map)
Transport:
By water bus: Take nr. 901 or 902 to the Opera (the building located just to the west of the biennial area on the map)
By metro & bus: Take the Metro to Christianshavn Station and change to bus nr. 66 towards Refshaleøen. Get off at the School of Architecture on Danneskjold Samsøes Allé.
