MONDAY JUNE 28

PLENARY SPEAKERS (each speaker will give a 45-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute discussion)

Dr. Malcolm Miles (UK) Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth
After the Creative City. In the 1990s, the Creative City was proposed as a solution to a range of urban problems. In a few cases culturally-led redevelopment has coincided with an upward economic turn, but in many cases the old problems remain. Public art and public space provide a cultural mask in a period of globalisation and widening social division. There is little evidence that the Creative City is sustainable. Meanwhile, a dissenting art has emerged to challenge the Creative City and open a more antagonistic public realm – this has limits, but may offer a glimpse of possibilities for a democratic public sphere.

Dr. Cameron Cartiere (US/UK) Co-director of the Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice at Birkbeck, University of London
The Manifesto as a Democratic Process: Reclaiming the Artist’s Voice in the Public Art Debate. Through a comparison of not only the content, but how these different manifestos were developed, prepared and presented, Cameron Cartiere presents innovative strategies for artists to navigate their way through the maze of challenges, negotiations and compromises intrinsic in the public art profession, particularly within the urban environment

Thomas Ugo Ermacora (DK/IT) is an urbanist and transition strategist designing creative platforms for sustainable lifestyle development. He has curated the first world touring cycling culture exhibition 'dreams on wheels' inspiring city mutations such as velib in Paris and is now focusing on soft planning and participatory design for communities with the clear village initiative. Thomas also acts as an advisor to radical eco-innovation ventures related to biomimicry and ethical performance. He will speak about 'recoding cities' for a few minutes, his take at how we are experiencing a need to shift towards augmented citizenship and informed design. 

METOPOS (DK) Urban Designers Anne Mette Boye and Trine Skammelsen
METOPOS is a dynamic studio with a strong profile in landscape architecture and city planning, both in terms of urban development projects as well as planning processes and artistic urban interventions.
With examples from previous and present projects METOPOS will focus on mapping and urban interventions not only as tools for understanding a particular city area but as a way of processing urban visions and connecting the actual situation of the site to the ongoing urban planning in the area.

Dr. Drew Hemment (UK) artist, curator, researcher, director and founder of FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic)
FutureEverything: The City as Living Lab or Play Space
FutureEverything is an art, technology and social innovation organisation in Manchester that all year round runs innovation labs and an annual festival of art, music and ideas. The festival is the crucible that allows artists, technologists and future-thinkers to share, innovate and bring the future into the present. It seeks to reimagine, liberate and alienate the city through collaborative art and technology practice. 
The organisation is an independent, artist- and research-led project, which over 15 years has developed very strong collaborative links with strategic city partners as well as a broad range of communities, companies and institutions. As a result it is able, through festival events, to transform the urban environment in Manchester into a living lab or play space for participatory experiments in art, society and technology.

Artists and project presentations (short presentations of each 10 minutes in the foyer)

Carlsberg goes Temporary, an attempt to use temporary approaches in the Carlsberg area, co-developed by UIWE. Cultural planner and partner of UIWE Christian Pagh (DK) introduce the idea and design methods.

Friend_ship is a Nordic and Baltic performance art project visiting the harbours of Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Klaipeda from 10-20 June 2010. Henrik Vestergaard Friis (DK) presents the performance Baltic Water developed for Friend_ship in collaboration with artist Christine Fentz (DK).

Live Art Installations, a Copenhagen based collective of artists. Artistic director Pipaluk Supernova (DK) presents recent site-specific projects dealing with harbour and water areas as public spaces.

Co-founder of Wunderkammer Luke Cooper (UK/DK) presents the project ‘Drive-In’, a performance in the Ny Tap space at Carlsberg which encompasses installation, film, animation and performance.

Artists Helle Hove (DK) and Iben Brøndum (DK) present a series of site specific projects and events done in collaboration with the Municipality of Roskilde and show how art projects can point out local potentials.

TUESDAY JUNE 29

PLENARY SPEAKERS (each speaker will give a 45-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute discussion)

Steve Graham (UK) Professor of Cities and Society, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
Cities Under Siege? The New Military Urbanism and the Urban Public Realm
Steve Graham will explore the ways in which the securitisation of cities threatens the urban public realm. Revealing how security discussions, policies and technologies now permeate the sites, spaces and circulations of cities, 'targeting' everyday civilian life. The lecture will outline a creeping militarization which threatens to undermine the public cultures and public realms that are so central to political and cultural life in urban societies. Following this, ways of resisting this worrying trend will be explored.

Gerard Reinmuth (AU) Architect and Director of TERROIR
Using examples from his native Australia and its multicultural cities, Gerard will contend that cultural sustainability is a spatial issue, particularly in Scandinavian contexts where new cultures literally move into spatial frameworks envisaged and constructed for extremely homogenous populations. Gerard will also discuss these issues in the context of the push to brand cities as they compete on an international market.

LYSLYD (DK) is an attempt to look at the notion of innovative art-driven public processes involving communities, local authorities and businesses over a period of three years (2008-2010) in the Region of Copenhagen. An attempt to look at interrelated sectors, i.e. place-making, business development, knowledge and learning and to see how innovative connections between art, technology, urban space and businesses can be addressed in a way which opens up for new practices.
10 municipalities, 22 artists and architects as well as a number of network partners have developed 22 urban space projects in 2009 and 2010.
This session will give an overall introduction to LYSLYD followed by a panel discussion lead by Trevor Davies and Marie Viltoft Polli with representatives from the participating artists and municipalities.

BREAK OUT SESSIONS – CHOOSE BETWEEN A OR B

A: Focus on public art initiatives
Human Cities, celebrating public space. A focus on Human Cities Festival in Brussels and Istanbul 2010, European Capital of Culture 2010 presented by curator Lise Coirier (BE) followed by participating artist Lucile Soufflet (BE) who presents a selection of her works focusing on relational and social aspects of the public space, more specifically on street benches.

Architect Ana Grk (SI) from PROSTOROŽ, which is a team of young architects and designers based in Ljubljana, examines new possibilities of using public spaces.

Freelance arts curator and project manager of Beyond Leidsche Rijn Carlijn Diesfeldt (NL). The long-term art project Beyond was launched in 2001 in Leidsche Rijn, the largest new-style housing estate in The Netherlands and exploits the relationship between art and urban planning, landscape, architecture and the community that takes shape in this setting near Utrecht.

B: European Capital of Culture – focus on Marseilles and Košice
Jean-Sébastien Steil (FR), the head of European projects at Lieux publics, Centre national de création in Marseilles, will present the global frame of Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture, related to the concept of creating a bridge between the two shores of the Mediterranean.
Jean-Sébastien will also explain the content of a project within European Capital of Culture programme. The Metamorphosis project is a 4-week long event, which will be held by Lieux publics in the spring of 2013, throughout the whole regional territory. This project is dedicated to the relations between art and the city and will be strongly connected to the European partnership that Lieux publics is maintaining in the frame of IN SITU, a European network for artistic creation in public space.
                       
“Use the City” is the slogan of Košice –European Capital of Culture 2013. The aim is to use culture as a driver in terms of the transformation of the city. Christian Potiron, will give an introduction to the festival Use the C!ty. Launched in 2009 the festival is aiming to present the diversity of international artistic creations in the public space and to invite local communities to interact with their city. The festival focuses on revitalization of non central areas of the city, by inviting artists to create projects in these public spaces. This approach offers the public to experience non-traditional forms of art and reconsider the use of public spaces in Košice.

BREAK OUT SESSIONS – CHOOSE BETWEEN A OR B

A: On Cape Town
Bridging Boundaries: Public Art in Cape Town since 1997. Cultural producer and researcher Zayd Minty (ZA) presents the organisation Creative Cape Town and its work in the context of the broader city of Cape Town and introduces various public art projects that have attempted to bridge boundaries.

Independent project manager and new media designer Ásta Olga Magnusdottir (IS/ZA) will question the Cape Town Challenge: How to tap into the energy and playfulness of a city faced by crime and poverty on the one hand but full of urban renewal potential on the other? And how the Metropolis experience could contribute to some of Cape Town’s agendas.

Jay Pather (ZA) Choreographer and Associate Professor, Drama Department, University of Cape Town.
Can one resist the temptation of site-specific interdisciplinary performance that engages with key nodal points of urbanism, development, visibility and economy? Jay wants to propose a kind of new dramaturgy that captures the edginess and reinventions of live art in the postcolonial city of Cape Town.

B: Networked Cultures presented by project director Peter Mörtenböck (AT/UK) and co-director Helge Mooshammer (AT/UK)
Networked Cultures investigates the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the project collaborates with art, architectural and urban practices across Europe and beyond, to look at ways in which contested spaces allow for a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographic boundaries. The presentation will include an interaction with off-site contributors to the Networked Cultures project through excerpts from the Networked Cultures documentary.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Stefan Kaegi (DE) Theatre director, Rimini Protokoll and Lola Arias (AR) writer, performer, theatre director and songwriter
In 2007, Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias began collaborating in São Paulo, Munich and Berlin, staging Brazilian police-officers and their biographies in living museums. “Airport Kids” followed in 2008; featuring 6-13 year old global nomads. Kaegi and Arias will give an introduction to their artistic background as well as collaborative projects and present their most recent collaboration Ciudades Paralelas. For the project they have invited a group of artists to create artistic interventions at places that are common to every city – schools, hospitals, bus stops, petrol stations, pedestrian zones, parks, supermarkets and football stadiums.

Willi Dorner (AU) Choreographer and founder of the performance company Cie. Willi Dorner
“Bodies in urban spaces” is a temporary intervention in a diversified urban architectonical environment - a
moving trail, choreographed for a group of dancers. The performers lead the audience through selected
parts of public and semi-public spaces. The intention of “Bodies in urban spaces” is to point out the urban
functional structure and to uncover the restricted movement possibilities and behaviour as well as rules and
limitations.

Film screening Cities on Speed (Bogotá and Mumbai)
Four modern urban tales from Cairo, Bogotá, Shanghai and Mumbai take a closer look at one of mankind’s great challenges: planning for the future citizens in “exploding” cities.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 30

PLENARY SPEAKER

Klaus Overmeyer (DE), Urban Planner, landscape architect and founder of Studio UC in Berlin
Klaus Overmeyer operates in the challenging field of urban development, which is today characterized by eclectic transformational processes which landscape architecture is increasingly unable to address alone. By cooperating with an extensive network of experts in architecture, visual communication, management consultancy, sociology, exhibition design and ecology, Klaus Overmeyer succeeds in elaborating operational methods and tools as strategies for complex locational developments.

BREAK OUT SESSIONS – CHOOSE BETWEEN A OR B
A: Strategic planning – municipalities and artists collaborations
pOlau - Pôle des arts urbains with Maud Le Floc'h (FR). The city has become a stage for many artists. But, how is it possible to integrate these creations in the process of city planning? A short presentation about the activities of the pOlau followed by focus on the artistic project UPIA, urban psychoanalysis international agency, (Laurent Petit & EXYZT architects) will try to answer this question.

HQAC : Haute Qualité Artistique et Culturelle
A new protocol for the integration of contemporary art practices and research in the context of urban transformation in France.
Since 2007 HQAC exists in the form of a prototype in action: the TRANS305 project currently directed by artist Stefan Shankland (FR) in the city of Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris.

Hjemstavn (DK) is a 2-year (2010-2012) project lead by Helsingør Teater. The project addresses the challenge of the survival of smaller cities at a time when more people move to larger cities. In collaboration with a number of artists the project will question the idea of Hjemstavn in a global society.

B: Cultural sustainability and user driven innovation
Art without Artists? What happens in the meeting between artistic and self-organized practices? What can the coming together of art, architecture and public space produce? Architects Carsten Hoff (DK),  Gitte Juul (DK) and freelance curator Marie Bruun Yde (DK) will present the project SOUP and reflect on how collective and participatory art can be understood and discussed.

ZimmerFrei (IT) is a collective of artists whose complex practice is located on the crossroads of cinema, theatre, music and performance. Mixing formal languages, the group produces kaleidoscopic sonic and visual works that investigate real and imaginary urban environments, where the mental and the physical blend in a coherent narrative of human experience. Artist Anna de Manincor will present recent projects developed by the collective.

Urban (col)laboratory is an ongoing project initiated by artist Diana Wesser (DE) and architect Helen Stratford (UK). Located between performance art, architecture and writing, a process-led research practice investigates the rhythms and routines by which people negotiate, define and produce everyday spaces.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

JUUL|FROST Architects, Architect Helle Juul (DK)
Urban Space as a Catalyst for Change is a Realdania financed research project focusing on how urban spaces act as catalysts for urban development. The purpose of the research is to question the assumptions dominating present discussions regarding urban space, urbanity and urban development and aims to identify how urban spaces can be seen as catalysts for the development of “the good city”– socially, culturally and architecturally.

Professor Hans Kiib (DK) and Architect and Professor Gitte Marling (DK) Department of Architecture, Aalborg University
Experience City.dk(2009) by Gitte Marling, Hans Kiib & Ole B. Jensen
For the last 20 years huge investments have been made towards building new cultural institutions. Cafés, libraries, cultural institutions and businesses have become experience spaces. Public and private partnerships, in particular in the smaller cities in Denmark, have driven the development of these new performative spaces. The research study and publication Experience City.dk examines the conditions and consequences of new hybrid cultural projects and performative urban spaces.

BREAK OUT SESSIONS – CHOOSE BETWEEN A OR B

A: Playing/Planning the City: Pervasive gaming and urbanity
The focus of this session is to show how the combination of gaming and urban space may facilitate new experiences and interesting hybrids between the ludic space of games and the social and architectural space of cities. By “playing the city” – using mobile technology, gps and communication platforms which are part of the fabric of any city (posters, billboards, events, etc) - the players may discover the tacit ephemeral qualities of space; new paths through existing structures or may invent new ones.
Games, play and cities: contested spaces. Presented by Dr. David Pinder, Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. His research and teaching focuses on urbanism and the politics of space in relation to the ideas and practices of twentieth-century modernist and avant-garde movements, especially the situationists.
This session is organized by concept developer Jesper Pedersen (DK) and Designer Jakob la Cour (DK).

B: Temporary approaches as planning tools and communication platforms
THE WALL (DK) is the newest communication project of the Museum of Copenhagen. It places the story of the city right in the city centre. On a 12-meter long interactive multi-touch screen you can fly away in a gigantic picture universe, and evoke the Copenhagen of the past and present.

Elle-Mie Ejdrup Hansen (DK) on GELLERUP – LIGHT AND CHANGE, a light and laser installation in Gellerupparken in Århus. The light installation shows the nature of architecture and space, providing a possibility to discuss, interact and dream about the changes of the future.

Hausenberg (DK) is a consultancy and analysis firm. Based on ethnographic methods Hausenberg create ideas, proposals, knowledge and value in the field of urban development. Partner Katinka Hauxner will show examples and reflect upon projects and initiatives dealing with temporary approaches in relation to urban development.

PLENARY SPEAKER

Dorte Skot-Hansen (DK) Head of Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science
Dorte Skot-Hansen researches in the fields of cultural policy, cultural planning, experience economy and the city as a scene. In this session focus will be on New Stages, New Experiences – Metropolis as an example