UTOPIA TODAY?

date: 22-24.10.2010

location: Saline Royale, Arc et senans, France

Program:

friday 22.10.2010
14:00 – 14:30 Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson (ESA Paris)
introduction
14:30 – 14:50 Michel Pierre, Director Saline Royale
welcome
14:50 – 15:00 Martial Marquet, Paris
Rise above
15:00 – 15:30 break
15:30 – 16:00 Ole W. Fischer (Harvard)
After Modernity – architecture between utopia, nostalgia and dirty
reality?
Comments on the uncertain state of an ancient profession…
16:00 – 16:30 Michel Prégardien (Université de Liège)
Il n’y a plus de place pour l’utopie
16:30 – 17:00 break
17:00 – 18:00 David Harvey (New York)
The dialectics of Utopia
18:00 – 19:00 round table discussion, moderators Odile Decq, Andri Gerber,
Brent
Patterson
19:00 – 20:30 dinner
20:30 movie projection

saturday 23.10.2010
8:00 – 9:00 breakfast
9:30 – 9:50 resumé Andri Gerber
9:50 – 10:20 Hendrik Tieben (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Gordon Wu - Hong Kong’s empirical utopist
10:20 – 10:50 Stefan Kurath (Urbanplus, Zürich)
Imagine grison, the meaning of working with architectural utopies and
dystopies in the daily practice
10:50 – 11:10 break
11:10 – 11:40 Karin Bradley (The Royal Institute of Technology – KTH,
Stockholm)
Freegans, squatters and urban farmers – Radical political ecology in the
making
11:40 – 12:30 Matthias Pauwels (BAVO, Rotterdam)
From urban laboratories to utopian NGOism. Recent mutations in
architectural utopianism
12:30 – 14:00 lunch
(13:30 – 14:00 guided tour of the permanent model exposition)
14:00 – 14:30 Katia Frey, Eliana Perotti (ETH Zürich)
Women’s utopia. Tradition and future opportunities of a gender oriented
town planning

14:30 – 15:00 Julia Ramírez Blanco (Complutense University of Madrid)

The ideal city of AVL-Ville
15:00 – 15:20 break
15:20 – 16:10 Philippe Morel (EZCT)
Utopia Everyday
16:10 – 16:50 Peter Eisenman, recorded interview by Emmanuel Petit (Yale
University)
16:50 – 17:10 break
17:10 – 18:00 Winy Maas (MVRDV, Rotterdam)
What’s next?
18:00 – 19:00 roundtable, moderators Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson
19:00 – 20:30 dinner
20:30 movie projection

sunday 24.10.2010
8:00 – 9:30 breakfast
9:30 – 9:50 resumé (Brent Patterson)
9:50 – 10:20 Jae Emerling / Ronna Gardner (University of North Carolina)
Prosthetic Architecture as Heterotopia
10:20 – 10:50 Hanspeter Bürgi (HSLU, Luzern)
Gross National Happiness: The Bhutanese concept and a focus on space,
energy and culture

10:50 – 11:10 break
11:10 – 12:00 final discussion with all speakers
12:00 – 13:30 lunch

Conference fee: 30€ (free for students)

Informations and registration:
Amina Chady
Assistante de direction
École Spéciale d'Architecture
amina_chadyesa-paris.fr

the conference is organised by the Ecole Spéciale d'architecture in Paris
in collaboration with the Saline Royale and the Hochschule Luzern, Technik
und Architektur and sponsored by Minolta and the Conseil régional Franche
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