WORKSHOP
Designed to improve? Buildings, interventions and the makings of the ‚social’ in interdisciplinary urban practices
Annual workshop of ‚AG Architektursoziologie’ of the German Sociological Association (DGS), sections cultural sociology and urban- and regional sociology, hosted by University of Hamburg in cooperation with HafenCity University Hamburg and TU Darmstadt, 22-24 May 2014
Organizers:
Hanna Katharina Göbel (University of Hamburg)
Monika Grubbauer (TU Darmstadt)
Anna Richter (HafenCity University Hamburg)

Venue:
University of Hamburg, Mollerstraße 10, Lesesaal and Hörsaal, 20148 Hamburg.

Funded by: 'Körber-Fonds für Nachwuchsforschung' at University of Hamburg, section cultural sociology of the German Sociological Association (DGS)

Registration:
The workshop is free to attend and open to the public. However, due to limited space please register if you are interested in taking part in the workshop by writing to the organizers until 8 May 2014 (email address see below). For the keynote lecture no registration is required.

PROGRAMME
Thursday 22 May 2014
12.30 am – 1 pm
Registration
1 pm
Introduction
1.30 pm
Socializing Design?
Keynote
Fran Tonkiss (UK)
3 pm
Panel I: The ‘urban lab’: methods, problems, futures
The building as laboratory of social interaction. Cedric Price’s McAppy project and the influence of science on the architecture of the 1960s
Tanja Herdt (CH)
Takin’ it to the street: Art institutions as forums for urban problems in New York’s Lower East Side
Max & Samuel Holleran (US)
Making the laboratory work: the potential of the laboratory in interdisciplinary research
Anna Flach, Peter Tränkle & Marko Marskamp (CH)
Commentator: Alexa Färber (D)
5.30 pm
Panel II: Fetish cultures of built objects and urban materials
‘Social Architecture’: between radical politics and project/object?
Sandra Meireis & Nina Gribat (D)
Improvement without design. Vernacular, migration and the role of the ‘social’ in informal urban architecture
Sytse de Maat (CH)
How to make architecture social? Advocating new design dynamic: socialisation of commonly shared space
Sandra Uskokovich & Boris Bakal (CR)
Commentator: Tatjana Schneider (UK)

Friday 23 May 2014
9.30 am
Panel III: Aesthetic knowledge of the built environment and social design
Shaping the designed environment: A critical review of street furniture
Ellie Herring (UK)
Kiosk. Potentials and problems of micro-architectures as social design
Verena Kuni (D)
Art, Ethics, and the Urban Imagination
Monica Barra (US)
Can we build social in face of conflict?
Marcus Willcocks (UK)
Commentator: Heike Lüken (D)
1 pm
Panel IV: The politics of urban idealisms and visions
The Civil Disobedience of Design: Critical Practice, ‘Not Doing’ and the experience of the Community Architects Network
Giorgio Talocci & Camillo Boano (UK)
The political economies of design activism and social design in the age of financialisation
Guy Julier (UK)
The shotgun of selective belonging: Local housebuilding initiatives and the transformation of New Orleans
Graham Owen (CAN)
Commentator: Kate Shaw (AUS)
3.30 pm
Panel V: Tired of participation?
Participation and its discontents
Lutz Robbers (D)
The Dialogue between residents and their ‘Infonavit houses’ in social housing developments in Mexico, Claudia G. Pérez Ibarra (UK)
Bottom-up urban transformations of Savamala neighbourhood in Belgrade, Serbia
Marija Cvetinovic, Ivan Kucina, Jean-Claude Bolay (CH and SRB)
Commentator: Bill Michelson (US)

6 pm
Roundtable discussion: The ‚social-isms’ in urban design – material fallacies?
Bill Michelson (US), Bernd Kniess (D), Fran Tonkiss (UK)

Saturday 24 May 2014
10 am – 1 pm
Guided tour St. Pauli / Park Fiction and Gängeviertel with Martin Kohler (D)

Contact:
Hanna Katharina Göbel
University of Hamburg
Institute for Movement Science/Performance Studies
Mollerstraße 10
20148 Hamburg
hanna.goebeluni-hamburg.de