Tuesday, April 22, 2008

5:30pm Welcome reception at MIT 10-485 6pm Richard Sennett, The Craftsman, City Design and Development Forum, MIT 10-485 (that means building 10, 4th floor, room 85, if you take the central elevators in building 10 to the 4th floor, just turn left when you exit the elevator and you'll see a blue neon sign) 8:00pm Welcome dinner at Z-Square in Harvard Square Directions: Take the T Red Line from Kendall Square to Harvard Square. Walk down JFK street, Z-Square will be on your left at 14 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Location: MIT Media Lab E15-209 9:00am Session 1 Chair: Susanne Seitinger Corinna Dean. From Flash Art to Flash Mob: An analysis of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Cecilia Dinardi. Contesting culture, imagining the city Francisca Rojas. Open Source Civic Engagement in Zaragoza’s Digital Mile

10:30am Coffee break

11:00am Session 1 cont. Chair: Susanne Seitinger Frauke Behrendt. Walking Cities in Sound Suzi Hall. Making of Boundaries Jesse Shapins & Brian House. Talking about Media, the City and Human Subjectivity: A Retroactive Manifesto for a Critical Urban Media Arts.

12:30pm Lunch

1:30pm Session 2 Chair: Shekhar Krishnan Melissa Fernandez. Creating the ‘problem of’ and seeking ‘solutions to’ Public Housing in San Juan, Puerto Rico : Locating the Past in the Present Erin Graves. The Implementation Chain: The Making of A Mixed Income Housing Community Sadia Shirazi. Settled Nomads: Shifting Boundaries + Housing Typologies of Sinai’s Gebeliya Tribe

3:00pm Coffee break

3:30pm Session 2 cont. Chair: Shekhar Krishnan Dana Erekat. Stolen Lands: A Legal Robbery Through Urban Planning and Policies Juergen Kufner. Negotiation Power within practices of urban planning and design in London Eli Rosenbaum. Local Government in the Urban Age 5:45pm Take 85 bus from Kendall Square to Union Square 6:30pm Tour of Union Square, Somerville 7:30pm Conference dinner at Macchu Picchu 10pm Event at Toast Lounge For details about the event see this detailed page! Map of Union Square

 

Thursday, April 24, 2008 Location: Harvard Graduate School of Design (Stubbins 112) 9:00am Welcome from GSD! 9:30am Session 3 Chair: Claire Abrahamson Austin Kilroy. How does the spatial configuration of a rapidly growing city impact on urban insecurity? -- A case study of Bamako, Mali Hiromasa Shirai. Concentration or dispersion? A Critical Question to the Olympic City

Coffee break

10:30am Session 3 cont. Chair: Claire Abrahamson Matthew Matteson. Planning on the Line: Linearity and Disciplinarity Ninad Pandit. Delhi and the Monkey menace Torsten Schroeder. Mediation of the “Green City” terminology within London

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Session 4 Chair: Jesse Shapins Juliet Davis. Urban Catalysts in Theory and Practice Tad Hirsch. Distributing Dissent: Text Messaging and Protest at the 2004 Republican National Convention Huma Yusuf. Shattered Mirrors: The Urban Imaginary in Violent Cities

2:30pm Coffee break

3:00pm Session 4 cont. Chair: Jesse Shapins Olivia Munoz-Rojas-Oscarsson. Metonyms, Metaphors, Cities and the City Susanne Seitinger. Lights and the City Jonathan Schifferes. New Chinatowns at the Asian Mall 4:30pm Wrap-up For those staying in town, here are some ideas: Visit to South Boston Waterfront and ICA (open until 9pm). 6:00-8:00pm Farshid Moussavi (Harvard University)."The Function of Architectural Ornament" Harvard Humanities Center Seminar(Barker 133)