BAT-YAM Biennale of landscape urbanism

Interesting how everywhere around the globe are happening similar things. These pictures are from Bat-Yam biennale in Israel, but they might just as well be in Lasnamäe :)

http://www.biennale-batyam.org/eng/article_page.asp?id=185&scid=100

Multiple Tallinn – following an archipelago of islands?

Subject: Invitation to participate in a panel discussion

Place and time: Tallinn, 20^th of May, 19:00, Arts Academy

Initiated by Bauhaus Kolleg IX – Border Cities, Dessau, Germany

Multiple Tallinn – following an archipelago of islands?

Based on the research undertaken by Bauhaus Kolleg IX – Border Cities, detected a sharpening of the historically developed archipelago like city pattern of Tallinn. The addition of global connections and the integration of different time layers in the city, we want to discuss the possibilities, potentials and obstacles to Tallinn’s future spatial development.

With regard to the status quo of the city’s future development, we state that the original spatial structure of an archipelago, strengthened by the Helsinki-Tallinn relation, now reverses and will blur into the direction of a more isotropic city structure. In this process top-down initiatives or real estate speculation guiding the gentrification processes would negate the existence of bottom-up initiatives in less defined areas. The bottom-up developments loose their significance in urban development.

The questions that could arise are stated below:

. exchange value vs. use value

[Who owns the city? What’s the value of local bottom up developments compared with economic interests? Alienation of locals to rapid changes in city development. How is the city negotiated? Participatory systems in city planning.]

. gentrification – the possibility of a directed deliberate city-planning

[spatial impact of dynamics within the city. How to direct city development in an atmosphere of neo-liberal, market orientated economics? Forces within the city – bottom up vs. top down vs. real estate speculation.]

. archipelago structure vs. Isotropic city – advantages and disadvantages

[Archipelago vs. Isotropic city? Would the maintenance of an archipelago structure necessarily lead to hierarchical and social segregation as well as to stigmatisation? Is it possible to maintain characteristic qualities of different areas without negative impact?]

BORDER URBANISM

06-03-08 // MONU #8 RELEASED!


One of the most grotesque effects of globalisation is that a process which is supposed to unify the world and bind people and the biosphere more tightly together into one global system, ended up increasing the amount of individual countries worldwide. When in 1983 the term "globalisation" was popularised, only 159 countries were members of the United Nations. Today, we recognize 191 states. It has been speculated that there are still more than 200 unrecognised regions around the world which strive for seperation. Such a global particularisation process is going to produce large numbers of new political entities and new jurisdictions with thousands of kilometres of new borders, which will reshape entire regions and cities.

MONU – magazine on urbanism has released its 8th issue –
Border Urbanism. Check it out at MONU .

SlaveCity - Interview with Joep van Lieshout
Potential Nation States by STAR
Global Islands in North Korea by Simone Cartier and Katrin Gimmel
Operation Desert by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
Kaliningrad by Ines Lüder, Dominique Hurth and Ciarán Walsh
Segregated Istanbul by Pelin Tan
Crisscrossing Lives by Horng-Chang Hsieh and Vittaya Ruangrit
A Fictional Dialogue between two Curators by Umi
Cross - Border Suburbias by Teddy Cruz
Reciprocal Developments by Arjan Harbers and Kristin Jensen
Tijuana - Vernacular by Federico Diaz de Leon Orraca
Border Models by Annemarie Strihan
Bohemian Cheapness - Interview with Jaroslav Kubera
Sin City by Daan Roggeveen
On a Trip Down Memory Lane by Lukas Feireiss
Windsor: The American Sector by Justin A. Langlois
Westberlin - My Cold War Heroine by Vesta Nele Zareh