Instant Urbanism

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This Symposium takes outset in the fact, that temporary art and architecture play a significant role in urban planning and development today. Artists and architects are en- rolled in economic rationales, which essentially can be about creating good investment possibilities in an insecure time for urban development projects. This development is often contradictory to the historic roots of Instant Urbanism. More than 40 years of critical artistic and curatorial practice have paved the way into urban space and explored a critical dialogue and reflection in the intersection be- twen art and performative architecture. Art and architectural projects have presented artistic interventions on sites in order to promote social interaction, create autonomous meetings and add greater diversity in terms of spaces and experiments in the urban landscape. This double bound agenda on temporary urban art and architecture projects raises questions on how we as artists, architects and scientists can navigate in this field? The symposium discuss how instant urbanism practice can reflect critically on site- specific rationales and discourses through an artistic, curatorial, architectural design practice. The keynote speakers from England and Denmark will present their papers related to the following themes: • Temporary projects as critical spatial practice • Site-Writing • Curatorial Methodology in urban settings • Arts Curating as a public strategy through performativity, arts and temporary archi- tecture. After the one-day symposium there will be a two-day PhD. workshop focused on Site- Writing.

Periode	6 maj 2014 → 8 maj 2014
Begivenhedstype	Seminar
Placering	Aalborg, DanmarkVis på kort