. apologies for cross posting - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE ACADEMY OF ARTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS BERLIN AND THE ALLIANZ CULTURAL FOUNDATION INVITE YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF
CITY OF COLLISION Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism Edited by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets Birkhaeuser Publisher for Architecture 6pm - 9pm 21st of August 2006 Academy of Arts Pariser Platz 4 Berlin (Entrance free) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BOOK PRESENTATION: 6.00pm Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets: Almost eight decades of violent urban conflict have transformed Jerusalem into an extreme spatial configuration. From a Western perspective, Jerusalem is often regarded as unique: a place where colonial and terrorist violence blur distinctions between the military and the civilian. But as cities worldwide are increasingly subject to dramatic new security policies and preventative measures against real or imagined threats Jerusalem, as a laboratory of conflict urbanism is in fact closer than we think. CITY OF COLLISION presents a vivid picture of a city in a permanent state of destruction and reinvention, hostage to political planning, collective fear and physical and mental walls but also strategies of resilience, individual exchange and transgression. Thirty new essays by leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international architects, artists, sociologists and political commentators open up different perspectives on the complex and ambivalent urban reality of contemporary Jerusalem. CITY OF COLLISION also features specially commissioned photographs by Bas Princen and Polly Braden and is illustrated with over forty new detailed thematic maps. Philipp Misselwitz is an architect and writer based in Berlin currently running an UN research project on Refugee Camp Development. Tim Rieniets is an architect and teaches at the ETH in Zurich (for more information about the book see attachment). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LECTURES: 6.30 - 7.30pm Sari Hanafi (Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut) Peter Marcuse (Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, New York) Eyal Weizman (Architect and writer, Goldsmith College, London) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PANEL DISCUSSION: 7.30 - 9.00pm Victims, Weapons or Mediators? Recent transformations in the relationship between conflict and cities A panel discussion will explore the condition of contemporary cities in a world where distinctions between the military and the civilian, between real and constructed threats, between security measures and socio-economic or ethnic segregation are increasingly blurred. Considering North-American, European and Middle Eastern Cities, the panel will discuss how cities increasingly struggle to maintain urban set _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann
