[Nettime-nl] Reinventing the City: Space and Power in Asia and Beyond (11 april)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

The Asian city, with its 24-hour economy and its dazzling pace of 
constant destruction and rebuilding, forces us to rethink our ideas of 
what constitutes a city. They are seen by some as utopian models of the 
global cities of the future, whereas they operate in Hollywood cinema 
as dark dystopic landscapes of alienation and violence. With the 2008 
Olympic Games in Beijing as a conspicuous driving force of massive 
urban change, it becomes urgent to analyze and rethink the Asian city. 
Therefore, the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and 
Asia Studies in Amsterdam (ASiA) invite you for the seminar:

Reinventing the City: Space and Power in Asia and Beyond

On Wednesday April 11, from 19.30-21.30 o'clock

Location: Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort, room F0.02A
(Oudezijds Achterburgwal 211-225, please see: 
http://www.uva.nl/locaties/kaart_centrum.cfm, click on location 34)

Programme:

19.30-19.40: Opening

19.40-20.05: Prof. Clarence Aasen, "Spatial Potencies and Multivalent 
Aesthetics in Southeast Asian Urbanism"
Prof. Aasen was formerly chair and professor in architectural design at 
Victoria University in New Zealand and the author of a forthcoming book 
entitled "Diasporic Ethnicities, Architecture and Urbanism: Spatial 
Orders and Aesthetics of the Southeast Asian Chinese" (University of 
Hawaii Press)

20.05-20.30: Linda Vlassenrood: "Making Chance Sensible"
Linda Vlassenrood is affiliated to the Dutch Architectural Institute 
(NAI) and was curator of the architecture exhibition of the China 
Contemporary exposition from 2006 at Rotterdam.

20.00-20.55: Patrick Healy: "Capital as City; the dream topographies of 
commodities"
Patrick Healy is lecturer at the Department of architectural theory of 
Delft University and editor of De-/signing the Urban. Technogenesis and 
the urban image (010 publishers), and author of "Images of Knowledge. 
An introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Science" and "Beauty and 
the Sublime" (both by Sun publishers).

20.55-21.30: Debate on the changing city and its global impact with 
Clarence Aasen, Linda Vlassenrood, Patrick Healy and Subash Taneja 
(architect, see also www.taneja.nl)

Please reserve with Jeroen de Kloet at  b.j.dekloet@uva.nl

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