Public Seminar
'Making Places for the Arts in the City'
March 5th 2011,
15:00 – 18.00
Cezayir Salon
Hayriye Caddesi 12, Galatasaray
Beyoğlu, 34425 Istanbul
The 'Making Places for the Arts in the City' seminar will open into discussion the sustainability and the interaction of the contemporary art and culture venues in the metropolises in relation to the urban dynamics focusing on the problematics of the cultural sector today.
Moderator:
Banu Karaca, Sabancı University (TR)
Speakers:
- Beral Madra, BM Contemporary Art Centre (TR);
- Emina Višnić, POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth (HR);
- David Vernet, European Forum for Architectural Policies (FR);
- Levent Soysal, Kadir Has University (TR);
- Matjaz Ursic, Ljubljana University (SI)
Mirrors of ongoing social, economical, environmental transformations in our societies, European metropolis are moved by deep transformations and crisis. As complex social and cultural spaces, they also hold a reserve of invention and experimentation, laboratories for new ways of interrelations, of addressing diversity and multiculturalism, for new forms of citizenship, governance and activism, for reformulating our relationship to our environment and nature. They need to reinvent their own mode of making, developing, living together into contemporary inclusive and sustainable metropolises, connected at European and global levels. Istanbul, as a fast-changing megacity with all the problems and challenges associated with such large urban forms in developing countries, is both at the core and at the avant-garde of such transformation processes: both the unofficial capital city in terms of the creative energy and transformative dynamism and an urban phenomenon of huge contrasts and tensions.
Artists and cultural actors play a part in the animation of such changing processes, animating new interstitial spaces were alternative forms may be invented, generating transformative dynamics for new intelligences, resiliencies, governances and interrelations. Could cultural venues and projects be some of the places of such reformulation and activation? How may actors involved in urban issues from various prospectives and provenance propose transdisciplinary approaches likely to tackle complex challenges and to question the idea of cities as a shared society project? What types of public policies should then be suitable to accompany such transformations? Those are the issues we'd wish to address during this workshop, by opening during three days a field to network, to exchange practices, knowledge and know-how, and to look for new ways to address shared issues.
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Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency is the Beneficiary of this project.
The Contracting Authority of this project is Central Finance and Contracts Unit.
