Program 2009

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Please note: the on-line registration is closed, if you would like to participate in the conference you are welcomed to register at the venue, HIT building, ETH Hoenggerberg Campus

Tuesday, 24 November 17.00 – 17.15Ákos Moravánszky
HIT E51
17.15 – 18.00Keynote: Christine Boyer
“Complete Urbanization”: Dilemmas and Desires
HIT E51
18.00 – 18.15 Break
18.15 – 19.00 Mark Gottdiener
The New Urban Form and Contemporary Architectural Practice
HIT E51
19.00 – 19.45 Christian Schmid
Beyond Lefebvre: Practice and Theory of Urbanization
HIT E51
19.45 – 21.00 Apéro

Wednesday, 25 November

09.00 – 09.15 Marc Angélil
Welcome Address
HIT E51
09.15 – 10.00 Lukasz Stanek
Henri Lefebvre: Within and Beyond Architecture
HIT E51
10.00 – 10.45 Neil Brenner
Henri Lefebvre and the Urbanization Question
HIT E51
11.45 – 11.15Break
11.15 – 12.00 Xavier Costa
Moments and Situations
HIT E51
12.00 – 12.45 Arie Graafland
Ground
HIT E51

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 16.00PANEL 1: GLOBAL URBANIZATION AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS
HIT E51

14.00 – 14.25Wing-Shing Tang
When Lefebvre Meets the East: A Case of Redevelopment in Hong Kong
14.25 – 14.50 Aditya Mohanty
The Emergence of India’s Knowledge Economy and the Homogenization of Urban Spaces
14.50 – 15.15 Greig Charnock & Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
‘A New Space for Knowledge and People’? The Production of 22@barcelona
15.15 – 16.00Discussion

14.00 – 16.00PANEL 2: URBAN STRATEGIES
HIT K52

14.00 – 14.25 Rachel Kallus
Housing and the State-Constructed Everyday: The Case of Jerusalem
14.25 – 14.50 Thomas Doerfler
Delving Deeper with Lefebvre: the Lost Subjects of New Urban Agendas
14.50 – 15.15 Sabine Knierbein
The Production of Central Public Spaces in Berlin since 1980: the State, the Market and the Rise of the Economy of Attention
15.15 – 16.00Discussion

16.00 – 16.30 Break

16.30 – 18.30PANEL 3: THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
HIT E51

16.30 – 16.55 Yosef Jabareen
Theorizing Space of Risk: An Empirical Application of Lefebvre's Theory of Space Production in Nazareth
16.55 – 17.20 Sampo Villanen
The Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Political Demonstrations in Helsinki
17.20 – 17.45 Tarek Virani & Antonis Vradis
The Pulsating Rhythm of Discord: Examining the Athens Uprising of 2008 through the Work of Henri Lefebvre
17.45 – 18.30Discussion

16.00 – 16.30 Break

16.30 – 18.30PANEL 4: EVERYDAY RHYTHMS
HIT K52

16.30 – 16.55 Fraya Frehse
In Search of Difference Amid Global Urbanization: the Possibilities of Lefebvre’s Regressive-Progressive Method for Conceptualizing Present São Paulo
16.55 – 17.20 Ali Ekber Dogan
The Contradictory Production of Space in an Islamist Municipality: The Case of Kayseri Republican Square
17.20 – 17.45 Cláudia Rodrigues
Urban Rhythms and the Nocturnal City: an Approach to a Party District Edification on Porto Urban Centre
17.45 – 18.30Discussion

20.30 Dinner: restaurant

Thursday, 26 November

09.00 – 09.45Erik Swyngedouw
Whose Right to the City?: The Antinomies of the Post-Political City
HIT E51
09.45 – 10.30 Stefan Kipfer
Urban Marxism and the Postcolonial Challenge: Henri Lefebvre and ‘Colonization’
HIT E51
10.30 – 11.00Break

11.00 – 13.00PANEL 5: EVERYDAY LIFE AND ITS PROJECTS
HIT E51

11.00 – 11.25 Elisa Bertuzzo
Operationalizing Henri Lefebvre’s Theory of Production of Space: An Analysis of Everyday Life in Dhaka, Bangladesh
11.25 – 11.50 Tijana Stevanovic
Underground Passages in New Belgrade — Possible Heterotopias Allowing Formation of a New Urban Praxis
11.50 – 12.15 Timon Beyes & Zhongyuan Zhang
The Everyday Production of Space: Snapshots from Spatial Configurations in Chinese Bureaucracy
12.15 – 13.00Discussion

11.00 – 13.00PANEL 6: THEORETICAL FRONTIERS
HIT K52

11.00 – 11.25 Constance Carr
Induced minimal difference and post-structural difference: Are they categorically exclusive?
11.25 – 11.50 Michael Guggenheim
After “Society and Space”. Recomposing Lefebvre with Actor Network Theory and Social Systems Theory
11.50 – 12.15 Gregory Seigworth
Traversing Lefebvrian Cities / Deleuzian Architecture: Rhythms, Folds & Immanences
12.15 – 13.00Discussion

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

11.00 – 13.00PANEL 7: NO-PLACE FOR UTOPIA
HIT E51

14.00 – 14.25 Jan Lilliendahl Larsen, Jens Brandt, Martin Frandsen
“What’s Beautiful is the Voice of Small Groups Having Influence”
14.25 – 14.50 Panu Lehtovuori
Applying Spatiology to the Scale of Urban Projects — Oeuvre and Atmosphere as Generative Concepts
14.50 – 15.15 Nathaniel Coleman
There is no Alternative? Or, Lefebvre and Utopia
15.15 – 16.00Discussion

11.00 – 13.00PANEL 8: CONTESTED REPRESENTATIONS
HIT K52

14.00 – 14.25 Suzanne Paquet
The Intelligibility of Contemporary Urban Space: Some Figures and Practices
14.25 – 14.50 Jeanne Haffner
Historicizing “Social Space”: Aerial Photography and the Emergence of a Social Conception of Space in Postwar France.
14.50 – 15.15 Japhy Wilson
Neoliberal Representations of Space: The New Economic Geography and the Plan Puebla Panama
15.15 – 16.00Discussion

16.30 – 17.00 Break

17.30 – 18.00 Final discussion
HIT E51

All talks will take place in the HIT building, ETH Hoenggerberg Campus,
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27, CH-8093 Zurich