Conference Urban Research and Architecture

The conference Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre (Zurich, November 24th-26th, 2009) was organized by the Chairs of Architecture Theory and the Lectureship of Sociology at the Department of Architecture ETH Zurich, with the support of the Swiss Science Foundation, and the Brupbacher Foundation.

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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
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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
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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
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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