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Marketing War - Danny Kaplan
New York, September 26th 2009, 14:00
In times of war commercial considerations present new ways to promote culturally available sentiments of nationalism, previously sustained by state institutions. As governments withdraw from managing emergency services this vacuum may be taken up by private agents, particularly at the local-municipal level. This question of marketing war is examined in a case-study of a commercial radio station in the city of Haifa during the 2006 Lebanon War.
Cold war planning - Jennifer S. Light
New York, September 26th 2009, 11:00
Cold war physical planning is frequently invoked in contemporary discussions about post 9/11 urban planning in the US, but another equally important/pervasive aspect of collaborations between defense planners and urban planners in the Cold War era is forgotten in these discussions. I'll talk about several technology-focused collaborations in the 1960s and suggest why this more expansive definition of Cold War planning history is important and relevant for thinking about cities and war today.
Oksana Bulgakowa: On Eisensteins Que viva Mexico
Marwan Fayed: Legalising an Urban Tumour
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
(in Arabic)
Marwan Fayed proposes alternative approaches to conventional urban design practices. In Fayed’s interventions, function is not dictated by design, but rather, is ascribed by city inhabitants who constantly reprogram the use of public space. Based on observations of public behaviour, his site-specific applications lend themselves adaptable to the spontaneity of a constantly mutating landscape.
Zoom - Shaina Anand
The Park – Investigation in a Post-Productive Cluster
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Presentation by Marion von Osten, Katja Reichard, Peter Spillmann (in English)