Treinta años de ciudad terapia

Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm reflects on the term �urban therapy�, and on the importance of intervention in some specific key areas of the city to achieve its regeneration. From his experience as an independent urbanist, Hoffmann-Axthelm describes in detail the historic traumas of the city of Berlin, and the controversial development of certain projects that have been carried out under Berlin�s official town planning, such as the Friedrichstadt area, Tiergarten, Friedrichswerder, Kreuzberg, Potsdamer Platz, etc.La ponencia de Dieter Hofman se centra en reflexionar acerca del término que ha acuñado: terapia urbana, asunto importante en la organización previa de una ciudad. A su vez explica, a través de algunas obras, los 30 años de experiencia como urbanista y describe detalladamente algunos proyectos que se han llevado a cabo en la planificación oficial de Berlín, como la zona de Friedrichstadt, Tiergarten, Friedrichswerder, Kreuzberg, Postdamerplatz, et

The planning of Berlin's city and historic centre

Since the fall of the Wall, there has been heavy international investment in building in East Berlin. On the whole, efforts have remained marginal. Only the western part of East Berlin with its baroque grid has been developed. The central and eastern parts remain as they were. The planning for City East follows four main criteria: to redefine the historic core by structural means without resort to architectural pastiche; to redesign the major roads which occupy much of the historic centre; to restructure the modernism of the GDR capital without demolishing the (mainly prefabricated) buildings; to form an idea of the third town which would be developed by merging existing features with our new plan

Materiality

"This anthology focuses on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes, entangling their audience in a web of connections. It investigates the role of materiality in art that attempts to expand notions of time, space, process, or participation. And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with social norms, emerging as impure formations and messy, unstable substances. It reexamines the notion of “dematerialization”; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject and phobic; explores the vitality of substances; and addresses the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation." -- Publisher's website