Conference paper, presented at 'Designed to Improve', Hambur

Willcocks, Marcus

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Designed to improve?Socializing Design?Buildings, interventions and the makings of the ’social’ in interdisciplinary urban practicesFran Tonkiss London School of Economics22-24 May 2014 InternationalWorkshopThe keynote is free to attend.Register for the worskshop until 8 May 2014 (hanna.goebel@uni-hamburg.de).Annual meeting of the working group ‘architectural sociology‘ of the German Sociological Associaton (DGS) sections cultural sociology and urban and regional sociology. Hosted by Universität Hamburg (Hanna Katharina Göbel) in cooperation with HafenCity University Hamburg (Anna Richter) and TU Darmstadt (Monika Grubbauer).Universität HamburgInstitute of Human Movement ScienceMollerstraße 10, 20148 Hamburg22 May | 13:00Keynote  | Universität Hamburg, Institute of Human Movement ScienceThursday22 MayUniversität HamburgMollerstraße 1010:00 – 13:00Guided tour St. Pauli / Park Fiction and Gängeviertel with Martin Kohler (D)Designed to improve? Workshop ProgramOrganizers: Hanna Katharina Göbel, Monika Grubbauer, Anna Richter18:00Roundtable discussion: The ’social-isms’ in urban design – material fallacies? Bill Michelson (CAN), Bernd Kniess (D), Fran Tonkiss (UK)Friday23 MayUniversität Hamburg Mollerstraße 10Saturday24 May12:30Registration13:00Introduction13:30Socializing Design? KeynoteFran Tonkiss (UK)15:00 – 17:00Panel I: The ‘urban lab’: methods, problems, futuresThe building as laboratory of social interaction. Cedric Price’sMcAppy project and the influence of science on the architecture of the 1960sTanja Herdt (CH)Takin’ it to the street: Art institutions as forums for urban problems in New York’s Lower East SideMax & Samuel Holleran (US)Making the laboratory work: the potential of the laboratory in interdisciplinary researchAnna Flach, Peter Tränkle & Marko Marskamp (CH)Commentator: Alexa Färber (D)17:30 – 19:30Panel II: Fetish cultures of built objects and urban materials‘Social Architecture’: between radical politics andproject/object?Sandra Meireis, Nina Gribat (D)Improvement without design. Vernacular, migration and the role of the ‘social’ in informal urban architectureSytse de Maat (CH)How to make architecture social? Advocating new design dynamic: socialisation of commonly shared spaceSandra Uskokovic,Boris Bakal (CR)Commentator: Tatjana Schneider (UK)10:00 – 12:00Panel III: Aesthetic knowledge of the built environment and social designShaping the designed environ-ment: A critical review of streetfurnitureEllie Herring (UK)Kiosk. Potentials and problems of micro-architectures as social designVerena Kuni (D)Can we build social in face of conflict?Marcus Willcocks (UK)Commentator: Heike Lüken (D)13:00 – 15:00Panel IV: The politics of urban idealisms and visionsThe Civil Disobedience of De-sign: Critical Practice, ‘Not Doing’ and the experience of the Community Architects NetworkGiorgio Talocci, Camillo Boano (UK)The political economies of design activism and social de-sign in the age of financialisationGuy Julier (UK)The shotgun of selective belonging: Local housebuilding initiatives and the transformation of New OrleansGraham Owen (CAN)Commentator: Kate Shaw (AUS)15:30 –17:30Panel V: Tired of participation?Participation and its discontentsLutz Robbers (D)The Dialogue between residents and their ‘Infonavit houses’ in social housing developments in MexicoGabriela Ibarra (UK)Bottom-up urban transformations of Savamala neighbourhood in Belgrade, SerbiaMarija Cvetinovic, Ivan Kucina, Jean-Claude Bolay (CH/SRB)Commentator: Bill Michelson (CAN)

Can We Build Social in Face of Conflict

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