Zusammenfassung
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Beschreibung
Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban
Urban Environments Initiative (UEI)
Rachel Carson Center
30 June - 2 July 2021
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Program
Day 1 (30 June)
Whose Urban “Nature”?
The Politics of Aesthetics, Urban Ecologies, the Unintended and the Unwanted
The contributions to this theme address different concepts of what urban “Nature” is, could or should be, and the ways in which different actors advocate for these multiple understandings—for what purposes and to what effect. Often, the taken-for-granted idea of “Nature” and what it constitutes translates into forms of in- and exclusion. For instance, consider the selection of species that are welcome in urban green spaces and those that are not based on conceptions of “Nature” that favor the “green” and “beautiful” over the ecologically valuable (but to the human taste less appealing). This is further complicated by un-/intended consequences of a particular understanding or promotion of urban “Nature” and subsequent interventions.
13:00 – 13:30 (CEST) Welcome and Introduction
Conveners: Eveline Dürr, LMU Munich and Regine Keller, TU Munich
13:30 – 14:45 Un/Known Urban Natures
Working Group 1
Raúl Acosta, LMU Munich; Joseph Adeniran Adedeji, FUTA Akure; Maan Barua, University of Cambridge; Matthew Gandy, University of Cambridge; Sasha Gora, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Kara Schlichting, City University of New York
14:45 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:15 Open Panel 1
Living With Parrots. In a Novel Ecosystem: Urban Natures and the Unexpected Consequences of a Species Reintroduction
Cameron Boyle, Australian National University
The Transformation of Green Zones in Yerevan (Armenia): The Domestication of Nature, Times of Ruination and the Idea of New ‘Hanging Gardens’
Heiko Conrad, Goethe University Frankfurt; Susanne Fehlings, Goethe University Frankfurt
From Nature to the Urban Environments: The Transformation of the Istavros Royal Garden in the 1720s alongside the Incremental
Urbanisation of the Bosphorus Shores
Nazli Songülen, European University Institute, Florence
16:15 – 17:30 Keynote: “Debating Urban Climates”
Hannah Knox, University College London and Anuradha Mathur, University of Pennsylvania
17:30 – 18:00 Conclusion
Conveners: Eveline Dürr and Regine Keller
Day 2 (1 July)
Making Urban Environments:
Planning, Agents, Voices, and Absences/Gaps, Livelihoods and Extinction, Power, In-/justice
Here, “making” is understood in the broadest possible sense, including not only the obvious top-down practices of designing and building by professional practitioners, politicians, and experts, but also everyday practices of humans and nonhumans creating their particular place within the wider context of an urban environment. It includes top-down as well as bottom-up processes of urban planning and making, resistance to them, or struggles to make a place at all. Contributions scrutinize how and by whom are decisions in urban planning made? Whose voices are heard, who is absent or not represented, who has the power to influence? Who does not? In this regard, Theme 2 also speaks to the broader issues of in- and exclusion, in-/justice, and power.
13:00 – 13:15 (CEST) Welcome and Introduction
Daniel Dumas, LMU Munich
13:15 – 14:30 Making Urban Environments: Infrastructures of Power, Resistance and Negotiation
Working Group 2
Sonja Dümpelmann, University of Pennsylvania; Robert R. Gioielli, University of Cincinnati; Stephan Pauleit, TU Munich; Anindya Sinha, NIAS Bangalore; Katherine Wright, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich; Amy Zhang, NYU
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 16:00 Open Panel 2
Cities as Floristical Islands: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Colombian Cities
Diego Molina, University of Reading
“Porcine Cities – Precarious Infrastructures and Caste Ecologies in Delhi’s Informal Settlements”
Sneha Gutgutia, National Insitute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
Urban Duality in Nigerian Cities: Negotiating Rural Identities in Peri-urban Areas of Makurdi Town
Patience Adzande, Benue State University
16:00 – 16:15 Conclusion
Conveners: Eveline Dürr and Regine Keller
16:15 – 17:30 Wonder.me Social Gathering
Day 3 (2 July)
Openness to or Foreclosure of Futures:
The Ethics and Politics of Expectation and Modulation
Planning, by default, demands forecasting the future by means of modulation; that is, a projection of the likeliest future. But what happens when this future refuses to realize? This and other questions concerning possible futures are adressed on this final day. Apart from the fact that it is often impossible to make “correct” predictions, modulations do not simply express what is anticipated but what is actually desired—and vice versa. In this regard, modulation actively reduces the range of future possibilities or possible futures because it is guided by particular expectations and ambitions, and thus by ethics and politics. Once more, this raises questions of in- and exclsuion, in-/justice, access to processes of decision-making etc. Finally, what does it mean if we, instead of forecasting, are open to various possibilities and re-imaginaries, open to emerging regimes and forms of polities, knowledge, citizenship, etc.? How open can the future be for us in the present; where lie the limits of openendedness?
13:00 – 13:15 (CEST) Welcome and Introduction
Carolin Maertens, LMU Munich
13:15 – 14:30 One and Six Times – About the Modulation and the Expectation of Timescapes
Working Group 3
Benedikt Boucsein, TU Munich; Karen Holmberg, NYU; Simone Müller, LMU Munich; Talitta Reitz, LMU Munich; Dorothee Rummel, TU Munich; Avi Sharma, TU Berlin
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 16:00 Open Panel 3
Fabricating the Future: Making the Urban Environment in Contemporary Singapore
Jamie Wang, University of Sydney
Marginal Ecological Aesthetics and the Future Health of a Chinese Steel City
Travis Klingberg, NYU Shanghai
Beauty and Confusion in a Modern Cityscape, or Art Versus Development in a Nordic Capital
Eeva Berglund, Aalto University
16:00 – 17:00 Closing of the Conference
Conveners: Eveline Dürr and Regine Keller
