City
Portrait. Johannesburg
international conference June
25th – June 26th 2015 Badoer, aula Tafuri San Polo 2468 Venice, Italy organised by Paola Piscitelli in collaboration with Giovanna Marconi e Elena Ostanel con Giovanni Vio |
eventi collegati: proiezioni
June 23th – 24th
2015
Johannesburg
before and after apartheid >>
Iuav - Tolentini
June 25th 2015
La Casa del
Cinema
The
conference aims to explore possible trends of contemporary urban
transformations, from the "city-into-being" par excellence.
What was
supposed to be one of the beating hearts of the post-apartheid "rainbow
nation", appears today as a "divided city", hit by a substantial
neoliberal urban development that poses major challenges to old and new issues:
on one hand, the fight against xenophobia, urban violence, crime, poverty,
socio-spatial segregation, abandonment and illegal reuse of large parts of the
urban structure; on the other hand, the challenges that emerge from the
inhabitants who claim their ‘right to the city’, collecting,
channelling and harnessing the evident vitality and creativity expressed by
different sectors of a multi-ethnic society.
For all of
this and though not ignoring the characters of uniqueness present in this
specific urban context, Johannesburg represents an exciting terms for
comparison as well as an important occasion to reformulate traditional
categories of analysis and understanding of the social and urban space and to
direct them towards possible operational dimensions for policies, plans and
projects.
program
Thursday June 25
SharingSpace:
The Intercultural City and Collective Space in Johannesburg
coordinated by
SSIIM UNESCO Chair, University Iuav of Venice
h. 15.00
discussant
Marcello Balbo Director of the SSIIM Unesco Chair, University Iuav of Venice
Giovanna Marconi SSIIM, University Iuav of Venice, SharingSpace: the Project
Loren Landau University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, city of migrations
Bibi Burger Stellenbosch University, From Kleinbegin to Maboneng: fantastical spaces in the film Ballade vir’nenkeling (2015)
Simona Morini University Iuav of Venice, Visibile and Invisibile Boundaries in the City Space
Elena Ostanel SSIIM, University Iuav of Venice, Practices of Invisibilization and Migration
Laura Burocco Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ECO/UFRJ People’s place in “Braamopoly” an urban regeneration project in the inner city of Joburg
Paola Piscitelli University Iuav of Venice, Unveiling Transactional Spaces in the City. Routes, Territories and Places Shaped by Mozambican Cross-Border Traders in Johannesburg"
17.20
Debate
Friday June 26
Johannesburg
City Portraits. A Mosaic of Extremes
coordinated by Leonardo Ciacci and Paola Piscitelli
8.45 Coffee welcome
9.15
Greeting
Alberto Ferlenga Director Iuav School of Doctorate Studies
9.25
Introduction
Leonardo Ciacci Università Iuav di Venezia
Johannesburg
in the narrative of Nelson Mandela, André Brink and Wilburn Smith
Paola Piscitelli Università Iuav di Venezia
Introduction
to the panels and presentations
9.50
Re-representing
Johannesburg. City visioning processes, urban development and governance in the
“City of Gold”
discussant
Jennifer Robinson UCL-University College of London
City
strategies as repeated instances: from Johannesburg to Lilongwe and London
Philip Harrison University of Witwatersrand
In the
“belly of the beast”: An experiential reflection on urban
governance in the City of Johannesburg
Svea Josephy University of Cape Town
Ponte
City: city portrait
Roelof Petrus van Wyk University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
as a lively and hungry creative and cultural urban metropolis
11.10 >11.30 Coffee Break
11.30
Johannesburg,
a “city on the move”
discussant
Loren Landau University of the Witwatersrand
Governing
Mobility and Difference in Johannesburg’s Urban Estuaries
Federica Duca University of the Witwatersrand
A
response to the obsession with splintering. Johannesburg spaces under
review-relationally.
Alexandra Parker University of the Witwatersrand
The
Masculine City: Johannesburg and mobility represented in film
12.30 > 13.00
Discussion
13.00>14.30 Lunch
14.30
Informality
in the “City of Extremes”
discussant
Tanya Zack Urban Planner
Wake Up
This Is Joburg
Antonio Pezzano L’Orientale University of Naples
The
Modes of Governance in Informal Trading Management in the Inner City of
Johannesburg
Costanza La Mantia University of the Witwatersrand
Informality
and the Rainbow City: spontaneous practices and socio-environmental rights in
Greater Johannesburg
Marlene Wagner Architect
"A
place under the sun for everyone" - Basis for planning through the
analysis of formal and non-formal space practice, Cosmo City Johannesburg
16.00
Architecture
and Built Environment in the “City-Into-Being”
discussant
Giovanni Vio University Iuav of Venice
The
second life of architecture between apartheid and democracy
Andrew Makin Architect
South
Africa - urban & rural: [re]constituting a dismantled society
Hannah Le Roux University of Witwatersrand
Portrait
with coffee: incipient architectures in the frame of Jeppe
17.10>17.30
Discussion
17.30
Reading di poesia e
musica
Marco Fazzini Università di Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
Poetic
Johannesburg
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more information
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