Saskia Sassen: Public Interventions

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Saskia Sassen: Public Interventions
The Shifting Meaning of the Urban Condition

De Balie, Amsterdam
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Start: 20.30 hrs (CET)
http://www.debalie.nl/media

Live-stream webcast:
www.debalie.nl/live

This year’s SKOR lecture (Fourndation for Art and Public Space) is delivered by Saskia Sassen, who will talk about the ‘making’ of public space by means of architectural and artistic interventions. The evening includes the presentation of Open 11, which takes hybrid space as its theme and includes an essay contributed by Sassen.

Human experience is threatened by the massive architecture of world cities and the density of infrastructures – digital and otherwise – that exist to serve international capital and the global economy. Sassen argues that there is a need for the production of subversive narratives as a counterbalance to this, to make the local and what has been silenced manifest and to generate new forms of ‘modest public spaces’.

Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor at the London School of Economics. She has gained worldwide acclaim for studies such as The Global City and Cities in a World Economy. Her most recent publication is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Panellists:
Arnold Reijndorp, urban sociologist
Willem van Weelden, artist and theorist
Moderator:
Bahram Sadeghi

Language: English

Organised by: SKOR / Open / De Balie

SKOR is the Netherlands Foundation for Art and Public Space
http://www.skor.nl

Open, a cahier about art and the public domain, is published twice a year by NAi Publishers in association with skor.
http://www.opencahier.nl

Open 11, “hybrid space”, investigates how wireless media mobilise and transform public space.
http://www.naipublishers.nl/art/open11_e.html
With contributions by Howard Rheingold, Saskia Sassen, Frans Vogelaar/Elizabeth Sikiardi, Noortje Marres, Koen Brams/Dirk Pultau, Marion Hamm, Esther Polak, De Geuzen, Kristina Andersen, Arie Altena, Daniel van der Velden, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Max Bruinsma, and Assia Kraan.
Guest-editor: Eric Kluitenberg

quelle: spectre list