Caracas Urban Think Tank
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Informal Urban Culture
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28/6/2003

Informal Urban Culture

Caracas Urban Think Tank, Caracas

CARACASCASE, an international, interdisciplinary project initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany and Caracas Urban Think Tank (CCS-TT), will hold a week of presentations and a 2-day international symposium on the subject of 'Informal Urban Culture' in Caracas, Venezuela.


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If architecture is frozen music, then urbanism is frozen politics.

The symposium will examine the explosive growth of 'megacities' in the so-called developing world, and the rhizome-like expansion of Latin American prototypes of this hypergrowth. Among the effects of improvised cities such as these, with their culture of 'informal' developments, has been to upend long-established European notions of the city, with the result that we no longer possess a universally applicable urban image and model.

A new type of Iron Curtain is separating the continents, one that isolates north from south, wealth from poverty.

How to understand the phenomenon of cities growing by destroying their traditional systems of organization and reorganizing the resulting apparent chaos by means of informal interventions, and what its relevance is to the so-called developed world will be among the questions the symposium will pose.

Urbanity, architecture and the culture of a city is much too important to be an elite consumer good.

The INFORMAL URBAN CULTURE Symposium is part of the larger CARACASCASE Project, a multi-faceted initiative designed to understand and potentiate the culture and urbanism of the informal city. Taking the city of Caracas as its first case study, CARACASCASE has invited ten teams of specialists from over fifteen countries (Japan, Brazil, Mexico, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Austria etc.) and from different fields of expertise (architecture and urbanism, sociology, art, photography etc.) to come to Caracas as Fellows of the project to examine the urgent questions raised by the informal city. Their work will be discussed at the symposium, and will form part of a traveling exhibition later this year and a publication in 2004.

The powerfully inventive role of the embedded city makes it an untapped urban laboratory for the fast approaching future.

On behalf of CCS-TT directors Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, we invite you to join us in Caracas from June 29th until July 6th for a program that will include the presentations of the works-in-progress of the CARACASCASE Fellows and a two-day symposium. Joining the Fellows will be a number of local experts and invited international guests.

Invited speakers:

Diana Agrest from Agrest & Gandelsonas, architect, New York
Elmar Altvater, economist and sociologist, Berlin
Andrés Antillano, social psychologist and community activist, Caracas
Guy Battle from Battle McCarthy, environmental and building engineer, London
Regina Bittner, cultural scientist and art historian, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany
Azier Calvo, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
Néstor García Canclini, philosopher and anthropologist, México DF
Blanca Eekhout, audio-visual producer, Caracas
Shuhei Endo, architect, Osaka
Celeste Olalquiaga, cultural historian, Paris
Maciá Pintó, architect, Caracas
Neil Smith, geographer, New York
Felix Zwoch, journalist and editor of Bauwelt, Berlin
Alfredo Brillembourg (founder) and Hubert Klumpner, architects and directors of CCS-TT, Caracas
Mateo Pintó and Matías Pintó, architects and associate directors of CCS-TT, Caracas

With contributions of the Fellows of the CARACASCASE project: Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber; André Cypriano; Keisuke Fukuma; Guy Lafayette and Marco Poletto; Kirsten MacLeod, María Alejandra Padrón and Nicolas Bancilhon; Felix Madrazo and Elena Chevtchenko; Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau; Marjetica Potrc and Liyat Esakov; Armando Silva, Amanda Castiblanco, Guillermo Santos, Tulio Hernandez and Ana María Torrealba; Raul Zelik.

CARACASCASE – The Culture of the Informal City is a project of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany and the Caracas Urban Think Tank (CCS-TT), a private, independent, not-for-profit research development laboratory

Caracas Urban Think Tank / CCS-TT
Edif. EASO Ofc.4i Av. Francisco de Miranda, Chacaito
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