Thursday June 4 2009: Reanimation of old New Towns
Location Schouwburg Almere, address Esplanade 10 Almere The Netherlands
Moderator Arnold Reijndorp
On June 4th the conference will explore existing cities and analyse the ways in which New Towns have been taken by real life after the original plans have been built, and the unplanned city and self-organised building activities have decidedly changed and shaped the resulting city. Also, lecturers will analyze how these ‘old’ New Towns have been revitalized and regenerated in recent years and how the unplanned urban culture and inhabitants are included in this reanimation.
09h00 doors open
09h30 Introduction by Michelle Provoost, director International New Town Institute
09h40 Joris van Casteren – How Lelystad received my book
10h00 Official opening by Andries Greiner, deputy Province of Flevoland
10h10 Wolfgang Kil - Normalisation of planned communities
10h55 Urban Think Tank - Defying Gravity: tactics and strategies
for the Informal City
11h40 discussion & questions
12h00 lunch at roof terrace V&D, address Citadel 16 Almere
Session 1 After the communist system
Location Blekerstraat 4, offices International New Town Institute
Moderator JaapJan Berg
13h00 Ana Dzokic (& Marc Neelen - STEALTH.unlimited) -
The Newest Belgrade
13h30 Andrey Ivanov - The city of Tolyatti as a socio-urban phenomenon
14h00 Jason Lee – Shanghai Luxuryspace
14h30-15h00 discussion & questions
Session 2 Western (post) planning
Location Utopolis cinema, address: Forum 16 Almere
Moderator Jord den Hollander
13h00 Deni Ruggeri - The new town of Zingonia: Death and Life of a Modernist Utopia
13h20 Signe Sophie Bøggild (& Marie Bruun-Yde) - The New Town and the Freetown; Plan-organisation plus minus self-organisation in Copenhagen
13h40 Anubhav Gupta (& Madhu C. Dutta Koehler) - New Delhi, Planned Capital City vs. Unplanned Capital City
14h00 Juval Portugali - On the boundaries of self-organization: Almere and Israeli new towns
14h30-15h00 discussion & questions
Afternoon program
15h30-17h30
Meeting point: offices International New Town Institute, address: Blekerstraat 4 Almere
1 Bike excursion ’Almere Beyond the Plan’ with artists Klaar van der Lippe & Bart Stuart
2 Guided city centre walking tour
3 Movie program: documentaries Caracas, WiMBY! and feature film Gregory’s Girl
18h00-19h30 dinner (optional) at restaurant Waterfont, Schouwburg Almere
Evening Public Lecture
Who’s Afraid of Planning? Adaptation and Flexibility in the New Town.
The public lecture evening ‘Who’s afraid of Planning?’ is about flexibility and adaptation in architecture and urban design. Is it possible to design a New Town in a flexible way? Can architecture be adaptive after the construction of the rigid master plan?
Location Schouwburg Almere (admission free)
20h00-23h00
Moderator Arjen Oosterman
Anne Lacaton (Lacaton & Vassal Architects, Paris) on regeneration scenario’s for modernist highrises.
Sam Jacob (FAT Architects, London) on the Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet, Rotterdam.
Jord den Hollander (architect/ movie maker, Rotterdam) premiere of movie on urban life in Tema (Ghana).
22h30 drinks
This is a public lecture and free of charge.
Friday 5th of June 2009 Anticipation of new New Towns
On June 5th the conference aims to acquire lessons for the future. This will be accomplished by speculating on how the planning of New Towns in the 21st Century can anticipate unplanned activities, be responsive to inhabitants’ input and to unexpected changes in political, economic or cultural context, thereby enriching both the planning profession and the city itself.
Location Schouwburg of Almere
Moderator Arnold Reijndorp
09h00 doors open
09h30 Introduction by Michelle Provoost
09h40 Wouter Vanstiphout - Plans They Love to Hate; Deregulation of Planning in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Islamic Republic of Iran
10h25 Claudio Acioly - Informal Settlements & Brasilia
11h10 discussion
11h30 lunch at foyer Schouwburg Almere
Session 1 Techniques, Analyses & New Methods
Location offices International New Town Institute, address Blekerstraat 4 Almere
Moderator Meta Berghauser-Pont
12h15 Marco Broekman (& Bart Brands – Karres en Brands) – The beauty of the unexpected: 10 statements about ‘the Planned vs. the Unplanned city’
12h35 Jing Zhou (& Hein de Haan) - Building by Registering - a tailor-made method of housing development: Beijing-Amsterdam
12h55 Pu Hao - A GIS Based Analysis of Unplanned Urban Development in Shenzhen
13h15 discussion
13h30 teabreak
13h45 Indy Johar (& Joost Beunderman) - Stress testing the ecology of newtowns
14h05 Joost van den Hoek - The MXI (mixed use index) as planning tool for New Towns in the 21st century
14h25 Bart Goldhoorn - Standardized urban planning: Russia
14h45-15h30 discussion
Session 2 Agents, Tools & the Economy
Location Schouwburg Almere
Moderator Felix Rottenberg
12h15 Jörg Stollmann - UrbanInform - a webtool for the informal city and its test sites
12h35 Ekim Tan - Inhabitants as agents in Istanbul & Almere
12h55 Kaveh Shafiei - The fragmented morphology of spontaneous settlements in Zahedan (Iran) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
13h15 discussion
13h15 teabreak
13h45 Tahl Kaminer - City and Society: The Keynesian New Town and the Resurrection of Neoclassical Capitalism
14h05 Peter Gotsch - AlphaVille-Tamboré? The Accidental New Town
14h25-15h30 discussion
Plenary session
15.30-17h30
Location Schouwburg Almere
Moderator Felix Rottenberg
15h30-16h00 teabreak
16h00-17h00 conclusions
17h00 Intermezzo ‘Surviving the suburb’ by Ton Matton
17h15 Presentation of ‘Model Town’, conference book 2007 to Adri Duivesteijn, alderman of the Municipality of Almere
17h30-19h00 drinks at cafe Bobbie Bier, address Forum 101 Almere
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