City of Collision 2006 - Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism
The German Academy of Arts, the University of the Arts Berlin and the Allianz Kulturstiftung invite you to the launch of City of Collision and panel discussion.
Panel Discussion with P. Misselwitz, E. Weizmann, P. Marcuse, S. Hanafi und T. Rieniets
Almost eight decades of violent urban conflict have transformed Jerusalem into an extreme spatial configuration. From a Western perspective, Jerusalem is often regarded as unique: a place where colonial and terrorist violence blur distinctions between the military and the civilian. But as cities worldwide are increasingly subject to dramatic new security policies and preventative measures against real or imagined threats Jerusalem, as a laboratory of conflict urbanism is in fact closer than we think.
Lecture of Peter Marcuse
City of Collision presents a vivid picture of a city in a permanent state of destruction and reinvention, hostage to political planning, collective fear and physical and mental walls but also strategies of resilience, individual exchange and transgression. Thirty new essays by leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international architects, artists, sociologists and political commentators open up different perspectives on the complex and ambivalent urban reality of contemporary Jerusalem. City of Collision also features specially commissioned photographs by Bas Princen and Polly Braden and is illustrated with over forty new detailed thematic maps.
City of Collision is edited by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets and published in connection with the project "Grenzgeografien", a cooperation between the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK), Institute for Urban Design (ETH Zürich), Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem) and the International Peace and Cooperation Centre IPCC (Jerusalem).
Symposium: City of Collision
"City of Collision", conflict urbanism - well-known Experts and audience will work on these topics after the launch.
Introduction lectures, held by the following experts, will open the symposium:
Sari Hanafi (Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut), Peter Marcuse (Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, New York), Eyal Weizman (Architect and writer, Goldsmith College, London)
Afterwards:
Victims, Weapons or Mediators? Transformations in the relationship between contemporary cities and conflict.
A panel discussion will explore the condition of contemporary cities
... in a world where distinctions between the military and the civilian, between real and constructed threats, between security measures and socio-economic or ethnic segregation are increasingly blurred. Considering North-American, European and Middle Eastern Cities, the panel will discuss how cities increasingly struggle to maintain urban settings for the mediation of difference and diversity. Can the extreme spatial segregation of Jerusalem be considered as a prototype for a future urban condition? Can the city that produced such radical conflict urbanism also serve as a laboratory for practices that undermine, erode and transgress this condition? Participants of the panel include Sari Hanafi, Peter Marcuse, Eyal Weizman, Peter Zlonicki (Professor for Urban Planning, Munich). The panel will be moderated by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets (editors of City of Collision).
The project was supported by Allianz Kulturstiftung, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Goethe Institute, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung BpB, Mondriaan Stichting, Arthur Goldreich Trust, University of the Arts Berlin, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
6 pm - 9 pm, 21st of August 2006, German Academy of Arts, Pariser Platz 4, Berlin
