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Nicholas Makris

Nicholas Makris

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing at MIT. How are new technologies, such as Ocean Waveguide Remote Sensing, enabling many new discoveries about remote undersea habitats?...

AbdouMaliq Simone

AbdouMaliq Simone

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Urbanist; Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, London (UK) What kinds of survival tactics are being developed by city dwellers who live in marginalized environments that are not stable, orderly or sustainin...

Lukas Feireiss

Lukas Feireiss

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Curator and editor, die gestalten verlag (dvg), Berlin (Germany) With a population of six billion and an increasingly complex technology, civilization has become a force akin to nature, causing far-reaching changes to earth?s ecosystem. ...

Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Art Critic; chief curator Italian National Contemporary Art Museum (MAXXI), Rome (Italy) What cultural dimensional insights can be drawn from the juxtaposition of our contemporary visions of the future with those of the optimistic and ut...

Stefano Boeri

Stefano Boeri

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Architect; editor in chief of the magazine Abitare; Visiting Professor Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Cambridge (USA) Stefano Boeri is a Milan-based architect and founder of the research agency Multiplicity (www.multipl...

Regina Bittner

Regina Bittner

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Cultural scientist; art historian; coordinator Bauhaus Kolleg at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; curator, Dessau (Germany) What mechanisms are restructuring cities of Middle and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain? How and w...

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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How does a series of anxiety-producing events and incidents play out in urban situations in the course of the perpetration of ?terror? that claims not only bodies but biographies as well? Can it be said that the discourse about ?terroris...

Philippe Rekacewicz

Philippe Rekacewicz

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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What is the relationship between cartography and art, between science and politics? How does this influence the use and manipulation of maps as a propaganda tool? Philippe Rekacewicz is a geographer, cartographer and journalist. For twen...

 Pia Maria Ahlback

Pia Maria Ahlback

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Lecturer, Researcher in Comparative Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Ahlbäck will examine a small number of spatial examples, urban and others, in the light of the phenomenological thought of the French philosopher Gaston Bach...

Peter Marcuse

Peter Marcuse

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Planner; lawyer; Professor Emeritus Urban Planning, Columbia University (NYC) Utopias can be good (humanist) or bad (neo-liberal), achievable (the city of plenty) or unachievable (the dream city), strategic (utopias of process) or illus...

 Yvonne P. Doderer

Yvonne P. Doderer

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Doderer is an architect and urban researcher, and a Professor of Gender in Media and Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Duesseldorf, Germany. Doderer will discuss the contribution of sociopolitical movements to the imaginati...

 Ute Meta Bauer

Ute Meta Bauer

2008 Fall Lecture Series "THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia'

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Bauer will introduce the lectures series. “This is Tomorrow” was a ground-breaking trans-disciplinary exhibition (London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1956) involving key artists, architects, musicians and designers evaluating “habitation” ...