[Oberlist] HR* evnt/conf/urb: Post-capitalist City / Pula , 14. – 16. August 2009

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Subject: [transversal] Post-capitalist City / Pula, Croatia / 14. – 16.
August 2009
From:    "J Becker" <plaan la gmx.net>
Date:    Thu, August 6, 2009 20:20
To:      metrozones la arcor.de
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International Conference

Post-capitalist City

PULA, CROATIA

14. – 16. August 2009




Invited groups:

Exyzt, Paris

Fram-menti, Treviso

Hackitectura, Sevilla

Krax, Barcelona

Elena Marchigiani, Trieste

metroZones, Berlin*

M.i.m.o. Lab, Milano

Multilpicity, Milano

Observatorio Metropolitano, Madrid

Raumlabor, Berlin

Salottobuono, Venice

Self Made City, Rome

Dustin Tusnovics, Vienna



The city is the space where the reproduction of social, political and
economic forms of life takes place and where these forms of life
confront instrumental political power or political diagonal. This
reproduction of forms of life represents the central site of
exploitation as well as of resistance. Resistance is manifested
through production of common values and through cooperation. This
complex environment can be the key force behind the making of
democracy, justice, common values and free space. Cities can become
places of post-capitalism.

During three days, the Conference on Post-capitalist City will present
the common experiences of European groups involved in mapping,
planning and creating situations which escape both the capitalist
logic of production of space and reproduction of life. Some of these
groups will present their work in the form of lectures after which
discussions will follow.

  - The goal of the Conference is to affirm an international network
of individuals and groups exploring various forms of self-organizing
in urban planning. The participants' experiences, their current
projects and practices, will be collected in a catalogue/brochure
which will be used for further activities. The catalogue is conceived
as a theoretical elaboration of practices, sorted by the criteria of
1) method 2) tools/instruments 3) strategy and tactics.

- Our intention is to share experiences as well as create a Document
summarizing our conclusions into a general thesis to be used in
further actions.

The project's hypothesis: It is necessary to reread the processes of
exploitation and resistance in the city as well as understand the
curren relations of political powers in order to create a new
urbanism, independent from the state and other political institutions.
In other words, we propose that the separation of urban planning from
the state is finally conceivable. The existing forms of production and
life have already erased the border between the profession and its
beneficiaries, between planners and citizens, architects and
activists. To research new aspects of urban development is to reinvent
them. Individual experience has become the key for describing the new
urban dynamics.

The Symposium will take place in Pula, a city on the Croatian coast.
This environment should be inspiring for investigating the separation
of planning and state because the state has been retreating from Pula
for the last 20 years. A historical military port, the town was
deserted by the army and now offers vast abandoned areas. Most of
these spaces did not integrate into commodity markets and the
accompanying system of political power, but were transformed instead
into a laboratory for new forms of living, an informal economy and
autonomous production of common values. At this moment, the size of
the ex-military areas developing independently is ten times bigger
than the ex-military areas officially integrated into the dominant
economic regime.

The process of demilitarization in Pula started as a minor issue, but
has subsequently grown into the central process by which the city is
transformed. As in other cities in a similar situation, here too the
same question arises: What knowledge, methods and tools are needed to
establish a new practice of city planning based on new forms of
living, and to turn the existing political diagonal in its own
advantage?

The Symposium on Post-Capitalist City is a part of the Multimedia
festival Media Mediterranea. More information and the detailed
programme:

http://www.postcapitalistcity.blog.hr

* with Britta Grell & Jochen Becker
http://www.metroZones.info


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