“THE Public Space”

opening: August 30, 1995, 7 p.m.

Continuous attempts to organize the city as perfectly and functionally as possible has deteriorated the power of natural urban development. The urban public disappeared. What’s left is resignation, critical voices became silent. The public space gets overlapped by consumeristic signals and replaced by telematic spaces.

Nevertheless a commonplaceness still exists which demands a basic supply – the parking place, the super market, the shoemaker, the dry cleaner, the café, the restaurant.
The public space shall, again be filled collectively and fullfill democratic demands. Starting from this social tasks experts from various fields of humanities, theory and communication studies, together with the guest professors of the 6th Seminar were adressing the topic of THE Public Space.

Lectures by:
– Jos Bosman, Delft
“Two Strageties”
– Thomas Held, Zurich
“Architecture and Public”
– Kay Friedrichs, Karlsruhe
“Network as “Public Space”
– Bart Lootsma, Rotterdam

“The New Landscape”

as well as the participating architects of the Seminar
– Mariano Bayón, Madrid
– Ben van Berkel, Amsterdam
– Michelangelo Pistoletto, Turin
– Fabio Reinhart, Lugano
– Dagmar Richter, Los Angeles