Open City - International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam http://opencity.iabr.nl Open City Agenda [27 Jan 2010] Impressions 4th IABR 24 Sep 2009 - 10 Jan 2010 http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_notes/impressions.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_notes/impressions.php [18 Jan 2010] Projects for the Open City From 11 January to 12 February, a selection of projects created for Parallel Cases//IABR@RDM will be on display at the École nationale supérieur d'architecture de... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_notes/Projects_for_the_Open_City.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_notes/Projects_for_the_Open_City.php [07 Jan 2010] Lecture Saskia Sassen The closing lecture of the American sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen of coming Thursday, 7 January is fully booked. Sassen will be giving the lecture "A New... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Jan07_SaskiaSassen.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Jan07_SaskiaSassen.php [04 Jan 2010] Talk & Tour with Jörg Stollmann (Squat) http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_notes/Dec19_TTSquat.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_notes/Dec19_TTSquat.php [20 Dec 2009] IDFA Film – Garbage Dreams The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for film documentaries. At the request of the 4th IABR, the IDFA compiled a special... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec20_idfa_film.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec20_idfa_film.php [19 Dec 2009] Open City Talk & Tour Guided tour and introduction by Jörg Stollman (DE), sub-curator of the Squat exhibition of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). After the tour,... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec19_open_city_talk_and_tour.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec19_open_city_talk_and_tour.php [19 Dec 2009] Next Exit Confusion Square. Open Cities: Rotterdam - Addis Ababa This workshop wants to explore how everyday life is facilitated and shaped within and by the city one lives in. Experts of the comparative study are the workshop participants who... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec19_workshop.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec19_workshop.php [18 Dec 2009] Open Podium Every Friday afternoon, a local "cultural ambassador" appears as host or hostess of a performance, presentation or discussion relating to the theme of the week, this... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec18_open_podium.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec18_open_podium.php [17 Dec 2009] Open City Lecture and Debate Robert Neuwirth Lecture by journalist and writer Robert Neuwirth (US) on the theme Squat and 'squatter communities'. Having spent two years living in squatter communities across four... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec17_lecture_debate.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec17_lecture_debate.php [16 Dec 2009] IDFA Film – Garbage Dreams The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for film documentaries. At the request of the 4th IABR, the IDFA compiled a special... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec16_idfa_film.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec16_idfa_film.php [13 Dec 2009] Incidental Film - Carefree Vacant Property The documentary ‘Leegstand zonder Zorgen’ [Carefree Vacant Property] by Abel Heijkamp (54’) represents the first time anybody has taken a detailed look at... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec13_incidental_event.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec13_incidental_event.php [13 Dec 2009] Open City Debate - Squat Politics The Bill seeking to prohibit squatting that was recently proposed before Dutch Parliament seems to stand a big chance of passing into law. Although the practical effects this... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec13_debate.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec13_debate.php [13 Dec 2009] Squatting designed The Netherlands As an essential parameter of the ‘Open city’, Dutch legislation reserves a place for individual initiative in the urban space by sanctioning squatting in its unique... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec13_exhi.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec13_exhi.php [12 Dec 2009] VPRO Film 'Staying Alive in Jo'burg' Screening of the VPRO Metropolis documentary Staying Alive in Jo'burg directed by Rob Schröder. A co-production of the VPRO and the 4th International Architecture Biennale... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec12_vpro_film.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec12_vpro_film.php [12 Dec 2009] Urban Planning: Profession or Vacuum AIR, in co-operation with KCAP Architects & Planners, organises a symposium on the state of urban planning in Rotterdam on Saturday December 12. The symposium takes place... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec-12_kcap.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec-12_kcap.php [11 Dec 2009] Open Podium Every Friday afternoon, a local 'cultural ambassador' appears as host or hostess of a performance, presentation or discussion. This week's theme is Segregation. Sound(s)... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec11_open_podium.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec11_open_podium.php [11 Dec 2009] Open City Expert Meeting  “Urban restructuring through ‘creative destruction’, violently segregates, as nearly always has a class dimension since it is the poor, the underprivileged... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec11_open_city_expert_meeting.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec11_open_city_expert_meeting.php [11 Dec 2009] Round Tour Parallel Cases Ralf Pasel, curator of the 4th IABR's exhibition Parallel Cases at the RDM Campus will give a round tour. There are still places availble. You are very welcome to join these... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec11-12_rondleidingParallelCases.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/Dec11-12_rondleidingParallelCases.php [11 Dec 2009] Segregation - The Other City: Exposing Tarwewijk “Urban restructuring through creative destruction, violently segregates, as nearly always has a class dimension since it is the poor, the underprivileged and those... http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec9-11-TheOtherCity.php http://opencity.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/_calendar/dec9-11-TheOtherCity.php [11 Dec 2009] Film: Moving in Free Zones #2 and Film ZUID MFZ is the second edition of an interdisciplinary workshop researching and creating awareness on the urban dedevelopment of Charlois. This workshop worked on the production of... http://opencity.iabr.nl