MOBILISING THE PERIPHERY # 5 Europe: From Fragmented Periphery to Metropolitan Region
Friday, 27 April 2018 and Saturday, 28 April 2018

The fifth and final symposium in the collaborative ANCB – Schindler Transit Management Group project on contemporary urban peripheries worldwide

Part 1 - Welcome and Introduction

Friday, 27 April 2018, 6.30 pm

Welcome and Introduction

Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
 - 00:00:00:00 - 00:03:40
Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin 
- 00:03:45 - 00:06:51

Part 2 - Keynotes Waller and Alkemade

Introduction

Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin 


- 00:00:00 - 00:03:05

Keynote Speakers and Podium Discussion

Marion Waller, Lead Advisor to Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Architecture, Attractiveness and Greater Paris Projects, Paris - 00:03:17 - 00:35:25

Floris Alkemade, Chief Government Architect of The Netherlands / Co-curator of the IABR-2018+2020 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 

- 00:37:24 - 01:09:14:15

Part 3 - Panel Discussion

Podium Discussion
 - 00:00:00 - 00:47:15
Marion Waller, Lead Advisor to Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Architecture, Attractiveness and Greater Paris Projects, Paris

Floris Alkemade, Chief Government Architect of The Netherlands / Co-curator of the IABR-2018+2020 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

Moderated by
Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin

Saturday, 28 April 2018, 10 pm - 1 pm


Part 4 - Impulse Statements and Q&A

Introduction

Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin - 00:00:00 - 00:01:27



Impulse Statements: Responses to the Fragmented Periphery

Christian Hanussek, Artist and Curator, metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs, Berlin
 - 00:01:30 - 00:12:12
Hans Venhuizen, Founder, Bureau Venhuizen, Rotterdam

 - 00:13:29 - 00:24:41
Walter Rohn, Senior Scientist, Research Group Urban Transformations, Austrian Academy of the Sciences, Vienna
 - 00:25:45 - 00:31:53

Q&A - 00:31:57 - 00:50:40


Part 5 - Impulse Statements and Q&A

Introduction

Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin - 00:00:00 - 00:01:05



Impulse Statements: Responses to the Fragmented Periphery

Kerstin Faber, Project Leader, IBA Thüringen, Weimar - 00:01:08 - 00:11:39
Kai Vöckler, Professor of Creativity in the Urban Context, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach / Head of Archis Interventions Berlin office

 - 00:12:39 - 00:23:23
Luis Feduchi, Founder, Luis Feduchi Arqto, Madrid - 00:24:20 - 00:37:00

Q&A - 00:37:06 - 00:52:23

Part 6 - Impulse Statements and Q&A

Introduction

Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin - 00:00:00 - 00:00:55



Impulse Statements: Responses to the Fragmented Periphery

Emily Kelling, Teaching and Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin - 00:00:56 - 00:11:24

Lucy Bullivant, Creative Director, Urbanista.org, London 
- 00:12:30 - 00:29:03
Vladimir Frolov, Art Historian and Architecture Critic, St. Petersburg 
- 00:30:07 - 00:42:27

Q&A - 00:42:30 - 01:00:02

The symposium continued in the afternoon with a Round Table where Friday's and Saturday's speakers were joined by the following peers: Paola Alfaro d’Alençon, Senior Researcher Habitat Unit, Technische Universität Berlin / Associated Senior Researcher at CEDEUS, Universidad Católica de Chile; Jochen Becker, Founding Member of metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs, Berlin; Hassan Elmouelhi, Senior Researcher Habitat Unit, Technische Universität, Berlin; Hannes Langguth, Researcher and Doctoral Candidate, Habitat Unit, Technische Universität Berlin; Max Schwitalla, Founder Studio Schwitalla, Berlin; Jörg Stollmann, Professor of Urban Design and Urbanization at the Institute for Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin; Verena von Beckerath, Founder, HEIDE & VON BECKERATH, Berlin / Professor of Housing Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

BACKGROUND

Within the past decade, many European municipalities have attempted to remedy problems in social housing estates on their urban fringes with new planning concepts that integrate the provision of employment, recreation, affordable housing, cultural infrastructure and mobility; often seeking out new co-production structures with local inhabitants and actors to deliver these infrastructures and services. In this context, urban planners and architects are increasingly asked to provide proposals that think beyond basic spatial provision. 

This fifth symposium within the ANCB & Schindler collaborative research project on urban periphery invited reflection on these attempts, and whether they are transferrable to the other manifestations of European periphery mentioned above. It also continued the central enquiry theme on the potential role of self-initiated or ‘informal’ strategies in this context. The urgency of the periphery is not only about preventing further marginalisation. Ultimately, it was about turning the situations into an advantage for the local inhabitants, and for the wider city.

MOBILISING THE PERIPHERY - THE PROJECT 

Urban peripheries - such as informal cities, barrios and suburbs - are typically perceived to present only great challenges. With the project Mobilising the Periphery, ANCB and the Schindler Transit Management Group set out to stimulate new ways of thinking, to question the given preconditions of current development and to initiate a discourse on urban realities at the periphery. The aim of the project is to cross-connect new approaches and insights within a widening network and to archive and share best-practice examples with a global audience, thus creating a new public community for urban peripheries worldwide. 


The subject is explored and interpreted from a range of perspectives prevalent in cities today, including examples of physical periphery – on the edge of the city (ghettos, suburbs, segregated housing estates), unregulated periphery – outside of the formal masterplan (slums, barrios, informal cities), and social periphery – on the margins of society (homeless, disabled, elderly, ethnic minorities). 



Four types of periphery, exemplified by four case studies  – Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, China and Europe – in connection with participation and social justice are discussed.

Previous Events

Mobilising the Periphery #4. Focus Latin America: Segregation to Integrated Urban Landscape, 27 - 28 January 2017

Video Recording



Mobilising the Periphery #3. Focus Africa: Informality and Urban Pattern, 1 - 2 July 2016

Video Recording



Mobilising the Periphery #2. Focus China: The New Habitat, 27 - 28 November 2015

Video Recording



Mobilising the Periphery #1. 4 Types / 4 Cases. Project Kick-off Symposium, 6 June 2015

Video Recording