Course 11

07 March 08 - 20 June 08

Self-Organizing [SO] City

room for informality and formality

Programme

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Day 1

Friday 7 March 2008
Venue: Casla Almere

The Self-Organizing City [organizing the SO city]

Who organizes the 21st century city? The peer oriented professional, market parties, large institutions or the people? Which set of relations is necessary for a balanced collaboration? According to Juval Portugali, dealing with complex, fragmental and multidimensional urban conditions requires understanding the city as a collection of interacting self-organizing systems. Self organizing systems do not only refer to bottom up or informal processes. In contrast, self-organizing systems exist and evolve through the interplay between bottom up and top down, informal and formal, planned and emerged conditions.

Moderator: ir. Ekim Tan
Morning
Prof. Han Meyer
(TU-Delft)

A Long Tradition of Urbanism and Private Initiatives

Prof. Juval Portugali
(Tel Aviv University)

Theories of Self-Organization and the City

Ir. Claudio Acioly
(IHS Rotterdam)

Gaps and bridges between formal and informal urbanization


Afternoon
Jacqueline Tellinga
(City of Almere)

A city built by and for people

Ir. Floris Alkemade
(OMA)

Homeruskwartier: An experiment of a self-organizing neighborhood in Almere

Ir. Robert Broesi
(MUST Stedebouw)

Smart Urban design in Almere-Hout

Day 2

Friday 11 April 2008
Venue: to be confirmed

Informality in the Formality, Formality in the Informality [economy of the SO city]

‘Informality has long existed. Today, after acentury of efforts by the regulatory state, we seean expanding informality in the global Northas a systemic feature of advanced capitalism,rather than an importation of the Third World.’ (2006; Saskia Sassen)
The entirely top-down planned city of Almere attempts for a less formalized organization by the end-users. Whereas the city of Istanbul needs to find new ways of organizing informally and locally organized urban land under the pressure of global forces. Anatolian immigrants mostly occupy the informal settlements in Istanbul. Parallel to Istanbul, the city of Rotterdam looks for new ways of organizing its urban conditions by giving more room to its immigrants under which there are Anatolian immigrants form a large group. Both Rotterdam and Groningen try to create more conditions for new, unexpected and unplanned economic activities.

Moderator: Prof. dr. Han Meyer
Morning
Dr. David Hamers
(Ruimtelijk PlanBureau)

A New City as Condition for the Creative Industry

Dr. Murat Yalcintan
(Istanbul Mimar Sinan University)

Re-positioning Informality in a Rapidly Formalizing Economy


Afternoon
Ir. Karin Schrederhof
(City of Rotterdam)

Pact op Zuid; The Role of local/service economy for South Rotterdam

Ir. Tjerk Ruimschotel
(City of Groningen)

Conditions for a non-planned economy

Day 3

Friday 16 May 2008
Venue: Strand IJburg ‘Blijburg’

"Responsive Design [forming the SO City]"


‘To argue that a space must be porous means to look for the proportions of voids within a mass, for available space in which to absorb movement and change.’ (2005, Paola Vigano)
What are the new ways of activating and forming the hidden energies in the city? Can using informality, -or creating porousness in the city become a useful strategy for the designer? Innovation in design is needed in interacting with people and releasing the complexity of the current society. What is responsive design in the 21st century? Can adaptations of the physical environments through people become part of a design system?

Moderator: ir. Ekim Tan
Morning
Prof. Paola Vigano
(IUAV Venice)

The Porous City - a new Structure Plan for Antwerp

Flavio Janches
(Blinder Janches & Co Architects)

Designing Urban Opportunities: strategies on slums integration, Buenos Aires - Argentina


Afternoon
Alex Lehnerer
(ETH Zurich, Kaisersrot)

Generative Design Models and the Interactive City; the case of Madestein(Den Haag), Schuytgraaf(Arnhem)

Ir. Pi de Bruin
(Architecten Cie)

Designing the Participatory City in Roombeek, Enschede

Day 4

Friday 30 mei 2008
Venue: Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet, Rotterdam

Towards an Inclusive City [public space in the SO city]


How to read new publicness and facilitate or design public places in the 21st century’s self-organizing complexity? What role can public environments play towards a more inclusive city? Terms to describe the ‘bourgeois’ public spaces of the 18th century Paris or 19th century Vienna are still in use but offer little help in describing our modern reality. We need to find new ways of looking at ‘processes of exchange’ and ‘mutual interest’, and new means to facilitate them. According to Arnold Reijndorp, opting for themed, compressed, and connected public spaces is a valid approach. Alternatively, polycentricity, interstitiality and participation may play a major role as in the works of Liane Lefevre and Döll Architects.

Moderator: Dr. Diego Sepúlveda
Morning
Prof. Arnold Reijndorp
(University of Amsterdam)

The New Public Domain

Ir. Jorge Jauregi
(former director project Favela Barrio)

The Inclusion at the Renewal processes on upgrading slums


Afternoon
Crimson Arch. Historians (Rotterdam)

WIMBY! Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet

Henk Döll en
Liane Lefaivre
(Buenos Aires + Rotterdam)

The City as a Playground

Ir. Dennis Kaspori en
Jeanne van Heeswijk

Bottom up projects and the city

Day 5

Friday 20 juni 2008
Venue: TU-Delft

Comments by participants


Conclusions of the Course and presentations on topics discussed in this course, given by students and professionals. 		 

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