all images courtesy of De Dépendance

13 December, 2015
Time: Drinks 19h30 | Start 20h00
Admission: € 5,-
Tickets: For sale here
Location: Hofplein 20 – 11th floor  (entrance through back door at Couwenburg, follow the signs)
Language: English

At its home base the Hofpoort, the mostly vacant tower in the heart of Rotterdam, De Dépendance together with R’damse Nieuwe - community for young, entrepreneurial Rotterdam - presents a keynote lecture by Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen. Sassen is one of the world's leading authorities on globalization, immigration, new technologies and global cities. In her lecture 'Who owns the city?' on the 13th of December she will discuss how global dynamics will shape the future of cities at De Dépendance, the new platform for public debate on the spatial, economic, cultural and political issues of our time.

Saskia Sassen researches the functioning of cities, their global interdependence and the ways in which flows of money, information, and people shape their development. In her new book ‘Expulsions’ Sassen maintains that the pathologies of current financial global capitalism can no longer be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but should more accurately be comprehended as a type of expulsion – from professional livelihood, from living space, even form the biosphere that makes life possible.

On the 13th of December Saskia Sassen will discuss how these global dynamics, and the logics of expulsion, will shape the future and the ownership of our cities. How could we interpret these trends? In what ways does it affect our daily life in the city? And how can we, as citizens, as consumers, as producers, resist and respond on a local level? She will discuss this with Rotterdam-based social entrepreneurs and the wider audience.  

De Dépendance is a platform for city culture De Dépendance is founded by design studio ZUS and moved from the Schieblock to the Hofpoort, the former Shell Tower in the heart of the city. Building on the transformation of the Schieblock area, De Dépendance will bring the Hofpoort’s concrete colossus and its surroundings back to life through programming debates, film screenings, exhibitions and lectures on the spatial, economic, and political issues of our time.

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