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Jakub Halun, Takeshita Street in Tokyo, 2010
via Wikimedia Commons
Symposium: April 18 - 19
Exhibition: April 18 - October 30
Opening Reception: Friday, April 18, 7 pm
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) and the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) presentPublic Space? Lost & Found, a two-day symposium and accompanying exhibition to celebrate the living legacy of artist and educator Antoni Muntadas and collectively redefine ideas of public space and its multiple functions. Convening scholars, artists, architects, and planners from MIT and beyond, the symposium will engage contemporary critical discourses and practices on public space.
Free and open to the public.
The Media Lab Complex (E14-633)
75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
Click here to reserve a seat and learn more about the symposium and exhibition.
schedule & panelists
Friday, April 18
2:00 pm
Opening remarks by Adèle Santos
(Dean of the School of Architecture + Planning, MIT)
2:30 pm
Private Public Spaces:
Cultural Identity and Context
Speakers: Ina Blom (Oslo University), Antoni Muntadas
(ACT, MIT), Néstor García Canclini (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City)
Respondents: Doris Sommer (Cultural Agents, Harvard) & Ana Maria León (HTC, MIT)
Moderator: Meejin Yoon (Architecture, MIT)
5:00 pm
Reclaiming Public Space/
Surveillance and Control
Speakers: Teddy Cruz (UCSD), Marjetica Potrc (HFBK, Hamburg), Krzysztof Wodiczko (GSD, Harvard)
Respondents: Jane Hutton & Adrian Blackwell (GSD, Harvard)
Moderator: Catherine D'Ignazio (Media Lab, MIT)
7:00 pm
Exhibition Opening Reception
Takes place on the first floor gallery of the E14 Media Lab Complex.
Saturday, April 19
10:00 am
Welcome by Otto Piene
(Professor Emeritus, Director Emeritus of CAVS, MIT)
10:30 am
Alternatives for Contemporary Public Space:
Interdisciplinary Praxis
Speakers: Juan Herreros (GSAPP, Columbia), Dennis Adams(Cooper Union), Angela Vettese (IUAV, Venice)
Respondent: Caroline Jones (HTC, MIT)
Moderator: Ute Meta Bauer (NTU, Singapore)
2:00 pm
Speculations on the Future of Urban Space: Utopia
Speakers: Gediminas Urbonas (ACT, MIT), Andrés Jaque(Princeton), Mark Wigley (GSAPP, Columbia)
Respondent: Ana Miljacki (Architecture, MIT)
Moderator: Alexander D'Hooghe (CAU, MIT)
5:00 pm
Public Space:
Research, Projects, Production
Speakers: Jennifer Allora (Allora & Calzadilla), Marrikka Trotter(GSD, Harvard), Matthew Mazzotta (ACT, MIT), Coryn Kempster (Harry Gugger Studio)
Respondents: Beatriz Colomina (Princeton) & Azra Aksamija(ACT, MIT)
Moderator: Antoni Muntadas (ACT, MIT)
7:00 pm
Closing remarks by Nader Tehrani
(Head of the Department of Architecture, MIT)
> via act.mit.edu
