Future City Forum
10am – 5pm
Free, booking required
How do we imagine the future city?
The Future City Forum brings together thinkers and practitioners in the fields of art, architecture, and visual culture, as well as council directors and urban planners. A day-long programme of interdisciplinary conversations will investigate the connections and asymmetries between various cities and will consider optimistic agendas for urban transformation.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Lindsey Ashworth, Development Director, Peel Holdings
Deena Chalabi, Guest
Curator, Pop-Up Mathaf
Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Joseph Grima, Architect and Writer
Werner Hofer, Director of the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool
Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool
Claire McColgan, Director of Culture, Culture Liverpool
Andrea Phillips, Reader in Fine Art, Goldsmiths
Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT
Philippe Rahm, Architect
Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths
Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Noura Al Sayeh, Architect
Slavs and Tatars, Art Collective
Imre Szeman, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
Full programme information to follow.
Book your ticket HERE.
The forum forms part of the Future Cityprogramme which considers the role culture can play in re-imagining our future cities.
The Future City Expeditions will take place the following day, Saturday 28 September, and aFuturist Library designed by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad with an inventory by Lola Halifa Legrand will be open from Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 September at the Public Exhibition Space of the John Lennon Art and Design Building.
Future City is a Pop-Up Mathaf project initiated by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar in partnership with the Liverpool Biennial and in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, and Liverpool John Moores University. Future City is part of Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture.