International Symposium

The conference explores Tiergarten, Berlin’s oldest park, understood as a unique landscape of transgression. Tiergarten transgresses heritage, ecology, urbanism, and humanism, existing as a precious anomaly and a model for future environments in an ever expanding sea of urbanization. Tiergarten’s transgression can become a key to shift established ways to talk about the city.
The conference aims to evaluate several aspects of urban space that question and expand the current discourse on sustainability, for instance unbridled plant growth and close proximity of species, the unmaintained, the incommensurable, the extraterritorial, the outlaw, the simultaneity of (contradicting) histories, to mention some. The conference is divided into four thematic sections:
1) Transgressing Heritage;
2) Transgressing Ecology;
3) Transgressing Urbanism;
4) Transgressing Humanism.

Die Konferenz betrachtet den ältesten Park Berlins als »Landschaft der Transgressionen«. Im Tiergarten überlagern und überschneiden sich Aspekte der Ökologie, Stadtentwicklung, Denkmalpflege, Alltagskultur und Tagespolitik zu einer Insel der Anomalie, die als radikale Ausprägung städtischer Öffentlichkeit gelesen werden kann. Insoweit sich der Tiergarten den Zuschreibungen etablierter Denkmodelle entzieht, soll er dem Symposium zur Erweiterung des Diskurses einer »nachhaltigen« Stadtentwicklung dienen. Die Konferenz ist unter die Begriffe transgressing heritage, transgressing ecology, transgressing urbanism und transgressing humanism gegliedert.

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// Saturday, July 4 09:00 AM Registration 10:00 AM Opening Introduction: Jörg Stollmann / Sandra Bartoli Keynote: Alessandra Ponte Cartographies Of The Environment 11:15 AM Break Transgressing Heritage 11.45 AM Queer Transgression In Tiergarten: Toni Karge Authentic Artifacts, Unintentional Monuments: Gunnar Klack Heritage Is Subject To Change. Luise Rellensmann Transgressing Archive 01.15 PM Presentation Of A Tiergarten Zine: Martin Conrads / Franziska Morlok / Udk Students 01.30 PM Lunch Break

Transgressing Ecology 02.30 PM Park Encounters in City Centers or Transplanted to the Hinterlands: Karin Reisinger Shiver of Sharks, Parliament of Owls, Swarm of Bees, Multiplying Life and Ecotonal Ethics: Eva Simone Hayward Ghost Dogs & Dead Man: Politics of the Habitat: Fahim Amir 04.00 PM Break Transgressing Urbanism 04.30 PM Landscape as a Means of Problematizing the Temporal Frames of Urban Planning: Sandra Parvu / Piero Zanini Tiergarten: A Crime Story: Michael Baers 05.40 PM Break Transgressing Humanism 06.10 PM Trading Places and Spaces: of Nightingales and other Humananimal Encounters: Chris Wilbert Green then Smart: Intelligence and Consciousness in Plants: Stefano Mancuso

 

Participants: Fahim Amir, Michael Baers, Martin Conrads, Eva Simone Hayward, Toni Karge, Gunnar Klack, Stefano Mancuso, Franziska Morlok, Sandra Parvu, Alessandra Ponte, Karin Reisinger, Luise Rellensmann, Chris Wilbert, Piero Zanini

All Presentations In English
Free Admission

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

 

Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression is a conference organized by Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization TU Berlin, Jörg Stollmann and Sandra Bartoli in Cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Concept and Organization: Sandra Bartoli
Project Assistance HKW: Kirsten Einfeldt / Olga Starostina

 

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