To attend the conference please register by sending an email to dsd@bk.tudelft.nl
with the subject: ‘Registration Lefebvre conference’. Registration deadline is Friday, October 24th. No registration fee is required.
Tuesday, 11 November
17.00 – 17.30
Opening
17.00 – 17.05
Dean, Welcome Address
17.05 – 17.30
Arie Graafland
Critical Thinking Today
17.30 – 18.15
Keynote: Ákos Moravánszky
The Third Dimension: Projecting Urban Space
18.15 – 19.00
Keynote: Edward Soja
Globalizing Lefebvre: Seeking Spatial Justice and
the Regional Rights to the City
19.00 – 20.00
Screening: Interviews Henri Lefebvre
Introduction Lukasz Stanek
Buffet (Julianalaan)
Wednesday, 12 November
9.00 – 9.30
Introduction: Lukasz Stanek
Lefebvre Today: Three Questions
9.30 – 10.15
Keynote: Remi Hess
Lefebvre, Urbanism, and Institutional Analysis
10.15 – 11.00
Keynote: Laurent Devisme
Lefebvre and the Question of Centrality
11.30 – 12.15
Keynote: Bohdan Jałowiecki
City for Sale: Metropolization in Peripheral Capitalism
12.15 – 13.00
Keynote: Christian Schmid
Trouble with Henri: From Theory to Research
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch break
14.30 – 16.30
PANEL 1: ARCHITECTURE IN AN URBAN SOCIETY
14.30 – 14.55
Ljiljana Blagojevic
The Problematic of the ‘New Urban’: The Right to New Belgrade
14.55 – 15.20
Nicholas Beech
From ‘Auto-Critique’ to ‘Production’ in the Critique of Everyday Life:
Reading Lefebvre and Constructing History
15.20 – 15.45
Dinh Quoc Phuong
Local Production of Spaces and Place Identities:
A Reflection on Hanoi’s Architecture
15.45 – 15.55
Discussant
15.55 – 16.30
Discussion
16.45 – 18.45
PANEL 2: URBANISM TODAY: DIFFERENCES AND CONTRADICTIONS
16.45 – 17.10
Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera
Random Urbanism: a Multidimensional Strategy
of Cognitive Mapping in Mexico City
17.10 – 17.35
Kanishka Goonewardena
Henri Lefebvre and Los Angeles: Urban Space, Global Capital,
and the Mystified Consciousness of Everyday Life
17.35 – 18.00
Greig Charnock & Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
The Production of Competitiveness:
Neoliberal Urbanism and the Right to Difference in Contemporary Barcelona
18.00 – 18.10
Discussant
18.10 – 18.45
Discussion
Thursday, 13 November
09.00 – 09.50
Keynote: Jean-Pierre Garnier
The ‘Urban Revolution’ in the Time of Globalization:
Between Denial and Misappropriation
09.50 – 10.40
Keynote: Jean-Louis Cohen
Grenoble 1974: Eurocommunism Meets Urbanism
11.00 – 13.00
PANEL 3: POLITICS OF URBAN SPACE
11.00 – 11.25
Grégory Busquet
Urban Space and Politics:
The Instrumental Space in French ‘politique de la ville’
11.25 – 11.50
Ulrich Best
The Debate about Airport Tempelhof and the Struggle for Affect:
Understanding ‘espace vécu’ as a Potential Space of Control
11.50 – 12.15
Japhy Wilson
Rural Cities and Caracoles:
The Dialectic of Abstract and Differential Space in Chiapas, Mexico
12.15 – 12.25
Discussant
12.25 – 13.00
Discussion
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch break
14.30 – 16.30
PANEL 4: SPATIAL STRUGGLES: ENCLOSURES AND COMMONS
14.30 – 14.55
Efra Eizenberg
Politicizing Space: The Production of Community Gardens in New York City
14.55 – 15.20
Sharad Chari
Planning, Habitation, Urban Revolt — Lefebvre’s Triad and
Biopolitical Struggle in Past and Present Durban, South Africa
15.20 – 15.45
Fraya Frehse
Lefebvre’s Use of Space in the Public Places of
Contemporary Downtown Sâo Paulo
15.45 – 15.55
Discussant
15.55 – 16.30
Discussion
16.45 – 18.15
PANEL 5: RHYTHMS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
16.45 – 17.10
Anne Vogelpohl
Urban Rhythms — A Rhythm-Analytical Approach
to Contemporary Urban Everyday Life
17.10 – 17.35
Sudaryono Sastrosasmito
Engagement of Absolute Space and Abstract Space:
A Case Study of Parangtritis Settlements of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
17.35 – 17.45
Discussant
17.45 – 18.15
Discussion
18.15 – 18.45
Conclusions and Outlook
Christian Schmid, Lukasz Stanek
All activities take place in the DSD space, Faculty of Architecture TU Delft, Julianalaan 132-134, 2628 Delft, The Netherlands