FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER
OPENING 9.30
Éric Lengereau, Bureau de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère, DAPA.
Ewa Bérard, Corinne Jaquand
"Cities and architecture as an expression of European transformations."
REPRESENTATIONS OF NEW GOVERNMENTS 10H–13H
Chair of the session: Jean-Louis Cohen, New York University.
Mikhail Khazanov, architect: "The new symbolics of Russian power"
Michal Borowski, Chief architect for the Warsaw municipality: "Does democracy have its own architecture ?"
Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, Technische Universität Berlin: "The reunified Berlin : a heritage of unkept promises"
FROM SOCIALIST TO THE GLOBAL CITY 14.30 H-18H
Chair of the session: Vincent Renard, Ecole Polytechnique – CNRS
Olga Vendina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Urban geography:
"How do the inhabitants of Moscow assess the current policy for public spaces?"
Adam T. Kowalewski, urbanist, Warsaw: "From Socialist, Regional and Overplanned City to Democratic and Unplanned Global City"
Ingrid Ernst, Université de Nanterre Paris X: "Reading the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin : an essay in the semiotics of globalization"
SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER
THE NEW HABITAT 10H-13H
Chair of the session : Hartmut Frank, HafenCity Universität, Hambourg
Magdalena Staniszkis, architecte, Ecole Polytechnique de Varsovie: "Urban chaos as a sign of transition"
Doris Kleilein, journalist at the Bauwelt, Berlin: "The Baugruppen, a new strategy of cooperative housing"
Natacha Solopova, architect, Moscow: "New luxury apartments in Moscow"
CONFLICTING HERITAGES 14.30 H-18H
Chair of the session : Fabienne Chevallier, Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement (DOCOMOMO, France)
Simone Hain, architect-historian, Technische Universität Graz: "Goodbye Lenin ? The great housing projects of east Berlin; between revisionism and rediscovery"
Czeslaw Bielecki, architect, Warsaw: "The fate of the communist millenarianism"
Bart Goldhoorn, editor of Project Russia, Moscow: "The post-industrial experience"
ROUND TABLE : ARCHITECTURAL CULTURES IN EUROPE
with Maurice Aymard (EHESS), Alain Bourdin (Institut français d’urbanisme), Frédéric Edelmann (Le Monde)
and participants.