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ANCB Partners 2012
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PUBLIC DEBATE

Urban PlayScapes: Initiating Encounter in the Fragmented City
22 May 2012

A celebration of the installation in Berlin of the BMW Guggenheim Lab designed by Atelier Bow-Wow. The BMW Guggenheim Lab is presented in cooperation with ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory.

In this era of urban migration, the culturally diverse city is becoming a fragmented city. Gaps are growing between low- and high-income areas, between immigrants and ‘natives’, and even between globally connected individuals and their host city.

In their approach to conceiving public space, both Atelier Bow-Wow and Transsolar (Co-Initiator of FutureCityLab) have manipulated the relationship between people’s behaviour and their urban environment: playfully encouraging participation and thereby generating shared identities amongst users. On the occasion of the Aedes exhibitions of Atelier Bow-Wow and FutureCityLab, this debate explored the potential of equipping cities with public situations rather than public spaces – public situations that playfully initiate encounter.

CONTENT
Welcome

• Áine Ryan, Programme Manager ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin - 00:00:00 - 00:08:48

Presentations

• Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo - 00:08:48 - 00:32:53
• Thomas Auer, Transsolar, Stuttgart - 00:32:53 - 00:43:56

Podium Discussion - 00:43:56 - 01:40:04
moderated by:

• Ulf Meyer, Architecture Journalist, Berlin
• Mekonnen Mesghena, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin

The debate was followed by openings of Atelier Bow-Wow and FutureCityLab exhibitions at Aedes Architecture Forum. The Atelier Bow-Wow exhibition is organized by Aedes Architecture Forum with support from the BMW Guggenheim Lab.

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