Redevelopment of the Urban Space in St. Petersburg: Politics and People

28/01/2010 – 5pm – ca. 7.30pm

Workshop of the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies (GSZ), Humboldt-
Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Center for German and European Studies
(CGES), St. Petersburg State University

Welcome: Majken Bieniok / GSZ

Introduction: Elena Bukarova /CGES, Heike Oevermann / GSZ

Dmitry Vorobyev (CGES, St. Petersburg State University):

Changing Urban Contexts in St. Petersburg:
Legislation, Infrastructure, Architecture

Anna Zhelnina (CGES, St. Petersburg State University):

Urban Transformation in St. Petersburg:
Perceptions and Uses of Space

Carola Neugebauer (Leipniz Institut for Regional Geography):

St Petersburg and The UNESCO World Heritage Status:
A global concept reflected in local urban development.
Theoretical approaches to the cases of St. Petersburg

Discussion led by: Astrid Sunsboe

Sustainable Urban Development through Social Entrepreneurship?

Workshop organized by GSG at the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Research, together with  Department for Urban Studies, Univerity of Malmö und the Technical University Berlin.

19th of may 2010, 2-5 pm, GSZ, Mohrenstraße 41, 10117 Berlin, Room 415 

Workshop participants: 

Prof. Harald Mieg, Spokesman of Simmel Center (introduction); Heike Oevermann, Member of Simmel Center (moderation); Martin Schwegmann, GSG of the Simmel Center (moderation)

Inputs: 

Mathias Heyden, Assistant Professor Technical University Berlin: What are our real values? Community design and participatory architecture as tools for urban sustainability

Paola Alfaro d´Alencon and Daniela Konrad, Assistant Professors Technical University Berlin: Introduction of their Urban Research Camp; Design Laboratory

Frederik Björk, lecturer at Malmö University: Introduction to the Concepts of Social Entrepreneurship in connection to sustainable urban development

Magnus Johansson, Assistant Professor at Malmö University: Social innovation and sustainable urban development

Lise Bisballe, lecturer at Roskilde University and social entrepreneur: Introduction of the project socialventures@2200 in Copenhagen

Thomas Bisballe, analyst for the city of Copenhagen: Public actors and the facilitation of social entrepreneurship - How to interact with "the opposition

Levend Kalac, Architect and Master Student, Fachhochschule Frankfurt: Urban development challenges - the case of Norra Sorgenfri

Prof. Björn Bjerke, Linnaeus University: Local governments with public entrepreneurs in focus

Workshop organization: Martin Schwegmann

Spaces and Ideas

Workshop of GSG and Prof. Jorge Lizardi Pollock, University of Puerto Rico
20th of june 2009, georg simmel center of metropolitan studies, berlin
 

Utopias of modernism between Latin America and Eastern Europe: How do they look and what has become of them? In the framework of the GSZ workshop “Spaces and Ideas” on June 20th, different urban utopias got revisited and compared. Prof. Jorge Lizardi-Pollock, an architectural historian of the university of Puerto Rico, focuses on the development of city renewal from the 1930s to the 1960s in Latin America, especially in Mexico and the Caribbean. The town planner Florian Koch (University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt) describes the archetypical construction of the “socialist city” and shows the realities of socialist urban development by looking at assorted Eastern European cities. In the last lecture Joanna Kusiak (University of Warsaw, Philosophy, Sociology) analyses the specific condition of South-East European urban development as a result of the immediate availability of the city for dictatorships. The workshop was moderated by Martin Schwegmann, Architect and Urban Researcher.