METROPOLIS LABORATORY 2012

4 – 12 June 2012 // Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

• See programme here
• Short biographies of speakers
• Summary: METROPOLIS LABORATORY 2012
  - IN SEARCH FOR WHAT COULD BE by Cecilie Sachs Olsen

The fourth edition of Metropolis Laboratory was held in June 2012 with 33 speakers from the field of art, architecture, cultural planning and academic research. With a strong focus on social entrepreneurship the 3-day seminar presented and discussed projects dealing with:

• City development and gentrification
• Global issues and instant architecture
• Festivals as a tool for changing the use of public spaces
• Audio based storytelling with new technologies
• Urban gaming and street culture

Besides a 3-day seminar the Laboratory organized several workshops, where artists and architects developed ideas and concepts for public spaces in Copenhagen and carried out research for new projects for future Metropolis festivals.

Metropolis Laboratory 2012 was organized in collaboration with IN SITU – European network for creation in public space and with the support of EU Culture.

Presentations from Metropolis Laboratory 2012

• Anna de Manincor /ZimmerFrei – City Portraits
• Bettina Lamm – Urban Play
• Dhouha Bokri – Dream City Festival
• Ditte Maria Bjerg – Morocco, women in a dialogue across the Mediterranean
• Erik Juul – Instant Urban
• Francesca Panetta – Hackney Hear
• Gilly Karjevsky & Kerem Halbrecht – 72 Hour Urban Action  
• Horacio González Diéguez – noTours
• Imanuel Schipper – Theatrical Interventions
• Jorge Lobos – Architecture and Human Rights
• Neil Butler & Florent Mehmeti – Home (Invisible Walls)
• Nicolas Whybrow – Being on Foot
• Roberta Mock – Walking, Performance & Autobiography
• Rodrigo Pardo – Flat, a journey into the deepness of the surface
• Sharon Zukin – Naked City
• Tina Saaby – Urban Life
• Tor Lindstrand – Weak Architecture

BOOK: CHANGING METROPOLIS II
The second publication about Metropolis is now out. Through essays, photos and reports it reflects on Metropolis Festival and Laboratory 2008-11. You find contributions from selected Metropolis artists, e.g. Jay Pather / Blind Spot, Lola Arias / Hotel Chambermaids and ZimmerFrei / The Hill. Also theoretical essays from key note speakers such as Saskia Sassen, Gerard Reinmuth and Nan Ellin are presented. And you can explore photo series of festival projects.

You can order ‘Changing Metropolis II’ on info@kit.dk for DKK 100 plus postage. Or you can read the book on your PC here.