Urban Screens and Public Space Seminar: Social participation

Schedule:

5 pm: Presentation of the seminar
5:30 pm: Lectures by Mirjam Struppek (Interactionfield) and Susa Pop (Public Art Lab)
7 pm: Presentation of the projects Plazanimada and The Artvertiser (presented by Julian Oliver)
7:10 pm: Break
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Roundtable and debate 

 

> Go to Seminar Documentation (downloadable videos and papers)

 

Mirjam Struppek (Interactionfield): Urban Screens in the process of urban regeneration and community building

Skype enabled “Town Square Meeting" during Urban Screenat Federation Sq., Melbourne; Photo: Chris Reidy.

What is the value of local, digitally mediated public spaces for communities in times of the high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? Do they enhance the liveability and support a healthy, urban society? New modern centres are (re) created as the "Urban Livingroom" where the Community gathers around the new medium of the Urban Screen. Other examples show that digital surfaces integrated in architectural flagship projects can become for certain communities, a symbolic precursor for a process of gentrification, while being presented as symbols for a new reviving economic growth. What is the role of cultural content for this type of urban communication medium in the process of regeneration.

 

Susa Pop (Public Art Lab): Urban Screens and Media Facades as a new urban communication format

Susa Pop will reveal her experience about social participation and cultural potential of media facades and urban screens gained through the Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008.

Can urban screens create social networks, give voice to minorities and develop  local identities? Can the creation of contents expand the artistic realm and include scientists, politics, etc as well as neighbours and collectivities? Can the creation of contents expand the artistic realm and include scientists, politics, etc as well as neighbours and collectivities? will be questions dealt in her lecture.