Arnold Reijndorp
The City as Performance
Date: 30.11.2010
Time: 18:00:00The city as theatre is a well known metapher. In this theatre the residents and visitors of the city are both actors and spectators at the same time. Public space offers a stage, architecture the settings. The performance, city life, is often predictable, but at times unexpected, suprising or shocking. In the last decades we can observe a strong tendency to make public life more predictable. The brief for architecture and urbanism is no longer to stage urban life, but to design the performance of city life itself. On stage 'the public' wants to see themselves, acting as a public, like in a mirror.
Arnold Reijndorp is an independent researcher at the cutting edge of urbanism/architecture and social and cultural developments in the urban field. At the moment he holds the Han Lammers Chair of Social-economic developments of new urban areas at the University of Amsterdam, and is associated with the International New Town Institute in Almere. With Maarten Hajer he published In Search of NewPublic Domain. Recent co-authored publications in Dutch: Atlas of the Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam and Themed Communities: Living in a imaginated place.
Image: De Veste, Mieke Gresnigt 2010
Arnold Reijndorp
The City as Performance
Date: 30.11.2010
Time: 18:00:00
Time: 18:00:00
The city as theatre is a well known metapher. In this theatre the residents and visitors of the city are both actors and spectators at the same time. Public space offers a stage, architecture the settings. The performance, city life, is often predictable, but at times unexpected, suprising or shocking. In the last decades we can observe a strong tendency to make public life more predictable. The brief for architecture and urbanism is no longer to stage urban life, but to design the performance of city life itself. On stage 'the public' wants to see themselves, acting as a public, like in a mirror.
Arnold Reijndorp is an independent researcher at the cutting edge of urbanism/architecture and social and cultural developments in the urban field. At the moment he holds the Han Lammers Chair of Social-economic developments of new urban areas at the University of Amsterdam, and is associated with the International New Town Institute in Almere. With Maarten Hajer he published In Search of NewPublic Domain. Recent co-authored publications in Dutch: Atlas of the Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam and Themed Communities: Living in a imaginated place.
Image: De Veste, Mieke Gresnigt 2010
Arnold Reijndorp is an independent researcher at the cutting edge of urbanism/architecture and social and cultural developments in the urban field. At the moment he holds the Han Lammers Chair of Social-economic developments of new urban areas at the University of Amsterdam, and is associated with the International New Town Institute in Almere. With Maarten Hajer he published In Search of NewPublic Domain. Recent co-authored publications in Dutch: Atlas of the Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam and Themed Communities: Living in a imaginated place.
Image: De Veste, Mieke Gresnigt 2010
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