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THE 2015 BIENNIAL OF PUBLIC SPACE
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Please note that this is a provisional programme. Time, date and title of the sessions may change.
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THEMATIC FOCUS
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THE STREET
Past Biennials and recent literature continue to question urban models centered on automobile use, while the research work carried out to prepare the Global Public Space Toolkit shows that streets occupy most of our cities’ surfaces. Streets are also the public spaces that embody an extraordinary layering of functions: mobility, connection, the interweaving of building and urban textures, of encounters, socializing, communication, the display of inventiveness and the exercise of democratic rights, not to mention the function of aesthetic enjoyment.
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PUBLIC SPACE AND URBAN REGENERATION
Public space is a determining factor in urban regeneration: the Biennial’s third edition will collect and join together a dialogue of experiences, reflections and ideas capable of supporting the centrality of public spaces in regenerative processes towards more beautiful, inclusive, equal, and sustainable cities. Topics will include: public enjoyment of archaeological sites—widespread and of universal significance in Rome as they are for so many cities around the world; new uses for abandoned buildings and temporary uses for derelict urban spaces; and experiments in interactive uses for urban maps.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]
THE UNEQUAL CITY
The majority of the world’s population lives in cities as a result of massive urbanization and the globalization of flows of people and goods. Worsening economic crises are reducing the capacity of States to sustain welfare policies. Conflicts in strategic regions and famines widen the gap between affluent and poor countries, while they generate powerful migrations that merge urban and global peripheries. Public spaces in urban peripheries illustrate the growing distance between the city of the affluent and the city of the poor. UN-Habitat underlines this problem and considers it one of the important issues of the Habitat III UN Conference.
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FROM THE CHARTER OF PUBLIC SPACE TO
THE UNITED NATIONS HABITAT III CONFERENCE
At the international level, the Biennial is considered an important step along the voyage that will generate and focus appropriate attention on the theme of public space in the “New Urban Agenda”, which the UN Conference will adopt. Consequently, adequate space shall be devoted to the means for conferring to the Charter, as well as other statements born since its adoption, an operational dimension. Therefore, this Biennial will conclude its work by adopting a concluding document that will constitute the “Biennial’s Message” to a broader national and international audience.
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PARTICIPATION OPEN TO ALL
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MAY 2015, MONTH OF PUBLIC SPACE
The Biennial invites cities and citizens to give life to a “Month of Public Space” this coming May through events of active citizenry bearing a public and demonstrative impact. Thus, the Biennial will literally “hit the streets”. Initiatives, some of which already under way, will intensify in the weeks preceding the concluding event, while the Biennial’s website will be a communication and dissemination tool.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
CONCLUDING EVENT
Simultaneous translation and streaming, and daily distribution of a Journal will enable everybody to follow the concluding event in real time.
Participation is free and credits will be awarded to university students and professionals.
Inclusiveness will be ensured by organising parallel workshops in the mornings, whose results will be shared during the afternoon plenaries.
Calls will be issued for ideas, projects, programmes and video installations to compete for prizes and be shown in a dedicated exhibition space.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]