Title: ÜberLeben in den »Creative Industries«
Location: Prater der Volksbühne, Kastanienallee 7-9, 10435 Berlin
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Description: Zwischen Lust und Last des Informellen - Internationale Konferenz von Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung und »Helle Panke e.V.«

Die »Creative Industries« gelten als Schlüssel für die Metropolenentwicklung im 21. Jahrhundert. Stadtregierungen wie in Berlin rücken sie ins Zentrum von Image- und Standortpolitik.

Bei den Debatten steht vor allem der Nutzen für Wirtschaft und Stadtentwicklung im Vordergrund - selten werden die gewandelten Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen der Kreativen in den Blick genommen. Sie sollen auf dem Kongress zum Thema werden. Die digitale Revolution der Produktions- und Distributionsmittel, die Kämpfe um intellektuelle Eigentums- und Verwertungsrechte, flexiblere Unternehmensstrukturen und Arbeitsverhältnisse, die Projektform der Arbeit und die Privatisierung von Kultureinrichtungen haben Arbeits- und Lebensweisen wie Subjektivitäten verändert. Einer schier unübersichtlichen Zahl von Betätigungschancen steht eine enorme Konkurrenz um Jobs und Aufträge gegenüber, den gewachsenen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten ein Druck zur Konformität des Marktes, einer freieren Selbstbestimmung die Selbstausbeutung in informellen und entgrenzten Arbeitsverhältnissen bei unsicheren Einkommen.

Kommerzialisierung und Gentrifizierung verdrängen das Kreative der Creative Cities, Widerständiges und Unangepasstes wird umgeformt und integriert. Doch die Stadt, die Arbeit, das Leben bleiben umkämpft. Das Überleben in den Creative Industries soll von unterschiedlichen Seiten und mit unterschiedlichen Formen gedeutet werden: Wissenschaftiche Analyse trifft auf zugespitzte publizistische Meinung und literarische, filmische und darstellende künstlerische Form.

Programm

Fr., 13. November: (Über)Leben, Arbeiten, Verwerten

15 Uhr: Be creative – das neue Prekariat
Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths University of London)
Begrüßung und Moderation: Mario Candeias (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)

16 Uhr: Creative what…?

• Jamie Peck (University of British Columbia Vancouver): »Struggling with the Creative Class«
• Alexandra Manske, (Humboldt Universität Berlin): »Prekäre Freiheiten«
• Jochen Becker (MetroZones): »SpaceTroubles«
• Moderation: Anne Steckner (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)

18 Uhr: Kaltes Buffet

19 Uhr: Do and Undo
Tanzperformance von Baktruppen (Norwegen)

20:30 bis 22 Uhr: Streit am Abend
Zwischen den digitalen Fronten - mehr Geld, mehr Freiheit oder alles für alle?
Benni Bärmann (Keimform.de), Wolfgang Schimmel (Verdi), Matthias Spielkamp (iRights.info)
Moderation: Sabine Nuss (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)

22 bis 24 Uhr: Creative Spaces im Foyer und auf der Bühne

• Döndü Kilic führt die Filmindustrie vor
• Captain Nofuture interveniert in den prekären Alltag
• Lorenzo Tripodi/Ogino:Knauss erkundet die globale Stadt
• Hito Steyerl spricht Spamsoc
• Sender Freies Neukölln dreht am Gentrifizierungs-Set durch

Sa., 14. November: Unterwandern, Widerstehen, Organisieren

13 Uhr: Rebellion for profit - wird Abweichung zur Norm?
Silke van Dyk (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).
Begrüßung und Moderation: Mario Candeias (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)

14 bis 16 Uhr: »Solidarität ist Selbstmord«? – Kooperation statt Konkurrenz.
Kathlen Eggerling (Connex.av), Eva Kiltz (VUT - Verband Unabhängiger Musikunternehmen), Catherine McKercher (Carleton University Ottawa).
Moderation: Johanna Maiwald (Die Linke)

16 bis 18 Uhr: Creative Spaces im Foyer und auf der Bühne

• Raul Zelik klärt die »Berliner Verhältnisse«
• Tim Stüttgen & Thomas Mahmoud geräuschen und texten zum geschundenen Arbeitskörper
• Karsten Krampitz geht dichtend heim
• Rosa Perutz bilden antinationale Künstler_innenbanden
• 9to5 kämpfen vernetzt

18 Uhr: Du hast die Wahl: Gulasch oder Gemüsepfanne

19 bis 20:30 Uhr: Creating City – privat, staatlich, öffentlich?
Jaap Draaisma (Broedplaatsen Amsterdam), Klaus Lederer (Die Linke Berlin), Ingo Bader (Technische Universität Berlin)
Moderation: Margit Mayer (Freie Universität Berlin)

21 Uhr: Ofrin Acoustronic Duo (Haifa/Berlin, Electro-NuJazz-Konzert)

22 Uhr: Bolschewistische Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot (Abschlusskonzert)

ab 0 Uhr: Party

Start Date: 2009-11-13
Start Time: 19:00
End Date: 2009-11-14
End Time: 23:00

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized, conferences & meetings. Comments: None

Title: Architecture & the City in the Financial Crises
Location: Bauhaus Dessau / Berlin
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Description: International Conference on the influence the crisis has on architecture and urbanism. Explorind the close interdependence of financial markets and the building sector and the influence of them on the spatial design and social structures of the city.

The real estate and financial crisis is confronting the disciplines architecture and urbanism with the consequences of the close interdependence of financial markets and the building sector. In the 1990s these spatial design disciplines as well as many others were enticed by the triumph of neo-liberalism to step back from their responsibility for a sustainable spatial development in favor of the short-term profit of private investment firms. Still in the turn of the century the international URBAN 21 report had proclaimed in the mainstream of both disciplines the common goal to privatize municipal services, to offensively attract global financial capital and to predominantly follow global locational competitiveness.
The eruption of the financial capital now results in long-term distortions in socio-economic conditions, spatial patterns of regions and urban structures of utilization. After the mortgage crisis in the US vacant houses have started to announce the decline of entire residential streets and neighborhoods. In many cities camping sites have popped up, to which previous owners of housing property are taking refuge after thousands of foreclosures: They are no longer able to amortize the mortgage, that exceeds the value of their property. The living concept of suburbia is in question.
The financial crisis leads to far-reaching changes in the architectural practice and its urban fields of activity. Architectural firms around the world respond to the decreased demand with job cuts and closings of branches. Prestigious construction projects in previously booming cities like Dubai or Las Vegas are cancelled or scaled down. In the burst of the real estate bubble the building industry is suffering from drastic personnel and financial cuts. In addition massive geographic dislocations take place: Do architects and urbanists share the responsibility for the building boom in several world regions prior to the crisis?
Form Follows Finance:  How far do instruments of the financial market influence the direction of architecture and urban development? What is the impact of the financial crises on urban settlements and infrastructures worldwide? What are the long-term implications for the future of architecture and urban design?

Start Date: 2009-11-13
Start Time: 19.00
End Date: 2009-11-14
End Time: 19.00

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized, conferences & meetings. Tags: crises finance architecture city urban development. Comments: None

Title: After the Self-Managed city? Urbanism in Yugoslavia and the Post-Socialist Condition

Location: Jan van Eyck Academie, Academieplein 1, Maastricht

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Date: 2009-10-28

Posted on October 20th, 2009 under conferences & meetings, cultural events. Comments: None

Title: The post-capitalist city

Location: PULA, CROATIA

14. – 16. August 2009

Description: The city is the space where the reproduction of social, political and economic forms of life takes place and where these forms of life confront instrumental political power or political diagonal. This reproduction of forms of life represents the central site of exploitation as well as of resistance. Resistance is manifested through production of common values and through cooperation. This complex environment can be the key force behind the making of democracy, justice, common values and free space. Cities can become places of post-capitalism.

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Posted on August 8th, 2009 under Uncategorized, conferences & meetings. Tags: Post-capitalist City. Comments: None

Title: NATIONAL SQUAT MEET 2009

Location: Bristol

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Description:

The last round of capitalist growth profoundly reshaped our cities forcing many from the centre to the outskirts as the yuppie flats went up. Now as that economy falters possibilities emerge to start taking things back!

Even as recently as the last National Squat Meetup in Leeds, and before that the international gatherings in Dijon and Berlin, the threat of corporate expansion, to squats and autonomous spaces, was top of the agenda… now its time for us to start expanding. Of course this doesn’t mean for a second that the repression will cease (perhaps quite the opposite) but it’s a good reason to get our heads (and hearts) together to think about how to move forward.

THIS IS A CALLOUT

This is a callout for all those involved/interested in squats and autonomous spaces across the UK and beyond, to meet and share ideas, stories and practical strategies and discuss issues that affect us all as a community. Following on from the Leeds meetup last year to discuss the april2008 days of action, many smaller local gatherings and actions have taken place and ongoing processes have begun. As thousands face homelessness whilst half the city sits empty we want to keep thinking about ways of strengthening our network in defence of autonomous spaces, share success stories from last year’s days of action and formulate future plans and schemes for creative chaos!

Start Date: 2009-03-14

End Date: 2009-03-15

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Posted on March 5th, 2009 under conferences & meetings. Comments: None

Title: The Right to Stay Put

Location: Manchester / UK

Description: Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration

Start Date: 2009-08-26

End Date: 2009-08-28

Preparation:

• First Call for Contributions

Posted on February 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized, conferences & meetings. Tags: gentrfication, housing, Manchester, movements, rights, UK. Comments Off

Title: The City From Below
Location: Baltimore
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Start Date: 2009-03-27
End Date: 2009-03-29

Posted on February 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized, conferences & meetings. Tags: Baltimore, movements, right to the city, US. Comments: None

Title: Neoliberal Urban Transformation in Istanbul and Opportunities of Counter-Culture in Urban Spaces

Location: Dortmund, Taranta Babu

Start Time: 19:00

Date: 2009-02-05

Posted on January 26th, 2009 under conferences & meetings. Tags: demolition, Dortmund, gentrification, Germany, Istanbul, movements, rights. Comments: None

Zagreb, 4. 12. - 7. 12. 2008. Community Center Mosor, Zvonimirova 63

The Neoliberal Frontline is an international conference aimed to reflect on transformations of cities, urban landscapes and urban governance in Croatian and other post-socialist societies in the Eastern Europe at a moment of urgency when the development of cities in those societies increasingly comes under pressure of neoliberal policies and economic overexploitation of space.

http://www.operacijagrad.org/en/?page_id=5

Posted on November 28th, 2008 under conferences & meetings. Tags: Croatia, movements, post-socialist, Zagreb. Comments: None