IVM Latin America in 2010:
touring exhibitions, an academic chair, cultural and scientific programs, publications and experiments...
from August 5, in Peru "The street belongs to all of us!" in Lima Exhibition and conference on "A city for everyone!"
with the Pontifical University of Peru and Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University
Programme de théâtre de rue, concours photos, exposition de projets urbains locaux
An academic chair
In 2009, the Chair run debates on topics relevant to Latin American conditions to raise awareness in the academic community of the multiple dimensions of mobility, to formulate new questions, and to generate and disseminate knowledge that will assist with decision-making and encourage innovation. On March 25, 2010 in Barcelona, the Chair's scientific committee took part in the colloquy on "European streets and Latin American streets" organised with the Catalonia College of Architects and College of Engineers to mark the exhibition's presentation in Barcelona. To find out more www.larueestatous.com
"Ganar la calle. Compartir sin dividir" Ed. Andrès Borthagaray, Editions Infinito Exists in a Spanish version and soon in a Brazilian version
Latin America has a population of 570 million, 80% of whom live in cities. 47 of these cities count more than a million people, and 25 to 30% of its public space is the streets. Latin American specialists respond to the debate opened up by the showing of the exhibition "The street belongs to all of us!" in Latin America since 2008, analysing the problems of the streets of the American subcontinent. ▪ The work was published at the MALBA (Museum of Latin American arts) in Buenos Aires on March 15, 2010.
Bogota, ciudad en movimiento! Ed. César Guzman, Tania Maya, Samira Kadami and Carmen Guil, Editions Uniandes, 200 colour pages
Spanish version
This book is a collection of the proceedings of the international colloquy on topic of the street, held in 2009 in Bogotà. ▪ Find out more about the Bogotà colloquy
An experiment "Reading the city"
A field experiment was conducted with the city of Buenos Aires to provide and test information systems on the city's transportation networks. The first pilot system for assessment is being run on a test bus route in Buenos Aires. International experts are working together to develop this innovative concepts for emerging cities and surveys on user needs and representational systems are being carried out.
The exhibitions "The street belongs to all of us!" and "calles del sur" continue their tour of Latin America
Duplicated in Spanish and Brazilian, "The street belongs to all of us!" is combined in each city with projects, documents or local projects. It has already been shown in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Bogota, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago du Chili. It stays on the road in 2010, accompanied by a programme of scientific and cultural events in Lima, Monterrey, São Paulo, Mexico… The "Calles del sur" exhibition, which looks at the streets of the subcontinent's biggest cities through the eyes of Latin American experts, is either staged with the original exhibition or independently.
An architecture workshop
on "City, nature, mobility"
in Santiago de Chile
Run with the Pontifical University of Santiago de Chile and the Paris La Villette National School of Architecture (January 20-26, 2010)
▪ Coming soon, the dates of upcoming workshops
■ International colloquy “Day-to-day mobility and social equity” September 3-4 at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Catholic University of Chile.
▪ City of Mexico Transport and Traffic Program, Bernardo Navarro Benítez, Economist, Professor at Mexico University, Xochimilco. Coordinator of the Metropolitan Transportation Group UAM Mexico, Mexico
▪ Le Grand Paris, Democratic priorities in the big cities, Fréderic Gilli, Economist and political scientist, Deputy Director of the “Villes” Chair and researcher at the Centre for European Studies at the Institute of Political Sciences, Paris, France
▪ Equity/Mobility/City, Didier Rebois, Architect, Director of Studies for the Masters degree in mobility architecture at the Paris La Villette National School of Architecture, General Secretary of EUROPAN, subject curator for the IVM “The street belongs to all of us!” Exhibition, France.
▪ Living City, Magdalena Morel, Representative of “Ciudad Viva”, NGO, Chile
First meeting of the scientific committee of IVM’s Academic Chair in Latin America “Cities on the move”
The purpose of IVMís ìCities on the Moveî interdisciplinary chair in Latin America is to raise awareness in academic circles of the multiple dimensions of mobility, to formulate new questions, and to generate and disseminate knowledge that will contribute to the decision-making process and encourage innovation.Its role is to explore the specific features of Latin American mobility, and in particular the transition currently underway and prospects for innovation. The territories studied are not only the major cities ñ special attention will be paid to the cities of intermediate size. The activities initiated by the partner universities may include: joint doctoral supervision; translation and publishing; the running of cross-disciplinary seminars on specific subjects; discussions with IVMís European and Chinese chairs on topics such as:
• The production of information on the city and transportation, the potential role of mobile phones in circulating information
• Female autonomy and day-to-day mobility in Latin America (access to jobs, complex mobility and family life, women producing their own mobility services, women in transportation, etc.) • Public transport versus sustainable public mobility services, new services and informal innovation
• The growing role of motorcycles in Latin American cities, governance of taxi systems • The city at home (home service provision) • Working on the move (mobile offices, etc.) • Governance: the tension between planning and individual autonomy
The Chair will seek to explore these themes from a multidisciplinary perspective (the socio-economics of transport, engineering, architecture, urban planning, urban design, information technology, the sociology of families, of organisations, of innovation, gender studies, political sciences, geography, etc.), including anthropology, which will be used to explore the pre-Columbian roots of Latin America, in particular the nomadic traditions of the indigenous peoples.
Exhibition “A rua é nossa…é de todos nos !”, at the Centro Cultural da Justiza Federal
Exhibitions of photographs, graphic design, videos, temporary public art, games, texts, public debates and a scientific forum will pick up the themes of the exhibition.
In partnership with PSA Peugeot Citroën, the Exhibition, produced in its Brazilian version with Solutions Urbaines, is accompanied by a scientific and cultura program on the streets of Brazil, curated by Margareth da Silva Pereira, a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
“A rua é nossa…é de todos nos !” is being staged under the aegises of”, França.Br 2009 »,
■ Exhibition and international forum March 3-27, 2009:
Round tables and lectures on the topic of the street as “a vehicle of our movements”, “urban culture”, “the public space” and “cultural identity”.
Soon, all lectures available online
A workshop on "the North/South link in the city of Buenos Aires", nerve centre of the city's urban mobility. November 24 to December 2, 2008 at the Buenos Aires Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning
Notably including the architect Didier Rebois, General Secretary of Europan and Professor at the Paris-La Villette National School of Architecture.
Rosario, september 2008
“The street belongs to all of us!” and its programme of activities in Rosario From September 23 to October 8, Banco Nación
Notably including:
■ A round table on public space in the presence of Aureliano José Sarduà, President of the College of Architects and Hector Florian, Dean of the Architecture Faculty at the University of Rosario
■ A round table on mobility in the city of Rosario in the presence of Alicia Picco, Director of the Institute of Transportation at the University of Rosario and Monica Alvarado, Director of Transportation for the city of Rosario and Juan Carlos Venecia, Chairman of the Regional Development Institute.
Buenos Aires, september 2008
The exhibition “Calles del sur” in Buenos Aires Exhibition based on case studies of Latin American streets: how to devise better streets? Can a street be measured? How can certain big avenues be shared? How to democratise travel and maintain the quality of public spaces?
With examples in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, la Paz; photographs and short films by artists. September 24 to October 5, at Casa de la Cultura. Download the flyer Notably including:
■ The screening of short films by the winners of the competition “Sharing or fighting for the street: through the eyes of Louis Lumière”: “Traffic” by Federico Graf and Leticia Lauglé and “Street treaty or battle” by Victor Hugo Zamudio.
■ The exhibition of photographs of Latin American streets by Olivier Perez
Buenos Aires, august 2008
“The street belongs to all of us!” and its program of activities in Buenos Aires July 3 to August 24, 2008 in Buenos Aires, at the Palace of Ice where almost 30,000 visitors came to see the exhibition Download the program Download the poster
Notably including:
■ A debate organised with the Culture Department of the city of Buenos Aires on “Is a street as a sphere of artistic activity” with Marcelo de la Fuente, from the city’s Department of visual arts, BsAsStencil & RunDon’t walk, Chu from the Doma Group, Mart&AAbre, AIRE Graffiti and Buenos Aires Sonora.
■ A debate on “Transit safety. Culture and infrastructure” with the sociologist Gonzalo Herrera Gallo, Director of the Centre for Research on Mobility and Human rights; Nestor Sebastian, accident researcher; Osvaldo Storani, former Director of Transport for the city of Buenos Aires.
■ A round table on the “north/south axis” with the architect Carlos Libedinsky, Pablo Martorelli, President of the Argentine Railway Institute and the architect Martin Orduna, Director of the Centre for Research on Metropolitan Transport at the Buenos Aires Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning.
All about “The Street Belongs to All of Us!” and its world tour.
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