Friday, October 12, 2012
Wood Auditorium
Move: Theatrum Mundi / Global Street
Organized by Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought
Presence and Absence in the City
October 12–13
The overall theme turns on the difference between absence and presence in the city. This difference lies both physically—who is actually on the street?; and perceptually—how are people aware of others, accounting or discounting their presence in urban space? How are those considered invisible or inconsequential enabled to ‘make presence’ in urban space—through their bodies, actions, activities. We want to account the roles of technological, trade, design, and politics in constructing presence and absence; finally, we want to pose questions about how to arouse people to want more engagement with one another, rather than retreat into isolation.
1:30pm–2:45pm
THE GLOBAL STREET
We can think of the global street as a space where those without access to formal instruments of making (making buildings, power,..) can make: a politics, the social, publicness. The global street is not a literal street—it can be a square, an empty space, an ambiguous border zone, a refugee camp. What it is not is the piazza of our European imaginary of public space.
Chair: Edwin Heathcote
Panelists: Teddy Cruz, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Saskia Sassen
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