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18 June to 26 August 2007

Photographic Repertoires in Andalusia. Urban Attributes '07.

25 April to 8 July 2007

Videographic Shows "Signs of the City." Urban Attributes '07.

The city is the place where the history, life and culture of men, women and social groups come together, so that over time it has become the legitimate hybridization of the heterogeneous. In the city there is a multitude of spaces both inhabited and habitable. Urban areas that often determine their inhabitants way of being, just as the inhabitants define domestic and collective space. Activities are carried out in each place that to a large extent determine the individual and social being. The city is in part a socially constructed, material reality that we inhabit and with which we establish a sensual and symbolic relationship. It is also a symbolic discursive construct, resulting from our imagination and language. Some of today's artists create narrations based on the city, aware of its power as symbol and sign at the service of the community.
To be held at the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC) in Seville (view map).
More information (in Spanish).

November 2006

"I Never Go Out Without My Camera"

Selection of contemporary Chinese videoart.
To be held at the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC) in Seville (view map).

28 September 2006

Presentation of the book "Pro Domo" by Yona Friedman

Round table

Yona Friedman, architect | Francisco Jarauta, professor of Philosophy at Murcia University | Jean Louis Maubant, organizer of the exhibition Yona Friedman, Yona Friedman. Attainable utopias | José Ramón Moreno Pérez, lecturer on Architectural Composition at Seville University.
Born in Budapest in Hungary in 1923 and settled in Paris, Yona Friedman, who is an architect, has developed a thought-provoking and controversial theoretical work on matters such as mobility, migrations, globalization, the relationship between science and art, and sustainable construction or the need to adapt urban solutions to the demands of modern life.

5 October 2006

Edward W. Soja. "Postmetropolis: flexcity, cosmopolis, exopolis, fractalcity, and simcity"

Lecturer of the Urban Planning Department at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
He tackles the complexity of urban phenomena within the framework of metropolitan regions, studying dynamic processes, constant changes, and variables that are continually evolving. In his book Postmetropolis he studies the Los Angeles region, giving the various processes characterizing it different attributes such flexcity, cosmopolis, exopolis, fractalcity and simcity.

10 October 2006

Andrés Perea. "The city of a thousand cities"

An architect who teaches projects at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid.
Through various projects he reveals an intense critical and creative reflection on contemporary cities in The city of a thousand cities, a prize-winning work developed together with Architects' Block for the new administrative and political capital near Seoul in South Korea.

11 October 2006

Gustavo Leclerc. "Postborder City: Cultural Spaces in Alta and Baja California"

An architect and teacher / researcher at the SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) and the USC (University of Southern California).
He studies new cultural production dynamics generated in the Cosmopolitan Regions and how the confluence of what is local and what is global offers other opportunities to urban cultures, with innovating effects for the physical configuration of the city, and also in its popular and vernacular expressions of art and architecture.

2 October 2006

Bay of Cadiz. "Rurban specialization. Coast - Guadalete"

The geographical region that extends from the Jerez countryside to the coast of Cadiz, where towns of considerable tradition are located, on which is superimposed the complexity of new urban settlements with a tendency towards growing specialization.
Coordinator: Ramón Pico.
Participants: Juan Clavero, Sebastián Rubiales, Fernando Visedo, Jorge Yeregui, Urbanlabca22 (a group of students from the School of Architecture at Seville University).
Place: Cadiz Professional Association of Architects.
Time: 6 p.m.

5 October 2006

Sevilla SE30-SE40. "Centripetal metropolitan dynamics"

The space delimited by the phantom route of the forthcoming SE-40 divided highway bypass presents itself as a segmented metropolitan panorama, torn by the centrifugal dynamics of the periphery and the centripetal attraction inherent to its capital status.
Coordinator: Félix de la Iglesia.
Participants: José Ramón Moreno, Antonio Molina, Javier Aldarias.
Place: Andalusia Center for Contemporary Art of Seville.
Time: 10:30 a.m.

6 October 2006

Campo de Dalías-Campo de Níjar. "Urbanization, migration, and greenhouses"

The southern part of the province of Almeria has been transformed by the intensive agricultural exploitation of the desert, the support of migratory flows that take shape among greenhouses, massive urbanisation, and the tourist occupation of the coast.
Coordinator: Eva Luque.
Participants: Ramón de Torres, Javier Peña, Juan Carlos Checa Olmos, Fernando Muñoz, Emerge*s (a group of students from the School of Architecture at Seville University)..
Place: Professional Association of Architects of Almeria.
Time: 6 p.m.

9 October 2006

Costa del Sol. "Overdeveloped urban area"

The metropolitan region of the Costa del Sol, where tourism has constructed a radically contemporary urban territory, shaped by infrastructures that support an overdeveloped space in which the population seeks ways of establishing itself in what is glocal.
Coordinators: José María Romero, Rafael Reinoso.
Participants: Rafael Duarte, Joaquín de Salas, Silverio Martínez (representing a group of students from the School of Architecture at Granada University).
Place: Professional Association of Architects of Malaga.
Time: 6 p.m.

11 October 2006

The Straits of Gibraltar. "Territory, metropolis, frontier"

An intercontinental region where the contradictory conditions of nexus and frontier converge, a space of transit with a subverted fluidity which makes it a space for traffic, people, goods, and communication.
Coordinator: José Pérez de Lama.
Participants: Javier Mohedano, Helena Maleno, Javier Toret.
Place: Andalusia Center for Contemporary Art of Seville.
Time: 10:30 a.m.

18 October 2006

"Urban attributes in Andalusian territory". Idea-sharing session and debate