RE-IMAGINING PUBLIC LIFE

Paradise– Park–, the Hochschule Düsseldorf (HSD) broadcast van and the FFT invite you to excursions into the Düsseldorf cityscape. Urban redevelopment carries with it a change in the forms of public life, on squares and in public spaces. Starting from the Kö-Bogen II areal, Re-Imagining Public Life explores connections between privatisation and investment, city marketing and design, sustainability and urban development.

Anja Vormann and HSD students initiate an open sky Unconditional University. This turns the “Ingenhoven-Tal” valley into a field for experimentation on which visitors and passers-by can learn and conduct research – in their own rhythm, and in interaction with their surroundings. Hauke Heumann and Jan Lemitz fashion a performative urban walk Zu den steinernen Tälern und grünen Hügeln der Stadt (to the city’s stony valleys and green hills) that confronts imagery and text with sites in urban space. This provides a palpability to the experience of fractures in current urban development as well as in historic projections. The FFT Foyer will turn into both a workshop and an exhibition space: We will start here towards urban space, we will collect project results here, and we will discuss the transformation the city and the public sphere here during a table talk.

program

Anja Vormann & Düsseldorf University Students

THE UNCONDITIONAL UNIVERSITY

Workshop + Exhibition

Di. 23.04.

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Hauke Heumann & Jan Lemitz

EXPOSED GREEN – THE CITY’S STONY VALLEYS AND GREEN HILLS

Urban Walk

Sa. 03.06. , So. 04.06.

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Table Talk on the Transformation of Cities and the Public Sphere

Discussion

So. 04.06.

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cast

Hauke Heumann, Jan Lemitz, Anja Vormann & Studierenden der HSD Düsseldorf

credits

Re-Imagining Public Life receives support from the Medienkunstfonds through the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.