NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft ETH Zürich
  • Projets
      • Projets des chaires
          • Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey | Gestion des infrastructures
          • Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete | Histoire et théorie de l’urbanisme
          • Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen | Planification des transports
          • Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman | Systèmes de transport
          • Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard | Chair of Being Alive
          • Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Aménagement du paysage et des systèmes urbains
          • Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen | Planification des transports et de la mobilité
          • Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann | Aménagement du territoire et politique urbaine
          • Prof. Hubert Klumpner | Architecture et urbanisme
          • Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas | Ingénierie de trafic et surveillance
          • Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid | Sociologie
          • Prof. Milica Topalovic | Architecture et aménagement du territoire
          • Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
          • NSL-Archiv
      • Anciennes chaires
      • Colloques NSL – Le colloque NSL consiste en une présentation semestrielle d’un travail remarquable. Le thème est à chaque fois défini par la chaire qui invite.
      • Projets NSL
          • E-Bike City
          • Future Cities Lab Global
          • Stratégies et potentiels urbains dans des territoires métropolitains d’après l’exemple de l’espace métropolitain de Zurich (PNR 65)
          • Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML)
      • NSL Forum
        • NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
        • NSL Forum: Pandemie? Mitten im Klimawandel. Was bedeutet das für die räumliche Entwicklung der Schweiz? Ein Dialog.
    Close
  • Enseignement
    • Enseignement
        • Bachelor et mastère, departement ARCH
        • Bachelor et mastère département BAUG
        • MSc en Développement territorial et Systèmes d’infrastructures
        • MAS/CAS in Regenerative Materials
        • CAS ETH en Regenerative Systems: de la durabilité à la régénération
        • MAS/CAS Aménagement du territoire
        • MAS Urban and Territorial Design
        • MAS ETH en logement
        • Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies
      • La connaissance des forces déterminantes pour les développements territoriaux et de leurs concomitances, mais aussi l'aptitude au développement de stratégies de solutions pour les problématiques territoriales, sont des conditions centrales pour l'exercice responsable et efficace des missions de conception au service de collectivités publiques ou d'entreprises privées. Tout aussi décisifs sont les formations universitaires initiale et continue, et le perfectionnement dans les disciplines d'aménagements territorial, urbain et paysager. L'ETH Zurich propose dans ces disciplines depuis 1965 des cours de formation continue et des cycles d'études post-diplôme (NDS, aujourd'hui MAS). Ils sont organisés par le Réseau Ville et Paysage (NSL).
    Close
  • Publications
    • Cover NL 65Newsletter – Le NSL rassemble des experts de l’ETH Zurich et entretient un dialogue avec d’autres milieux qui traitent ou s’intéressent à des questions liées à la ville et au paysage.
    • A map describing the different phases of India’s neoliberal highway programme. Source: The author.Publications des chaires du NSL – La liste complète des publications avec option de recherche avancée peut être atteinte via le lien suivant:
      • ETH Zürich Research Collection
    • disP – The Planning Review – La revue scientifique interdisciplinaire traite de thèmes tirés des domaines suivants: aménagement du territoire, aménagement urbain/urbanisme, aménagement du paysage et de l’environnement, architecture du paysage, économie régionale et de l’environnement, mais aussi planification des transports.
      • Instructions pour les auteur·trice·s
      • Types of Articles
      • Editeur
      • Directives pour les comptes-rendus de livres
      • Rédaction
      • Version actuelle
      • facebook
    • DELUS Cover Issue 1DELUS – Revue sur les études urbaines et paysagères – DELUS est une revue annuelle de l’Institut d’études urbaines et paysagères de l’ETH Zurich.
    Close
  • Actualités
  • Contact
      • fr
        • de
        • en
        • it
      • Search

    • Close
      • fr
        • de
        • en
        • it

Public Space: The Real and the Ideal

Locarno. Ozornsky CC/ BY-SA3.0
Ozornsky CC/ BY-SA3.0

5th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture.
2 to 5 July 2021 | Monte Verità (near Locarno), Switzerland.

Keynote speakers (confirmed)

  • Margaret Crawford
  • Sarah Whiting

Background

Although public spaces are everywhere, and used extensively, the term itself is a contested notion. Many architects, urban designers, philosophers, and political theorists – like Camillo Sitte, Rem Koolhaas, Hannah Arendt, and Henri Lefebvre – have emphasized the importance of understanding public space from a humanistic and a democratic perspective. This is often inspired by an ideal of social interaction and democratic pluralism that should somehow be tangible in public spaces. The built environment is thus understood as offering more than just a functional space or an aesthetic experience. It is rather seen as a force shaping a world-incommon, which in turn shapes the human experience of this commonness and the understanding of the world itself, both consciously and unconsciously.

However, current developments in cities and societies, from smart-cities and Big Data to gentrification, surveillance and commodification, seem to make it increasingly difficult for public spaces to live up to this ideal. Public spaces are increasingly privatized, commodified, controlled, monitored, and scripted; they are designed to accommodate leisure and tourism, shopping and sporting, or transportation and travelling. Such spaces have, at first sight, little regard for the social and political ideal of encounter and exchange. On the other hand, even in highly controlled spaces, social life and also political protests can occur, as is shown by the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, that even stretch to spaces that are privatized, heavily controlled, monitored, and scripted towards a single purpose. This presses the questions: How important is architecture and urban design for public life after all? Does design still trace concrete outlines for it, or can these be found elsewhere?

The 5th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture examines public space and its architecture in a rapidly changing societal, political, and technological context. Issues that might be tackled include (but are not limited to):

  • Public space and the collective ideal. Is the collective ideal that lies behind the social, humanistic and democratic perspective still relevant in such a context? How was this ideal realized in the past? Is it still accommodated by public spaces, or is there a need to look for other structures, spaces, spheres in society that can cater collectivity and serve social and political movements?
  • Public space and privatization. When cities, buildings and transportation turn into personalized services, what would be the ‘service’ of public space, and what does this mean for the planning, design and ordering of these spaces? How can public spaces embody collective ideals in a time of privatization and personalization? What are the implications of such developments for the relationship between public and private space, public and private interests, publicness and privacy?
  • Public space and participation. How can inhabitants and users be involved in the development of public spaces, alongside designers, planners, politicians, investors, and developers?
  • Public space and commodification. What does the commodification of public spaces in the economic competition of cities around the globe mean for their social and political role?
  • Public space and technological innovation. How do public spaces and their use change due to selfdriving cars, Virtual Reality Applications or smartphones? What is the relevance of concrete public spaces facing the increasing impact of virtual public sphere of social media? How might the effect of the built environment on us change in the era of the internet of things, and what does this mean for the commonality of the world?

Organization

Hans Teerds (Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zurich)
André Patrão (Lab of Architecture, Criticism, History, and Theory, EPFL)
Christoph Baumberger (Environmental Philosophy Group, ETH Zurich)

Further information 

Contact: Hans Teerds

Share this...
  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
  • Whatsapp
  • Email
Cet article a été publié dans le newsletter suivant:

49 | März 2021: Future Cities Lab Global

  • Thinking Future Systems
  • FCL Global Tana – Co-designing a Blue-green Future for the Agro-urban City of Antananarivo
  • New Agendas Under Planetary Urbanisation: Designing Sustainable Agri-Urbanisms
  • Form and Performance in Shaping Urban Landscapes
  • Introducing Ecosystem Services-Design Loop
Kurzmeldungen
  • Beschneiungsspeicher: erfassen, analysieren und beurteilen
  • Oberstadt4D
Publikationen
  • Grenzen überschreiten – Räume aktivieren. Transnationale Ansätze der Raumplanung in Europa
  • Paradise Now. Die neuen Grenzen des Gartens
  • A Multi-dimensional Spatial Policy Model for Large-scale Multi-municipal Swiss Contexts
  • Evaluating Initial Building Designs Considering Possible Future Changes and Decision Flexibility: The Example of The New PET Centre of the University Hospital of Zurich
  • The Impact of Land-use Legacies and Recent Management on Natural Disturbance Susceptibility in Mountain Forests
  • CUARZO: Cities, Urban Planning and Architecture in the Reconstruction of the 0 Zones
  • COVID-19 and the Dilemma of Transport Policy Making
  • Relational Theories of Urban Form. An Anthology
Stellenausschreibungen
Weiterbildung | Studiengänge
  • Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Raumplanung 2021/23
  • Master of Advanced Studies ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design
  • Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Housing
  • CAS/DAS Verkehrsingenieurwesen ab Herbst 2021
  • Master of Science ETH in Landschaftsarchitektur
  • ETH-EPFL Summer School: Transects Through Alpine Water Landscapes
Aktuell
  • Architektur für einen Planeten in der Krise | Architecture for a Broken Planet
  • The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime
  • Age-Talk: «Sackgeldjobs – Wie funktioniert das?»
  • Wohnforum Talks
  • School of Architecture for Reconciliation: Cooperative Housing and Sustainable Habitats in Post-conflict Colombia
  • Call for Contributions trans#39 Comfort
  • Writing Model Histories
  • Public Space: The Real and the Ideal
  • Urban Policy Analysis: Theoretical and Empirical Developments
  • Co-opolis: The Collective Production of the City

Chaires

Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey
Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen
Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Prof. Maria Conen
Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman
Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert
Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen
Prof. Damian Jerjen
Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas
Prof. Freek Persyn
Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Prof. Milica Topalovic
Prof. Martina Voser

Contact

Adresse
ETH Zürich
NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
HIL H 44.2
8093 Zürich

Direction NSL
Directeur: Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
Représentante du directeur: Prof. Milica Topalovic

Bureau de coordination NSL
Claudia Gebert
Téléphone: +41 (0)44 633 36 33

 

Inscrivez-vous à la newsletter NSL

Rédaction disP

Rédactrice responsable
Dr. sc. techn. Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, aménageuse territoriale ETH/NDS,
Téléphone +41 (0)44 633 29 47

Adresse
ETH Zürich
Redaktion disP
NSL – Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
HIL H 33.3
8093 Zürich
Fax +41 (0)44 633 12 15
Adresse électronique

Archive NSL (gta)

Archives de recherche et posthumes pour l’architecture du paysage et l’aménagement du territoire suisses.

Recherche

Adresse
ETH Zürich
NSL Archive (gta)
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
HIL C 65.2
CH-8093 Zurich

 

 
Protection des données