A symposium on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Medellín: Topography of Knowledge" at Aedes Architecture Forum
How was it possible through progressive urban planning and architecture to transform Colombia's second largest city from a war- and crime-ridden place to a prospered and livable metropolis?
To celebrate and inaugurate the exhibition, "Medellín: Topography of Knowledge", ANCB will introduce the city’s recent history in the company of main actors and local experts. Bringing the topic of the exhibition closer to home, the symposium will contextualize main themes to local issues and ANCB’s ongoing research initiative Mobilizing the Periphery, which focuses on the challenges of peripheries and emerging urban structures worldwide.
PROGRAMME
- Welcome: Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
- Opening Address: Jorge Perez Jaramillo, Director of Planing, Medellín
- Introduction:
- Andres Ramirez, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
- Edward Schwarz, Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zurich
- Eduard Kögel, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
- Lecture: Medellín’s Urban Development; Juan Manuel Patiño, Subdirector of Planning, Medellín
- The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
After the symposium, we cordially invite you to attend the exhibition opening of Medellín: Topography of Knowledge at Aedes Architecture Forum.
The event is part of the ANCB programme Mobilizing the Periphery which will be continued on Saturday 6 June 2015, 10.00am with invited guests from Lagos, Hong-Kong and Paris. Further informations will be available shortly on our website.
The events will be in English. Admission is free. Please register for the symposium at reply[at]ancb.de. Registration for the exhibition opening is not necessary.