# UTOPIA TODAY : INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 22 - 23 - 24 OCTOBER 2010
Following is the programme of an upcoming event I really invite you to join !
I'll be around for an installation, and I'll try to do a report for the unlucky ones that won't be able to come. See you there!
Utopia today?
Saline Royale Arc-et-senans, 22-24.10.2010
friday 22.10.2010
14:00 – 14:30 Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson (ESA Paris)
introduction
14:30 – 14:50 Michel Pierre, Director Saline Royale
welcome
14:50 – 15:00 Martial Marquet, Paris
Rise above
15:00 – 15:30 break
15:30 – 16:00 Ole W. Fischer (Harvard)
After Modernity – architecture between utopia, nostalgia and dirty reality?
Comments on the uncertain state of an ancient profession…
16:00 – 16:30 Michel Pregardien (Université de Liège)
Il n’y a plus de place pour l’utopie
16:30 – 17:00 break
17:00 – 18:00 David Harvey (New York)
18:00 – 19:00 round table discussion, moderators Odile Decq, Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson
19:00 – 20:30 dinner
20:30 movie projection
saturday 23.10.2010
8:00 – 9:00 breakfast
9:30 – 9:50 resumé Andri Gerber
9:50 – 10:30 Philippe Morel (EZCT, Paris)
10:30 – 11:10 Matthias Pauwels (BAVO, Rotterdam)
From urban laboratories to utopian NGOism. Recent mutations in architectural utopianism
11:10 – 11:30 break
11:30 – 12:00 Karin Bradley (The Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Stockholm)
Freegans, squatters and urban farmers – Radical political ecology in the making
12:00 – 12:30 Katia Frey, Eliana Perrotti (ETH Zürich)
Women’s utopia. Tradition and future opportunities of a gender oriented town planning
12:30 – 14:00 lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Julia Ramírez Blanco (Complutense University of Madrid)
The ideal city of AVL-Ville
14:30 – 15:00 Hendrik Tieben (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Gordon Wu - Hong Kong’s empirical utopist
15:00 – 15:30 break
15:30 – 16:00 Stefan Kurath (Urbanplus, Zürich)
Imagine grison, the meaning of working with architectural utopies and dystopies in the daily practice
16:00 – 16:40 Peter Eisenman, interview by Emmanuel Petit (Yale University)
16:40 – 17:30 Winy Maas (MVRDV, Rotterdam)
What’s next?
17:30 – 18:00 break
18:00 – 19:00 roundtable, moderators Andri Gerber, Johannes
Käferstein, Brent Patterson
19:00 – 20:30 dinner
20:30 movie projection
sunday 24.10.2010
8:00 – 9:30 breakfast
9:30 – 9:50 resumé (Brent Patterson)
9:50 – 10:20 Jae Emerling / Ronna Gardner (University of North Carolina)
Prosthetic Architecture as Heterotopia
10:20 – 10:50 Hanspeter Bürgi (HSLU, Luzern)
Gross National Happiness: The Bhutanese concept and a focus on space, energy and culture
10:50 – 11:10 break
11:10 – 12:00 Final discussion with all speakers
12:00 – 13:30 lunch