Right to the city
RIGHT TO THE CITY TALKS
FRIDAY 18 MAY – H 20_Outdoor
Massimo Ilardi (Italia)
Massimo Ilardi, sociologist, editor of Gomorra magazine.
Francesco Macarone Palmieri (aka WARBEAR) (Germany)
Warbear aka Francesco Macarone Palmieri is a hectic character swinging across such fields as theorical research, music, cinema, contemporary art and cultural production.
warbear.org
Nadia Len (Romania/USA)
Nadia Len is a politically active researcher and at times maker of films and other creative projects. She still wants to change the world.
Emil Jurcan (Pulska Grupa) (Croatia)
Pulska Grupa is a collective of architects that imagine city is a collective space which belongs to all those who live in it.
pulskagrupa/
SATURDAY 19 MAY – H 20_Outdoor
Diego Peris e Massimiliano Casu (Todo por la praxis) (Spin)
It’s defined as a laboratory of aesthetic projects of cultural resistance, a laboratory that develops strategies for intervention in public space.
todoporlapraxis.es
Teddy Cruz (USA)
Professor, Guatemalan architect of international notoriety. For years the study of the border between Tijuana and San Diego is his priority.
estudioteddycruz.com
Thomas Laureyssens (MAP-it) (Belgium)
Thomas Laureyssens is artist, researcher and interaction-designer. His work, inspired on cartography and human interactions in cities.
map-it.be
toyfoo.com
Francesca Iovino (Sciatto Produzie) (Italy)
Francesca Iovino is independent researcher with specific interests in projects of developing system for residential purposes.
meramadera.org
OPEN TALKS
GIOVEDI’ 17 MAGGIO – H 19.00_Underground
Critical Chill Out
round table with all participants
DOMENICA 20 MAGGIO – H 17.00_Underground
Urban tea talk
Plenary among participants in the festival
LECTURES
GIOVEDI’ 17 MAGGIO – H 18.00_underground
Public space / Orizzontale (Ita)
lessons and insights about the nature and use of public space
orizzontale.org
Cova de Moura (Lisbona) / Alessandro Colombo and Ugo Lorenzi (Prt)
research and experience in community Cova de Moura
VENERDI’ 18 MAGGIO – H – 18.00_underground
Temporiuso / Matteo Persichini (Ita)
presentation of Temporiuso.net
temporiuso.org
SABATO 19 MAGGIO – H – 18.00_underground
Pulska Grupa / Emil Jurcan (Hrv)
Croatian architects in the post-capitalist city
pulskagrupa
Jolanta Brzeska / BaBeL
Newspaper Presentation of Jolanta activist killed for defending tenants rights
Right to the city / BaBeL
book presentation
DOMENICA 20 MAGGIO – H – 17.30_underground
Central Unit Design (Ita)
Expanded Shelter – self construction project for mobile gardens
centralunitdesign.com
Il potere delle minoranze / Francesco Macarone Palmieri e Massimo Ilardi (Ita)
book presentation
WORKSHOP
FROM 15 TO 20 MAY – H 11/19_Outdoor
Planning & self construction workshop with Reworkshow e Superfluo (Italy)
Reworkshow, group of architects, investigate and intervene in urban forgotten contests. Superfluo, group of students oriented towards sustainable design and reuse of materials. Two young Roman collective meet: the experiences of participatory Reworkshow join the creative craftsmanship of superfluous.reworkshow.com
studiosuperfluo.com
FROM 15 TO 20 MAY – H 11/19_Outdoor
Self construction workshop with Orizzontale e Todo por la praxis (Italy///Spain)
Orizzontale is a collective of architects based in Rome. Their main object of interest is formed by the process of reactivation of municipal waste. Horizontal intervene with “anomalous objects” at the Forte Prenestino.
orizzontale.org
FROM 15 TO 17 MAY – H 11/16_Metropoliz
Planning workshop with SCIATTO produzie (Italy)
The workshop will include conceptual design for an intervention in outside places of socializing and meeting at Metropoliz. In particular the workshop will focus on the disused area of purifiers.
sciattoproduzie
FROM 18 TO 20 MAY – H 11/19_Outdoor
Urban Hacking workshop with Thomas Laureyssens/MAP-it (Belgium)
Build interactive urban hacks that augment public spaces (bus/tram stops, benches,…) with simple interactions and sounds.
toyfoo.com
FROM 18 TO 20 MAY – H 11/19_Outdoor
Marking borders workshop with Thomas Laureyssens/MAP-it (Belgio)
A workshop in which you walk around the city and look for all kinds of ‘borders’ which you mark with tape and pen and thereby identifying and visualizing them.
toyfoo.com
FRIDAY 18 MAY – H 11.00_Metropoliz
MAP-it / participatory mapping workshop at MetropolizThomas Laureyssens/MAP-it (Belgio) (Belgium)
After a first experience of participatory map in the previous edition of Babel Thomas will lead the Metropoliz residents to explore the space of the squat.
map-it.be
SUNDAY 20 MAY – H15.00/ 18.00_Outdoor
Artistic children workshop with Cantieri Comuni (Italy)
Cantieri Comuni is an association that sees the city as a place of dialogue and thought by organising laboratories and public workshops.cantiericomuni.org
MUSICA
THURSDAY 17 MAY – H 24.00_Underground
Warbear dj set// GEGEN live on four decks (Germany)
Warbear, techno becomes the main pattern in which to seed incredibly strange music, voice samples, tools, white noises and spoken words.
warbear.org
Live set
FRIDAY 18 MAGGIO – H 23.00_Outdoor
Live PLAID (UK)
Legendary english duo with techno sounds and bass lines out.
plaid.co.uk
Miss Loony (MissAnthroPeak) (Italy)
Direct and clean mix of techno sounds.
missanthropeakpj
Viper (Italy)
Tekno, break, electro, jungle, experimental.
Dep (Italy)
Hardtech sounds
Madcap djset (Italy)
Tajeria crew
SATURDAY 19 MAGGIO – H 23.30_Outdoor
Live CASINO ROYALE (Italia)
Eclectic, experimenters in styles ranging from soul to trip-hop, from reggae to funk.
casinoroyale.it
RWM djset (USA)
pushing boundaries in sound by vinyl and new digital micro technologies
djrwm
Krio djset (Italy)
SUNDAY 20 MAY – H 20.00_Outdoor
polG – Assalti Frontali (Ita) Djset
pol G dj set (Assalti Frontali) (Italy)
Assalti Frontali and Primati voice.
INSTALLATIONS
Tutti i giorni dalle 17.00
Interazioni Urbane / S(C)ISMA. Exploded L’Aquila: fragments of critical housing (Italy) (Italy)
Interazioni Urbane is an association of architects which is involved in social promotion. Interazioni Urbane compares the first istitutional interventions with some indipendent micro-reality in L’Aquila, after three years the sisma.
interazioniurbane.org
Globster_A / Mold project (Italia)
Globster_A, visionary collective of designers proposes alienating architecture models with rotting organic materials.
globster-a.tumblr.com
Building Trust International / School for Burma (UK)
BTI is an international organisation currently working in Asia, Europe, South, Central and North America that work into advocating and educating on the principles of socially aware design. BTI, londoner association, participates with an exhibition on the projects mentioned in the competition Burma for School.
buildingtrustinternational.org
Alessandro Colombo e Ugo Lorenzi / Cova de Moura (Lisbona)
Urbanists, researchers at Lisbon University of Architecture, tell us Cova de Moura, slum of Lisbon, and their urban actions with inhabitants.
Temporiuso (Italy)
Association that takes care of mapping derelict or disused spaces/buildings in the town of Milan.
temporiuso.org
MOVIES
THURSDAY 17 MAY – H 22.00_Underground
Mare chiuso / Andrea Segre (Italy)
Documentary on illegal expulsions in the Mediterranean of African migrants between May 2009 and September 2010.
Prsentation with Fernando Chironda di Amnesty International e ZaLab Mare chiuso.
FRIDAY 18 MAY – H 19.30_Underground
Stolen land / Emilio Suraci (Italy)
The video shows, with evocative style, the building frenzy, the existing built space and farmland threatened by land use.
Stolen land
Comando e controllo / Alberto Puliafito (Italy)
It is a choral, lucid and exact narrative of the authoritarian management of power in Italy by emergencies.
Comando e controllo
SATURDAY 19 MAY – H 19.30_Underground
Nadia Len / Reconstruction: Anti-NATO Days / filmed with Joanne Richardson (RO_USA)
She is a politically active researcher and at times maker of films, Nadia Len will show us her Brechtian documentary about the brutal repression of the anti-NATO events in Bucharest in 2008.
Reconstruction_antiNATO_days
SUNDAY 20 MAY – h18.30_Underground
Abbiamo Un Problema / Cane Capovolto (Italy)
Experimental film about the construction of homosexual enemy in Catania.
Canecapovolto
TOPOGRAPHIXX: Trans in the landscape (Canada)
An international program of video art concerned with landscape, border, zone and territory, in a transgender spectrum
Curated by Tobaron Waxman. Introduction by Francesco Macarone Palmieri aka Warbear
topographixx
PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY 17 MAY – H 20.30_Outdoor
FRIDAY 18 MAY – H 19 e H 22.00_Outdoor
SATURDAY 19 MAY – H 19 e H 22.00_Outdoor
Mecanics for dreamers / SOUND MACHANICAL INSTALLATIONS (Italy)
It is a way of construction of mechanical analog machines that produce sounds and awaken wonder.
tana-creatures.i
SATURDAY 19 MAY – H 22.00_Outdoor
Vjit / Resiliens (Italy)
Italian collective of video performance live that experiments alienating perceptions.
myspace.com/transmission.roma
MP5 (Italy)
She is a stage designer, muralist, illustrator and cartoonist of alternative comics.
mpcinque.com
MEDIA/STREAMING
GLUCK Channel TV (Italy)
Web TV will take care of audio-visual documentation of the festival, filming the salient activities, interviewing guests and participants.
gluckchannel.tv
DYM 0.0.1 (Italia)
Through video mapping stations DYM proposes an informative system for Babel festival.
