Contributors: City
Marc Augè
Was Directeur d’études at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris, where he was President for many years. He is one of today’s most affirmed antropologists. Among his works: Génie du Paganisme, Gallimard, 1982; La traversée du Luxembourg, 1985; Un ethnologue dans le métro, 1986; Non-Lieux, Seuil, 1992; Le sens des autres, Fayard, 1994; Domaines et châteaux, 1992; Pour une anthropologie des mondes contemporains, Aubier, 1994; Paris, années trente, Hazan, Paris, 1996; Fictions fin de siècle, Fayard, 2000.
Brandon Ballengée
Exploring the boundaries between art, science and technology, Brandon Ballengée creates multidisciplinary works out of information generated from ecological field-trips and laboratory research. In 2003 he was an artist in residence at the Natural History Museum in London and in 2005 he will be an artist in residence at the SymbioticA Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory in Perth, Australia. He recently participated in the 2004 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale in Gung Ju, South Korea. Upcoming programs and exhibitions will be held at The American Museum of Natural History (NYC), The Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences (NYC), and Kunstverein Ingerstodt in Ingerstodt, Germany.
Solomon Benjamin
Independent researcher operating from Bangalore, India. With a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he has lectured extensively in universities in research institutes in the US and Europe. Benjamin is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, and has been a member of several international research projects. He has consulted to the UNDP, UN-Habitat, SDC and advised various national level policy groups and state governments. He is a visiting faculty at the National Law School in Bangalore.
Luca Bertolini
Holds a Master degree in Architecture and a PhD degree in Urban planning and Real estate development, both from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Since his PhD dissertation – a pioneering cross-national, cross-disciplinary study on the redevelopment of railway station areas in Europe – he has been concentrating on research and teaching at the interface of urban and transport development. He is currently senior lecturer at the geography and planning department of the University of Amsterdam.
Iain Borden
Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, where he is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture. His most recent publications are Manual: a Guide to Architecture and the Office of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (August/Birkhäuser, 2003); Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body (Berg, 2001); and, as co-editor, The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space (MIT, 2001).
Torsten Blume
Curator, art scientist and academic assistant at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Publications in the field of art theory and urbanism. 2002: Co-curator of the Exhibition “TeleCity”; 2003: advisory board member of the IV International Bauhaus Kolleg Dot.City; 2004, 2005: Concept and organization of the International Bauhaus Summer school; Curator of the Exhibition “form_space_idea” (about the Bauhaus Dessau) in Tokyo.
Paolo Brianzi
Lives and works in Turin, Italy.
Stefano Caldana
Naturalist and botanic, is a journalist specialized in digital art and culture. Since 1998 he has been dedicated to issues tied to art and new technology for the Spanish newspaper “El Pais”. He curated together with Roberta Bosco different exhibitions of net.art, among which “Conexion Remota” for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona and “Web as Canvas” for the festival “Art Futura” at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB).
Mario Calderini
Associate Professor at the IV faculty of Management Engineering for the Polytechnic of Turin, where he teaches Innovation and Strategy and he is coordinator of the Doctorate in Economics and Management of Technology. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester (UK). His main interest in research is on innovation and R and D management, with particular attention on the relationship between market structure and innovative activity, evaluation of scientific research and technology transfer.
Greg Clark
Advisor on City and Regional Development, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Global Practice Advisor, London Development Agency. Chairman, OECD Forum of Cities and Regions.
Carol Colletta
Host and producer of the public radio show “Smart City”. Her firm Coletta & Company Inc. anticipates trends and develops action-orientated public policy. Recently named Executive Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design. The mission of the Institute is to transform cities through design. She produces and hosts the “FedEx Marketing Millennium” series, a monthly FedEx videoconference with leading business thinkers; she created and hosted the Memphis Manifesto Summit with Richard Florida. She is senior vice-president of marketing and public affairs for First Tennessee Bank. She is frequently interviewed as an expert on urban issues by national media, including “WashingtonPost”, “National Public Radio”, “USA Today”, “Denver Post”, and “New York Times”. She is an active speaker on creative communities.
Claudio De Albertis
Milanese, entrepreneur, President of Assimpredil (Associazione Imprese Edili e Complementari della Provincia di Milano) from 1990 to 1996, vice president of ANCE, (Associazione Nazionale Costruttori Edili) initially for planning and territorial problems, and then for the Research Centre. President of ANCE since 2000. He works in the family business Borio Mangiarotti. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering, he has published various articles on town planning and the environment and the urban renewal. He carries out didactic work and covers leading roles in cultural affairs. President of In/Arch, (Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Lombardy section), professor of the course “Economics and Management of Enterprises” for the Faculty of Architecture and the Polytechnic of Milan, University Diploma in Real Estate.
Piero Gondolo della Riva
A worldwide expert of the French writer Jules Verne, on whom he has dedicated over forty years of research. He is also involved in the study of the futuristic utopia from the seven hundreds on.
Gonzalo Frasca
Works at the Center for Computer Game Research in Copenhagen. Both a researcher and a game designer, Frasca also co-founded a game development studio: “Powerful Robot Games”. He is Editor of the Game Studies journal, “Ludology.org”, co-edits “WaterCoolerGames.org” and leads the “Newsgaming.com” project. Frasca is also a pioneer in the use of videogames for political elections. In 2004, he co-developed with Ian Bogost the first official videogame for a US Presidential Election (no, he did not work for Bush).
Herbert Girardet
He is Director of Research of the World Future Council Initiative and chairman of the Schumacher Society, UK. He is a UN Global 500 Award recipient, and an honorary fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects. He is author and co-author of 9 books and 50 TV documentaries, most recently the six-part TV series called The People’s Planet, for CNN, Discovery Channel and NHK, Tokyo. In 2003, as “Thinker in Residence” in Adelaide, he developed sustainability strategies for South Australia that are now being implemented. His new book, Cities, People, Planet – Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World, was published by John Wiley, London and New York, in 2004.
Wilfried Hackenbroich
Architect, he works as a freelance for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Together with Tim Edler and Regina Sonnabend he acted as advisor for the Bauhaus Kolleg’s Serve City project in 2001/2002. (www.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/kolleg.asp).
Heiko Hansen
Lives and works in Paris. He founded together with Helen Evans the media collective HEHE.Org based in the multidisciplinary Art Factory Mainsdoeuvres. The collective is working on interactive poetic design interventions. Their work has been shown internationally in different domains such as ISEA Intersociety for Electronic Arts, Electrohype and Centre George Pompidou.
Damian Kantor
Has been working for “Clarin” since 1996, in distinct sections of the daily paper. He worked as an editor of Politics and Economics for “La Razón” for three years. He has collaborated for several publications, among them “América Economía”, the daily paper “BAE”(now “Infobae”) and the magazine “Pistas”.He now specifies in technology issues for the economic supplement of “Clarin” and he directs the technology supplement of the magazine “Pymes”, of the same publishing house.
Guy Lafranchi
Born 1966 in Bern, Switzerland. Educated in Architecture at the ETH-Zürich. Worked on several projects in collaboration with the Atelier Ueli Schweizer, Bern. Since 1995 in private practice. Collaboration with Lebbeus Woods since 1995. Associate Director of the RIEAeuropa (Research Institute for Experimental Architecture) since 1997. Co-founder of the RIEAeuropa.ch. Lives and workes in Bern.
Eugeu Laus
Graphic designer in Rio de Janeiro, member of the Graphic Designer Association, ADG Brasil. He is coordinator of the group “Memoria Grafica Brasileira”. He was artistic director of the recording studio EMI Music. He has been working in the phonographic and editorial world for over 20 years.
Amy Lipton
In 1999 Lipton became Curator for eco-artspace, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising Environmental awareness through the arts. From 1986 to 1995, she was the owner and director of Amy Lipton Gallery a contemporary art gallery in New York City. Lipton’s recent curatorial projects include the 2002, “Ecovention”, an international exhibition with 32 ecological artists (Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio). She is also currently working with “The Nature Conservancy”, “New York City Audubon” and “Nurture New York’s Nature”, presenting a series of discussions and exhibitions in New York City.
Marco Mancuso
He worked for three years in editing and journalism for the magazine “WebMarketingTools”. Works as a freelance journalist and publicist collaborating with the magazine “Label”, “My Media”, “Edizioni Zero”, “Punto Informatico”, “Maxim”, “GQ”, “Superfly”, writing on digital art and culture, new technologies and media. He also works as a freelance web designer and media designer professor/consultant at the European Design Institute of Milan, and curates events in culture and electronic arts. Publisher and chief of the editorial project “Digicult” (www.digicult.it) and of the magazine “Digimag” (www.digicult.it/digimag), he creates video installations with the collective Amonitorspento (www.amonitorspento.org).
Anthony Marasco
Teaches English Literature by contract at the faculty of Design and Arts at the, Venice University IUAV, and intellectual American history for the Master of Transatlantic Studies held in conjunction with the University of Padova and Birmingham.
Predrag Matvejevic’
Born in Mostar in 1932. He is a professor at the University of Zagabria and the Sorbonne of Paris, he now teaches Slavic literature at the University of Sapienza in Rome and in 1999 he held lectures at the University of Louvain. Among his works: Breviario Mediterraneo (1987), Pour une poètique de l’èvènement (1979), Epistolario dell’altra Europa (1992). He lives in both Paris and Italy. In January of 2000 he was appointed by the UN high commission a task for the territories of the ex-Yugoslavia.
Gianluca Mercadante
Born in Vercelli in 1976 and writes as a literature critic for specialized publications (“Inchiostro”, “Orizzonti”, “Pulp”, “Kurtz”). He has published his stories in literature anthologies and magazines. The long story McLoveMenu appeared in the series MILLELIRE of alternative print, in 2002. Il banco dei somari, his first upcoming novel, is to be published by NoReply.
Dario Moncalvo
Management engineer, presently taking a Doctorate in Technology Economics and Management at the Polytechnic of Turin where he is dedicated to issues related to economy and the financing of innovation. He carries out research work at the Fondazione Roselli and the Fondazione COTEC.
Stefano Mirti
Born in Turin (1968) he lives and works in Ivrea.
Robert Neuwirth
He spent two years living in shantytowns across the developing world to write Shadow Cities: a billion squatters a new urban world (Routledge, 2005). He specializes in writing on cities and social issues.
Phillip Oswalt
Born in 1964 in Frankfurt, Architect and freelance journalist. Curator of the project “Schrumpfende Städte” “Shrinking Cities” (2002-2005), he lives in Berlin.
Giovanni Padula
An expert in urban economy, founder and director of CityO srl and the Creativity Group Europe srl, both based in Milan. Professor by contract at the Libera Università di Castellanza (LIUC) where he holds a course on the city and economical innovation, he was an executive at Seat Pagine Gialle and managing director of the Internet start-up Polix spa, one of the first European companies to develop technologies for online surveys. He worked in New York for 10 years as an economic correspondent for “Sole 24 Ore” and for the weekly “Il Mondo”.
Ferruccio Pastore
Researcher and vice director of Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale in Rome. He is specialized in migration and crime in european and international politics.
Matteo Pasquinelli
Editor of “Rekombinant” and author of the book Media Activism (Derive Approdi, Roma 2002).
Giorgio Piccinato
Professor of Urban Planning and director of the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Rome Three, co-ordinator of the Doctorate on “Territorial Politics and local planning”. From 1970 to 1995 he taught at the Iuav University of Venice and from 1992 to 1994 he was President of Aesop (Association of European Schools of Planning). He has worked as a consultant on various projects of the European Union and the United Nations in urban and territorial, politics for historical centres, professional training. He wrote among others, La costruzione dell’urbanistica. Germania 1870-1914, (Roma 1974, Wiesbaden 1983 e Barcellona 1993) e Un mondo di città (Torino 2002); ha curato Città, territorio e politiche di piano in America Latina (Milano 1991) and Alla ricerca del centro storico (Milano 1996).
Mario Ricco
Architect, he lives and works in Milan. Hi is a Professor by contract at Polytechnic of Milan and teaches “design of architecture” in the project laboratory in the first year in the degree course Environmental Architecture.
Tim Rieniets
Nato nel 1972 a Hilden, architetto e collaboratore scientifico al progetto “Schrumpfende Städte”, Berlino, e presso l’ETH di Zurigo, vive a Berlino e Zurigo.
Salvatore Rizzello
Professor of Cognitive and Experimental Economics at the University of Piemonte Orientale ed Economia of culture at the University of Turin. He coordinates the Centre for Cognitive Economics in Alessandria. He is among the founders of the Società Italiana di Scienze Cognitive (Italian society of Cognitive Science) and is the national secretary of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (Italian Association of Political Economy). Some of his published works are L’economia della mente (Laterza, 1997), Cognitive Developments in Economics Routledge (2003), Cognitive Economics (con Massimo Egidi, Elgar 2004) and Economia Sperimentale (con Marco Novarese, Bruno Mondadori 2004).
Céline Rozenblat
She published, in collaboration with Nadine Cattan, Denise Pumain and Thérèse Saint-Julien Le système des villes européennes (Anthropos, 1994, and updated in 1999); and with Patricia Cicille Les villes européennes : analyse comparative (DATAR, 2003): she has developed a theoretic research and empiric on city systems through the study of the networks of multinationals. Her work is concentrated on the notion of grid intergration and on the relative positions of cities in multiscale interdependence systems.
Yehuda Emmanuel Safran
Studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art, the Royal College of Art and University College, London. He taught at the
Architectural Association, Goldsmith’s College, London University, as well as fine art and theory at the Lan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Holland. He was a fellow of the Chicago Institute of Architecture and Urbanism and Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois in Chicago as well as at RISDI Providence, Rhode Island. He has published essays on many aspects on the theory and practice of art, architecture and film – “Domus”, “Sight and Sound”, “Lotus”, “A+U”, “AA File”, “Springer”, “Artpress”, “Prototypo”, “Metalocus” and “9H” etc. With Steven Holl and others he is editor of “32 Bejing/New York”. His book Mies van der Rohe, was published by Blau in Lisbon and Gustavo Gilli in Barcelona (2000). He curated, inter alia, the Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition “The Architecture of Adolf Loos” and the “Fredrick Kiesler” show at the Architecture Association. Currently he lives and works in Paris.
Saskia Sassen
Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her new book is Territory, Authority and Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2005). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries. Her most recent books are the edited Global Networks, Linked Cities (New York and London: Routledge 2002) and the co-edited Socio-Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City is out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into sixteen languages. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. Her books have been published in Italy by Feltrinelli, Il Mulino and Saggiatore.
Regina Sonnabend
Town planner, is a Project Director at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Together with Tim Edler and Wilfried Hackenbroich, she acted as advisor for the Bauhaus Kolleg’s Serve City project in 2001/2002. (www.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/kolleg.asp).
John Thackara
Is a symposiarch who designs events, projects, and organizations. He is also the Director of “Doors of Perception” (Doors), a design futures network with offices in Amsterdam and Bangalore. This unique community of practice is inspired by two related questions: “we know what new technology can do, but what is it for?” and, “how do we want to live?”. The results are published on an award-winning website, and discussed at the celebrated Doors of Perception conference. Current clients include Schiphol Airport, Europe’s High Speed Train Network, the administration of Hong Kong, the University of Amsterdam, a regional development agency in the UK, and a national children’s hospital. http://www.thackara.com/
Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni
Live in Turin where they try (and fail) to do as little as possible.
Paolo Verri
Born in Turin in 1966, is director of Torino Internazionale. He was director of the Turin Book Fair and the Turin Music Fair from 1993 to 1997. Since 1998 he has been working towards improving Turin and its
eminence.
