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A walk in your words - Listening to year 2052. audio walk

At the conference "Planning 2052" zURBS invited architects, planners, artists and citizens to go on a performative audio walk through East London. Here they listed to the future, who guided them through its current beginnings, as well as the hopes, fears and visions that people have for what is to come.

The tour was based on a series of open and invited workshops and interviews held on site and carried out by Nina Lund Westerdahl and Cecilie Sachs Olsen.

“What will urban planning be like in 2052? This one-day conference [brought ] together policy makers, researchers and practitioners to envisage the role of urban planning in the future.

Planning for the profound political and social shifts that the future requires can feel intractable and overwhelming. Everyday realities makes it difficult to look beyond the rhythm of political cycles and yet it is critical that we do.

By taking a step away from our immediate constraints, this conference envisages government’s role in city design in 2052. What will a culture, in which regenerative ecosystems, circular economies, and human flourishing are core pillars of a new economy, mean for policy making and urbanism?

By brokering relationships between artists, creative practitioners and policy makers and extrapolating from bold urban planning initiatives, we will collectively engender a hopeful and practical conversation about the future role of policy in tomorrow’s economy.

Planning 2052 is part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale and programmed in partnership with the Architecture Foundation, Royal Holloway University, The British Academy and Rich Mix.” https://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/events/planning-2052

Concept, sound edit and workshops made by Nina Lund Westerdahl and Cecilie Sachs Olsen.

photos: Frederic Tschepp

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A group of city researchers from the future travel back in time to see how it really was in Arendal in the year 2018.

Participants was invited to join the future city researchers on a playful and poetic exploration through Arendal's streets. With headphones on, the city's present times are explored through retrospects from the future. The walk in the city streets took you to various parts of the city, to shopping centers and parking garages, and to old and new harbor areas. Along the way, the tour offered meetings with the city's population, and with politicians, town planners and property developers. How do future city researchers experience a Norwegian small town in 2018? And how do we experience the future of the city in our time?

zURBS (NLW and Ceciie Sachs Olsen)in collaboration with Oslo Architecture Trienale

Here’s some funny impressions from participants (in Norwegian):

https://www.facebook.com/Oslotriennale/videos/1728632987247978/

https://www.facebook.com/Oslotriennale/videos/1728633380581272/

photos: Arendalsuka / Mona Hauglid

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Participatory approaches to urban development has come a long way in providing frameworks that enable people to voice their opinions and to speak up in relation to urban issues. Nevertheless, residents often complain that their voices are not being heard.

While practically all the attention is paid to speaking, the aspect of listening has gained far less attention. Failing to listen, we fail to learn, and we damage our relationship with others. The feeling of not being heard increases the perceived distance between those who plan and administer the city and those who live in and use it, resulting in a lack of public trust.

To emphasise the importance of listening for creating shared understandings and ways of working in and with public space, zURBS develops a co-created audio-walk, providing transformative and multi-vocal listening experience in which different users of public space can listen with each other and public space in new and expansive ways.

How is public space in Kreis 1 imagined, perceived, used, discussed, controlled and planned? How can we provide a space for different ideas and perspectives on public space to be shared and understood across various differences and disagreements? How can we bring together institutional powers of the city (e.g. planners and policy makers) and citizens in civil society (e.g. local communities) to collectively imagine a more expansive use of public space in Kreis 1?

In April-May 2018, zURBS invites users of public space in Zurich to address these questions through a series of events, each providing a platform for different urban stakeholders to engage in a distinct practice of speaking and listening.The audio-walk will be developed from audio material recorded and gathered through these events.

The final performance of the audio walk took place in June. The participants of the events was invited to take part in the audio walk, together with the general public. Walking in a group together through Kreis 1, equipped with headphones with three channels, participants of the audio-walk chose between three different narratives that was played simultaneously. These narratives are not meant to add up to one homogeneous story, critique or take on public space in Kreis 1. Rather they display how public space can be seen as something performative, to be constantly produced and invented, according to different users, practices and perspectives.

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Audio walk, Thursday 21/9- 2017, 11:15 – 13:00

zURBS invited on an audio tour with a unique possibility to experience how radical urban visions and plans have materialized and developed in some of the many possible futures. We explored the movement, the dreams, the absurdities and certainties of what some people call reality.

Contrary to urban planning strategies that attempts to control the future through plans that are tied to the present in terms of fact production, risk management and control policies, these materialized futures are based on the unexpected, the unplanned and -certainly- the uncertain aspects of Sydhavnen today.

The tour were not just about exploring different futures, but was about bringing these possible futures “back” to work on the present, to inspire action and new forms of urban planning and development today. zURBS’ project invites and encourages you to imagine urban planning and development not as they are, but as they possibly might be.

Concept and stories: Cecilie Sachs Olsen, Sabeth Tödtli, Nina Lund Westerdahl Audio: Cecilie Sachs Olsen, Birgitta My Anttlia, Nina Lund Westerdahl Graphics: Nina Lund Westerdahl.

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Guided tours by zURBS with a series of small instant exercises.

for zhaw/ zdk/ eta-students/ art festivals

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A poster I made for a zURBS project. still a favorite of mine despite the rough grammar.

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Jetzt ist das Gestern von Morgen - Zeitkapsel 2015

6am.04.SEP – 6am.05.SEP 2015 Performance in der Europaallee , Zürich 7.NOV - 16.DEC 2015 / Exhibition, SB Gallerie, Europaallee , Zürich.

During a 24-hour city research performance in Zurich city zURBS collected objects, ideas, sounds, views, pleasures, pictures, doubts, moments, kisses, words, phrases and all sorts of other contemporary traces in a time-capsule of the present, a condensation of the multi-layered experiences that make a new urban space real and alive. We asked ourselves: How will you remember this city? In 20 years, parents will tell their children about the demonstrations and the resistance when this city was built. In 50 years it will be still standing, and the history of the origin will be read in documentation. In 200 years it could already be a ruin, in 500 years there will be a new building structure for the second or third time, perhaps even around the same avenue, because roads and streets tend to be much more stable than houses. In the historical archive or in the foyer of the new hotel you will be able to see pictures from the past, from today. They will not know much of it. A fleeting impression and a vague idea of whether people were happy at the time - or not. That‘s all. And that‘s a pity. The happy moments that characterize this place, but also the difficulties, the hurdles, the resistances on the ground from which we could learn, belong just as much to the history of The city. So we want to capture the Now. Not the built Now, but the lived Now. We want to capture an excerpt from the present as authentically as possible, sensibly and in a complex way, and then burry it in the form of a time-capsule - as a reminder, warning or greeting to the future.

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