Calendar archive
07 Jan 2010
Lecture Saskia Sassen
The closing lecture of the American sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen of coming Thursday, 7...
20 Dec 2009
IDFA Film – Garbage Dreams
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
19 Dec 2009
Open City Talk & Tour
Guided tour and introduction by Jörg Stollman (DE), sub-curator of the Squat exhibition of the 4th...
19 Dec 2009
Next Exit Confusion Square. Open Cities: Rotterdam - Addis Ababa
This workshop wants to explore how everyday life is facilitated and shaped within and by the city...
18 Dec 2009
Open Podium
Every Friday afternoon, a local "cultural ambassador" appears as host or hostess of a...
17 Dec 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate Robert Neuwirth
Lecture by journalist and writer Robert Neuwirth (US) on the theme Squat and 'squatter communities'...
16 Dec 2009
IDFA Film – Garbage Dreams
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
13 Dec 2009
Incidental Film - Carefree Vacant Property
The documentary ‘Leegstand zonder Zorgen’ [Carefree Vacant Property] by Abel...
13 Dec 2009
Open City Debate - Squat Politics
The Bill seeking to prohibit squatting that was recently proposed before Dutch Parliament seems...
13 Dec 2009
Squatting designed The Netherlands
As an essential parameter of the ‘Open city’, Dutch legislation reserves a place for...
12 Dec 2009
VPRO Film 'Staying Alive in Jo'burg'
Screening of the VPRO Metropolis documentary Staying Alive in Jo'burg directed by Rob Schröder. A...
12 Dec 2009
Urban Planning: Profession or Vacuum
AIR, in co-operation with KCAP Architects & Planners, organises a symposium on the state of...
11 Dec 2009
Open Podium
Every Friday afternoon, a local 'cultural ambassador' appears as host or hostess of a performance,...
11 Dec 2009
Open City Expert Meeting
“Urban restructuring through ‘creative destruction’, violently segregates,...
11 Dec 2009
Round Tour Parallel Cases
Ralf Pasel, curator of the 4th IABR's exhibition Parallel Cases at the RDM Campus will give a round...
11 Dec 2009
Segregation - The Other City: Exposing Tarwewijk
“Urban restructuring through creative destruction, violently segregates, as nearly always has...
11 Dec 2009
Film: Moving in Free Zones #2 and Film ZUID
MFZ is the second edition of an interdisciplinary workshop researching and creating awareness on...
10 Dec 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate
Lecture by Erik Swyngedouw with an introduction on this week's theme Segregation. The lecture...
10 Dec 2009
Walk – Tarwewijk (The Other City)
A rapid passage for the recognition of the alarming empty housing and commercial stock in the...
09 Dec 2009
IDFA Film
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
09 Dec 2009
Workshop and Film (The Other City)
MFZ is the second edition of an interdisciplinary workshop researching and creating awareness on...
09 Dec 2009
Walk – Tarwewijk (The Other City)
Walking Through Urban Fragments. A Rapid passage for the recognition of the neighborhood fragments...
09 Dec 2009
Lecture - Segregation: A Social Problem?
Wim Blauw (MSc. Sociology, 1971, Ph.D. Economics, 1986) was till 2003 Associate Professor of...
06 Dec 2009
Theater Performance – Peptide
Kosmopolis Rotterdam collected stories from grandmothers from Rotterdam, and it was these stories...
06 Dec 2009
IDFA Film – Welcome Europa
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
06 Dec 2009
Film Program Rotterdam Classics – Rotterdam Metropolis
The Rotterdam Municipal Archives and film theater Lantaren/Venster present, in the series Rotterdam...
05 Dec 2009
VPRO Film – New to the City
Screening of the VPRO Metropolis documentary New to the City. A co-production of the VPRO and the...
05 Dec 2009
Open City Talk & Tour
Tour & Talk given by co-curator of the 4th IABR, Tim Rieniets, about the migration theme...
04 Dec 2009
IABR Open Podium
Every Friday afternoon, a local 'cultural ambassador' appears as host or hostess of a performance,...
03 Dec 2009
Rotterdam Global Urban Summit 2009
A conference on urban area development and sustainability The City of Rotterdam is centre stage...
02 Dec 2009
IDFA Film – Welcome Europa
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
29 Nov 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
In cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam...
29 Nov 2009
IDFA Film – Bogotá Change
At the request of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the IDFA has...
29 Nov 2009
Incidental Event - Delta Dua
Folk music from the Mollucas, live by Wim Lohy and Dwight Muskita (who played with a.o...
28 Nov 2009
Open City Talk & Tour
Starting out with an introduction from Stephen Cairns (GB), sub-curator of the 'Reciprocity'...
28 Nov 2009
Incidental Event Gerard Mosterd Dance
Modern dance performance given within the context of the 4th International Architecture Bie...
26 Nov 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate - AbdouMalig Simone
The urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone will examine the informal developments that can arise within the...
25 Nov 2009
IDFA Film – Bogotá Change
At the request of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the IDFA has...
22 Nov 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
In cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam...
22 Nov 2009
IDFA Film – Transit Dubai
At the request of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the IDFA has...
21 Nov 2009
Open City Talk & Tour
Starting out with an introduction from Philipp Misselwitz (Germany), sub-curator of the Refuge...
21 Nov 2009
VPRO Film – I am Gurgaon: The new city in India
Screening of the VPRO Tegenlicht documentary I am Gurgaon: The new city in India directed by Marije...
20 Nov 2009
Open Podium
A Lighthouse for Lampedusa Every Friday afternoon during the Open City Event Program, a local...
20 Nov 2009
Open City Expert Meeting – Diwan conference
Diwan conference held in connection with the sub-exhibit Refuge of the 4th International...
19 Nov 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate – Eyal Weizman
The theme of Weizman's (London, Tel Aviv) recent projects such as Decolonizing Architecture is the...
19 Nov 2009
Presentation of Beyond #2 – Values and Symptoms
Feast in a War Zone. A Palestinian Diary “Values and Symptoms” is the second...
15 Nov 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
In cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam...
15 Nov 2009
IDFA Film 'Borgate' and 'House of the Knights'
At the request of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the IDFA has...
14 Nov 2009
Open City Talk & Tour
Starting out with an introduction and explanation from Bart Goldhoorn, sub-curator of Collective, a...
13 Nov 2009
Open Podium
This week's cultural ambassador is magazine Volume. Housing After the Credit Crisis....
11 Nov 2009
Open City Lecture – Howard Saunders – The Power of the Consumer
Lecture in the Open City Event Program given by Howard Saunders, Creative Director of Echochamber,...
11 Nov 2009
IDFA Film – Borgate and House of the Knights
At the request of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the IDFA has...
08 Nov 2009
Film Program Rotterdam Classics – A View From Afar, Rotterdam As An International Model City
The Rotterdam Municipal Archives and film theater Lantaren/Venster present, in the series Rotterdam...
08 Nov 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
In cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam...
08 Nov 2009
Sunday afternoon documentary: Kruispost
Kruispost (85 minutes) by Maria Mok and Meral Uslu (2007). Every Sunday afternoon, a documenta...
08 Nov 2009
The Free State of Amsterdam. A look back
A conversation with all of the participants and parties involved in the exhibition about the six...
08 Nov 2009
IDFA Film – .In for Motion
At the request of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the IDFA has...
08 Nov 2009
Pass Travels around the Portscapes Art Projects on the Maasvlakte, Rotterdam
On Sunday 8 November SKOR and the Rotterdam Port Authority are organizing a tour, Pass travels,...
07 Nov 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate – Young Architect Day
"Young Architect Day" organized by BNA and NAI, within the context of the Open City Event...
06 Nov 2009
Expert Meeting – Sentient City Workshop
Computing has left the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces of the...
06 Nov 2009
Open Podium – Sentient City Survival Kit
At the 4th IABR, The Mobile City presents an exhibition of Mark Shepard’s Sentient City...
06 Nov 2009
Young people in The Free State of Amsterdam
What are young peoples perceptions of the city? What would they like to change? How do they view...
06 Nov 2009
Incidental Event – Pecha Kucha Night Rotterdam vol 22
Pecha Kucha Night will also be part of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR)...
06 Nov 2009
IABR Open Podium
Every Friday afternoon, a local "cultural ambassador" appears as host or hostess of a...
05 Nov 2009
Build in the Grasslands or Densify?
Mid October 2009, the alderman for Amsterdam spatial planning, Maarten van Poelgeest, presented the...
05 Nov 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate – Mark Shepard
Lecture by media architect and researcher Mark Shepard within the context of the Open City...
04 Nov 2009
T-Visionarium Open City
T_Visionarium Open City is a digital audiovisual archive comprising approximately thirty hours of...
04 Nov 2009
Gaasperplas: Water Free State
Urban development firm Alle Hosper talks to guests about her design for the Gaasperdam, Gein and...
04 Nov 2009
IDFA Film – .In for Motion
At the request of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the IDFA has...
03 Nov 2009
GroenLinks in The Free State of Amsterdam
The GroenLinks vision on the future of Amsterdam. Stories, ideas, observations. The evening...
02 Nov 2009
D66 in the The Free State of Amsterdam
The D66s vision on the future of Amsterdam. Stories, ideas, observations. The evening program...
01 Nov 2009
Incidental Event – Jane Jacobs, An afternoon of readings
Nearly 50 years after the publication of the first edition of Jane Jacobs' impassioned plea for the...
01 Nov 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
In cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam...
01 Nov 2009
IDFA Film 'Petition – The Court of Complainants'
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world’s biggest festival...
01 Nov 2009
Sunday afternoon documentary: IDFA 2009 Preview
IDFA 2009 Preview Every Sunday afternoon, a documentary will be shown on Amsterdam. The program...
31 Oct 2009
Jane Jacobs Tour - Bike & Film
Rotterdam North is a true "Jane Jacobs neighborhood": corner stores, artists' studios, a...
30 Oct 2009
Nieuwe Meer: Awareness
Gller Gller architecture urbanism talks to guests about its design for the Nieuwe Meer and environs...
30 Oct 2009
IABR Open Podium
Every Friday afternoon, a local "cultural ambassador" appears as host or hostess of a...
30 Oct 2009
The Significance of Jane Jacobs for a Living City
Trancity is organizing a "lecture marathon" about the core themes in the work of...
29 Oct 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate: Roberta Brandes Gratz
Lecture by author, journalist and activist Roberta Brandes Gratz (US) about the works of author and...
29 Oct 2009
Amsterdam City Streets Night
Consumers, businesses and shopping street manager Nel de Jager on the future of typical Amsterdam...
28 Oct 2009
IDFA Film – Petition - The Court of Complainants
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world’s biggest festival...
28 Oct 2009
Duivendrechtse Veld: From District to Free City
Studioklok talks to guests about its design for the Zuidoost area and Amstel I, II and III. ...
27 Oct 2009
Film and Discussion in the Free State of Amsterdam
The debate planned for this evening has been cancelled. Instead of the debate: Film and d...
26 Oct 2009
Expats in The Free State of Amsterdam
A conversation with Amsterdam expats. What is their perception of the city? What do they want from...
25 Oct 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
In cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam...
25 Oct 2009
Sunday Afternoon Documentary:Radio Danielle and Johnny Meijer
Radio Danielle (27 minutes) (1987) and Johnny Meijer (50 minutes) (1993) by John Appel. Every...
25 Oct 2009
IDFA Film 'Our Street'
At the request of the IABR, the IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam - compiled...
24 Oct 2009
VPRO Film – Amsterdam Makeover 2040
Amsterdam is an old lady, but she is set on having a metropolitan make over. After all, cities have...
24 Oct 2009
Conny Janssen Danst
Conny Janssen Danst dancers will surprise visitors to the NAi with short dance performances. They...
24 Oct 2009
Open City Talk & Tour – Crimson Architectural Historians
A guided tour by and with an introduction from Crimson Architectural Historians, sub-curator of the...
23 Oct 2009
The Oostelijke Eilanden: Endangered Freedom
Bureau Karres en Brands landscape architects talks to guests about its design for the Oostelijke...
23 Oct 2009
Open Podium – Working together to create the city of tomorrow
Every friday afternoon a local "cultural ambassador" acts as a host or hostess for a...
23 Oct 2009
Woonstad Debate – Who makes the city?
A debate within the framework of the 4th IABR and organized by Woonstad Rotterdam city corporation,...
22 Oct 2009
Open City Debate – VROM presents: Design and Politics #1
This debate deals with the confrontation between designer and administrator. Felix Rottenberg...
22 Oct 2009
The Homeless in the Free State of Amsterdam
Discussions with the homeless on Amsterdam. How do they use the city, and what is their perception...
21 Oct 2009
Western Banks of the IJ and Harbour: Transience as Strategy
Rietveld Landscape I Atelier de Lyon talks to guests about its design for the Westelijk Havengebied...
21 Oct 2009
IDFA Film – Our Street
At the request of the IABR, the IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam - compiled...
20 Oct 2009
The PvdA in The Free State of Amsterdam
The PvdAs vision on the future of Amsterdam. Stories, ideas, observations. The evening program...
18 Oct 2009
Sunday Afternoon Documentary
Hoe Nikita een Paard Kreeg [How Nikita Got a Horse] (23 minutes) by Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden...
18 Oct 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
The theme of this week's cyle tour is "Parallel Cases." In cooperation with the 4th...
18 Oct 2009
IDFA Film 'Repetition' and 'Optical Vacuum'
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
18 Oct 2009
Theatre Tehran - Wunderbaum
Enjoy the presentation 'Theatre Tehran' and get subsequent access to the exhibition Open City:...
17 Oct 2009
Theatre Tehran - Wunderbaum
Enjoy the presentation Theatre Tehran and get subsequent access to the exhibition Open City:...
16 Oct 2009
Sloterplas: Land of plenty
B+B Urban Development and Landscape Architecture talks to guests about its design for the...
16 Oct 2009
IABR Open Podium - Rotterdam (In)tolerant
Associated projects: For Security Reasons Debate in cooperation with Showroom MAMA as part of the...
15 Oct 2009
Kop Amstelscheg: Landscape of freedom
MUST stedebouw talks to guests about its design for the Amstelscheg area. The evening program...
15 Oct 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
On Thursday 15 October, the Open City Lecture and Debate are devoted to "Fear", one of...
14 Oct 2009
Philosophers in the The Free State of Amsterdam
An evening on philosophy as an urban phenomenon. What are philosophers perceptions of the city? How...
14 Oct 2009
IDFA Film Repetition and Optical Vacuum
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
13 Oct 2009
Opening YOUR CITY, Young people are making Rotterdam Zuid
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 Your City: Young people are making Rotterdam Zuid an initiative of...
13 Oct 2009
The CDA in The Free State of Amsterdam
The CDAs vision on the future of Amsterdam. Stories, ideas, observations. The evening program...
12 Oct 2009
Amsterdam as Limited-traffic Zone?
A discussion on Amsterdam as a limited-traffic zone. Is a street more attractive without cars, and...
11 Oct 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
In cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam...
11 Oct 2009
IDFA Film 'The Show Must Go On'
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
11 Oct 2009
Sunday afternoon documentary: De stad was van ons [The City was Ours]
De stad was van ons [The City was Ours] (110 minutes) by Joost Seelen (1996). Every Sunday...
10 Oct 2009
Incidental Event documentary "Cities of Preferences"
By Mathan Ratinam, Toni Schade and Andrea Zalewski, Moving Image Lab at Columbia (MILC) Cities...
10 Oct 2009
Open City Talk & Tour Interboro
A guided tour by and with an introduction by Daniel D'Oca partner of Interboro (US),...
09 Oct 2009
Foaming at the Edge
Presentation by Lars Lerup (US) of the Biennale Master Class ‘Foaming at the Edge’...
09 Oct 2009
Northern Banks of the IJ: Experiments at Noorderveld
Urhahn Urban Design talks to guests about its design for the Vliegenbos and environs area in...
09 Oct 2009
IABR Open Podium Speedism
Every Friday afternoon, a local ‘cultural ambassador’ appears as host or hostess of a...
08 Oct 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate: Lars Lerup "One Million Acres and No Zoning"
Lars Lerup: Open City and the American Suburb Lecture by Lars Lerup (US), architect, author and...
08 Oct 2009
Villa VPRO – Bureau Buitenland: Istanbul
The invasion of large numbers of conservative and religious people from the countryside into...
08 Oct 2009
Amstel Discussion
Oost-Watergraafsmeer Precinct talks to guests about the future of the Amstel River and its banks...
07 Oct 2009
Lars Lerup in conversation with Michelle Provoost
Location: Berlage Institute, Botersloot 25, NL 3011 HE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, T. +31.10...
07 Oct 2009
IDFA Film 'The Show Must Go On'
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world's biggest festival for...
07 Oct 2009
Het Nieuwe Diep: Vrijstraat (Free Street)
Urban development firm ZUS talks to guests about its designs for a new water park between the...
06 Oct 2009
Public Lecture by Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman, ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles]
Location: Berlage Institute, Botersloot 25, NL 3011 HE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, T. +31.10...
06 Oct 2009
Student Design Contest Finals
Presentation and judging of entries for the student design contest on the future of the city....
05 Oct 2009
Lars Lerup in conversation with Xaveer de Geyter
Location: Berlage Institute, Botersloot 25, NL 3011 HE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, T. +31.10...
05 Oct 2009
Destination AMS
Lecture by The Free State of Amsterdam curator Zef Hemel on the future of the city. The evening...
04 Oct 2009
IDFA Film 'Megacities'
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world’s biggest festival...
04 Oct 2009
Film Program Rotterdam Classics'City For Sale'
The Rotterdam Municipal Archives and film theater Lantaren/Venster present, in the series...
04 Oct 2009
Biennale Cycling Tours
Together with the 4th IABR, Rotterdam ArchiGuides organizes cycling tours, combined with a visit to...
04 Oct 2009
Sunday afternoon documentary on Amsterdam: Amsterdam Global Village
Amsterdam Global Village (245 mins.) by Johan van der Keuken (1996). Every Sunday afternoon, a...
03 Oct 2009
Open City Talk & Tour Tim Rieniets
A guided tour of the Forum exhibition by and with an introduction from co-curator Tim Rieniets (CH)...
02 Oct 2009
Public Lecture by Kees Christiaanse
Location: Berlage Institute, Botersloot 25, NL 3011 HE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, T. +31.10...
02 Oct 2009
IABR Open Podium Sara Vrugt
Every Friday afternoon, a local ‘cultural ambassador’ appears at the IABR as host or...
01 Oct 2009
10th N-AERUS Conference
Conference on ‘open cities’ IHS -Making Cities Work The institute for Housing and...
01 Oct 2009
International Urban Design Conference, Morgen/Tomorrow
Within the framework of The Free State of Amsterdam and in memory of the founding father of modern...
01 Oct 2009
Open City Lecture and Debate: Kees Christiaanse
The first keynote lecture in the series of Open City lectures and debates will be given by the...
01 Oct 2009
Villa VPRO – Bureau Buitenland: Jakarta
Jakarta has been blighted by permanent traffic jams and spatial-planning incompetence....
01 Oct 2009
Makeable City Rotterdam/the Free State of Amsterdam.
Curators Wouter Vanstiphout and Zef Hemel on their Rotterdam and Amsterdam entries, respectively,...
30 Sep 2009
International Urban Design Conference, Morgen/Tomorrow
Within the framework of The Free State of Amsterdam and in memory of the founding father of modern...
30 Sep 2009
IDFA Film 'Megacities'
The IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) is the world’s biggest festival...
29 Sep 2009
Public Lecture by George Baird 'The Politics of Public Space'
Location: Berlage Institute, Botersloot 25, NL 3011 HE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, T. +31.10...
29 Sep 2009
Companies and businesses in the Free State of Amsterdam
An evening organized by the Chamber of Commerce. Stories, ideas, presentations about the future of...
29 Sep 2009
Vancouver – Rotterdam: A Tale of Two Cities
Larry Beasley, former Co-director of Urban Planning for Vancouver, will be giving a lecture as a...
28 Sep 2009
Tegenlicht: I am Gurgaon: The New City in India
Four million people in one huge gated community, a satellite of New Delhi: Is Gurgaon the latest...
28 Sep 2009
Lars Lerup in conversation with George Baird
Location: Berlage Institute, Botersloot 25, NL 3011 HE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, T. +31.10...
28 Sep 2009
The VVD in The Free State of Amsterdam
The VVDs vision on the future of Amsterdam. Stories, ideas, observations. The evening program...
27 Sep 2009
Sunday afternoon documentary on Amsterdam: The New Rijksmuseum
The New Rijksmuseum (120 mins.) by Oeke Hoogendijk (2008) Every Sunday afternoon, a documentary...
26 Sep 2009
Radio: De Avonden
A radiophonic version of the special IABR-dedicated issue published by the literary magazine De...
25 Sep 2009
urbaninform Symposium
Still some places available - for enquiries: cvanvlodrop@iabr Micro- and Macro-scale...
24 Sep 2009
Villa VPRO – Bureau Buitenland: Detroit
Detroit, stad in vrije val from VPRO Eeuw van de Stad on Vimeo (in Dutch) Once the...
24 Sep 2009
Live Radio Villa VPRO
Live radio coverage of the opening of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. ...
24 Sep 2009
Andere Tijden: Who is Building? Wibaut!
Andere Tijden focuses on Floor Wibaut – Amserdam's dynamic and socially conscious city...
24 Sep 2009
Wallpaper* Future 30 Architects Directory 2009
Wallpaper* magazine presents some of the most exciting emerging global architectural talent in an...
22 Sep 2009
Holland Doc: Stayin’ Alive In Jo’burg
In 2010, one of the sites for the World Football Championships will be in Johannesburg’s...
21 Sep 2009
Metropolis: New to the City
Over a period of six months four migrants are being filmed in four different cities in the world...
21 Sep 2009
Tegenlicht: Grand Paris: The President and the Architect
French President Sarkozy has ambitious plans for the Paris of the future and is looking for the...
20 Sep 2009
Holland Doc Radio: Looking for the next Wibaut
City Councilor Floor Wibaut was one of the most dynamic politicians active in 20th century...
20 Sep 2009
Draadstaal
The satirical TV program Draadstaal devotes an entire edition to the theme of the city. ...
17 Sep 2009
Villa VPRO – Bureau Buitenland: Addis Ababa
To cope with an influx of migrants, the Ethiopian capital must build apartment buildings at...
15 Sep 2009
Screening "Grand Paris, the President and the Architect"
Bregtje van der Haak’s latest documentary, Grand Paris, the President and the...
15 Sep 2009
A Sense of Belonging and the Open City
This year’s “Internationale Keuze Debat”, the conference traditionally organized...
14 Sep 2009
Tegenlicht: Amsterdam Makeover 2040
Amsterdam is an old lady, but she is set on having a metropolitan make over. After all, cities have...
13 Sep 2009
Buitenhof
On 13 September, 4th IABR's Urban Century opens with the Dutch talk show Buitenhof. Politician...
03 Sep 2009
Kick off cross-media project VPRO and 4th IABR
On 3 September, the Dutch broadcaster VPRO will host a festival-evening in Amsterdam to launch...
08 Jun 2009
Paraisopolis, São Paulo
In collaboration with the 4th IABR sub-theme Squat, curated by Rainer Hehl and Jörg Stollmann, the...
22 May 2009
Kotebe Hana Mariam
The curators of the sub-theme Squat, Rainer Hehl and Jörg Stollmann, initiated a joint forces...
06 May 2009
Workshop Reciprocity
Location: Indonesian Architects' Institute Jakarta chapter, Jakarta Design Center, Jakarta,...
07 Mar 2009
Open City Symposium in Zurich
On March 5, 2009, the ETH Zurich and the IABR hosted a symposium entitled Open City: Designing...
05 Mar 2009
Public Symposium
Open City: Designing Coexistence is an international architecture and urban design symposium,...
15 Jan 2009
Refuge Urbanism: IABR workshop in Istanbul
Workshop, January 15-16, 2009 Hosted by Bilgi University, Istanbul In the Summer of 2008, Can...
03 Dec 2008
Presentation Open City on Urban Age South America Conference
On 3 December, Urban Age inaugurates an intensive two-day conference on the future of global cities...
26 Nov 2008
My City
Speaker: Han Entzinger (Professor of Migration and Integration Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences,...
20 Nov 2008
Inclusive Cities
Speaker: Francisco Maria Orsini, architect about the strategy Proyecto Urbano Integral (PUI)in...
13 Nov 2008
Safe Cities
Speaker: Lydia Fitchko, Director of Social Policy, Analysis and Research in the Social Development...
28 Oct 2008
Leading Cities
Speakers: Anthony Williams, former mayor of Washington, D.C. Additional speakers: Ivo...
14 Oct 2008
Sustainable Cities
Speaker: Jaime Lerner, architect and former mayor of Curitiba (Brazil) Additional speakers:...
08 Oct 2008
Are Cities More Important than Countries?
Speaker: Jan Pronk, former minister and Special Representative of the United Nations Additional...
08 Oct 2008
Making Cities Work (documentary)
The Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam...
16 Sep 2008
Open City lectures in Zurich
The program: 18/09 Introduction I: on the Open City by Kees Christiaanse,...
20 Nov 2007
[limited access] or the open city?
lecture Kees Christiaanse at LSE, London more...
