Das Blog von "DiverCities: Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut", Cairo and Tehran begleitet die gleichnamige internationale Konferenz des Orient-Institut Beirut und des Goethe-Institut Beirut im Dezember 2013. DiverCities fördert den Austausch von Erfahrungen über Ansichten auf die städtische Verwaltung und fragt, wie sie von verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Akteuren angesichts der Ambivalenz des öffentlichen Raumes in verschiedenen Gesellschaften wahrgenommen und praktiziert wird.
Saturday, 14 December 2013, Panel III: Open Air Spaces of Gathering, 14.00-16.15 @ Mansion Following the signing of the Ta'if Agreement in 1989, the lack of official memorialisation, the absence of criminal tribunals and the 1991 general war amnesty gave prominence to Beirut’s reconstruction as a ke...
Friday, 13 December 2013, Panel II: Between Public and Private, 15.00-18.30 @ Zico House Recent histories of neo-liberal governance and reconstruction in Beirut have created new types of public, commercial, and virtual spaces that have opened up to new forms of queer sexualities. Emergent forms of q...
Saturday, 14 December 2013, Panel III: Open Air Spaces of Gathering, 14.00-16.15 @ Mansion Since the end of the Lebanese civil war, Beirut has been undergoing new forms of ‘controlling’ public space. It has witnessed the gradual disappearance of coastal lands accessed by the public, as well as the c...
After months of anticipation, the day had come... … the participants arrived and gathered at the OIB for a cozy get-together, eating hot food… … before bracing the storm and making their way to Karantina… … where divercities kicked off on 12 December 2013... … with a rich programme. Fortunately not...
This blog was created in support of DiverCities: Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut, Cairo and Tehran, an international conference organized jointly by the Goethe-Institut Beirut and the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) taking place in Beirut from 12 to 14 December 2013. The aim of this conf...
Divercities Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut, Cairo and Tehran Beirut, Thursday 12 – Saturday 14 December 2013 This three-day multidisciplinary event was a joint project by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Goethe Institut Lebanon. Divercities discussed contested spaces in Beirut, Ca...
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 10.30-15.30 @ Warehouse Watch videos of some of the presentations below! This panel focuses on the legal, moral, economic, and political claims that conflicting urban actors in the three cities of Beirut, Cairo and Tehran advance to control ownership, access, and uses of...
Friday, 13 December 2013, Panel II: Between Public and Private, 15.00-18.30 @ Zico House Tehran’s soundscape is a highly contested element of the public sphere that the Islamic Republic officially controls. I will show through a discussion of music how this space serves to mitigate any stark demarca...
Friday, 13 December 2013, 15.00-18.30 @ Zico House Despite its historical contingency, the concept of a public space remains a powerful utopia that is strongly connected to the idea of a political space and to individual citizenship. As empty signifier a dichotomy of public and private continues to...
Saturday, 14 December 2013, Panel III: Open Air Spaces of Gathering, 16.30 @ Mansion Anton Escher is Professor of Geography at the University of Mainz. His main research interests revolve around the social and architectural development of historic cities of the Mediterranean region, the perception a...
CREDITS Trailer: Rami Nihawi Music from Khat Thaleth Film material from: Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region, OIB 2012 The children of the 10th district of Tehran by Mani Memarsadeghi (2012) This Sea is Mine by Dictaphone Group With thanks to Azam Khatam, Akram Rayess & M...
Saturday, 14 December 2013, Panel III: Open Air Spaces of Gathering, 10.30-12.00 @ Mansion This paper investigates the spatial transformations of a redlight district in southern Tehran, which was once a societal landmark called the ‘citadel’ of Shahre No. During the Pahlavi years (19251979) it op...