SKOR-lecture III: Saskia Sassen

Public Interventions: The Shifting Meaning of the Urban Condition

This year’s SKOR lecture was given by Saskia Sassen, who talked about the ‘making’ of public space by means of architectural and artistic interventions. The evening includes the presentation of Open 11, which takes hybrid space as its theme and includes an essay contributed by Sassen.
Human experience is threatened by the massive architecture of world cities and the density of infrastructures – digital and otherwise – that exist to serve international capital and the global economy. Sassen argues that there is a need for the production of subversive narratives as a counterbalance to this, to make the local and what has been silenced manifest and to generate new forms of ‘modest public spaces’.

Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor at the London School of Economics, has gained worldwide acclaim for studies such as The Global City and Cities in a World Economy. Her most recent publication is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Panellists: Arnold Reijndorp, urban sociologist and Willem van Weelen, artist and theorist
Moderator: Bahram Sadeghi

Open, a cahier about art and the public domain, is published twice a year by NAi Publishers in association with SKOR. Open 11 is about hybrid space and investigates how wireless media mobilize and transform public space.

In association with Open, cahier about art and the public domain, and De Balie

Date: 18 November, starting at 8:30 p.m.
Address: De Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam

This lecture is online available on www.debalie.nl/terugkijken

Of read her artikel for Open www.skor.nl/opencahier