Milo Rau’s Work as Artistic Director of NTGent

Theater ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Peter M. Boenisch ◽  
Lise Sofie Houe
Keyword(s):  
European City ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
The City

Peter M. Boenisch and Lise Sofie Houe survey the 2018–20 tenure of Swiss director Milo Rau as artistic director of ntgent, the city theater of Ghent, Belgium. Contextualizing his role and actions within the European city theater system, the authors also examine his artistic programming and output in the period, personally and institutionally, with particular emphasis on works produced at ntgent. The authors focus especially on Rau’s efforts to produce work with global collaborators, as seen in his Orestes in Mosul (2019) and other works. Boenisch and Houe additionally summarize critiques of Rau’s practice from other thinkers and artists and Rau’s response to these critiques.

Citizens in the Smart City

2022 ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Tomor
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
European City ◽  
Citizen Empowerment ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

While the role of citizens in smart cities is hotly debated, there is a dearth of empirical research on the subject. This in-depth study of a European city, selected for its typical smart city ambitions, explores the roles that citizens actually play in smart city projects. The study examines twelve initiatives in the City of Utrecht (NL) using a framework that differentiates between types of citizen participation. The findings show that technology-enabled citizen participation in Utrecht is highly diverse and embraces all types of participation rather than simply taking the form of either “citizen empowerment” (as the advocates argue) or “citizen subjugation' (as the critics stress). The diversity found in the study highlights the need to conceptualize the role of the smart citizen at the micro (project) level rather than at the level of the city as a whole. The study shows that citizen participation in the smart city should not be understood as a technological utopia or dystopia but as an evolving, technologically mediated practice that is shaped by a variety of factors.

No Natural Disaster: New Orleans, Katrina, and War

PMLA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
European City ◽  
Virtual Navigation ◽  
Origin Story ◽  
The City ◽  
Early Manifestation

It has always been difficult to talk about new orleans without resorting to cliché. Long positioned as “America's most European city” or “the city that care forgot,” the locale looms large in the national—and the literary—imagination, triggering vivid fantasies of excess and decadence but also of old–world gentility and grandeur. New Orleans, especially in its juicy Gothic flavorings, has often performed as a stand–in for the South at large, while also exhibiting a certain unique cosmopolitanism or hybridity. We might even think of it as an early manifestation of a networked global hub, the routes of the slave trade mapping our first virtual navigation system. New Orleans and indeed the entire South perform powerful ideological work for the nation, functioning throughout the twentieth century as a convenient repository and origin story for much that ails the country: poverty, racism, rigid fundamentalism, decadence, and crime.

Napoli and the loss of innocence: Three theatrical hypotheses

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-536
Author(s):  
Raffaele Furno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
European City ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
The City

The layers of Neapolitan culture have pinned down the representation of the city to two shifting paradigms: Napoli as a nourishing mother, pregnant in luxurious views of her Gulf and generous products of her land, and, on the opposite side, Napoli as a whore and a witch, a dark sterile entity that devours her children. Both ways, female markers have characterized the construction of Napoli’s cultural identity in the imagery of her intellectuals, story-tellers, and writers. This article will analyze such female reincarnations through the theatrical work of three of the city’s major authors: Eduardo de Filippo’s Filumena Marturano (1946), Roberto de Simone’s melodrama La Gatta Cenerentola (1976), and Annibale Ruccello’s Le cinque rose di Jennifer (1980). Through the metaphor of the lost virginity of the female body, and using different stage languages including drama, comedy, music, and fairy tales, Neapolitan theatre has used tradition and local culture to project Napoli into a wider contemporary intellectual debate. This, I deem, was made possible by the fluid and hybrid nature of “being Neapolitan” which consists of deeply grounded linguistic, religious, culinary, and performative roots and, at once, of a keen awareness that those same roots travelled hundreds of miles and originated from foreign sources, marking Napoli as a quintessential multicultural, proto-European city.

The role of architecture in the Republic of Georgia's European aspirations

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1118-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Harris-Brandts
Keyword(s):  
European Identity ◽  
European City ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
New Development ◽  
Market Production ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City

Alignment with Europe has been a popular foreign policy objective among post-socialist nations. In the Republic of Georgia, discourse surrounding the country's Euro-Atlantic orientation surged in the decade after the 2003 Rose Revolution. While such discourse has been examined in the context of political reforms and national security goals, this article foregrounds how it was incorporated into alterations of the built environment. Focusing on the urban transformations of the city of Batumi after the rise to power of the United National Movement government, it demonstrates how architecture served as a tool for selectively rewriting Georgia's contemporary European identity. This article concentrates on two parallel initiatives to transform Batumi into a contemporary European city: the reconstruction of portions of the Old City and the new development along the seaside boulevard. Using evidence collected through qualitative methods, it further highlights the contradictions that emerged during this process of redevelopment and rebranding, as the state balanced initiatives for new development with other post-revolutionary state-building objectives, such as political reform and tourism-market production. Accordingly, it unpacks the various national and international politico-economic forces at play in the process of developing Batumi into the image of a contemporary European city.

Citizens in the Smart City

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Tomor
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
European City ◽  
Citizen Empowerment ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City ◽  
Project Level

While the role of citizens in smart cities is hotly debated, there is a dearth of empirical research on the subject. This in-depth study of a European city, selected for its typical smart city ambitions, explores the roles that citizens actually play in smart city projects. The study examines twelve initiatives in the City of Utrecht (NL) using a framework that differentiates between types of citizen participation. The findings show that technology-enabled citizen participation in Utrecht is highly diverse and embraces all types of participation rather than simply taking the form of either “citizen empowerment” (as the advocates argue) or “citizen subjugation' (as the critics stress). The diversity found in the study highlights the need to conceptualize the role of the smart citizen at the micro (project) level rather than at the level of the city as a whole. The study shows that citizen participation in the smart city should not be understood as a technological utopia or dystopia but as an evolving, technologically mediated practice that is shaped by a variety of factors.

Glasgow's Tramway: Little Diagilevs and Large Ambitions

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
Alasdair Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
European City ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

When dawn broke on 1 January 1991, Glasgow's year as European City of Culture was over. It was time to count the cost, £32 million it emerged, to pick up the pieces and to begin the inquest. As Glasgow is a city self-conscious to a fault, with an infinite capacity for self-analysis and self-flagellation, the inquest began long before 1990 had even dawned. The predictable round of ‘Whose City?’ and ‘What Culture?’ articles poured out as soon as Glasow had been awarded the title in 1986. Predictably, many of those early doubters ended up getting involved in the City of Culture events and profiting from them. Indeed, even those most virulently opposed to the whole notion, a group called ‘Workers City’, which rallied around the Glasgow novelist James Kellman, provided what was possibly the year's most entertaining and certainly longest running event. The furious and intensely public debate centred on the ramifications of the £4 million lost by an exhibition called Glasgow's Glasgow.

The Social Life of a Barrier: A Material Ethnography of Urban Counter-terrorism

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122098544
Author(s):  
Martin Trandberg Jensen ◽  
Ole B. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
European City ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concrete Barriers ◽  
The City

In the aftermath of the truck attacks in Berlin, Nice, Paris, and Stockholm, new counter-terrorism measures are being installed in European city centers. Through an ethnographic approach, this article explores the socio-material effects triggered by the most conspicuous material responses to hostile vehicle treats: concrete barriers. We draw on the recent turn towards mobilities design thinking to address the béton barriers as more-than physical obstructions, but designed artefacts negotiated and re-appropriated in unexpected ways. Set in the context of Copenhagen, we explore how the concrete barriers reveal the social, cultural, and practical conditions of the city. By establishing a critical mobilities design-oriented understanding of counter-terrorism “in situ,” we seek to broaden out what the process of “designing out terrorism” entails and to discuss new participatory design processes for future transformations of the city in light of terrorism threats.

scholarly journals City in Modern Cultural Criticism: Lewis Mumford and István Hajnal

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Gábor Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
European City ◽  
Lewis Mumford ◽  
The City

Abstract The critique of the city is an almost obligatory cliché of the 20thcentury cultural criticism. This paper offers a parallel critical analysis of the conceptions of American ecologist Lewis Mumford and Hungarian historian István Hajnal. They were contemporaries, and their approaches had been inspired by interwar cultural criticism. Mumford did not hate the city: it was, for him, the engine of history, a reservoir of cultural creativeness. The theory of Hajnal, from many aspects, runs parallel with Mumford’s – moreover, the Hungarian historian gives a detailed theory on the types of European city. What connects them is an ecological approach.

scholarly journals THE FEATURES OF FORMATION ARCHITECTURAL-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE BELGIUM CITIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
N. A. Plakhotna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Aesthetic Perception ◽  
European City ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Spatial Composition ◽  
The City ◽  
Rich History

The article examines the architectural and spatial environment of cities in Belgium, numerous examples of architectural solutions of buildings, both architectural monuments and future projects that have not yet been embodied. From the point of view of considering the foreshortenings of the city of Belgium proposed in the article, they can be considered as: a historically developed system of social and functional settlement of citizens, modern and future environment, an object of aesthetic perception. Architecture bears a projection of the integrity of the human personality and social interaction between people, as well as the preservation of an integral architectural environment as a whole. The modern architecture of Belgium – NewArt Style – is a set of basic forms and features characteristic of buildings of a certain time and a certain people, manifested in the features of a functional, constructive and artistic order. Each era has created its own style. The historically developed architectural and spatial environment of the cities of Belgium is a valuable object of research, both from a historical point of view and from an architectural point of view. It can be said that every European city has a rich history, reflecting in its characteristic compositional and landscape features, which makes it possible to identify the main problems of preserving the historical part of the city, which occupies most of the territory in the overall city planning and has a significant impact on its modern spatial composition and architecture in the future. This allows modern European architects to identify strategies for the development of a small historical city without violating its architectural and spatial integrity and artistic qualities, as well as to preserve a harmonious and comfortable urban environment.

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