Simulizi Mijini / Urban Narratives is proud to announce the program for the final conference, held in Berlin on March 16-17 2017, and its connected cultural program, which has events scheduled over several days to present a broad vision of urban heritage from Dar es Salaam and Berlin: magazine and book launch on Thursday 16th; exhibition opening, food and live music on Friday 17th; curatorial tour of the exhibition and city walks on Saturday 18th, and artistic workshops on Sunday 26th March 2017 for the finissage of the exhibition at ZK/U. For more information about these events, please see here.
Below are the conference speakers invited for lectures and roundtable discussions at the TU Berlin. We are very excited to announce a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines –we will upload biographies of our guests very soon.
THURSDAY, 16 MARCH 2017 – CONFERENCE
9:00-18:00 at TU Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 16-18, 10623 Berlin
| Welcome Note | Rachel Lee and Philipp Misselwitz |
| PANEL A World Heritage – Counter Narratives moderated by Gülsah Stapel |
Laura Murray Balancing Celebration and Critique in Community History — A Case Study from Canada Samaila Suleiman Ethnic Minorities and the Politics of Visibility: Visitor perspectives from the Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture Leila Javanmardi Fragile Heritage: The Forgotten Legacy of the twentieth Century in the Middle East Susanne Förster, George Krajewsky and Jona Schwerer Negotiating German colonial heritage in Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel |
| Coffee | |
| PANEL B Heritage and Conflict moderated by Yaşar Adanali |
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi A Shadow Heritage of the Humanitarian Colony: Dadaab’s Foreclosure of the Urban Historical Zinovia Foka Heritage-making in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone: between Rediscovering Unity and Disempowering Local Initiatives Mike Terry Occupation: Structures of the Berlin Brigade |
| Lunch | |
| PANEL C Engaging Unwanted Heritage moderated by Anne-Katrin Fenk |
Awami Art Collective A Vacillation: Public Art for Society Gozde Sarlak Mobilizing Heritage movements over urban commons: The case of Istanbul’s Vegetable gardens Rishika Mukhopadhyay Intangibility in Heritage Conversation: Prospects of Kolkata’s Chinatown Srdjan Mandic Heritage and Governmentality: Spatio-Temporal trajectory of Mining Towns in post-socialist Serbia Benjamin Häger Un/shared heritage. The artwork “Monument” in Dresden as a Controversial Subject |
| Coffee | |
| ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION |
Urban heritage from below: the critical now moderated by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee with Yaşar Adanali, Luise Rellensmann, Rebecca Corey, Comfort Badaru (TBC) |
| ANZA MAGAZINE + STORYBOOK LAUNCH EVENT | 19h-22h Location to be confirmed |
FRIDAY, 17 MARCH 2017 – CONFERENCE
9h-18h at TU Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 16-18, 10623 Berlin
| Opening remarks | Gabriele Dolff-Bonekämper + Claudia Jürgens |
| PANEL A Narrating moderated by Claudia Jürgens |
Avehi Menon Mapping the city through memory: Bangalore Storyscapes Vittoria Capresi Tell me about “your heritage”. Oral history as a tool to raise awareness and narratives as a way to rethink architecture Cord Pagenstecher Forced Labour. The Testimony App by Berlin History Workshop Erica Abreu and Marcelo Murta The voices from the community in the Brazilian favela’s museums |
| Coffee | |
| PANEL B Multi-vocality moderated by Diane Barbé |
Jully Acuña Heritage Descolonización of Indigenous People on the web Maj Horn How to map coexistence in urban landscape? Art project Maps for Copenhagen, an alternative self-organized guide to the city Farah Makki Cultural heritage & Urban Value (Co)creation: Insights from Karmouz, Alexandria/Egypt |
| Lunch | |
| PANEL C Co-curation moderated by Comfort Badaru |
Monika Motylinska Communicating Unwanted Heritage? The Case of the Technisches Rathaus in Frankfurt am Main Mansion Art Collective Self, City, Community: Mansion in Beirut Jerome Chou and Stephen Zacks Heritage Activation – Reclaiming the Present and Future City in Flint, Michigan Ana Luisa Ribeiro A Year in the Sertão – university, artistic creation and community in the Brazilian backlands Juliane Richter When a space becomes a place. RASTER : BETON in the big housing estate Leipzig-Grünau |
| Coffee | |
| ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION | What time is this place? moderated by Gabriele Dolff-Bonekämper and Philipp Misselwitz with Annika Seifert, Shraddha Bhatawadekar, Sarita Mamseri, Matthias Einhoff (TBC) |
| Closing remarks | Rachel Lee and Philipp Misselwitz |
19h-late at ZK/U, Siemensstr. 27, 10551 Berlin
| EXHIBITION OPENING | Cooking performances by Umesh Madanahalli and African Kingdom Restaurant (TBC) with speeches by Anne Fleckstein, Jan van Esch, Rebecca Corey, ZK/U, Habitat Unit (TBC) |
| LIVE MUSIC AND DJ | Paul Ndunguru + Twaba (LIVE) Santuri Safari |
SATURDAY, 18 MARCH 2017 – TOURS
13h-16h at ZK/U, Siemensstr. 27, 10551 Berlin
| CURATORIAL TOUR | 10 artists from Tanzania, Germany, India, Finland present their work on urban heritage realised through the Simulizi Mijini residency exchange program (more information here) |
| WALKING TOUR | Tour of Moabit with historical focus (TBC) |
| WALKING TOUR | Tour of ‘Afrikanisches Viertel’ in Wedding with Berlin Postkolonial e.V. (TBC) |