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)