3. URBANISM BIENNALE

Project Author: Ing. arch. Petr Hurník
Gallery: Gallery at the Good Shepherd, Radnická 4
Vernissage: on Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at 6 PM
Date: (April 18) April 25 - May 25, 2007, Mon-Fri: from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Wednesday free admission

Ing. arch. Petr Hurník, along with students from the Urban Planning studio at the Faculty of Architecture, VUT in Brno, is organizing a generously scaled event for the third time focused on opening a discussion about the revitalization of public spaces, considerations on restoring feelings to the city, and the possibilities of a European city. Brno, Bratislava, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Vsetín, and Paris simultaneously become venues for discussion in the CITYMEGAHAPPENING ("urbanist Spartakiad"). A series of more than 100 student action creations animate projects in public space through composition directly on the streets and squares. This space is now finally once again a topic and a lively question for random passersby.
The new concept of urban planning education at the Faculty of Architecture recycles the deaf ("waste") zones of the city, which are transformed using the "waste energy" of the educational process - student projects. Student projects (extensive xerographies) of renewed urban spaces will be exhibited, always in confrontation between the pair of perspectives old state/proposed state (better PLACE), along with bibliophile "accompanying reports" (artistic creations on the theme "text and place") and multimedia documentation of happenings carried out in 2005 and 2006. Proposed implementations will be compared with renewed spaces in Central European cities. As the city grows uncontrollably, so does the 3rd Biennale of Urbanism.

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM:

April 17-21, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Vsetín,
Happening Revitalization of the City (students display studies inspired by the Community Work Society at 6 locations in the city center).

April 18-24, Brno, Gallery at the Good Shepherd, Radnická 4,
Video Installation 99 Essays “Freedom Square”

April 20, Bratislava, Faculty of Architecture STU.
“Vydrica Revival", “European Metropolises”, exhibition of student urban planning works (Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Berlin, Paris).

April 25, 6:00 PM, Brno, Gallery at the Good Shepherd, Radnická 4,
Installation of the Exhibition of Student Urban Planning Works for Brno, Prague, Vienna, Vsetín, Bratislava, Zlín, Berlin, and Paris,
Video Installation “Cladonia - dessins, choix", Variation 1, Sofi Hemon, Morangis.

April 26, 7:00 PM, Brno, Gallery at the Good Shepherd, Radnická 4,
“Czechs and Germans”, lecture by Prof. Ing. arch. Vladimír Šlapeta DrSc, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Brno.

May 9, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Brno, Freedom Square,
100 Happenings by students of the Faculty of Architecture Brno.

May 11, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Berlin, Alexanderplatz,
Muhlendamm. “Mitte Revival”, happening by students of the Faculty of Architecture Brno.

May 15, Paris, Place du Parvis Notre Dame.
“Cité Revival”, happening by students of the Faculty of Architecture Brno.

May 18, Vienna, Czech Centre.
“Sitte Revival”, exhibition of urban planning studies by students of the Faculty of Architecture Brno.

May 22, 6:00 PM, Brno, Gallery at the Good Shepherd.
Independence Day, puppet theater, Milan Nytra
Student Urban Planning Projects focused on the revitalization of public spaces

THE CITY IS DEAD...?!

considering THE RETURN OF FEELING TO THE CITY,

on the possibilities of a European city