Petr Vašát : Dynamic Urbanism
Urban poverty, global economy, informal urbanism
The Architecture Atelier II UMPRUM invites you to another lecture from the dynamic urbanism series. This time, the social anthropologist Petr Vašát will speak on the topic of Urban Poverty, Global Economy, Informal Urbanism.
MSc. Petr Vašát, PhD. (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences) will be the guest of the fourth lecture in the Dynamic Urbanism series at Umprum. The social anthropologist focuses on comparative studies of architecture, public space, homelessness, and post-socialist cities. He concentrates on the temporal, spatial, and social spheres of street culture. His research is conducted in Czech and Colombian cities.
“The lecture will focus on the global contexts of urban poverty. Using an experimental lens of transnational comparison, it will seek parallels between Latin American slums and Czech homelessness as different forms of the same phenomenon. The issue of slums acts as a mirror, in which, when we look into it, we see objects laterally inverted, from another perspective, or even slightly distorted.”
The lecture series is thematically linked with the experimental workshop teaching of the new subject Dynamic Urbanism, led by the duo Jan Moravcová and Peter Stec. The aim of the lectures is to enrich teaching, connect Umprum with researchers from Czech and foreign universities and the public, and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
Landscapes and cities evolve over time, achieving an incredible degree of interlinking and complexity. However, many important urban qualities have been filtered out by the often rigid tools of 20th-century urban planning. The goal of the subject is to explore contemporary methods of urban planning that model and shape cities and landscapes over time. In addition to historical precedents, it will also present formal dynamic models from various disciplines, with the expectation of adapting them to an urban scale.
MSc. Petr Vašát, PhD. (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences) will be the guest of the fourth lecture in the Dynamic Urbanism series at Umprum. The social anthropologist focuses on comparative studies of architecture, public space, homelessness, and post-socialist cities. He concentrates on the temporal, spatial, and social spheres of street culture. His research is conducted in Czech and Colombian cities.
“The lecture will focus on the global contexts of urban poverty. Using an experimental lens of transnational comparison, it will seek parallels between Latin American slums and Czech homelessness as different forms of the same phenomenon. The issue of slums acts as a mirror, in which, when we look into it, we see objects laterally inverted, from another perspective, or even slightly distorted.”
The lecture series is thematically linked with the experimental workshop teaching of the new subject Dynamic Urbanism, led by the duo Jan Moravcová and Peter Stec. The aim of the lectures is to enrich teaching, connect Umprum with researchers from Czech and foreign universities and the public, and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
Landscapes and cities evolve over time, achieving an incredible degree of interlinking and complexity. However, many important urban qualities have been filtered out by the often rigid tools of 20th-century urban planning. The goal of the subject is to explore contemporary methods of urban planning that model and shape cities and landscapes over time. In addition to historical precedents, it will also present formal dynamic models from various disciplines, with the expectation of adapting them to an urban scale.
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