{"id":28,"date":"2006-08-18T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptfordtv.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/18\/remix-conference-25th-of-march\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T14:08:34","slug":"remix-conference-25th-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Remix Conference 25th of March"},"content":{"rendered":"

the original flyer<\/a> & the evaluation<\/a><\/p>\n

quoted from souteastlondon.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The conference in Goldsmiths College marked the launch of the ambitious video project Deptford TV. The local online video database, initiated by Adnan Hadzi (Goldsmiths College<\/a>), aims to document the regeneration of the area Deptford\/New Cross, accessible on the internet and under a Creative Commons Licence. This means, the internet user can download local videos and use them for noncommercial purpose (more license details on the deptford.tv<\/a> website). <\/span><\/p>\n

The database for the local Deptford TV clips itself has been set up in the last weeks and months by Bitnik <\/a>(picture above) from Zurich\/Switzerland. Bitnik is an internationally experienced media collective with a proven record in regeneration and arts projects. Deptford TV uses only Open Source software. This is uncommercial software, which is developed by volunteers. This software can be downloaded from the web without charge, like eg Linux software. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the last weeks, the database has been consistently filled up with content from local volunteers. All material is stored in h-264 format, an open source format, equivalent to the commercial IPod format. All material added to the database is stored with an Edit Decision List. This way all material can be re-assembled and re-edited at a later point easily. <\/span><\/p>\n

The project will be ongoing for some 3 years at least and is still at an early stage. Though now basically functioning, more technical features and content will be added. Technical hickups at this stage should not surprise. Deptford TV has now uploaded first edited videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday Deptford TV had invited to a local 5 hour walk to locations with public screens, like the Laban Centre, where the results of the ongoing video project were shown (distributed through the wireless network of Boundless Coop<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

At the conference evening a video remix screening with industrial sound performance on the Boat in Deptford Creek marked the end of this local media weekend in New Cross and Deptford.<\/span><\/p>\n

see also posts boundless.coop<\/a> & deptford.tv<\/a><\/p>\n

transcript from the bitnik.org presentation<\/p>\n

MK2 CO-OP CITY \u2013 PRESENTATION IN LONDON (NODE)<\/p>\n

Hello we are Bitnik Media Collective from Zurich. This is Doma,
\nSilvan, Carmen. We have been collaborating with Adnan and James for
\nthe Deptford.TV.<\/p>\n

We would like to give you a brief summary of COOP-CITY, a conference
\nheld in Barcelona in 2004 on regeneration, oppositional architecture
\nand social conflict. COOP-CITY was organized and initiated by
\nPlatoniq, a barcelona-based media activists group.
\nCO-OP CITY was the second part of a series of conferences and
\nworkshops called MEDIA SPACE INVADERS (Invasores al Medio espacio)
\norganized by Platoniq throughout 2003 and 2004 on topics of public
\nspace, urban environment, social media practices and architecture. The
\nMEDIA SPACE INVADERS conferences and workshops centred around the
\ntopic of the repolitisation of public space through use of community
\nsoftware and technology. The conference was intended not only as a
\nseries of presentations where researchers would give an insight on
\ntheir work, but as an open community workshop where people involved in
\ndifferent social struggles connected to the city of Barcelona would be
\nable to exchange experiences and find ways of collaborating.<\/p>\n

The aim of CO-OP CITY, the second part of the MEDIA SPACE INVADERS
\nSERIES was to analize how the process of renewal in Barcelona had
\ndrifted further and further away from citizens needs. In 2004
\nregeneration in Barcelona had reached a new climax with the FORUM
\nBARCELONA 2004 (http:\/\/www.barcelona2004.org\/<\/a>), an international Forum
\non Cultural exchange initiated by UNESCO, which took place from Mai to
\nSeptember 2004 and lead to the regeneration of a big portion of the
\ncity (poble nou). Citizens had little say in this process and even
\nthough there had been quite an amount of protests, the plans were not
\nchanged or even discussed.<\/p>\n

During the conferences these processes and struggles were also
\ncompared to similar struggles in Berlin, Sao Paulo, Bogota and Buenos
\nAires.<\/p>\n

CO-OP CITY tried to give an answer to the question: what is a
\ncooperational City, how could community practices and decision-making
\nbe combined and how can public space be repolitisized and used to
\nsupport social movements.
\nThe answer was a public city tour, a militant investigation project
\nvisiting all the social hot-spots in the different parts of the city,
\nbringing the local groups involved in social struggle a mobile
\naudio-streaming-station and retransmitting the talks and discussions
\ndirectly to the Platoniq Netradio.<\/p>\n

The idea and especially the set-up of CO-OP CITY with panels,
\nscreenings and a City Tour were intended as a form of guerilla
\ntactical research and were derived from the idea of \u201emilitant
\ninvestigation” (investigacion militante). Militant investigation is a
\nresearch method that was initiated during the autonomos movements in
\nth 80ies.
\nThe understanding of \u201eresearch” for CO-OP City was taken from a
\nresearch collectiv called Situaciones (www.situaciones.org<\/a>) which uses
\n\u201emilitant investigacion” to discribe its form of social research.
\nTheir research method implies an attitude of collaboration with the
\ngroups or communities they study and exposes the role of the
\nscientific \u201eimpartial espectator” as a bourgeois notion of doing
\nsocial research.<\/p>\n

The CO-OP CITY TOUR, organized by Platoniq and Sitesize.net<\/a>, was part
\nof the community workshop.
\nThe idea of the tour was to give the participants an in-depth insight
\ninto the physical and social geography of regeneration and renewal in
\nBarcelona.
\nThe seven stops of the tour were chosen for the urgency of the social
\nstruggles connected with them and at the same time for the differences
\nin the types of struggles they stood for: The aim of the tour in this
\nsense was to give participants a broad insight into the various
\nstruggles and their different natures by visiting each of the
\ncommunities personally. This very direct approach to the different
\ncommunities, to their concerns and their long-term engagements in
\nstruggles to enforce their rights a network of struggles became
\nmanifest as a sort of second layer to the city map. For the people
\ninvolved directly in the struggles the specific problems they were
\nfacing began to form pieces of a much larger picture: The picture of
\ncommunities being marginalized and excluded from the city governments
\nvision of a Future Barcelona and of how these communities are driven
\nout of the city’s center towards the city limits by regeneration
\nprocesses.
\nThe current and ongoing tranformation of the City of Barcelona is put
\ninto practice by the city council through incoherent strategies that
\nare influenced by image or marketing considerations and speculation.
\nInstead of involving local communities into the renewal processes, the
\ngovernment is more concerned with an outward image than with the needs
\nof the citizens. As a reaction to this, civil organisations, ngos and
\ncommunity groups have spent a lot of energy in devising propositions,
\ninitiatives and projects for a understanding of \u201ecity” or \u201eurban
\nspace” that is more focussed on the people than on marketing \/ tourism
\nand money.<\/p>\n

Links<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.coordinadoraraval.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.poblenou.org\/c22<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.forumperjudicats.com<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.bcn.es\/22@bcn\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.sitesize.net\/poble9<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.asfes.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.compromis.org\/Videos\/video%20ecoparc1.mpg<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.compromis.org\/Videos\/video%20ecoparc2.mpg<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.compromis.org\/Videos\/video%20ecoparc3.mpg<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.compromis.org\/comunicats\/Dossier%20texto%20ecoparc2.pdf<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.compromis.org\/comunicats\/Dossier%20ecoparc.pdf<\/a>
\nwww.iespana.es\/noalcalaix<\/a><\/p>\n

PARC CENTRAL
\nBIOGRAPHIES:
\nSpanish urban planning acts on the placing of gaps in urban spaces and
\ndefine exactly what these gaps should be like: measurements,
\nmaterials, positions – but they do not define purpose because a gap is
\nfor disposing rubble and rubbish, isn’t it? The design works in
\ndifferent ways because people pay the local government for their
\npermit, and then do what they want, or need to, with it: an urban
\nreserve, breathing space, a meeting point, a children’s playground, a
\ntree plantation…<\/p>\n

In the case of regulations on scaffolding , you can
\nobtain a permit to install one because you “need” to paint the facade
\nof the building you wish to contaminate. You can always produce this
\nneed by scribbling some eye-catching graffiti on it. You then install
\nyour scaffolding and build your new space, your own private refuge,
\nyour architecture of silence, with whatever materials, style and
\nrneasurements you decide. The duration is up to you, because the
\narchitecture of silence ought to be provisional and variable, because
\nthese are the conditions which the other architecture (the regular
\nsort) does not have. In the same way, there are other loopholes or
\n“URBAN DESCRIPTIONS” we can employ to remind the institution of its
\ninabiltity to deal with plural realities, and to point out people’s
\nability-and their need- to take part in urban drift.<\/p>\n

URBAN PRESCRIPTIONS
\nStrategies for subversive occupation<\/p>\n

All realities manifest themselves with a gradient of variable factors.
\nIf I want to talk about urban phenomena, I have to do so in terms of
\ncomplexity and difference. The paths we have to pursue to understand
\nthem cannot reproduce the paths of conventional urban planning, as the
\ninvisible, mutant structures which interact in the urban space create
\na complex fabric. We get the impression that the various levels of
\ncomplexity grow and die. The production system, and the political and
\neconomic variables and mechanisms which predominate in architecture
\nmake the idea of global, closed planning inconceivable.<\/p>\n

The speed at which changes take place in urban space suggests specific
\nplaces and given epochs, so the design and construction of this space
\nconstantly require regenerating mechanisms which address the
\nparticular factors of the various places and their interaction with
\nglobal changes and systems. For institutions, the idea of a global
\nprocess is an attempt to simplify and control all possible forms of
\nbehaviour and action. My proposal consists of perpetually redefining
\nglobal systems (urban planning and legislation), looking for possible
\nloopholes and uncertainties which allow the various human groups
\nfreedom of action.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/p>\n

Santiago Cirugeda, born 1971, has produced architectural projects,
\nwritten articles and participated in different educational and
\ncultural contexts (master classes, seminars, conferences, workshops,
\nexhibitions, debates, etc.). He is currently preparing an
\narchitectonic project in Seville, for a cultural and visual arts
\ncentre, and is immersed in investigations regarding emergency
\ndwellings, developed in distinct forums such as the Barraca BCN – a
\nwinter factory for the ETSA in Alicante. He occasionally acts as
\nprofessor in Bogota’s Javeriana School.<\/p>\n

Since 9 years, Santiago Cirugeda has developed subversive projects
\nwith distinct ambitions in urban reality which has allowed him to
\nendure a complicated social life. From systematic occupation of public
\nspaces in containers to the construction of prostheses in facades,
\npatios, covers and lots, he negociates legal and illegal zones, as a
\nreminder of the pervasive control to which we are all subject.<\/p>\n

He was invited to the Venice Biennale where he critically demonstrated
\nsocio-cultural differences which nourish interventionist projects in
\ndistant urban surroundings, and which move through issues of
\nself-administration and precarity to stupid frivolty.<\/p>\n

Architectos Sin Fronteras \u2013 Architects without Borders<\/p>\n

ASF is an NGO funded in 1992 with the objective of using social or
\nopositional architecture for the development of community projects
\nsuch as housing, schools, health care centers, educational and
\ncommunity centers.<\/p>\n

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