Rubriik: Urbanistika

“Kunst ja linn” – happening-lavastus Telliskivi Loomelinnakus – kutsub külla ja uurima, mida kunst ja loovus teevad kaasaegses kapitalistlikus linnas. Kuidas kasutatakse loovust ja kunsti tänapäeva linnade loomisel, kes on loovklass ja kuidas loomelinnakust osa saada?

EKA urbanistika ja arhitektuuritudengid kutsuvad kõiki võtma erinevaid rolle, mis tegelevad loovuse küsimustega, kutsudes mängijat nägema Telliskivi loomelinnakut läbi seitsme erineva tegelase pilgu. Millisena näeks endise tehase pensionil tööline seda kohta tänapäeval, kui salatehase üksluise tööga tsitadell on avanenud mitmekülgseks loomekülaks, mille ümbert müürid vaikselt kaovad? Kuidas on olla kunstnik galeriis, mis ei esinda enam kunstiruumi väärtust kriitilise jõu või antiteesina, vaid toimib pigem pisikese osakesena suuremas loomingulises supis? Või kuidas saaks hiljuti Eestisse kolinud noor disainer siseneda piirkonda loova tööjõuna, mitte pelgalt tarbijana? Jne jne.

Kui oled valmis mängima, siis kohtume Telliskivis pühapäeval, 18. detsembril kell 12-15. Tule võida koos meiega: parimatele mängijatele ootavad ees imelised auhinnad!

EKA urbanistika õppekava kutsub kõiki magistriõppehuvilisi osalema rahvusvahelist õppekava tutvustaval online-infotunnil, mis toimub esmaspäeval, 30. jaanuaril 2023 kell 16:00 Zoomis.

Hea võimalus teada saada, kuidas toimub magistriõpe urbanistika erialal, kuidas valmistuda sisseastumiseks ja mida kandidaatidelt oodatakse. Võimalus küsida küsimusi. Kuna tegu on rahvusvahelise õppekavaga, siis infotund toimub inglise keeles.

Huvilistel palutakse registreeruda alloleva lingi kaudu. Vahetult enne infotunni algust saadetakse osalejatele Zoomi link.

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Rohkem infot Urbanistika magistriõppekava kohta leiab siit:

• https://www.artun.ee/urban-studies
• https://www.facebook.com/urbantallinn

Vastuvõtt EKA rahvusvahelisele urbanistika magistriõppekavale algab 1. veebruaril 2023 ning kestab kuni 6. märtsini.
Lisainfo vastuvõtu kohta.

Tere tulemast linnauuringute stuudio NO-THING: Theories and Urbanisms of the Void viimase projekti NO-ZINE #1: This is Not a Pizza lõplikule ülevaatele ja käivitamisele.

Uurimisstuudio uurib kriitiliselt potentsiaalide ja vastupanu narratiive, mis kaasnevad linna lõhede, tühjuste ja tühermaadega. Ehkki linnaruumi keskmes olev tühjus näib lubavat midagi avalikku, jagatud ja demokraatlikku, on selle “eimiski” ühtlasi ka soodne pinnas spekulatsioonideks. Mida võiks öelda kaasaegse mittemillegi väärtustamise vaatenurgast? Miski pole tegelikult midagi?

NO-ZINE #1 uurib kaasaegset linna läbi selle tajutava teise – selle tühjuse –, kududes ulmet, võltsitud reklaame, GAN-i viipasid ja esseesid ettevõtjatest, ujulatest ja müügilettidest, et uurida protsesse ja jõud, mis kujundavad linna täna.

Lõplikule ülevaatele järgneb NO-ZINE #1: See pole pizza. Levitamiseks on saadaval piiratud arv eksemplare.

Õpilased: Christian Hörner, Jarþrúður Iða, Nabeel Imtaz, Carl-Magnus Meijer, Luca Ritter, Paul Simon, Nora Soo, Paula Viedenbauma

Lõplikud kriitikud: Maroš Krivý ja Bettina Schwalm

Kursuse juhendajad: Leonard Ma ja Helen Runting

Graafilise disaini tugi: Oliver Long

Urbanistika osakond esitleb teisipäeval, 6. detsembril, kell 19.00 ajakirja, kus tutvustatakse urbanistika 3. stuudio lõpptulemust.

Sel semestril on urbanistika teise kursuse tudengid tegelenud teemaga “linnalik eimiski”. Antud juhul kadus nn “pitsa karbist” ja teoks on saanud mitteajakiri, mis sisaldab individuaalseid töid, mis on inspireeritud erinevatest linnatühjadest.

MUR21′ kõigi aegade viimase stuudio tähistamiseks korraldab urbanistika osakond ürituse, et anda kõigile maitset tehtud tööst.

Uude “EKA ajakirjade raamatukokku” panustamiseks palautakse kõigil oma panus anda – kui soovitakse arhiivi midagi lisada, võetagi asi kaasa.

3. stuudiot õpetasid Helen Runting ja Leonard Ma.

Kaastööd tegid Nora Soo, Paul Simon, Jarþrúður Iða, Nabeel Imtiaz, Luca Liese Ritter, Christian Hörner, Carl-Magnus Meijer, Paula Veidenbauma

“We are among you” – Urbanistide linnastumise stuudio avalikud esitlused neljapäeval, 1. detsembril, algusega 18.00 toimuvad Ülemiste rongijaamas. 

EKA urbanistika I aasta magistrandid esitlevad oma Majaka-Sikupilli kandi uurimusi kureeritud jalutuskäiguna.

“We are among you” juhtteemad keerlevad õiglase linnaruumi, taktikalise ruumiloome ja sotsiaal-kultuuriliste erisuste ümber.

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Jätkame Berliini arhitektuurimaastikusse kaevumist. Mida selles linnas tehakse, millised arhitektuuribürood Berliinis tegutsevad, mida ehitatakse ja mille üle mõeldakse: EKA arhitektuuriteaduskonna avatud arhitektuuriloengute sari reisib sel sügisel Saksamaa pealinna ja Euroopa ühte kirevamasse metropoli, külalisteks arhitektid just Berliinist.

Loenguprogrammi kuraator Johan Tali sõnul on Berliin laetud. Ühelt küljelt oma traagilise mineviku poolest, mille haavadega peab senimaani linnaruumis aktiivselt tegelema. Teisalt koondub Berliini sadu eri kultuuriga kogukondi ja tulemuseks on Euroopa üks suuremaid kultuurikompotte.

13. oktoobril on laval arhitekt, ettevõtja ja ruumiinnovatsioonistuudio Urban Beta ning arhitektuuribüroo Bart//Bratke kaasasutaja Marvin Bratke loenguga “Circular Futures. Architecture for a Post-Growth Society”. 

Bart//Bratke on Londonis ja Berliinis tegutsev uurimis- ja arhitektuuristuudio, mis asutati tuleviku mobiilsuse ja arhitektuuriuuringute puutepunktide visioonide loomiseks. Nad realiseerivad oma multidistsiplinaarseid ja -funktsionaalseid kontseptsioone mitmekülgsete tulevikuruumide kavandamisel. Urban Beta pakub tehnoloogilisi lahendusi ringmajandusse kaasatud süsiniknegatiivsetele moodulsüsteemis hoonetele.

Avatud loengud on mõeldud kõikide erialade – mitte sugugi ainult arhitektuurivaldkonna – tudengitele ning professionaalidele. Kõik loengud toimuvad EKA suures auditooriumis, on inglise keeles ja tasuta ning avatud kõikidele huvilistele.

EKA arhitektuuri ja linnaplaneerimise osakond toob avatud loengute sarja raames igal akadeemilisel aastal Tallinnas publiku ette kümmekond valdkonna omanäolist praktikut ja hinnatud teoreetikut. Eelmiste aastate loenguid saad järelvaadata YouTube-is ja www.avatudloengud.ee

Loengusarja toetab Eesti Kultuurkapital

Kuraator: Johan Tali

10:00-10:10 Introductions

10:10-11:10 (EEST)

Luisa Fernanda Ayala Torres

Precariousness in the Transformation of Labour: Through Working Class Identity in the city of Turin

Between the 1960s and 1980s, nine million Italians migrated from the agricultural regions of Italy to the productive areas of Turin, shaping the periphery of the city from a rural to an industrial area. The Post-War economic boom provided jobs in the northern plants, giving life to a workers’ hegemony and demographic, social, and cultural transformation. This socioeconomic transformation that affected the organisation of workers, labour, political activity, and society in general, was manifested in two cases. The Palace of Labour, an avant-garde building intended to celebrate the struggles of the working class with an exhibition focused on “man and his progress”, and the case of Mirafiori Sud, a working class neighbourhood symbolising the association of workers. In this way, this thesis explores the identity of the working class in the contemporary city of Turin, where security in neoliberal times no longer needs the scope of the protective techniques of the liberal social State, and as a consequence precarization is now the norm. This is reflected in the transformation of labour manifesting itsel through productive connection with others, where labour is not purely characterised by the increasing capitalization of social life but is effectively reflected with others, producing new social relations.

Examined by Alberto Vanolo (University of Turin) and Aro Velmet (University of Southern California)

11.15-12:15 (EEST)

Mira Samonig

the matter of right-wing populism in Polish LGBT-free zones; towards a with-standing xenourbanism?

Almost a third of Poland had been declared an ‘LGBT-free zone’ in 2020, stigmatizing the LGBTIQP+ community as a threat to Polish identity; this labeling remains a reality for many Polish towns. In this thesis, I am turning towards the concept of the ‘LGBT-free zones’ as a case to investigate the material reality of right-wing populism. I seek to develop a third position to a historical or new materialist understanding in order to investigate such material reality. By that, the ways values find physical expression and thus possibly mobilize oppressive attitudes into ever new futures ahead are traced. It becomes quite evident that the way structures of oppression are advanced and maintained within the public realm exists quite dominantly in everyday narratives. In a bottom-up manner, right-wing populism is advanced on the street; yet, it is by far not perceived by everyone. This marks the entry point for sketching out a possible approach to how the discipline of urbanism could position itself in social struggles. Drawing on Helen Hester’s Xenofeminism, the thesis introduces the concept of xenourbanism describing urbanism based on the conceptual notion of solidarity without sameness. I argue that the notion of xeno- as a prefix attached to urbanism focuses on an inherent transformational potential within the current, rendering a perceived unarming reality into a weapon of contestation and by that suggesting trajectories away from paralyzing no-alternative narratives.

Examined by Piotr Plucienniczak (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts) and Helen Runting (Secretary)

12:25-13:35 (EEST)

Zahaan Khan

Tourism-Led Gentrification: The Case of Dal Lake in Kashmir

The dissertation explores tourism-led gentrification, its causes and the impact on the communities living in and around the ecologically-sensitive region of Dal Lake in Kashmir. The dissertation employs methodological triangulation using interviews, survey and policy document analysis, as methods. The policy document in question is the Srinagar Master Plan 2035 issued by the Srinagar Development Authority. Analysing the correlation between tourism and gentrification in a conflict-torn region and using displacement as a conceptual lens, the thesis maps the socio-cultural and economic aspects of touristification especially in relation to the everyday lives of the communities. The dissertation employs a two-pronged analytical approach by using two categories – land milieu and water milieu – to foreground the patterns and impact of gentrification in and around the lake. The analysis of the land milieu concerns itself with a detailed exploration into Boulevard, the long promenade along the lake’s periphery. It further discusses holiday rentals and issues of mobility and maps the city’s land-use patterns particularly in relation to expansion along the lake’s periphery. The study of the water milieu, on the other hand, is an exploration into the historical houseboats of Kashmir and the local hanji (or haenz) community; foregrounding the issues concerning policies of renovation and relocation of

houseboats. The dissertation also delves into the government’s land use and tourism-driven development plans around the lake, especially post abrogation of

Article 370 of the Indian constitution that gave ‘special status’ to the region.

Examined by Dr Mathew Varghese (Mahatma Gandhi University) and Karlis Ratnieks (EKA)

13:35-14:25 Lunch

14:25-15:25 (EEST)

Egemen Mercanlioglu

THE WORK OF A RIFT: Kanal İstanbul and Turkey’s Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Turkey under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi was touted as a paragon of neoliberalism and a burgeoning democracy until the late-2000s. Two decades later, the positive portrayals of the country have decidedly shifted. Turkey is now considered to have retreated from neoliberalism; an emblematic case of authoritarian turn. However, this thesis rethinks authoritarian governance as the kernel of the Erdoğan-led AKP’s brand of neoliberalism. It does so by focusing on a to-be-built urban megaproject, Kanal İstanbul—a 45-kilometer long man-made waterway, aiming to locate İstanbul as a signature node in the global web of flooding money and commodities. Using the megaproject as a lens, the thesis shows how neoliberal reforms in the early-2000s have propelled İstanbul and the construction sector as financial growth generating engines of the country. Subsequently, these

reforms have buttressed contemporary coercive governance structure and a megaproject spree in the city. Finally, the thesis briefly explores a recent but growing counter-hegemonic contestation against Erdoğan and his Kanal İstanbul, posed by the mayor of İstanbul. The thesis does not give a final verdict but explores whether or not this challenge proposes an alternative to authoritarian neoliberalism.

Examined by Dr Cemal Burak Tansel (Newcastle University) and Mattias Malk (EKA)

15:30-16:30 (EEST)

Deniz Taskin

Architecture as a Practice of Care: Case Studies of Women’s Care-Based Architecture Practices

Care as a concept is becoming more crucial in architecture and urban practice as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic’s unpredictable spatial, social, and political circumstances. The attitude of urbanized capitalism towards contemporary urban problems and its refusal to acknowledge the urgency of the climate crisis result in uncaring urban practices. The important position of architecture as a measure for assessing our place in the ecosystem and the role of architects and related disciplines in determining with whom we live together requires them to reconsider the values and priorities that drive their practice. This thesis unpacks care as a concept and ethical practice through a feminist lens by focusing on the notion of “configuration of care,” which refers to how architects express their ethical and political objectives by arranging human and nonhuman materials to achieve caring relationships in urban spaces. (Suchman 2012). It does so by focusing on the practices of women from the field of architecture and related disciplines whose contemporary practice foregrounds care and employs feminist care ethics: Careful Mapping by Spolka, Performing Architherapy by Erika Henriksson, Mutfak (Kitchen) by Merve Bedir, The Blind Alley by Elin Strand Ruin. The thesis explores certain commonalities and recurring patterns of thought in how the practitioners’ encounter and apply feminist care ethics. Finally, it discusses the potential and limits of incorporating feminist care ethics into architecture practice, as well as the potential for architectural practice to become care practice.

Examined by Agata Marzecova (EKA) and Henriette Steiner (University of Copenhagen)

Preservation has achieved cultural significance as a lens through which various urban experts have come to imagine what a socially and environmentally sound future might look like. As an approach, preservation has been applied to disparate phenomena ranging from historic neighbourhoods and natural environments to democracy and identity. This studio unfolded the formative concepts and historic moments that define contemporary understandings of preservation and applied these discussions to various typologies of architecture, urban fabric and the natural environment taking Pärnu and the wider region as a case study. In particular, the studio focused on the ways in which ideas, labour and design have intersected in the past to identify alternatives to the mainstream forms of preservation.

The studio culminates with a presentation of group projects that explore a variety of approaches to layers of heritage and questions of preservation in Pärnu and Sindi. Pärnu, the fourth largest city in Estonia, is struggling with the seemingly conflicting and contradictory notions of growth, shrinkage, preservation and destruction. Sindi, as a smaller town in the region, faces similar, but also additional challenges connected to its significant industrial heritage. Efforts to imagine and construct a vision for a city are also tied up with the tactile practices of preservation; set within specific administrative and management frameworks of maintenance, care, and neglect. 

Despite intentions, prescriptive visions by the city and developers can serve to exacerbate inequalities through the various infrastructures, supply chains, policies and environmental conditions that extend well beyond the rigid borders of a city.

Can the concept of preservation open a discussion around a vision for Pärnu (and its hinterlands)

beginning not with growth and progress, but rather with repair, maintenance or even deterioration?

Student projects explore who gets to decide what is valuable, organise the preservation of things, and who then carries out the work. Negotiations about what should be preserved and what “good preservation” entails, are always contingent and contextual.

Projects: 

• • Decompressed Transition: Paula Veidenbauma, Nora Soo and Jannik Kastrup
  • Tides of a Summer City: Khadeeja Farrukh, Anna Dzebliuk and Christian Hörner
  • Fabricated Heritage – Interweaving the Past and Future of Sindi’s Kalevivabrik: Luca Riese Ritter, Paulina Schroeder and Augustas Lapinskas
  • Tea, Coffee or Hot Water?: What to Make of the Boiler Room: Kush Badhwar, Nabeel Imtiaz and Paul Simon

Decompressed Transition

Paula Veidenbauma, Nora Soo and Jannik Kastrup

Pärnu is caught between diverging time regimes. In its role as a major spa and resort town, the city aims at slowing down the rhythm of life of the urban workforce. In parallel, the developments surrounding Rail Baltica will likely greatly compress this rhythm within Pärnu. The project examines frameworks of the relationship between those phenomena. It deals with instances of built and immaterial heritage and acts of preserving, especially the latter through shifting political systems. The float, emerging as the central piece of the project, can be interpreted as a gradient operating between Rail Baltica (a linear and high-velocity infrastructure), Pärnu’s leisure facilities and the open sea. It might function as a means of transportation while also exploring the possibility of non-arrival.

Visitors will be engaging with the project via a video installation, a float building workshop and a presentation. Float building instructions will be summarised in a booklet.

Tides of a Summer City

Khadeeja Farrukh, Anna Dzebliuk and Christian Hörner

The project explores possible resilient futures in Pärnu as a resort city. Showing how the “Summer City” developed historically, the video installation extrapolates empirical insights through Pärnu’s present-day reality into a future of constant flood emergency. The installation mobilizes futuristic renderings of possible resilient futures after a catastrophic flooding event to juxtapose and question the concepts of heritage, seasonality and resilience. We touch upon the inter-urban dependencies between Pärnu and Tallinn, manifesting historically, materially and spatially at the seaside of Estonia’s summer capital, securing the cities influx of holidaymakers during summer, but also causing issues of urban disenfranchisement of its residents, exploitation of its workers and destruction of coastal habitats of non-human residents. Looking into the future, it will no longer be possible to brush over the threat of flooding and the prospect of permanent crisis. The project “Tides of a Summer City” asks hypothetical questions, working towards a framework for understanding future challenges by following the changing historical tides of a summer city.

Fabricated Heritage – Interweaving the Past and Future of Sindi’s Kalevivabrik

Luca Riese Ritter, Paulina Schroeder and Augustas Lapinskas

The project explores the significance of Sindi´s industrial heritage. In recent decades, globalisation, deindustrialization, economic restructuring and industrial relocation have produced new landscapes within many European cities and towns – the post-industrial landscape. Deprived of their raison d’être, they are often regarded as spatially, socially, and semiotically empty places. In order to overcome this apparent ‘void’, the transformation of these post-industrial remnants into new uses is now an essential part of urban development practice.  

Turning to industrial landscapes as potential carriers of cultural heritage ostensibly provides a  framework for the continued management of these sites. Industrial heritage then becomes the bearer of local identity and creates uniqueness out of the former mundane. 

The town of Sindi, a place essentially born from the settlement of a textile factory in the early 19th century, is in the process of discussing the reintegration of the material remains of industrial production into the town’s fabric which, since the closure of Kalevivabrik, the textile factory, has outgrown its original purpose. In this process of readjusting the relationship between factory-gone-ruin and the reorientation of the city, our project seeks to understand the potentials and conflicts that arise from industrial heritage, while taking a critical perspective at the practices of heritage preservation and its political implications. How and by whom is the town’s history preserved and remembered? Can there be a value of the material remains in the process of their decay? What is the role of heritage as a legal imperative? What role can the factory building play in the future of Sindi? 

Tea, Coffee or Hot Water?: What to Make of the Boiler Room

Kush Badhwar, Nabeel Imtiaz and Paul Simon

Drawing on the interest in the role of the educational institution Academia Non-Grata, elephants and other far-out references, the project explores junctions between the plan, the script and performance; preservation, the boiler room in the wider fabric of Pärnu; and the pitfalls and possibilities of experimental approaches to planning.

Plans for places chart a set of intentions that seek to influence the future of a place. Could the duration in which a plan is enacted be considered a performance?

Conversely, the script may be considered the plan for a performance. But despite the presence of a script, in performance, there can be room to manoeuvre in and around what is on the page, to improvise, to confront uncertainty and the yet to be known, to discover and learn from the process. Could such an approach also be applied to planning a city?

What might be discovered about prospective futures, preservation and other possibilities in Pärnu through the act of performance? Can performance and planning ever effectively speak to one another?

The possibilities of these questions are explored through three intertwined narratives of the boiler room, also the site of performance/presentation of the work: one in which the boiler room remains, structurally, as it is today; another in which the boiler room retains its shell but is appropriated over time; and, lastly in which the boiler room is razed and the site changes in purpose. Speculative fiction and alternative history take us through the boiler room and into the possible futures of the boiler room and the city of Pärnu.