City Portraits: Jerusalem, Two Parallel Cities
International Conference
ciclo di conferenze “Ritratti di città”
15 > 16 May 2012
Badoer, Aula Tafuri
San Polo 2468 30125 Venice
program:
15 May 2012
9.30 > 10
Welcome
Amerigo Restucci, Rector of the Università Iuav di Venezia
Alberto Ferlenga, Director of the Iuav School of Doctorate Studies
Ruba Saleh, - Curator, PhD student of the Iuav School of Doctorate Studies
10 > 10.30
Moni Ovadia, literature readings
10.30 > 12.30
Panel 1: space narratives
10 minutes video, “No Man’s Land”, Muslala group, Israel
1) Nazmi jubeh, senior lecturer, History of architecture and archaeology, Birzeit University, “The influence of the historical religious architecture of Jerusalem on space”
2) Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, senior lecturer, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, “Legalizing the picturesque: modern landscape architecture and the image of Jerusalem”
3) Simone Ricca, Architect, RC Heritage, “The construction of the social imaginations and political orders, using the discipline of archaeology”
4) Francesco Chiodelli, researcher, Politecnico di Milano “The next Jerusalem: potential future of the urban fabric”
12.30 > 13.30
Discussion session
13.30 > 14.30
Lunch break
14.30 > 18.30
Panel 2: space users and the consciousness of the other
10 minutes, “stranger in my home”, Sahera Derbas
5) Salim Tamari, Urban Sociologist, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Georgetown University,“ The Emergence of notions of public space outside the religious domain in Jerusalem”
6) Claudia De Martino, researcher, UNIMED, Rome, “community mapping and social issues in Jerusalem, demographic trends, the neighborhood identity and their conflicting narratives”
7) Wendy Pullan, Senior Lecturer, History and Philosophy of Architecture, University of Cambridge, “at the boundaries of the sacred. The reinvention of everyday life in Jerusalem’s Al-Wad Street”
8) Daniela De Leo, researcher and assistant professor “La Sapienza” University of Rome, affiliated at the URVC group of the DUSP-MIT, “Jerusalem Resilient Studio: designing the first planned Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem since 1967". A critical proposal between urban development, informal housing and land occupation in a contested area
17.30 > 18.30
Discussion session
16 May 2012
9.30- 13.30 – PhD students posters
Jerusalem: sacred city as a place of encounter, pilgrimage as a circulation territory
