An alphabetical list of both parallel ongoing activities as well as previous projects, that in different ways are dealing with current city development processes and artistic production as well as interest organisations dealing wit Bjørvika, within the city of Oslo. All texts are excerpts from the actual linked webpages, the purpose of this list is to function as a resource, an selected addition to other contemporary archives. It is an ongoing growing list of referance for those interested in the issues and challenges related to architecture, public space and cultural production. This material is updated on an irregular basis. If you have links that you think would be interesting in this context, we would be grateful to receive the information. Post them to info@commonlands.net.
An Architektur – Production and Use of the Built Environment
An Architektur is the exercise of discursive architectural practice. For us, both the critical analysis of spatial relations and the visualization of their inherent socio-political conceptions offer a possibility of political agency.
BEYOND - Leidsche Rijn
The Municipality of Utrecht has developed a scenario in which the introduction of public art is linked to the urban development of Leidsche Rijn in cooperation with SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Space). This scenario: Beyond Leidsche Rijn, the Vinex assignment for art simultaneously uses Leidsche Rijn as a working area and as a point of departure. What does this mean? That art is not regarded as a series of autonomous beacons in a new neighbourhood, but establishes a bond with the architecture, landscaping and urban development. The artists react to specific developments in Leidsche Rijn and Vinex as a phenomenon.
CASCO projects - Networked Cities: Governance, Trust, Design
Reinventing Harbour Cities II - a Conference in Reykjavík
The focus was “Urban Planning and Art in Public Space” and speakers like Ólafur Elíasson or Vito Acconci for the arts or representatives from the urban planning offices of Fieldoperations (New York), West 8 (Rotterdam), Gehl architects (Copenhagen) or from Hamburg Hafencity were asking themselves why there was obviously no general concept, no vision in creating Reykjavík’s urban future.
Creative Time strives to commission, produce and present the most important, ground-breaking, challenging and exceptional art of our times; art that infiltrates the public realm and engages millions of people in New York City and across the globe. We are guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to create inspiring personal experiences as well as foster social progress.
European Kunsthalle
The European Kunsthalle considers itself a forum in which the aspect of artistic production is ascribed a similar significance as the presentation and reflection of art and culture. It sees itself as a basis open to a broad range of art forms including both known and emerging contemporary art practices, approaching these in an interdisciplinary and experimental way.
Fucking Good Art - in selfless sevice to our community
The Good Life
A proposal by Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans, in collaboration with 51N4E – Office for Architecture, Justin Bennett, Amir Borenstein, Mieja Hollevoet, Pierre Huyghebaert, Eric Jooris and Carly Wijs.
THE HAFENCITY STORY
Find out about the history and origins of Europe’s largest inner city urban development project plus all the relevant facts and figures.
A temporary exhibition architecture consisting of ship containers and scaffoldings form an extraordinary frame for an unconventional endeavour. The design of the yet undeveloped “prime cut” of the HafenCity is oriented towards urban planning models, citing them not without irony.'
Hovedstadsaksjonen (HA) er en organisasjon som opprinnelig besto av private gårdeiere i Oslo sentrum. I 1995 slo de seg sammen for å oppruste nedre del av Karl Johan. Det førte til totalrenovering av fasader, gategulv og belysning. Arbeidet var fullført til byens 1000 års jubileum i 2000. Innsatsen ga mersmak.
Nå skulle byrommet i hele sentrum få en ny friskhet, skjønnhet og harmoni. Dette resulterte i en helhetsplan som både stat, kommune og gårdeiere samlet seg om.
Målene skulle oppnås ved en dugnadsstrategi og ved hjelp av et felles investeringsfond der alle tre parter var bidragsytere.
Mossutställningar grundades 2005 med övertygelsen att alternativa produktionssätt kan diskutera och uppdatera begreppet offentlig konst.
Open 15
Social Engineering - Can Society Be Engineered in the Twenty-First Century? Is social engineering now a hollow ideal, or does it offer urgent perspectives once more? In current discussions about urban politics and social systems, theorists and designers are once again asking whether social engineering is not a pre-requisite of the human desire for organizational forms and interventions that guarantee a pleasant communal existence. This issue of Open reflects on old and new forms of the philosophy of social engineering in relation to the urban and social space and to the (communal) life therein.'
Oslo byforum - opererer som kompetansenettverk og tenketank og tar aktivt initiativ til å skape debatt, lage møteplasser og gi beslutningsgrunnlag for aktører innenfor kultur, by- og næringsutvikling.
Foreningen Byfolk
Byfolk er en interesseforening for gårdeiere, med eiendommer i Oslo sentrum. Byfolk har medlemmer med geografisk beliggenhet innenfor Ring 1. Foreningen favner alle gårdeiere, både store og små. Vi har medlemmer som eier store eiendomsmasser, vi har mellomstore gårdeiere som medlemmer og vi har medlemmer som eier en bygård i Sentrum. Medlemmene har alle en ting felles; nemlig å stå samlet om Byfolks mål for å gjøre bykjernen mer attraktiv.
Oslo byaksjon
Oslo Byaksjon har byen som mål og middel
Oslo Byaksjon bejaer mangfold, toleranse, fellesskapsløsninger
Oslo Byaksjon setter pragmatisme og gjennomføringskraft høyt
Stilte til kommunevalget 2007
Portscapes
Portscapes is a series of artists’ projects developed in connection with the construction of Maasvlakte 2, an area that during the next five years is being reclaimed from the North Sea. The Maasvlakte 2 will add 2,000 hectares to the Rotterdam harbour, increasing the Port of Rotterdam Authority, already by far the biggest in Europe, by 20%.
Public Address explores how cultural producers work with different strategies to make things publicly known. The project is composed as a discussion forum and the production of a series of posters involving a small group of artists who takes a special interest in various ways of working with public spheres both as a concept as well as on a more concrete level. These different approaches include research oriented practices, activist strategies as well as a more general interest in investigating, countering and producing new or hidden knowledge about topical issues of society and the world we live in.
The Mobile Home
For the establishment of the Lectoraat Kunst en de Publieke Ruimte (Lectorate for Art and Public Space), architects Bik Van der Pol and Korteknie Stuhlmacher designed a layout for a mobile office: the Mobile Home.
Redlight Art Amsterdam - Red A.i.R
The City of Amsterdam is removing the underlying criminality and achieving greater balance in the famous Red Light District, and housing corporations are purchasing buildings currently used for prostitution. Nevertheless, prostitution without the underlying criminality will remain in this district, as it is legal in the Netherlands. Before the purchased buildings are given a permanent function, the City of Amsterdam will give national and international top talents from the creative industry a unique chance to display their creations in the famous windows for the duration of one year.
The Researchgroup Art & Public Space (in Dutch the 'Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte'), stimulates research and theoretical reflection on the role of art and design in the public domain.
RECLAIMING-SPACES is an independent and voluntary project that aims to build a forum of international communication and reflection for urban activists dedicated to struggles against dispossession and expropriation of inhabitants from their land, housing, infrastructure, and public spaces. These struggles begin at local levels by organizing the social and/or political protection of common and public goods from privatisation, financial speculation, authoritarianism and/or corruption. While local mobilizations build the foundations of successful resistances, it is also true that processes of capitalist dispossession cannot be overcome without transforming the underlying political economic structures that are largely determined by supranational “global” economic conditions, corporations and powers.
REV- is a non-profit organization that furthers socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. REV- produces projects that fuse disciplines, foster diversity, and vary in form (workshops, publications, exhibitions, design objects, etc.). Engaged with different communities and groups, REV-‘s projects involve collaborative production, resource-sharing, and a commitment to the process as political gesture. The organization derives its name from both the colloquial expression “to rev” a vehicle and the prefix “rev-“ which means to turn—as in, revolver, revolution, revolt, revere, irreverent, etc.
Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is a project by five artists who founded KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. They opened the park in November 2006.
Situations
We are dedicated to the commissioning of outstanding artists' projects, often outside conventional gallery or museum contexts, which open up new forms of public engagement with contemporary art. We are also committed to placing our own projects within a wider international context through the development and dissemination of internationally significant research in contemporary art and commissioning.
Stiftelsen Byens Fornyelse - arkitektur som sammenheng
Stiftelsen Byens Fornyelse er et nettverk av arkitekter, kunsthistorikere, skribenter og andre interesserte som arbeider for å gjøre de tradisjonsbaserte alternativer innen arkitektur og stedsutvikling kjent.
This Is Not A Gateway
There is complete inaccessibility to existing conferences and regeneration events. At the same time, there is an increasing amount of interesting and critical work being produced by people who do not have the platforms in which to share them. TINAG was established to address this gap.
Urban Subjects is a cultural collective formed with the goal of researching and developing artistic projects focusing on urban issues. Recognizing that globalization has intensified urbanization worldwide, Urban Subjects aims to investigate the global-urban nexus: how are the forces of globalization transforming cities; what roles does culture take in shaping the globalized city; what are the reconfigurations of modernity in the globalized city; and how is the city emerging as a platform for new social, political, and cultural claims of citizens. Urban Subjects is a transnational collective focusing primarily, although not exclusively, on North American and European cities.
Virtual Museum
Toward the end of the previous century, talks began on the metamorphosis of Amsterdam’s Zuidas – at the time a neglected, undeveloped area between the Amstel and Schinkel rivers on the outskirts of the city – into a high-quality urban sector. Zuidas was to become a leading international business centre, with an airport – Schiphol – right around the corner. But besides being an office district it would also be an attractive extension of Amsterdam’s inner city, an area full of character in which living, working, recreation and amenities go hand in hand.
From the very first, the visual arts have been allotted an essential place in the development of the Zuidas: to promote liveability and liveliness, to give the new district character and identity and to create an atmosphere that encourages people to become attached to the area.