IdeasCity explores the future of cities with culture as a driving force. In 2016-2017, IdeasCity will present a program of events designed under the supervision of IdeasCity Director, Joseph Grima, and held across two continents in three cities: Athens, New York, Detroit and Arles.
IdeasCity is a collaboration with the New Museum, New York. It will consist of a series of five-day workshops, site visits, talks and discussions with specialists and professionals, including artists, researchers, designers, and leading practitioners and members of the cultural scene, who will develop ideas and strategies to overcome the pressing challenges facing urban centers today.
IdeasCity Athens will also feature an intensive five-day residency program with forty fellows, culminating in a public conference featuring internationally acclaimed speakers from the fields of art, architecture, design, policymaking, and urbanism. Speakers will include John Akomfrah, Tania Bruguera, dream hampton, George Prevelakis, Nick Srnicek, and Hito Steyerl, among others.
Building upon discussions and collaborations initiated at the program's Detroit conference, IdeasCity will observe Athens from the perspective of two key forces that are defining cities today: the flow of humanity and the flow of capital. As a primary flash point in the rapidly escalating refugee crisis, Athens is facing unprecedented challenges in the recent history of Western civilization, yet the city also represents a destination, a center of hope and survival, and a place where one can conceive new realities.
The conference is free and open to the public.
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