Collaborative projects platform centred on the contemporary metropolis. Founded in 2002 by Elvira Pujol and Joan Vila-Puig, it develops specific creation and mediation projects in the Barcelona metropolitan area. Their areas of interest centre on autonomous cultural production practices and the search for new territorial and landscape geographies.
Projects
- Introduction
- 2012 The Invisible Hand
- 2010-2013 Present Perfect
- 2010 Smooth Structures
- 2009 Landscaping
- 2008-2009 Curator Curator
- 2008-2009 Corrillos
- 2008 Localisms
- 2008 Formatting Utopia
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2008 Contrapolis
- Events
- Fancity 2008 Program Series at Rote Fabrik in Zurich
- Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance 2-4 July, 2008, Liverpool
- Links, Campaigns
- MESHO - Schnews Special Edition
- Games Monitor
- Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers) Movement
- Project Mimique
- The London Particular
- Mute magazine
- Center for Urban Pedagogy
- sarcha: sCHOOL OF archITECTURE 4 aLL
- Spectacle
- An Architektur - Production and Use of the Built Environment
- FEDERATIE BEWONERS NIEUWE CROOSWIJK
- Zwaanhals in Motion
- Urban Subjects
- INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action)
- Stop Columbia
- The Land is Ours
- Glasgow Lost
- Glasgow Residents Network
- Tussen Ruimte
- Het Lincke Zwaerd
- The Commoner: a web journal for other values
- Anja Kirschner
- Alessandra Chila
- BAVO - research into the political dimension of art, architecture and planning
- Variant
- Aufheben
- We Are Bad
- Defend Council Housing
- texts from the Contrapolis Brochure and other texts
- Constructing Neoliberal Glasgow: The Privatisation Of Space - Friend of Zanetti
- Olympics Flame - Anthony Iles
- Back to the Future of the Creative City - Merijn Oudenampsen
- Poortgebouw
- Ghettos and Anti-Ghettos: An Anatomy of the New Urban Poverty - interview with Loïc Wacquant
- Gentrification in Brief - Neil Smith
- The Devil's Glossary - Iain A. Boal
- Critical Substance - Rachel Koolen -lecture at the Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, 11-01-08; amended and presented in Contrapolis workshop, Poortgebouw, 27-03-08
- Uncommon Competition - Jeff Derksen for Urban Subjects
- ThinkTank Without a Name - Meredith Warner and Jeremy Beaudry
- THE UK CONTEXT - The Land is Ours
- The Regeneration Games - Mark Saunders
- Cities for Sale - Paul Kingsnorth
- Locations
- Poortgebouw, Rotterdam, NL
- NAi, Rotterdam, NL
- Participants
- Marjolijn Dijkman
- Metahaven
- Andreas Mueller/An Architektur
- Anthony Iles
- Mark Saunders
- Claire Fontaine
- Maria Eichhorn
- Haegue Yang
- Maria Theodorou
- Iain Boal
- Pier Vittorio Aureli
- Merijn Oudenampsen
- Will Bradley
- Sitesize
- Neil Gray
- Loïc Wacquant
- Michael Shapcott
- Damon Rich / CUP (the Centre for Urban Pedagogy)
- Sabine Bitter / Jeff Derksen/ Helmut Weber (Urban Subjects US)
- Menno Janssen / Federatie Bewonerscomités Nieuw Crooswijk
- Peter Blakeney, Christine Schöffler / Werkgroep Toekomst Poortgebouw
- Anja Kirschner
- Alessandra Chila
- Anna Romani and Lidewij Tummers / Tussen Ruimte
- BAVO
- Miguel Robles-Duran
- Daniela Swarovsky
- Lukasz Jan Stanek
- Daniela Wullers
- Date
- 26/27 March 2008
- Activity Type
- Workshops, Walks, Exhibition, Debate exploring capital and culture in urban redevelopment
- Schedule
- Contrapolis Schedule
- 2008 Los Angeles Works
- 2007 Please, Excuse our Appearance
- 2007 The Annex
- 2007 History of Tomorrow
- 2006 In Varietate Concordia
- 2006 Happy Hour
- 2006 Georgia Here We Come!
- 2005 ERforS in Filiale
- 2005 The Residents