04.06.
2009
19:00 UHR
DESIGN2CONTEXT
AUF DEM
DESIGNMAI,BERLIN
Welche Städte wünschen wir uns für die
Zukunft—nach dem hyperliberalen Desaster?
Mit welchen Mitteln des Designs könnten
wir solche Städte mitentwickeln?
Wer ist wie und wann an der Gestaltung
dieser künftigen Städte beteiligt?
Das sind vorausgehende allgemeine Fragen,
die wir im Rahmen dieses ersten Kurses mit
dem Titel «Civic-City» zunächst fokussieren
auf die Rolle des Designs—im spezifischen des
Kommunikationsdesigns—im Austausch mit
Stadtplanungen. Stärker prozessual angelegte
Gestaltungsformate, häufig kurzfristige
Interventionen in Stadträume, die Notwendig-
keit der Kommunikation und Transparenz
der Eingriffe in die Stadt gegenüber den
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ZHDK.CH
JESKO FEZER UND
verschiedenen Öffentlichkeiten und partizipa-
tive Anliegen transformieren zunehmend das
Feld des Urban Design. Disziplinäre Grenzen
weichen auf und Architekten, Stadtplaner und
Designer suchen die wechselseitigen Kompe-
tenzen.
Daraus ergeben sich neue Untersuchungs-
felder: Was sind die bisherigen Rollen der
Disziplinen und worin bestehen ihre spezifi-
schen Kompetenzen? Wie wurde und wird
die Stadt geplant und entwickelt? Welches
sind die Rahmenbedingungen für die
neuen Kollaborationsinteressen? In welcher
Form bekommt gerade das Design eine
neue Aufgabe bei der Entwicklung öffentlicher
und privater Räume—insbesondere
des Urbanen. Was macht diesen design-
spezifischen Blickwinkel aus?
MATTHIAS GÖRLICH
VON CIVIC-CITY
IM GESPRÄCH MIT
DEM URBANISTEN
UND AUTOR
MARKUS MIESSEN
Markus Miessen is an architect, spatial consultant
and writer based in Berlin. In various collabora-
tions, Miessen has published books such as East
Coast Europe (Sternberg Press, 2008), The
Violence of Participation (Sternberg Press,
2007), With/Without (Bidoun, 2007), Did Someone
Say Participate? (MIT, 2006), and Spaces of
Uncertainty (Müller+Busmann, 2002). His work
has been exhibited and published widely,
including at the Lyon, Venice, and Shenzhen
Das Institut Design2context bietet einmalig
ab Herbstsemester 2009/2010 diesen
Postgraduierten-Kurs an, der in ein umfang-
reiches Forschungsprojekt und in die weiteren
Postgraduiertenprogramme (CAS, MAS) des
Institutes eingebettet ist. Er folgt den Kursen
«Vom Lallen zu visuellen Sprachsystemen»
(2005), «Urban Identity and Design» (2006),
«Multiplicity and visual Identities» (2007)
und ist angelehnt an das bewährte Modell des
CAS «Desorientierung/Orientierung», der
mit zwei Publikationen 2008/2009 im Lars
Müller Verlag abschliesst.
Dieser CAS Civic City ist als Labor angelegt,
in dem Spezialisten unterschiedlicher
Disziplinen aus Theorie und Praxis–wie
beispielsweise Designer, Architekten,
Stadtplaner, Soziologen, Anthropologen,
Design2context
Institut für Designforschung der
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK
Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach
CH-8031 Zürich 5
T: +41 43 446 62 02
www.design2context.ch
Biennials. Miessen has taught internationally at
institutions such as the Architectural Association,
Columbia, and MIT. In 2008, he consulted the
Slovenian Consulate NY during Slovenia’s
presi-dency of the EU Council. He initiated and
now directs the AA Winter School Middle East and
is currently a Visiting Professor at the Berlage
Institute in Rotterdam.
www.studiomiessen.com; www.noffice.eu
Ritual- und Zukunftsforscher, Historiker,
Stadtverwalter, Politiker–gemeinsame
Untersuchungen anstellen und neue Betrach-
tungsweisen zur Gestaltung der Stadt
entwickeln, einüben und praktizieren. Der Kurs
ist offen für alle, die an einem «anderen
Urbanen» mitwirken möchten.
Zehn dreitägige Expertenkolloquien mit
internationalen Referenten flankieren das
transdisziplinäre Programm. Ein Forschungs-
team des Instituts für Designforschung
untersucht und erprobt parallel exemplarisch
das Potential des Designs. Synergetisch
werden kontinuierlich die Teilnehmer des
Kurses mit dem Forschungsteam in Austausch
gebracht. Ein Ziel ist die Publikation aus-
gewählter Ergebnisse der Forschungen und
Seminare.
Forschungspartner
01.07.2009 Welche Städte wünschen wir uns
für die Zukunft
—
17:30 UHR nach dem
hyperliberalen Desaster?

Mit welchen Mitteln des Designs

könnten wir solche Städte
mitentwickeln?

INFO-SESSION Wer ist wie und wann

an der Gestaltung dieser künftigen Städte
CIVIC CITY beteiligt?

Das sind vorausgehende allgemeine Fra- schen Kompetenzen? Wie wurde und wird die
Stadt geplant und entwickelt? Welches sind die

INSTITUT
gen, die wir im Rahmen des ersten Kurses
mit dem Titel «Civic-City» zunächst fokussie-
ren auf die Rolle des Designs—im spezifi-
schen des Kommunika-tionsdesigns—im
Rahmenbedingungen für die neuen Kollabora-
tionsinteressen? In welcher Form bekommt
gerade das Design eine neue Aufgabe bei der
Entwicklung öffentlicher und privater Räume—

DESIGN2CONTEXT
Austausch mit Stadtplanungen. Stärker
prozessual angelegte Gestaltungsformate, insbesondere des Urbanen. Was macht diesen
häufig kurzfristige Interventionen in Stadträu- designspezifischen Blickwinkel aus? 
me, die Notwendigkeit der Kommunikation

HAFNERSTR. 39
und Transparenz der Eingriffe in die Stadt ge-
genüber den verschiedenen Öffentlichkei-
ten und partizipative Anliegen transformie-
ren zunehmend das Feld des Urban Design.

ZÜRICH Disziplinäre Grenzen weichen auf

und Architekten, Stadtplaner und Designer su-
chen die wechselseitigen Kompetenzen.
Daraus ergeben sich neue Untersuchungsfel-
der: Was sind die bisherigen Rollen der Diszip-
linen und worin bestehen ihre spezifi-

Das Institut Design2context bietet einmalig
ab Herbstsemester 2009/2010 diesen
Postgraduierten-Kurs an, der in ein umfang-
reiches Forschungsprojekt und in die weiteren
Postgraduiertenprogramme (CAS, MAS) des
Institutes eingebettet ist. Er folgt den Kursen
«Vom Lallen zu visuellen Sprachsystemen»
(2005), «Urban Identity and Design» (2006),
«Multiplicity and visual Identities» (2007)
und ist angelehnt an das bewährte Modell des
CAS «Desorientierung/Orientierung», der
mit zwei Publikationen 2008/2009 im Lars
Müller Verlag abschliesst.
Dieser CAS Civic City ist als Labor angelegt,
in dem Spezialisten unterschiedlicher
Disziplinen aus Theorie und Praxis–z.B.
Designer, Architekten, Stadtplaner, Soziologen,
Anthropologen, Ritual- und Zukunftsforscher,
Historiker, Stadtverwalter, Politiker–gemein-
same Untersuchungen anstellen und neue
Betrachtungsweisen zur Gestaltung der Stadt
entwickeln, einüben und praktizieren. Der Kurs
ist offen für alle, die an einem «anderen
Urbanen» mitwirken möchten.
Zehn dreitägige Expertenkolloquien mit
internationalen Referenten flankieren das
transdisziplinäre Programm. Ein Forschungs-
team des Instituts für Designforschung
untersucht und erprobt parallel exemplarisch
das Potential des Designs. Synergetisch
werden kontinuierlich die Teilnehmer des
Kurses mit dem Forschungsteam in Austausch
gebracht. Ein Ziel ist die Publikation aus-
gewählter Ergebnisse der Forschungen und
Seminare.
Auf der Civic-City Internetseite
http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
können Sie sich über den aktuellen Stand
des Kursprogramms informieren und weitere
Hintergründe zu diesem Projekt einsehen.

Design2context
Institut für Designforschung der
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK
Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach
CH-8031 Zürich 5
T: +41 43 446 62 02
www.design2context.ch
Forschungspartner
SALON FLORIAN WALZEL
DE RECHERCHE Martina Fineder,
CIVIC CITY Thomas Geisler,
Felix Janssen
CIVISME IN DESIGN AND
Ruedi Baur,
28. 10. 09 / 17:00 Miguel Robles-
THEATERHAUS Duran,
GESSNERALLE, P3, Jesko Fezer
GESSNERALLEE 8,
ZURICH

What is the city of the present,
and what cities do we wish for?
What means are needed to
develop these?
Who is involved and when?
Those preceding are some
general questions for the
framework of the first course
titled «Civic City–The Role of
Design for a Social City»
initially focusing on the role
of Design— specifically
Communication Design—in
exchange with urban planning.
Due to more process design
scale formats and often short
term interventions in urban
spaces, there is a need for
communication and a trans-
parency of the interferences
into the city (opposite the
different publicness), as
participatory concerns are
increasingly transforming the
field of urban design. Discipli-
nary borders set the course
and architects, town planners
and designers look for the
mutual competencies, opening
up new fields of inquiry.
In the context of ten three-day-
long modules, experts of
different disciplines, along with
a guest advisory, bring together
different points of view in
relation to the specific module
topic. Each individual course
day is dedicated to separate
focuses.
For more information, please
visit:
http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
Florian Walzel Design2context
Communication Designer and Institute for Designresearch
Researcher, based in Berlin and Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Halle. Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach
CH-8031 Zürich 5
Martina Fineder and T: +41 43 446 62 02
Thomas Geisler www.design2context.ch
Atelier Sterreich Wien, Inititators
of the Victor Papanek Archive
based at the Hochschule für
angewandte Kunst in Vienna
Felix Janssens
Creative Director Total Identity,
Amsterdam
Ruedi Baur
Director Design2Context, ZHdK,
Integral Ruedi Baur Paris
Miguel Robles-Duran
Cohabitation Strategies, TU Delft
and Berlage Institute, Rotterdam
Jesko Fezer
An-Architektur and Pro-QM,
Berlin
What is the city of the present,
and what cities do we wish for?
What means are needed to
develop these?
Who is involved and when?
Those preceding are some
general questions for the
framework of the first course
titled «Civic City–The Role of
Design for a Social City»
initially focusing on the role
of Design— specifically
Communication Design—in
exchange with urban planning.
Due to more process design
scale formats and often short
term interventions in urban
spaces, there is a need for
communication and a trans-
DIALOG
PARTIZIPATION
MODERATION
KOOPERATION
MARGARETE
VON LUPIN
parency of the interferences
into the city (opposite the
different publicness), as
participatory concerns are
increasingly transforming the
field of urban design. Discipli-
nary borders set the course
and architects, town planners
and designers look for the
mutual competencies, opening
up new fields of inquiry.
In the context of ten three-day-
long modules, experts of
different disciplines, along with
a guest advisory, bring together
different points of view in
relation to the specific module
topic. Each individual course
day is dedicated to separate
focuses.
For more information, please
visit:
http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
Margarete von Lupin
Margarete von Lupin, Zürich.
Freie Journalistin, Moderatorin,
Autorin. Margarete von Lupin
ist Mitglied von Design2context,
Institut für Designforschung
der ZHdK sowie Dozentin im De-
partment der Visuellen Kommu-
nikation, ZHdK. Sie untersucht
Dialogformate im Dienste von
Projektentwicklungen, vornehm-
lich in den Bereichen Design,
Architektur und Städtebau. Sie
führt journalistische Interviews
sowie Interviews für qualitative
Forschungen durch. Margarete
von Lupin ist eine der Intervie-
werinnen und Autorinnen der
SALON
DE RECHERCHE
CIVIC CITY
18. 11. 09 / 17:00
ZÜRCHER HOCH-
SCHULE DER KÜNSTE
AUSSTELLUNGSSTR.
RAUM SQ503
aktuellen zweijährigen Unter- Design2context
suchung „Bauten/bauen“ über Institute for Designresearch
die künftigen Aufgaben von Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Architektur und Städtebau, initi- Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach
iert vom Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Marc CH-8031 Zürich 5
Angélil, ETH Zürich. Margarete T: +41 43 446 62 02
v. Lupin studierte Ethnologie www.design2context.ch
an der LMU München und FU
Berlin; Multimedia-Produktion
an der FH Weingarten/Akademie
für Medien und Design; Design
Culture am Design2context/
ZHdK. Sie arbeitete über lange
Jahre im Filmbereich und veröf-
fentlichte zahlreiche Interviews
in verschiedenen Publikationen,
Zeitungen, Magazinen sowie im
Radio.
 THE POLITICS
OF
OPEN-ENDED DESIGN
Manuel Raeder
Manuel Raeder is a designer
who lives and works in Berlin.
His main focus lies in close
collaborations with artists,
plants, scientists, parrots,
fashion designers, printers,
interns, librarians, curators,
rappers, photocopiers, book
binders, none professionals
and theorists.
His work has a wide range of
formats exploring the bounda-
ries between exhibitions,
ephemera, books, type design,
editing, publishing to furniture
design. Manuel has held work-
shops at the Ecole nationale
supérieure des arts décoratifs,
Paris, University of Toulouse le
Mirail, Centro diseno, Mexico
City and the Hochschule für
bildende Künste, Hamburg.
MANUEL RAEDER
What is the city of the present,
and what cities do we wish
for?
What means are needed to
develop these?
Who is involved and when?
Those preceding are some
general questions for the
framework of the first course
titled «Civic City–The Role of
Design for a Social City»
initially focusing on the role of
Design— specifically Commu-
nication Design—in exchange
with urban planning.
Due to more process design
scale formats and often short
term interventions in urban
spaces, there is a need for
communication and a trans-
parency of the interferences
into the city (opposite the
different publicness), as
participatory concerns are
increasingly transforming the
SALON
field of urban design. Discipli-
nary borders set the course
and architects, town planners
and designers look for the
DE RECHERCHE
mutual competencies, opening
up new fields of inquiry.
In the context of ten three-
day-long modules, experts of
different disciplines, along
with a guest advisory, bring
together different points of
view in relation to the specific
19. 11. 09 / 18:00
module topic. Each individual
course day is dedicated to
separate focuses.
INSTITUT
For more information visit:
http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
DESIGN2CONTEXT,
Design2context
Institute for Designresearch
Zürcher Hochschule der
Künste
Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach
CH-8031 Zürich 5
T: +41 43 446 62 02
HAFNERSTR. 39
1. STOCK LINKS
www.design2context.ch
ABOUT AXEL
THE JOHN
REPRESENTATION WIEDER
OF
CITIES SALON
IN DE
THE RECHERCHE
EXHIBITION CIVIC
SPACE CITY

Axel John Wieder
(*1971 in Stuttgart) is the artistic
director of Künstlerhaus Stutt-
gart. He studied art history and
(2004-5) and a research fellow
at the Peabody-Essex-Museum,
Salem/Massachusetts. He was
teaching at Bauhaus University
16.12.09
Design2context
Institute for Designresearch
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach

cultural studies in Cologne and
Berlin. In 1999, he co-founded
together with Katja Reichard
and Jesko Fezer the bookshop
Pro qm, which also serves as an
experimental platform for events
and presentations in art and
urbanism. For the 3rd Berlin
17:00
in Weimar and Det Jyske Kunst- CH-8031 Zürich 5
akademi in Arhus. Since 1990 T: +41 43 446 62 02
he had solo and group exhibi- www.design2context.ch
tions with Jesko Fezer, among
others at Frankfurter Kunstv-
erein, Museum Fridericianum
in Kassel, Kunstverein München
and the 9th Istanbul Biennial,

Biennale 2004, he organized a
thematic section about the
urban development in Berlin
after the fall of the wall, together
CORNER
since 1999 with Pro qm, at
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Leipzig, Museum für Gestaltung
Zürich and Kunsthaus Dresden

with Jesko Fezer. As a curator,
he was project manager for the
exhibition project «Now and ten
years ago» for KW Institute for
COLLEGE
and others. He is frequently
writing on architecture and
exhibitions for Texte zur Kunst,
032c, Springerin, Frieze, Arch+

LANGSTRASSE 84
Contemporary Art in Berlin and other publications.

What is the city of the present,
and what cities do we wish for?
What means are needed to
develop these?
Who is involved and when?
Those preceding are some
general questions for the
framework of the first course
titled «Civic City–The Role of
Design for a Social City»
initially focusing on the role
of Design– specifically Commu-
nication Design–in exchange
with urban planning.
Due to more process design
scale formats and often short
term interventions in urban
spaces, there is a need for
communication and a trans-
parency of the interferences
into the city (opposite the
different publicness), as
participatory concerns are
increasingly transforming the
field of urban design. Discipli-
nary borders set the course
and architects, town planners
and designers look for the
mutual competencies, opening
up new fields of inquiry.
In the context of ten three-day-
ZÜRICH
long modules, experts of
different disciplines, along with
a guest advisory, bring together
different points of view in
relation to the specific module
topic. Each individual course
day is dedicated to separate
focuses.
For more information, visit:
http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
The first Civic City Display in the
Showcases of Corner College is
centered around the question of
a critical representation of urban
issues. It presents graphic works
by Zak Kyes and Metahaven.
 
“Graphic Design for and Against
Cities” refers to the research
exhibition by the Amsterdam
based design collective Meta-
haven «Stadtstaat. A Scenario
for Merging Cities», previously
shown in Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
and Casco, Utrecht, and the
group exhibition «Dubai Düssel-
dorf» at Kunstverein für die
Rheinlande und Westfalen, which
EXHIBITION
17.12.2009–10.01.09
SALON DE RECHERCHE & OPENING
17.12.09, 20:00
VENUE
CORNER COLLEGE, LANGSTRASSE 84, ZU RICH
included work by London
graphic designer and publisher
Zak Kyes. Around the same time
in 2009, both exhibitions were
concerned in different ways with
imaginary merged cities as a
phenomenon of globalization.
The works of Metahaven and Zak
Kyes deal with the potentials of
visual communication in the re-
presentation of such cities as
well as with the possibility of
graphic critiques of strategies
for urban marketing and its
image politics.
This event is part of «Civic City–
The Role of Design for a Social
City», a postgraduate program
focusing on the role of Design
in exchange with urban planning
http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
In close cooperation with
MAS Designculture, Institute
Design2Context
Design2context
Institute for Designresearch
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Hafnerstrasse 39, Postfach
CH-8031 Zürich 5
T: +41 43 446 62 02
www.design2context.ch
AN ATLAS
OF RADICAL CARTOGRAPHY
PRESENTED BY CIVIC CITY
SALON DE RECHERCHE CIVIC CITY
LIZE MOGEL
ALEXIS BHAGAT
MATTHIAS GÖRLICH
13.01.2010—17:00
CORNER COLLEGE
LANGSTRASSE 84 ZÜRICH
« ...to make maps is to organize
oneself, to generate new
connections and to be able to
transform the material and
immaterial conditions in which
we find ourselves immersed.
It isn’t the territory but it
definitely produces territory.»
From An Atlas of Radical
Cartography (Journal of
Aesthetics & Protest Press,
2007)
Institute Design2Context is
pleased to present ‹An Atlas
of Radical Cartography› from
January, 15th 2010 until
February, 09th 2010 at
Whitespace Gallery in Zurich.
What is the city of the present,
and what cities do we wish for?
What means are needed to
develop these?
Who is involved and when?
Those preceding are some
general questions for the frame- ingly transforming the field of
work of the first course titled
«Civic City–The Role of Design
for a Social City» initially focusing architects, town planners and
on the role of Design– specifi-
cally Communication Design–
in exchange with urban planning. fields of inquiry.
‹An Atlas of Radical Cartography›
makes its premise on under-
mining the claim of mapping as
an objective representation of
the world. Instead, the project
understands mapping as a tool
for reconstructing our society
and political sphere against the
dominant pictures of the world
that are often represented
or made invisible by «falsogra-
phers» (Olivier Rolin). In this
radical cartography converge
diverse practices such as art,
critical theories, architectural &
graphic designs and activism,
share interests in re-mapping
the world collectively.
‹An Atlas of Radical Cartography›
was initiated and convened as a
publication of ten maps together
Due to more process design
scale formats and often short
term interventions in urban
spaces, there is a need for
communication and a trans-
parency of the interferences
into the city (opposite the
different publicness), as partici-
patory concerns are increas-
urban design. Disciplinary
borders set the course and
designers look for the mutual
competencies, opening up new
with ten accompanying essays
by New York-based artists Lize
Mogel and Alexis Bhagat.
As a traveling exhibition, it was
called in and reset anew at
several institutes in the United
States. Now, for the exhibtion
at Whitespace in Zurich, the
collection of maps had been
updated and extended to put a
stronger focus on the changes
of the world after the neoliberal
crisis. Those maps take on a
range of pressing social and
political issues from globaliza-
tion and economic inequity to
diverse urban concerns, in the
process creating new imaginary
territories and anticipating
possible actions.
In the context of ten three-
day-long modules, experts of
different disciplines, along with
a guest advisory, bring together
different points of view in
relation to the specific module
topic. Each individual course
day is dedicated to separate
focuses.
For more information, visit:
http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
14.01.2010—18:30
SALON DE RECHERCHE
ABOUT THE MEDIAL
REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY.
VIRTUAL, CARTOGRAPHIC,
DIAGRAMMATIC, PROCESSUAL
Philippe Rekacewicz
Born in 1960, Philippe Rekacewicz is double
national French and American. He is Geogra-
pher, cartographer and journalist. After the
completion of his study in geography at
University of Paris la Sorbone, he becomes
in 1988 a permanent collaborator of the
international newspaper Le Monde diploma-
tique in Paris (today 70 editions in more than
30 languages) where he is leading the carto-
graphic production. From 1996 to 2006, he
was also heading the cartographic unit of
a relocated office of UNEP (United Nations
Environment Programme) in Norway (UNEP/
GRID-Arendal).
He follows particularly issues such as demo-
graphy, refugees and displaced persons,
migration and statelessness persons, as well
as environmental questions. More broadly,
geopolitics and geostrategy. Philippe Rekace-
wicz works also on number of other project
which bring together cartography, art and
politics, especially studying how communities,
political or economical powers produce the
cartographic vision of the territories on which
they operate, And how they can manipulate an
lies with maps.
Since 2006, he also teaches regularly at the
University of Bologna (Italy) in the department
of historical studies and geography). He has
since 1988, published more than 2000 original
thematic maps, 15 atlases and written number
of articles which reflect research and vision
on cartography and how to represent the
world. He also often participates to exhibits
linking cartography to art in Europe.
Alexis Bhagat
Alexis Bhagat is a writer, sound artist and
activist. His work is dedicated to the destruc-
tion of authorship and authority through the
cultivation of new forms for radically poly-
vocal sound, transmission of promiscuous
conversation, and obsessive never-ending
correspondence. He speaks and writes on
anarchism, cartography, cinema, sound art,
peace, and language.
His sound compositions are deployed as
installations, “lectures” and radio broadcasts,
and he frequently collaborates with the
transmission arts organization free103point9.
(http://free103point9.org) He also hosts a
regular program on sound, music and aural
culture called “Speakers” on Red House Art
Radio. (http://audience.redhouseartradio.org)
Alexis Bhagat is co-editor (with Lize Mogel) of
An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Journal of
Aesthetics and Protest, 2007), co-editor (with
Gregory Gangemi) of Sound Generation, a
collection of interviews with contemporary
sound artists and composers (Autonomedia,
2010), and has organized concerts, discus-
sions and “listening lounges” of sound art
and phonographic work in New York, Japan,
Vermont and India. He is founder and co-
curator (with Lauren Rosati) of ((audience)),
an organization established to provide new
contexts for sound art that is currently
exploring the cinema as a standardized
platform for the diffusion of multi-channel
sound compositions. He has served on the
Board of Directors of the Institute for
Anarchist Studies, a grant giving body
supporting radical writers, and on the editorial
board of their journal, Perspectives on
Anarchist Theory.
http://anarchiststudies.org/perspectives
www.nadalex.net
CORNER COLLEGE
LANGSTRASSE 84 ZÜRICH
PHILIPPE REKACEWICZ
LIZE MOGEL
ALEXIS BHAGAT
MATTHIAS GÖRLICH
Lize Mogel Matthias Görlich
Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who Matthias Görlich is a Darmstadt- and Zurich-
works with the interstices between art and based communication designer, teacher, and
cultural geography. She inserts and distrib- researcher. In 2000, he set up his own design
utes and cartographic projects into public studio as a platform for critical research,
space and via publications. She is co-editor of education, and design development. He worked
the book/map collection “An Atlas of Radical on numerous international projects and
Cartography” and co-curator of the exhibition consultancies including a commission by the
“An Atlas”, which is touring nationally. She also United Nations to accompany a research and
co-curated “Genius Loci”, an exhibition of planning project for the improvement of living
conceptual mappings of Los Angeles (Sci-Arc, conditions in Palestinian refugee camps.
Los Angeles, California Museum of Photogra- Currently he is part of «Cultural Spaces»,
phy, Riverside). She has worked with groups a research project initiated by the Goethe
including the Center for Land Use Interpreta- Institutes in India. He also co-directs «Civic
tion and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. City», a postgraduate program on the role of
Exhibitions include the Gwangju Bienniale design in a social city based at the University
(South Korea,) common room (NYC), Casco for the Arts, Zurich. Here he also initiated
(Utrecht), and “Experimental Geography” «White Spots Black Holes», a research-project
(touring). She has received grants from the on the role of mapping in political contexts
Jerome Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the which is located at Institute Design2Context
Graham Foundation, the Los Angeles Depart- in Zurich. Matthias frequently teaches and
ment of Cultural Affairs, and the Danish Arts lectures internationally for example at RWTH
Council for her work. Aachen, ZHDK Zurich, KRVIA Mumbai, Univer-
www.publicgreen.com sity Darmstadt and others.
www.mgoerlich.com
www.whitespotsblackholes.com
What is the city of the present, Due to more process design In the context of ten three-
and what cities do we wish for? scale formats and often short day-long modules, experts of
term interventions in urban different disciplines, along with
What means are needed to spaces, there is a need for a guest advisory, bring together
develop these? communication and a trans- different points of view in
parency of the interferences relation to the specific module
Who is involved and when? into the city (opposite the topic. Each individual course
different publicness), as partici- day is dedicated to separate
Those preceding are some patory concerns are increas- focuses.
general questions for the frame- ingly transforming the field of
work of the first course titled urban design. Disciplinary For more information, visit:
«Civic City–The Role of Design borders set the course and http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
for a Social City» initially focusing architects, town planners and
on the role of Design– specifi- designers look for the mutual
cally Communication Design– competencies, opening up new
in exchange with urban planning. fields of inquiry.
EXHIBITION
«...to make maps is to organize
oneself, to generate new connec-
tions and to be able to transform
the material and immaterial
conditions in which we find ourselves
immersed. It isn’t the territory but it
definitely produces territory.»
as a tool for reconstructing our
society and political sphere against
the dominant pictures of the world
that are often represented or made
invisible by «falsographers» (Olivier
Rolin). In this radical cartography
converge diverse practices such as
stronger focus on the changes of
the world after the neoliberal crisis.
Those maps take on a range of
pressing social and political issues
from globalization and economic
inequity to diverse urban concerns,
in the process creating new

AN ATLAS
From An Atlas of Radical Cartography
(Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
Press, 2007)
art, critical theories, architectural & imaginary territories and anticipat-
graphic designs and activism, share ing possible actions.
interests in re-mapping the world
collectively. An Atlas of Radical Cartography

OF RADICAL
presented by Civic City
‹An Atlas of Radical Cartography› Whitespace, Militärstrasse 76, Zürich
was initiated and convened as a

CARTOGRAPHY
Institute Design2Context is pleased
to present ‹An Atlas of Radical
Cartography› from January, 15th
2010 till February, 9thth 2010 at
publication of ten maps together From 15.01.2010 until 09.02.2010
with ten accompanying essays by open every Tuesday and Friday,
New York-based artists Lize Mogel 4pm to 7pm and on appointment.
and Alexis Bhagat. As a traveling

PRESENTED
Whitespace Gallery in Zurich.
‹An Atlas of Radical Cartography›
makes its premise on undermining
the claim of mapping as an objective
exhibition, it was called in and
reset anew at several institutes in
the United States. Now, for the
exhibtion at Whitespace in Zurich,

BY CIVIC CITY representation of the world. Instead,

the project understands mapping
the collection of maps had been
updated and extended to put a

AT WHITESPACE
MILITÄRSTRASSE 76
What is the city of the present,
and what cities do we wish for?
What means are needed to develop
into the city (opposite the different
publicness), as participatory con-
cerns are increasingly transforming
the field of urban design. Discipli-

ZÜRICH
these?
Who is involved and when?
Those preceding are some general
questions for the framework of
the first course titled «Civic City–
nary borders set the course
and architects, town planners and
designers look for the mutual
competencies, opening up new fields
of inquiry.
In the context of ten three-day-

15.01.2010
The Role of Design for a Social City»
initially focusing on the role of
Design– specifically Communication
Design–in exchange with urban
long modules, experts of different
disciplines, along with a guest
advisory, bring together different
points of view in relation to the

UNTIL planning.
Due to more process design scale
formats and often short term
specific module topic. Each individual
course day is dedicated to separate
focuses.

09.02.2010
interventions in urban spaces, there
is a need for communication and a For more information, visit:
transparency of the interferences http://civic-city.zhdk.ch

OPENING Philippe Rekacewicz

Born in 1960, Philippe Rekacewicz is
double national French and American.
He is Geographer, cartographer and
journalist. After the completion of his
study in geography at University of
Paris la Sorbone, he becomes in 1988
an exhibition of conceptual mappings
of Los Angeles (Sci-Arc, Los Angeles,
California Museum of Photography,
Riverside). She has worked with
groups including the Center for Land
Use Interpretation and the Journal of
Aesthetics and Protest. Exhibitions
provide new contexts for sound art
that is currently exploring the cinema
as a standardized platform for the
diffusion of multi-channel sound
compositions. He has served on the
Board of Directors of the Institute for
Anarchist Studies, a grant giving

15.01.2010
a permanent collaborator of the inter- include the Gwangju Bienniale (South body supporting radical writers, and
national newspaper Le Monde diplo- Korea,) common room (NYC), Casco on the editorial board of their
matique in Paris (today 70 editions (Utrecht), and “Experimental Geo- journal, Perspectives on Anarchist

19:00
in more than 30 languages) where
he is leading the cartographic pro-
duction. From 1996 to 2006, he was
also heading the cartographic unit
of a relocated office of UNEP (United
Nations Environment Programme) in
Norway (UNEP/GRID-Arendal).
He follows particularly issues such as
graphy” (touring). She has received Theory.
grants from the Jerome Foundation, (http://anarchiststudies.org/
the LEF Foundation, the Graham perspectives )
Foundation, the Los Angeles Depart- www.nadalex.net
ment of Cultural Affairs, and the
Danish Arts Council for her work. Matthias Görlich
www.publicgreen.com Matthias Görlich is a Darmstadt-
and Zurich-based communication

WITH demography, refugees and displaced

persons, migration and statelessness
persons, as well as environmental
Alexis Bhagat
is a writer, sound artist and activist.
His work is dedicated to the de-
designer, teacher, and researcher.
In 2000, he set up his own design
studio as a platform for critical

PHILIPPE REKACEWICZ
questions. More broadly, geopolitics
and geostrategy. Philippe Rekacewicz
works also on number of other project
which bring together cartography, art
struction of authorship and authority research, education, and design
through the cultivation of new development. He worked on numer-
forms for radically poly-vocal sound, ous international projects and
transmission of promiscuous conver- consultancies including a commission

LIZE MOGEL
and politics, especially studying how sation, and obsessive never-ending by the United Nations to accompany
communities, political or economical correspondence. He speaks and a research and planning project for
powers produce the cartographic writes on anarchism, cartography, the improvement of living conditions

ALEXIS BHAGAT
vision of the territories on which they
operate, And how they can manipulate
an lies with maps.
Since 2006, he also teaches regularly
cinema, sound art, peace, and in Palestinian refugee camps.
language. Currently he is part of «Cultural
His sound compositions are deployed Spaces India», a research project
as installations, “lectures” and radio initiated by the Goethe Institutes

MATTHIAS GÖRLICH
at the University of Bologna (Italy) in
the department of historical studies
and geography). He has since 1988,
published more than 2000 original
thematic maps, 15 atlases and written
number of articles which reflect
research and vision on cartography
and how to represent the world. He
also often participates to exhibits
linking cartography to art in Europe.
Lize Mogel
Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary
artist who works with the interstices
between art and cultural geography.
She inserts and distributes and
cartographic projects into public
space and via publications. She is
co-editor of the book/map collection
“An Atlas of Radical Cartography”
and co-curator of the exhibition “An
Atlas”, which is touring nationally.
She also co-curated “Genius Loci”,
broadcasts, and he frequently colla-
borates with the transmission arts
organization free103point9. (http://
free103point9.org ) He also hosts a
regular program on sound, music
and aural culture called “Speakers”
on Red House Art Radio. (http://
audience.redhouseartradio.org )
Alexis Bhagat is co-editor (with Lize
Mogel) of An Atlas of Radical
Cartography (Journal of Aesthetics
and Protest, 2007), co-editor (with
Gregory Gangemi) of Sound Gene-
ration, a collection of interviews with Darmstadt and others.
contemporary sound artists and
composers (Autonomedia, 2010),
and has organized concerts,
discussions and “listening lounges”
of sound art and phonographic work
in New York, Japan, Vermont and
India. He is founder and co-curator
(with Lauren Rosati) of ((audience)),
an organization established to
in India. He also co-directs «Civic
City», a postgraduate program on
the role of design in a social city
based at the University for the Arts,
Zurich. Here he also initiated «White
Spots Black Holes», a research-
project on the role of mapping in
political contexts which is located at
the Institute Design2Context in
Zurich. Matthias frequently teaches
and lectures internationally for
example at RWTH Aachen, ZHDK
Zurich, KRVIA Mumbai, University
www.mgoerlich.com
www.whitespotsblackholes.com
 DESIGN
FOR
THE
POST
NEO
LIBERAL
CITY
12.3.
–
13.3.
Participants
Ruedi Baur (Paris/Zurich)
Bavo (Rotterdam/Brussels)
Elisabeth Blum (Zurich)
Tom Holert (Vienna/Berlin)
Bernd Kniess (Hamburg/Cologne)
Margit Mayer (Berlin)
Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester)
Nik Theodore (Chicago)
Visual Statements
Zak Kyes (London)
Lehni-Trüb (Zurich)
Metahaven (Amsterdam/Brussels)
Manuel Raeder (Berlin)
Visual Statement
by Metahaven,
Visual Statement
by Lehni-Trüb, Zürich
Amsterdam/Brussels
Visual Statement Visual Statement
by Zak Kyes, London with by Manuel Raeder, Berlin
Chus Martínez, Barcelona
United States of Terra Incognito
The mapmaker’s third suggestion
was simply “Terra Incognita.”
The “a” of incognita is given by
the notion “terra”, but igcognito
is what offers the most here.
In-kog-nee-toh: private, obscure
to others…
March 12th & 13th 2010 A Civic City-Conference by
Zurich University of the Arts Design2context
Auditorium Institute for Designresearch
Museum für Gestaltung Zurich University of the Arts
Ausstellungsstrasse 60 Hafnerstrasse 39
CH–8031 Zurich CH–8031 Zurich
www.design2context.ch
The conference language
will be English and more information:
the admission is free. http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
Supported by Media Partners Research Partners