Beyond EVE: Organisations

German Architecture Museum

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 14:18:53 +0200

DAM – national center for architectural debate DAM is not just one of the many museums in the City of Frankfurt, is it also the “German Architecture Museum”, with a national claim. Nowadays all our European neighbours have their own national centers that address the country’s building culture. DAM is today increasingly taking up the challenge this entails, and it is something Heinrich Klotz had in mind when he founded the museum, and not only with its exhibitions, but also with conventions, symposia, and lectures, is fostering the debate on current and future architectural and urban design issues. DAM also continues to focus on current topics relating to Frankfurt. The “Pecha Kucha Night”, a series of events based on the successful idea as realized in Tokyo, is regularly held at locations outside the DAM and provides a relaxed interdisciplinary platform for the young community inspired by architecture and design.

Archived Landscapes and Archival Landscapes: Architectures of Political Record-Keeping in Early Modern Western Europe, 1450-1700

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:00:58 +0200

The materiality of pre-digital documentary sources means that their preservation and organization in archives involved at least two simultaneous and separate architectonic contexts. Archivists sought to place physical documents within ordered spaces in a legible way; at the same time, as conveyers of information, documents were equally part of larger conceptual architectures, which were often spatially conceived in early modern Europe. This talk builds on the seminal contributions of Peter Rück, who captured this duality with the term „ideal-topographical“, but will move beyond the mapping relationships that Rück identified as the most common way of ordering archives from the 14^th to 17^th centuries. Examining several notable creations of dedicated archival architecture, from 15^th century Savoy to Simancas to the Haus- und Hofarchiv in Vienna in the 1740s, it will examine how the architecture of physical archives provided for but also constrained landscapes of domainal space by projecting them onto archival containers. In doing so, archiving supported shifting architectures of dominion by providing a stable site where such landscapes could be delineated and differentiated, as in the production of maps or cadasters.

Ernst May Haus Frankfurt and Max Liebling Haus Tel Aviv – Exhibiting and Visiting an Architectural Monument

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:40:50 +0100

At the third event of the series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development” exemplary houses of Modernism will be discussed with the Max Liebling Haus in Tel Aviv and the Ernst May Haus as the foci.

The Max Liebling Haus was built in 1936 by Max and Tony Liebling according to plans by the architect Dov Karmi. Since 2019 it houses the White City Center Tel Aviv. The Liebling Haus – The White City Center was co-founded by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and the German government at a historical and cultural crossroad in the heart of Tel Aviv. Its mission is to actively preserve the heritage of the White City site and the international style, known in Israel as the Bauhaus.

The Ernst May Haus was built 1927/28 according to plans by Carl Hermann Rudloff and Ernst May as part of Frankfurt’s Römerstadt. It is an exemplary house for the extensive housing estates of the Neues Frankfurt. Since 2010, after carefully restoring the small single-family terraced house to its original state of 1929, it can be visited by the interested public.

Sharon Golan Yaron, architect and programme director of the Max Liebling Haus will present her curatorial achievements for the White City Center Tel Aviv. The Head of the ernst-may-gesellschaft, Prof. Dr. Klaus Klemp, will introduce the Ernst May Haus and the programme developed by the Forum Neues Frankfurt. They will expose the radically different curatorial strategy behind the Ernst May Haus and the Max Liebling Haus. The different approaches to storytelling in historically protected monuments will be explored also in the subsequent discussion which will be opened by Natascha Drabbe, Director and Founder of the Iconic Houses Network.

The online discussion event will be conducted in English.

SWAN Swiss Women's Audiovisual Network

SWAN Swiss Women's Audiovisual Network — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:26:58 +0100

SWAN connects women and interested men of the audiovisual industry and cooperates with other networks and organizations. SWAN supports the role and the position of women in Swiss and in international cinema, television and other audiovisual media. SWAN aims to enable exchange – with an online platform (search and offer) as well as with live events and networking occasions. SWAN provides gender relevant information about the film industry on all kinds of levels, from Switzerland and internationally.

FC Gloria – Frauen Vernetzung Film

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:33:45 +0100

FC Gloria steht für die Wahrnehmung der künstlerischen, wirtschaftlichen, rechtlichen, sozialen und politischen Interessen von Frauen in der Filmbranche. Angesichts der eklatanten Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in bedeutsamen Funktionen in der Österreichischen Filmbranche – verschwindend kleine Anteile von Frauen in den Bereichen Regie, Kamera, Produktion, sowie in Entscheidungsgremien und Vorständen der Filmförderungseinrichtungen – hat FC-Gloria die wichtige Funktion, Frauen sichtbar zu machen bzw. in ihrem Sinne Quoten in Besetzung und Mittelvergabe einzufordern und auf die bestehenden Missstände hinzuweisen. Dass eine gezielte Promotion für Frauen nötig ist, zeigt nicht zuletzt die vom bm:ukk initiierte und von interministeriellen Arbeitsgruppen erstellte Statistik, die z. B. ein Ungleichgewicht bei der Vergabe von öffentlichen Filmfördermittel an Frauen und Männer bestätigt.

Barton Gellman: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State

Commonwealth Club — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:57:17 +0100

While a reporter at The Washington Post, Barton Gellman was one of three journalists Edward Snowden picked to review the vast and explosive archive of highly classified files revealing the extent of the American government's access to our every communication. Those three shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their work. But that was only the beginning for Gellman. He went on to dig deeper into both the U.S. surveillance state and Snowden’s own complicated history. As he sought the truth, Barton was harassed with legal threats, government investigations and foreign intelligence agencies intent on stealing his files. Come for a detailed look at Edward Snowden, America's surveillance state now and post-COVID, as well as Mr. Gellman’s own account of his personal cloak-and-dagger experience of being surveilled by unknown adversaries. Notes This is an online-only program; register to receive a link to the live stream This program is free; please consider making a donation during registration to support our online program production

Jennifer Steinhauer: The Women Reshaping Congress

Commonwealth Club — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:44:31 +0100

In her career as a reporter at The New York Times, Jennifer Steinhauer has worked a wide range of beats, including the metro, bureau and national desks, the Los Angeles bureau chief, and the United States Congress. She has covered pressing issues spanning across the country, including health care, veterans’ rights, and disaster relief during Hurricane Katrina. Now, Steinhauer divulges a fresh perspective on a shifting political landscape in her book The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress. Steinhauer documents the incredible story of the women who were newly elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 and follows their pursuit of groundbreaking change. Tune in as Steinhauer shares her unique perspective of a congressional reporter to give insight into the campaigns of these strong freshman congresswomen and how their victory in November 2018 has translated to change on the Hill. This program is online-only; please register to receive a link to the live stream presentation. This program is free; please consider making a donation during the registration process.

Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece

Politics and Prose Bookstore — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:54:39 +0100

Alex Beam follows The Feud, his acclaimed account of a literary friendship gone bad, with the story of the complicated relationship behind one of the 20th century’s architectural masterpieces, the Farnsworth House. Named after its patron, Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago doctor and researcher, the iconoclastic glass-and steel structure was designed by Mies van der Rohe; drawn together by their shared dream, architect and patron grew close, spending weekends together at the Fox River site. Then a combination of cost overruns, differences about art, and contractual disagreements (inflamed by Frank Lloyd Wright) led to recriminations, regrets, and law suits. When the house was eventually completed in 1951, Farnsworth found it impossible to live there. Beam will be joined in conversation by Sebastian Smee, pulitzer prize winning art critic for the washington post and author of The Art of Rivalry. Instead of a set ticket price, we ask that you contribute what you can to support Politics and Prose Bookstore and our virtual event series. We know that everyone has been affected in these trying times, and we will continue to make our programming accessible to all. That said, a suggested contribution of $5, $10, whatever you can afford, will go a long way to keep our programming—and our bookstore—afloat as we are forced to adapt to new ways of business. 

The Instagram Story with Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier

Commonwealth Club — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:49:08 +0100

In a short 10 years, Instagram has grown from a simple idea for sharing photos to an application with over 1 billion monthly users and company growth that has surpassed many other tech giants. At the same time, this exponential success has been accompanied by a dramatic acquisition by Facebook in 2012 and the Instagram co-founders stepping down in 2018.

Award-winning technology reporter Sarah Frier helps bring some clarity to the mysteries surrounding the tech giant in her book No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram. The Bloomberg reporter delivers stories taken from the Instagram influencers and celebrities that have helped drive the app to such rapid growth, the employees and executives who have watched from behind the scenes, and the founders of Instagram themselves who give insight into the growth and change of the service.

Join INFORUM as Frier draws from her expertise in technology to navigate through this diverse cast of sources to paint a picture of how Instagram evolved to shape the online experience and fundamentally change how we engage with society.

Conor Dougherty: Inside America's Housing Crisis

Commonwealth Club — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:46:01 +0100

Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. In the San Francisco Bay Area, fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes; according to New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty, this is ground zero for this crisis. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, Dougherty chronicles America's housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs.

Steven Levy: Inside Facebook

Commonwealth Club — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:49:51 +0100

In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on it. Today, the social network that Zuckerberg created in 2004 has grown far beyond its original iteration, larger and more powerful than anyone could have imagined. Facebook has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users across the globe. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing "fake news" accounts, the handling of its users' personal data and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation regarding the direction of the county's politics, economy and how individuals communicate with each other. There is no one better to describe how Facebook has evolved and where it might be headed than renowned tech writer Steven Levy. In his new book, Facebook: The Inside Story, Levy provides the definitive history of one of America's most powerful and controversial companies. Based on years of exclusive reporting and interviews with Facebook's key executives and employees, including Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Levy's sweeping narrative, already named as one of the most anticipated books of the year, digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences. With the company in the news daily and just days before Californians get an early opportunity to have their say in the 2020 election, an election in which Facebook undoubtedly will play a critical role, Levy's appearance is not be missed.

SYD MEAD - FUTURE CITIES

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:33:50 +0100

An exclusive look into the creative world of one of the great futurists of our time Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Tron, Blade Runner or Aliens, Mission to Mars and Elysium: for legendary science fiction films Syd Mead created trend-setting and breathtaking worlds. He developed entire cities and mobility concepts with flying cars, autonomous vehicles, space ships. Syd Meads picture worlds are always characterized by functionality and mostly a positive idea of the future. But for the dystopian cult film Blade Runner Syd Mead created the vision of a bold and apocalyptic city in which huge sky-scrapers dominate the skyline. Now, in November 2019, fiction overlaps with the present, for the 1982 film is set in Los Angeles 2019. A total of 30 originals with a focus on urban spaces, including motifs for Blade Runner, offer an insight into the creative world of the visionary. In a brand new short documentary, Syd Mead talks about his work, inspiration and career. Exhibition idea / initiator: Markus Penell Curator: Boris Hars-Tschachotin Mon- Fri 3 to 7 pm and by appointment

SOME LIKE IT EQUAL

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:33:45 +0100

Unser Event "Some like it equal" in der Akademie der Künste am Pariser Platz stand unter dem Motto "Change", denn von wahrer Gleichberechtigung sind wir weit entfernt. Veränderung geht nicht von heute auf morgen. Es ist ein langwieriger Prozess, der nur nachhaltig sein kann, wenn ALLE, auch die Verantwortlichen in der Film-und Medienbranche, dafür bereit sind und der Wunsch nach Veränderung nicht nur ein Lippenbekenntnis ist. "Pro Quote Film wird die Filmbranche verändern", schreibt Blickpunkt Film in der Berlinale Ausgabe. Wir haben die Branche bereits verändert, denn wir haben uns verändert. Die Frauen in den Filmgewerken sind nicht mehr bereit Diskriminierung und Benachteiligung weiblichen Filmschaffens - ungeachtet des Dreiklangs von "Klasse, Herkunft und Geschlecht" - einfach hinzunehmen. Time´s up, Nobody´s doll und Metoo - die Berlinale stand unter den Hashtags gegen Sexismus und für eine gleichberechtigte Film- und Medienbranche. Die Medien haben berichtet und dennoch; Sexismus wird auch nach 100 Reportagen immer noch mit Sex verwechselt. Struktureller Sexismus verhindert weibliches Filmschaffen, direkter Sexismus ist ein Verbrechen. Was "Sexismus" noch bedeutet und woran man ihn erkennt, hat Prof. Dr. Jutta Brückner in ihrer Rede "Bildet Banden" eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Dafür gab es Standing Ovations.*

Women in culture and media: A European comparison

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:26:36 +0100

Women in culture and media: A European comparison is a comprehensive survey of the role of women in art, culture and the media industry in selected European countries, conducted by a research team at the and led by Helmut K. Anheier. The project views the German context from an international, comparative perspective and aims to learn from other countries’ experiences and best practices. The project is structured into a preliminary quantitative and qualitative investigation, followed by a panel discussion in Berlin with experts from the countries investigated in the research phase. The final results of the research are presented in a practice-oriented report which takes the lessons learned during the panel discussion (Spring 2017), as well as those learned from an online exchange with country experts, into account.