Summer School in Tel Aviv–Jaffa
"History Takes Place — Dynamics of Urban Change"
23-27 September 2019
PROGRAMME
hosted by
Project Director
Dr. Anna Hofmann, Director, Head of Research and Scholarship, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg [email protected]
Project Manager
Marcella Christiani, M.A., Project Manager Research and Scholarship, ZEIT- Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg [email protected]
Guy Rak, PhD Candidate, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email protected]
Coordinator at the White City Center (WCC) Yarden Diskin [email protected]
Photos: Front page: Barak Brinker Monday, 23 September 2019 Venue The White City Center, Liebling Haus Idelson St 29, Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Israel
9:00 Coffee - Get together
9:30 Opening of the Summer School - Welcomes
Shira Levy Benyemini Director, The White City Center, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Christina Rau Member of the Board of Trustees, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Sybille Wüstemann Head of Press Relations and Event Management, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany
10:00 Introduction to the Programme of the Summer School
Dr. Anna Hofmann Director, Head of Research and Scholarship, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg, Germany
The „Prehistory“ of Tel Aviv and the Dawn of its History Guy Rak, PhD Candidate, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Presentation of the Summer School Fellows and their Research Projects 11:00 Lecture and Guided Tour The History of the Liebling Haus Sharon Golan Yaron, Program Director and Conservation Architect, The White City Center (WCC)
12:00 Lunch Buffet at the WCC
13:00 Lecture The Use of Large-Scale Demolitions as a Modernist Urban Planning Tool in Tel Aviv between the 1930s and the late 1980s Dr. Or Aleksandrowicz, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Lecture The History of Jaffa // Guided Tour: “Jaffa - Where Gold Grows on Trees at the Haven of the Propylaea“ Guy Rak 19:30 Welcome Dinner (tbc)
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Venue The White City Center
9:00 History and Legacy of Urban Street Furniture in Tel Aviv-Jaffa Amnon Direktor, Bar Orian Architects, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
10:00 Upgrading the List: The Struggle for Legitimacy & the Integration of Modern Heritage to the World Heritage List Robert Flahive, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Dynamics of Change and their Expression in Building Facades in Tel-Aviv Anat Goldman, The David Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University, Israel
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Cultural Heritage on Mobile Devices: A Comparison of Apps dealing with UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Israel and Germany Joatan Preis Dutra, Media Art & Design, Interface Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Round Table Conservation and Heritage Micro Perspective – Conservation Development of Buildings in Existing Urban Tissues with Dr. Jeremy Hoffman, Head of Conservation Department, Tel Aviv-Jaffa; Dr. Nir Mualam, Lawyer, Planner and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa and Amir Peleg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TaKaDu, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Moderator: Shira Levy Benyemini
Short Break
17:30 Lecture and Guided Tour The White City: Modernism Architecture/Geddes and Urban Planning Tissue with Iddo Ginat, Architect, Visual and Material Culture, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem and Natali Kogern, Architect, Licensing Department, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
The tour will end at Dizengoff Square/Zina Square
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Venue The White City Center
9:00 Spatial Dynamics in Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Exposing the Most Spatially Integrated Areas in Jaffa and the “White City of Tel Aviv” Stella Fox, Space Syntax Lab, Barlett School of Architecture, University College London, Great Britain
10:00 Urban Hybridity and Affect in Tel Aviv-Jaffo Hatem Hegab, Global History, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Simple Design in Tel Aviv between Urban and Rural Cultures, 1919-1940 Dr. Martin Hershenzon, Assistant Professor, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
12:30 What led to Tel Aviv's Transformation from Patrick Geddes Master Plan of Garden City in Jaffa into White City? Vakhtangi Makasarashvili, Architect, The Municipal Development Fund of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
13:30 Lunch Break
Meeting Point Café Shapira 15 Ralbag Street Tel Aviv-Jaffa 15:00 Guided Tour „Neither in Jaffa, nor in Tel Aviv“ Sharon Rotbard, Architect, Publisher, Author, and Senior Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
17:30 Guided Tour The Gentrification of Industrial Areas (Kiryat Ha-Melacha) Shira Levy Benyemini and Roy Fabian, Architect, Artist, Urban Designer, and Urban Culture Researcher, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
19:30 Dinner Restaurant “A La Rampa” (Kiryat Hamelacha - Shoken District 21 12 7, Ha-Amal Tel Aviv-Jaffa)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Venue DB Studios Ha'Amal St 6, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
10:00 Israel and Tel Aviv according to the Heymann Brothers Films Discussion with documentary filmmaker Barak Heymann who will share parts of his work which focus on the life stories of the minorities in Israeli society
13:00 Lunch Break
Venue White City Center
14:00 Round Table Housing and Planning Macro Perspective: Planning and Development of Residential Neighborhoods in existing Textures with Natali Kogern, Architect, Licensing Department, Municipality of Tel Aviv- Jaffa; Anat Nevo-Barkay, Urban Planner, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Eyal Ronen, Architect, Urban Planner Moderator: Els Verbakel, Professor of Urban Design, Head of the Department of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 The „National“ and „International“ in Housing in Tel Aviv Marina Sapunova, Urban Planner, University Tutor, and Researcher at the Faculty of Urban and Regional Development, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
17:30 Urban Identity between the Global and the Local: Migration, Bauhaus Architecture and the Construction of National and Personal Belonging in Tel Aviv, c. 1930-1948 Felicitas Remer, MA in Global History, Freie Universität Berlin/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Friday, 27 September 2019
Venue The White City Center
9:00 From "Palestine Style" to Rooted German Architecture: The Legacy of the Bauhaus in Nazi Germany Teresa Walch, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
10:00 A Line, A Circle Yael Peri, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Tel Aviv-Jafo - A Modern Cappriccio Beni Barzellai, Landscape Architect, Tsurnamal Turner Landscape Architecture, Tel Aviv, Israel
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Everything but Bauhaus Dipl.-Ing. Ronny Schüler, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Bauhaus- Universität Weimar, Germany
14:30 Bauhaus Tel Aviv. Re-Construction of a (German) Narrativ Dr. Alexandra Klei, The Institute for the History of the German Jews (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, IGdJ), Hamburg, Germany
15:30 Closing Session
Free Afternoon
Venue Drinks and Snacks Restaurant Ha-Minzar
Saturday, 28 September 2019
Individual Departure