Programme of Events at the Forum Site
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Programme of Events at the Forum Site Some of the details in the listings below may have changed since they were drawn up in February, so it should be taken as a rough guide only. A fully updated version of the programme is available on the Forum website at http://www.barcelona2004.org ENCOUNTERS INHABITING THE WORLD Scientific committee: M. Zardini, Jean-Louis Sustainability Cohen SPEAKER’S CORNER Contents: Assistants to the organiser: Joseph Rykwert, • Venue Forum • Relations between human beings and the envi- Hans Ibelings, Felipe Leal, Charles Correa • Situated in the middle of the site, this is the stage ronment at three different levels: region, city and Design: Josep Bohigas, Francesc Pla, Iñaki for public talks and debates where visitors will have habitat Baquero / BOPBAA the chance to express their views to distinguished • Getting nearer and nearer the Earth’s limits Graphic design: Enric Satué speakers from the dialogue sessions, as well as • Inequalities and the need for new patterns of representatives of institutions and associations par- behaviour THE WARRIORS OF XI’AN ticipating in the Forum. Venue Pabelló de la Marina The evolution from war to peace in Chinese culture • Every day one of the 141 questions for 141 Location: Hangar de la Marina Seca Contents: 2 nights raising issues of importance for the present Surface area: 4,747 m • Chinese funereal art (the tombs of Qin Shihuang and the future will be debated Scientific director: Ramon Folch and Yangling) • Capacity for: Collaborators: Oriol Pibernat / Foment de les Arts • 31 objects from the Qin dynasty -300 people seated Decoratives (FAD), Agència Local d’Ecologia • 69 objects from the Han dynasty -2,000 people standing Urbana, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC) Venue Moll Nord in the Port Design: Carles Guri, Carolina Casajuana Surface area: 1,200 m2 SOLIDARITY FAIR Graphic design: Marc Panero / BASE Organisers: Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Bureau, • Venue Forum Hong Kong Museum of History and Forum • Aim: CITIES, CORNERS Barcelona 2004 – To introduce the general public to matters and Corners as exponents of cultural and geographic Design: Julia Schulz-Dornburg and Joan Pons issues related to solidarity and diversity diversity Forment – To offer a meeting place for organisations, associ- Contents: Graphic design: Luz de la Mora ations, firms, etc. to exhibit their best practices • Stone corners: flagstones that are well known as Explanatory text: Dolors Folch, Speakers’ Corner • The content of the Fair will rotate in the course of a result of being on a corner the 141 days during which the Forum is on. Some • People’s corners: exchanges between people and of the issues that will be dealt with at it are: activities on street corners EXHIBITION SPACES Development cooperation, the role of young • Corners and more corners: the city as a grid of people, cities, religions, etc. corners BEST PRACTICES • Space: 900 m2 • Macrocorners: metropolises as great corners of Venue The Plaza the world Aim: To explain what sustainable urban develop- Venue Centre de Convencions Internacional de ment consists of EXHIBITIONS Barcelona (CCIB) Description: By taking examples of best practice Surface area: 3,500 m2 from all over the world, it is shown how local solu- VOICES Organiser: Manuel de Solà-Morales tions are the basis for constructing global solutions Linguistic Diversity in the face of the rapid urbanisation and globalisa- Contents: tion we are experiencing today. • A look at the different languages that human Space: 500 m2 beings are capable of using Reference organisation: UN-HABITAT • The need for communication between different people BIODIVERSITY • The right to express one’s opinion and to have Venue Forum transparent media Aim: To show the importance of human action and Venue Centre de Convencions Internacional de culture in conserving biodiversity Barcelona (CCIB) Description: The exhibition shows how local Surface area: 4,412 m2 groups and indigenous peoples have improved Contents Director: Vicenç Villatoro their way of life by using their biological resources Assistant Contents Director: Enric Marín in a sustainable manner. Pictures and audiovisuals Scientific committee: Carme Junyent, Jesús show examples of successful actions carried out in Tusón, Enric Marín tropical areas. Design: Ralph Appelbaum Associated, New York Reference organisation: UNDP (Equatorial Initiative) Graphic design: Mona Kim Space: 180 m2 THE B.MM MONOGRAPHS NUMBER 4 149 WATER FOR EVERYONE Venue Forum Aim: Raising public awareness about the responsi- ble use of water Description: An interactive route showing the unequal access to potable water that exists in the world. It describes the social and health issues, dif- ferent situations and possible solutions. Space: 350 m2 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION Venue Forum Aim: To show the public that by deciding what to buy and from whom, and what it spends its sav- ings on, it can help to create a better world Reference organisations: UNEP and UNESCO Description: The exhibition puts forward possible solutions within everyone’s reach for alleviating the Earth’s social and environmental imbalances based on consuming in a different, more efficient way. The space aims to generate critical reflections on how the consumer society affects us. Space: 150 m2 FAIR TRADE Venue Forum Aim: To show how, on the basis of fair trade, it is possible to combat the unfair rules of international trade Héctor Oliva / Intermón Oxfam Description: The exhibition shows the inequalities NON-DISCRIMINATION become involved caused by the present rules of international trade Venue Forum Description: The exhibition reveals the invisibility and presents fair trade, its principles, marketing Aim: To deal with cultural diversity and discrimina- and discrimination suffered by different areas and processes and effects on people’s lives. tion in everyday life. To invite the public to play an groups living in the big cities. The space lays spe- Reference organisation: Intermón - Oxfam active part in constructing diversity in the city cial emphasis on the solutions of the committed Space: 300 m2 Description: organisations working on the ground to correct the – A series of audiovisuals deals with the problems causes leading to this situation. ETHICAL BANKING of cultural diversity: Reference organisation: Various NGOs that work Venue Forum • Freedom of expression vs. non-discrimination with the Fourth World Aim: To promote ethical investment and financing • Protection of cultural identity vs. evolution Space: 470 m2 as well as the creation of an ethical banking system • Positive discrimination vs. treatment of differ- Description: ence, etc. HUMAN RIGHTS – The space is made up of automatic teller – At the end of each audiovisual, participants will Venue Forum machines that, together with other installations, have twenty minutes to reflect on their choice. Aim: To make visitors aware of the fact that we are take visitors through the values and functioning of Reference organisation: SOS Racisme (Catalonia) all responsible for protecting and ensuring respect ethical banking. and the Anne Frank Museum (Barcelona) for human rights – It also shows the effects the granting of micro- Space: 200 m2 Description: Visitors are presented with the human credits has on people’s lives. rights situation, the violations that take place and Reference organisation: FETS THE SKY OVER OUR WORLD the actions necessary to improve this situation. Space: 150 m2 Venue Forum Campaigns and actions for protecting human rights Aim: To show the different interpretations of the that have achieved positive results are highlighted. WORLD HERITAGE universe that civilisations have formulated in the Space: 250 m2 Venue Forum course of history Aim: Description: The exhibition aims to reflect the dif- LITERACY - EDUCATION – To show heritage as a source of cultural wealth ferent interpretations of the universe, creating a Venue Forum and diversity space in the shape of a galaxy. The centre repre- Aim: To explain the literacy-related inequalities that – To raise visitors’ awareness of the need to sents the present and the future, while the arms of exist in the Third World from a Third-World point of protect humanity’s world heritage from cultural the galaxy reconstruct the cosmological concep- view homogenisation, armed conflicts and mass tions of some of the civilisations that have formed Description: The exhibition displays different litera- tourism part of history. cy and education programmes in the Third World Description: The exhibition shows the cultural Reference organisations: Municipal Planetarium, and from the Third World. heritage in danger, as well as that which has European Space Agency Reference organisation: Mans Unides / Paulo alread been destroyed (Iraq, Afghanistan, Space: 250 m2 Freire Institute Sarajevo, etc.). It also presents some actions that Space: 200 m2 are currently under way which are designed to INVISIBLE CITY preserve our heritage. In this space visitors are Venue Forum WOMEN AND WAR invited to think about possible actions to protect Aim: Venue Forum our cultural heritage. – To raise visitors’ awareness of the different con- Aim: To discover the unknown “heroine”, the femi- Reference organisation: UNESCO flicts that come together in the “Fourth World” nine figure in war, by showing the multiplicity of Space: 270 m2 – To open up a space for those who want to roles that women play in armed conflicts FORUM BARCELONA 2004 150 Carlos Bosch Description: The exhibition shows women’s suffering and as a key