IDEAS Program May 28–30, 2015 Around the Bowery New York City CITY ideas-city.org FESTIVAL@ideascity #ideascity IDEAS CITY is a collaborative, civic program founded by the New Museum in Conference May 28, 2015 2011 on the premise that art and culture are essential to the vitality of cities. IDEAS CITY builds on the New Museum’s mission of “New Art, New Ideas” by expanding the Museum beyond its walls into the civic realm. Addressing the key challenges and opportunities facing cities around the world today, the Festival creates networks, seeds concrete projects, and harnesses cultural capital for economic development. Executive Committee IDEAS CITY provides an important Great Hall, the Cooper Union platform for thinkers and practitioners New Museum (Founder) from a variety of disciplines, including the Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director Karen Wong, Deputy Director arts, design, architecture, urban planning, Location: Tickets: Livestreaming: Great Hall, Tickets may be purchased at ideas-city.org All events will be livestreamed Joseph Grima, Director, IDEAS CITY technology, science, business, sociology, the Cooper Union $50 Conference Pass for all Thursday events on the IDEAS CITY website: Corinne Erni, Senior Producer, IDEAS CITY 7 East 7th Street at the Cooper Union including Mayoral Conversation ideas-city.org Richard Flood, Director of Special Projects and education, as well as civic and govern- (between 3rd and $25 Mayoral Conversation only Free for students with valid I.D., as capacity allows. and Curator at Large 4th Avenues) mental institutions, to exchange ideas, Space is limited The Architectural League of New York locate problems, propose solutions, and Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director engage the public’s participation. Theme: • The designers shaping the cities of the future must Bowery Poetry Club engage with an increasingly challenging set of hypothe- Bob Holman, Founder and Proprietor tical conditions—scenarios that often remain invisible to This year’s IDEAS CITY Festival will take their inhabitants. How do urbanists, artists, architects, The Cooper Union place May 28–30 and center on the theme of and activists create habitats that anticipate drastic Elizabeth O’Donnell, Acting Dean, future change such as overcrowding and climate change? The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture The Invisible City. Dozens of artists, one hundred organizations, and tens of thousands of visitors • A vast proportion of our lives exists as an invisible The Drawing Center will come together to explore questions of online record of our identities, interests, and affiliations. Brett Littman, Executive Director transparency and surveillance, citizenship and What role do data and privacy play in the perpetuation representation, expression and suppression, of democracy in the twenty-first century? Storefront for Art and Architecture participation and dissent, and the enduring Eva Franch i Gilabert, Executive Director and Chief Curator quest for visibility in the city. • We are increasingly dependent on global-network infrastructures that are as invisible as they are vast. How can networks and processes be made more The Festival will kick off with a series of talks, transparent, accessible, and empowering? How can they panels, discussions, and short films at the Great guarantee accountability? Can art be the connective Hall at the Cooper Union. Speakers will include membrane in this process? some of the world’s most forward-thinking visionaries, who will discuss key civic issues • Within the city, an increasing number of people— and formulate action for the city of tomorrow. such as the homeless, the elderly, and undocumented Panelists will address the following pressing immigrants—are disappearing from sight. Is there a cartography to identify those who have wandered or questions, among many others: been driven from the center? Program is subject to change Please visit ideas-city.org for updates @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 3 IDEAS-CITY.ORG 9:30–10 AM Selected Photographs from Mapa-Mundi BR (postal), 2007 Hope and Toward a Plausible Utopia Rivane Neuenschwander Unrest in Jonathas Yto Barrada 10 min (looped) de Andrade Artist As the speed of technological innovation 12:15–1 PM The Invisible Artist Yto Barrada was born in Paris accelerates, life in the twenty-first Jonathas de Andrade lives and and grew up in Tangier, Morocco. century metropolis is coming closer to works in Recife, Brazil, and She studied history and political 10–10:10 AM City creates art that investigates science at the Sorbonne and fulfilling the predictions of science-fiction cultural phenomena that are photography at the International in danger of vanishing. He has Center of Photography. Her work writers of decades past, and not always for the best. Many of the moves across photography, film, Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum participated in the 12th Lyon most apocalyptic scenarios envisioned by novelists—extreme Lisa Phillips Biennial (2013), the 2nd New publications, and installation, and Bjarke Ingels Kim Stanley Robinson 11 AM–12:15 PM Museum Triennial (2012), the engages with the specific situation overcrowding, conflict driven by climate change, the crisis of 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), the of Tangier as a transitory locale. Architect, Founder, Bjarke Ingels Novelist Director, IDEAS CITY capitalism, mass uprisings—have also become all too familiar. Joseph Grima 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), She is the cofounder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger and a Group (BIG) Robinson is best known for his award-winning and the 7th Mercosul Biennial Could it be that the solutions to today’s challenges are already “Mars” trilogy (1993–99), in which humans, in light The age of network culture member of the Beirut-based Arab Bjarke Ingels is renowned for his innovative ap- (2009). In 2012, he received a of environmental catastrophe, are forced to colonize Image Foundation. Barrada’s written? What can architects learn from the wild speculations of proach to sustainable development and renewable special jury prize for the Future the planet Mars. His books address issues revolving offers new, powerful tools for work was recently featured in the energy, and his acclaimed architectural practice, Generation Art Prize Exhibition their literary heroes? Two of today’s most acclaimed voices from around the imminent warming of our planet as exhibition “Here and Elsewhere” BIG, operates within the fields of architecture, individual and collective expres- at the Victor Pinchuk well as the dark sides of capitalism and democracy. at the New Museum. the fields of architecture and science fiction will discuss their urbanism, research, and development. BIG was 10:10–11 AM Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine. He has been invited to speak at multiple fiction sion, and in response, the act recently selected as the designer of a $335 million and science-fiction conferences as well as at the visions for life in the near-future metropolis. storm defense system to defend lower Manhattan of protest is rapidly evolving; “Rethinking Capitalism” conference at the from future floods, as well as the new Google University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2011. Lawrence Lessig individuals, groups, and entire campus in Palo Alto, California, in association with communities once conveniently Thomas Heatherwick. Seeing Through the Noise invisible to decision-makers are self-organizing to make their voices heard. From Cairo to Istanbul and from Barcelona to 1–2 PM 2–2:10 PM São Paulo, the sight of public squares inundated by a sea of Rosanne Micah White Mannahatta: Studies for an Opera protesters has become one of Haggerty Co-creator, Occupy Wall Suggested lunch location: the key images of our time. At President, Street, former Editor, about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs the same time, an increasing Community Solutions Adbusters magazine, and ETH Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion, First Street Garden Founder, Boutique Activist number of people—the poor, A recipient of a MacArthur Enter at the corner of East Houston Street and 2nd Avenue Directed by Joshua Frankel, composed by Judd Greenstein, “Genius Grant,” Rosanne Consultancy libretto by Tracy K. Smith, choreography by Will Rawls the homeless, the elderly, the Haggerty is President and Food and drinks by Café Select (11 a.m.–10 p.m.) mentally ill, and undocumented CEO of Community Solutions, a Driven by the belief that social 9 min nonprofit organization working change movements like Occupy immigrants, to name just a to strengthen communities are too focused on urban environ- few groups—are disappearing and end homelessness. In 1990, ments, Micah White moved to she founded Common Ground Nehalem, Oregon. He sees rural Director of Special Projects and Community and reopened the 2:10-2:20 PM from view. How do the disen- towns as “clean slate[s] for buil- Curator at Large, New Museum legendary Times Square Hotel ding social change,” where inha- Richard Flood franchised find representation as a place for homeless and bitants are still recovering from in the city today? Is there a low-income residents, thereby the economic and environmental reducing homelessness by 87 impacts of the capitalist system Lawrence Lessig cartography to guide those who percent in the twenty-block that Occupy fought against. His vicinity surrounding it. In 2012, new for-profit firm, Boutique Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University have wandered or been driven Haggerty was awarded the Activist Consultancy, specializes Jane Jacobs Medal for New in “impossible campaigns.” White Lawrence Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, from the center? This panel will Ideas and Activism. argues that to be a full-time acti- and the radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In May analyze the social and political vist, you must have an income. 2014, he launched a crowdfunded political action committee, which he termed Mayday Policy and The Invisible City PAC, with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign crises triggered by new techno- finance reform.