IZKT [ ][ IZKT [ ][ IZKT [ ][ internationales zentrum für kultur- und technikforschung Eine Veranstaltung des Historischen Instituts, Abt. Wirkungs- On construction sites the world is altered in a very solid, materi- geschichte der Technik und des Internationalen Zentrums für al way. That’s not the whole story, of course: If someone builds Kultur- und Technikforschung (IZKT) der Universität Stutt- a house, a railroad or any other thing, there is more under con- gart in Kooperation mit der Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, dem struction than the mere object itself. With spade and excavator Deutsch-Amerikanischen Zentrum / James-F.-Byrnes-Institut contemporary imaginations, visions and historical concepts are Stuttgart und der DVA-Stiftung. equally reshaped or renewed. Interventions into the physical landscape are always accompanied by interventions into the imaginary landscape. international The workshop as well as the public lecture will examine the dis- Symposium cursive alongside the performative construction of reality when Organisation: things are being built. Construction sites are ideal objects for a Prof. Dr. Reinhold Bauer & Dr. des. Eike-Christian Heine cultural studies approach, as they show in a very literary sense, under Historisches Institut, Abt. Wirkungsgeschichte der Technik that the world not so much has a certain state, but that the construction Keplerstr. 17 world is constantly being rebuilt, reshaped and reimagined. 70174 Stuttgart Construction Sites: Participation: Building the For participating at the workshop, please register at: material and the [email protected] imaginary world

15–16 November 2013

Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart

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Location: Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart 17:00 h Sören Fischer (Dresden, Germany) Kabinett Frl. Friz (6. OG) Nations under construction / Reshaping the Venetian Terraferma, Mailänder Platz 1 Discussion Remarks on Literacy, Pictorial and 70173 Stuttgart Architectural Perception of Early Liliana Luga (Budapest, Hungary) Modern Landscape Transformation Building a Space for Negotiation: Natio- Friday, 15 November nalistic Rhetoric, Multi-ethnicity and the 11:00 h Construction of the Orthodox Cathedral Representations under 13:00 h in Cluij construction Socialism under construction Filippo Menga (Cagliari, Italy) Clemens Voigts Marius Böttcher (Weimar, Germany) Building a nation through a dam: the (München, Germany) On emergence and disappearance of case of Rogun in Tajikistan The construction site as spectacle things. Construction sites in DEFA films Eike-Christian Heine Marie Collier (London, UK) 20:00 h (Stuttgart, Germany) Socialist construction in Soviet Photo Public lecture Performativity and Discourse – Illustrated Periodicals, 1928-1932 Constructing the Kiel Canal and a Location: harmonic Germany 15:00 h Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart The modern city under construction Max-Bense-Forum, UG 14:00 h De-Constructions / Discussion Catarina Caetano da Rosa Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum (Darmstadt, Germany) (Berlin, Germany) Christoph Rauhut Lisbon’s modernity under construction in Babylon - vom Megaprojekt zum Mythos (Zurich, Switzerland) the 19th century Constructing conceptions of description – The 19th-century Patrick Leitner (Paris, France) Saturday, 16 November building site as source and Grand Central Station in New New York contradiction and Modern Paris 9:30 h Colonies under construction Francesca Russello Ammon Ipek Sen/ Sebnem Soher (Pennsylvania, USA) (Istanbul, Turkey) Birte Förster (Darmstadt, Germany) Demolition as Progress: The Urban Becoming a permanent construction Modernizing Colonialism. The Volta River Renewal Construction Site in site: Istanbul in the 1950’s Project in Goldcoast/ Ghana Postwar America