Informal Cities

Informal Cities

I samband med öppnandet av utställningen Informal Cities, kommer 20 representanter från några av världens nya städer - växande slumområden i Filippinerna, Indien, Sydafrika, Kenya, Malawi och Brasilien - till Stockholm under fyra dagar.

Utställningen består av projekt, installationer, fotografier, filmer och dokumentationer gjorda av Kungl. Konsthögskolans projektstudenter på utbildningen Konst&Arkitektur i samarbete med de boende från åtta informella stadsdelar. Symposiet vill utifrån utställningen diskutera politik och urbanfrågor tillsammans med politiker, media, företag, organisationer och intresserad allmänhet.

PROGRAM:

LÖRDAG 6:e September - OPENING AND PRESENTATIONS (Öppet för allmänheten)

09.30-10.30 Registrering och visning av utställningen.
10.30-11.15 Invigningstal av Filippinernas ambassadör Mrs Collison samt av Thomas Melin, Sida.
11.30-13.00 Session 1: berättelser av invånare i Nairobi, Manilla, Lilongwe, Kapstaden, Bombay, Sao Paolo och Rio
13.00-14.00 Lunch och radioutsändning av Koch FM, radiostationen i Kibera som flyttar in i Dieselverkstan
14.00-15.00 Exklusiv förhandsvisning av filmen "Citizen Oketch" av David Herdies och George Götmark med efterföljande diskussion.
15.00-17.30 Session 2
17.30-18.30 Mingel, visning av utställningen av konstnärerna
20.00 - Fest i samarbete med Selam. DJ:s och liveuppträdanden av Kalamashaka Kenya, tillsammans med Junior Natural, Cedd&Jeff, Form One, Mary n´Diaye, Henok Ashido och DJ J-Ro.

SÖNDAG 7:e September - Workshopdag med representanter från NGO:s, studenter, media, internationella experter, lokala organisationer utifrån Open Space metod. Föranmälan krävs. Utställningen öppen för allmänheten.

09.30 - 10.15 Registrering
10.15 - 11.15 Introduktion om Open Space, föreslagna teman schemaläggs
11.15 - 13.00 Open space del 1
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.30 Open Space del 2 och 3
16.30 - 18.00 Presentationer av resultat. 10 min per grupp
18.00 - 19.00 Mingel och filmprogram

MÅNDAG 8:e September - MÖTE MED POLITIKER
Öppet för allmänheten, föranmälan krävs

09.00 - 09.45 Registrering
10.00 - 11.00 Filmvisning och introduktion om projektet.
11.00 - 12.30 Möten mellan politiker, gräsrötter och experter
12.30 - 13:30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Diskussion med representanter från riksdagspartierna utifrån frågor från söndagen.
15.00 - 16.00 Sammanfattning och slutord.
16.00 - 17.00 Mingel

Urval av bekräftade deltagare:

Alexander Jachnow GTZ, Bangladesh
Alexandro Moraes da Silva SDI Sao Paolo, Brasil
Anders Wijkman Kristdemokraterna, Sweden
Anna Kinberg Batra Moderaterna, Sweden
Barbara Southworth CityTHINKspace, South Africa
Carin Jämtin Socialdemokraterna, Sweden
Daniel de Oliviera 2 Bros Foundation, Rio, Brazil
David Satterthswaite IIED, England
Evelyn Benekate SDI Durban, South Africa
Francis Ngira Okello Koch FM / SDI Nairobi, Kenya
Gabriella Olofsson Save the Children, Sweden
Hellen Wanjiku Koch FM / SDI Nairobi
Ivaneti de Araujo MSTC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jan O Karlsson Senior Minister for Development and Migration, Sweden
Jocelyn Cantoria SDI Bicol, The Philippines
Jockin Arputham SDI Mumbai, India
Joel Bolnick SDI Cape Town, South Africa
Josefin Brink Vänsterpartiet, Sweden
Kalpana Sharma Journalist, Mumbai India
Lars Jämtén Cities Development Iitiativ for Asia, The Philippines
Lars Reuterswärd UN HABITAT, Nairobi Kenya
Maria Collison Ambassador, Embassy of the Philippines, Sweden
Maria Tonini SASNET, Sweden
Max Rambau SDI Cape Town, South Africa
Mia Horn af Rantzien Sida, Sweden
Michael Olayemi Cardoso Sr Urban Economist Lagos State Government, Nigeria
Motayan Gunasekharan NSDF, Mumbai
Nina Lundström Folkpartiet, Sweden
P.W. Muhindi AmbassadorEmbassy of Kenya, Sweden
Per Ljung Senior Urban Development Specialist, Washington USA
Rafael Onyango Obonyo Koch FM / SDI Nairobi, Kenya
Robert Buckley Rockefeller Foundation, New York USA
Robert Matumbai Wayonyi Koch FM / SDI Nairobi, Kenya
Rolgerio Villanueva SDI Bicol, the Philippines
Rose Molokoane SDI Durban, South Africa
Ruby Haddad Papeleras SDI Manila, The Philippines
Saskia Sassen Urban Age/Columbia University, New York USA
Sheela Patel SPARC India, Mumbai India
Sheila Maria Goncalez de Souza Independent, Rio de Janiro, Brazil
Shuaib Lwasa Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Siku Nkoma SDI / Ccode, Malawi
Solomon Mulugeta Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Steve Brant Trimtab Management Systems, New York, USA
Sundar Burra Sparc India, Mumbai India
Thomas Melin Sida Urban, Sweden
Ulrika Carlsson Centerpartiet, Sweden
Washington Ferreira 2 Bros Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Winnie Mkwepatira SDI Blantyre, Malawi
Yvonne Ruwaida Miljöpartiet, Sweden

Deltagande konstnärer från Kungl. Konsthögskolan är:

Filipe Balestra, arkitekt
Stina Ekman, konstnär
Anna Erlandson, konstnär
Carina Gunnars, konstnär
Georg Götmark, dokumentärfilmare
David Herdies, dokumentärfilmare
Johan Janssen, arkitekt
Anna Kindgren, konstnär
Maria Lantz, fotograf, lektor i konst&arkitektur på Kungl. Konsthögskolan
Katerina Mistal, konstnär
Henrietta Palmer, professor i arkitektur på Kungl. Konsthögskolan
Erik Rosshagen, konstnär
Reija Toivio, arkitekt
Peter Ullstad, arkitekt
Johan Waerndt, konstnär
Sofia Wibergs, statsvetare
Johan Widén, konstnär, professor i fri konst på Kungl. Konsthögskolan

FILMPROGAM WITH DISCUSSIONS

MODERATOR: LOULOU CHERINET

SATURDAY

11.00 - 12.00

Tobias 700
Daniel A. Rubio
2004
59 min

This documentary focuses on the occupation of a big concrete tower in down town Sao Paulo in the late 90' s in which almost 250 families of squatters, including elderly people and invalids, live; this group portrayal follows several key people in this representative building. The filmmaker attends the residents' meetings in which collective decisions are made, and witnesses the efforts to repair the dilapidated building, the occupation strategies and the administrative infrastructure set up in each building to ensure its security. From testimonies to collective action, he shows the dynamism and the beneficial effects on the morale that occupation brings to people who were previously without hope.

12.00 - 13.20

Dia de festa
Pablo Georgieff and Toni Venturi
2005
77 min

Four women with similar pasts live in a country marked by great social disparities. They have in common a poor and hard working childhood in the fields. They all married, had children and were abandoned by their husbands. They also left the countryside and moved to the big city.After living in the streets of São Paulo, they encountered a social/political movement which gave them a strong reason to live. Today these women are the leaders of the MSTC - Movement of the Homeless of the Centre of São Paulo, Brazil.A film that follows the day by day of seven simultaneous mass occupations of empty buildings seen trough the eyes of these women, one of them Ivaneti de Araujo.

13.20 - 14.00

Discussion with Ivaneti de Araujo, president of MSTC, Sao Paulo about the films.

17.00 - 17:45

Oskuld och sopor (Innocence and Garbage)
Vilgot Sjöman
1988
42 min

Innocence and garbage is a fiction film, in the shape of a documentary. Vilgot Sjöman travels to Smokey Mountain, a dumpsite outside of Manila in the Phillipines, to make a film about a twelveyearold garbage collector. According to the director Innocence and Garbage is a film about the western innocence regarding the poverty in the third world"

17.00 - 17.30

Discussion about the film in which, Janne Walllin, the films producer, who was also on location at the shooting in the Phillipines will participate

18:30 - 19:40

Moi, un Noir
Jean Rouch
1956
73 Minutes

'Moi un Noir' chronicles the everyday life of several young Africans in Treichville - a poor section in Abidjan, the largest city in the Ivory Coast. These men are immigrants from Niger who have travelled to this large city in order to become successful. The central character is Edward G. Robinson, who speaks to the audience in a voice-over narration, which gives the film its unique style.
'Moi un Noir' acts as a snapshot of what life was like for those residents of the colony in that decisive time between the war and independence. It?s also an important film in the history of 'cinema verite' and the ethnographic film. It is highly significant because it has been acclaimed not only as one of Rouch's finest works of 'ethno-fiction', but has also quoted as one of the inspirations for the films of the French Nouvelle Vague.

The film will have a simultaneous translation by Nazer Tutal from french to english. These kind of vee-jay live translators is very common in Kampala, Uganda.

SUNDAY

11.00 - 12.00

Francis "Big Toto" Ngeri, filmmaker and founder of Koch FM, will show a selection of his documentary feautures shot in Kenya, and discuss his work with the audience. These features is focused on Kenyan history and the current political situation in the country. Toto is in currently assembling equipment to build a filmstudio in Nairobi and he will also share some of his experiences about this with the audience.

13.00 - 14.10

Anticapitalis feminist struggle and transnational solidarity (68 min)
Jesper Nordahl
2007
68 min

Based on an interview with Chandra Talpade Mohanty recorded in March 2007, Anticapitalist feminist struggle, and transnational solidarity investigates the relation between capitalism and gender structures, cartographies of struggle, and counter hegemonic narratives.
Mohanty is Professor of Women's Studies and Dean's Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University, NY. Footage used in the video was recorded in Colombo, Katunayake and Kotmale (Sri Lanka) in 2004 and 2005; Bolton Cricket Club (England) in 2003; and Botkyrka Cricket Ground (Sweden) in 2004.

14.10 - 15.00

Discussion with the director Jesper Nordahl

15.00 - 16.30

Compadre,
Mikael Wistöm
1993/2004
82 min

Thirty years ago Mikael Wiström med the Barrientos family who was working at a dumpsite outside of Lima, the capitol of Peru. Their bond became stronger when Wiström became godfather to Daniels and Natis first born daughter Sandra. Since then he has kept in touch with and documented the family. This has so far resulted in two documentary films. Den andra stranden (The Other Shore) and Compadre. The story about the Barrientos family speaks to us about the conditions of love and dignity in a poor country. It also deals with the emotions that the directior himself goes through in the role of filmmaker, godfather, and representative of the proviliges of the rich world.

16.30 - 17.00

Discussion about the film together with Alberto Herskovitz, photographer and co-director of the upcoming third film about the same family.

17.00 - 19.00

Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad)
José Padilha
2007

Elite Squad (Tropa De Elite) is an intense and astonishing look at Rio de Janeiro?s notorious favelas, the volatile slums on the edge of the city. The film is set in 1997 and presents an intimate look at the city?s vast and intricate web of corruption. The movie is a semi-fictional account of th BOPE Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais), the Special Police Operations Battalion of Rio de Janeiro Military Police. It is the second feature film and first fiction film of director José Padilha who had previously directed the acclaimed documentary Bus 174.

19.00 - 20.00

Discussion with our invited guests from the favelas of Brazil as well as Filipe Balestra who is an architect and a participant of the course at Konsthögskolan.