TRANSFORMATIONS: ART AND AESTHECTICS SINCE 1960.
THE CITY AND ITS SHADOW

Date: Wednesday 19 and 26 oct; 2, 9 16, 23 and 30 nov; 14 dec 2011 / 11, 18 and 25 jan 2012.
Times: 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Direction: Juan Bosco Díaz Urmeneta
Participants: Lara Almarcegui, Miguel Brieva, Libia Castro, Santiago Cirugeda, Antonio Cruz Villalón, Ibán Díaz, Félix Duque, José García Tapial y León, Carlos García Vázquez, Harun Farocki, Manuel González Fustegueras, Francisco Jarauta, Rogelio López Cuenca, Jorge López Lloret, Doreen Mende, Fernando Mendoza, José Morales, Nazario, Ólafur Ólafsson, Marta Pelegrín, Víctor Pérez Escolano, Luis Puelles and Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra
Place: Casa de la Provincia - Diputación de Sevilla (Plaza del Triunfo, 1, 41004, Sevilla)
In collaboration with: Casa de la Provincia, Diputación de Sevilla, Goethe-Institut Madrid y Universidad de Sevilla
Contact: Tlf: 955037083 | cursos.caac@juntadeandalucia.es

The city will be the central theme of the 5th edition of the course entitled Transformations: Art and Aesthetics since 1960. One of the reasons we chose this option is that it represents a continuation of the previous course, where we focused on the evolution of art in Seville but did not include architecture in the programme-an omission that undoubtedly had to be remedied. However, rather than taking an abstract approach we thought it best to connect and tie it in with the topic of the city, which will allow us to reflect on and debate a number of general urban issues as well as link this discussion to the specific city of Seville.

In a well-known text written some years ago now, Henri Lefebvre likened the city to a work of art, the result of a dialectical tension between the economic demands of the market and the administrative demands of the state, on the one hand, and, on the other, of the many different practices which citizens use to shape the city as their own space, independently of those demands and of the simple "habitat" they generate. Since then the idea of the city has undoubtedly experienced considerable changes, from the development of conurbations to the transformations that Professor Félix Duque lumps together under the concept of the "Mépolis", a fusion of the idea of the metropolis and the more disturbing notion of the "non-city". All of this motivates us to reflect on new themes and unresolved issues related to the city - hence our interest in discussing, among other topics, everything that has to do with historical and artistic heritage, relations with public art (both government-funded interventions and those deriving from civic practices that correct and expand upon the former), urban planning (capable of creating "places" or generating "non-places" of the type described by Marc Augé), urban itineraries or routes (in other words, the street plans stored in the city dweller's imaginary that link up with what Michel de Certeau called the "arts of making do"), new urban legends (or the connection between city and language), etc.

This is the broad outline we have worked with and used to design, as on previous occasions, an eleven-week programme with two lectures each week.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
INHABITING THE PLURAL CITY
· Proposed Habitats and Spaces for a Multicultural, Ideologically Pluralistic City. José Morales
· Projects that Foster Multicultural Coexistence and Pluralism through Art. Rogelio López Cuenca

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
PLANNING, INSIDE AND OUT
· Urban Planning Today. Manuel González Fustegueras
· Recovering the Spaces that Urban Planners Forgot. Lara Almarcegui

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
THE CITY AND ITS CLASSES
· The City and its Class Structure. Ibán Díaz
· The Obsolescence of Habitat, Participation and Projects. Marta Pelegrín

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
NEW URBAN LEGENDS AND MYTHS
· Myths and Taboos of Contemporary Society. Nazario
· Comics and Co-experience in the Contemporary City. Miguel Brieva

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
CARING FOR HERITAGE
· Restoration and Recovery of Urban and Artistic Heritage. Fernando Mendoza
· Restoration and Recovery of Urban and Artistic Heritage. Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
URBAN CULTURES AND IMAGES
· Images of Urban Culture from the 1960s to the Present. Jorge López Lloret
· Recent Changes in Urban Culture. Libia Castro / Olafur Ólafsson

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
INTERVENTIONS IN URBAN SPACES
· The City as a Work of Art. Víctor Pérez Escolano
· The Social Construction of the City. Francisco Jarauta

Wednesday, December 14, 2011*
WHERE ABOUT THE IMAGE
· Images as Itineraries. Doreen Mende
· Asymmetrical Images. Harun Farocki

* This session will be held at the CAAC

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
FROM THE CITY AS SPECTACLE TO THE CITY OF USERS
· City and Spectacle in the Age of the Aestheticisation of Life. Luis Puelles
· New Praxes and Initiatives of the Contemporary City-dweller. Santiago Cirugeda

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
NEW FACES OF THE CITY
· Urban Outlooks for the 21st Century. Carlos García Vázquez
· Urban Outlooks for the 21st Century. Félix Duque

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
PUBLIC SPACES, SPACES OF COEXISTENCE
· Urban Order and Architecture as Spectacle. José García Tapial y León
· Order and Culture of Public-use Buildings. Antonio Cruz Villalón