This international seminar brings together experts from all over Europe to discuss the phenomenon of urban sprawl, which is increasingly present in Europe.
Despite its history of compact towns and cities, Europe has increasingly become a continent of sprawling urbanized landscapes. Approximately one third of the European population calls these places home. Since, in general, they are complex patchworks of a variety of uses, the neat division of city, suburb, and countryside is no longer meaningful.
Urban sprawl is usually not so dense and may be lacking the tight-knit fabric and communities that we are trained to recognize in European cities. Although suburbs have always traditionally been understood as peri-urban spaces directly linked to an urban center, the current expansion spreads further in the territory and is therefore rarely understood as truly urban. Nevertheless, even if urban sprawl does not look like a city, it is still urban in character and has forms, patterns, and its own logic. What is the urban reality of today's Europe? What remains of compact cities and what new scenarios are being opened up by the growing prevalence of urban sprawl?
In the framework of the Suburbia exhibition, this international seminar puts the spotlight on current transformations of European territory that call into question the traditional category of “city”. This one-day seminar consists of three panels and will conclude in an open debate in which the architect and urbanist Nathalie de Vries will speak with the architecture historian and critic Hans Ibelings to discuss questions about public space and the future in European cities in a context in which are facing significant challenges such as climate change and urban sprawl.
Thursday, May 9
Theory - 09.30-11.15
The session will offer theoretical and historical perspectives on urban sprawl in Europe.
Participants: Hans Ibelings/ Francesc Muñoz
Chair: Lluís Ortega
Design - 11.30-13.15
The session will explore issues related with the design of the urban sprawl.
Participants: Nathalie de Vries/ Joan Roig/ Mette Skjold
Chair: Hans Ibelings
Policy - 15.00-16.30
The session will deal with planning policies of urban sprawl and their impact on the economic sphere.
Participants: Sofie de Caigny / Ljubo Georgiev / Pere Sala i Martí
Chair: Hans Ibelings
This seminar has been curated by the architecture critic and historian Hans Ibelings.
Previous exhibition spaces
CCCB
9 May 2024
Museo San Telmo
16 December 2023 — 14 April 2024
ArtScience Museum
25 November 2023 — 7 April 2024
Salon Stripa
18 September — 14 October 2023
Museo Spazio Pubblico Bologna
1 — 30 September 2023
Serre dei Giardini Margherita
7 — 11 June 2023
Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid
22 December 2022 — 16 June 2023
Azkuna Zentroa Alhóndiga Bilbao
29 November 2022 — 26 February 2023
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
18 November — 18 December 2022
Dupont Underground
20 October 2022 — 18 November 2023
MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art (MAXXI)
15 October — 13 November 2022
MEET | Digital Culture Center
4 — 30 October 2022
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid)
28 September 2022 — 23 March 2023
Kunsthalle Mannheim
14 July — 16 October 2022
Zizkov Cultural Center
21 June — 2 October 2022
Festival of urban transformations URBANBATfest
6 — 21 November 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan
29 October 2021 — 1 March 2022
Les Abattoirs
14 October 2021 — 6 March 2022
HYDRA. New Media Art in the Context of Eco-Anxiety
10 October 2021 — 30 January 2022
Kumu Art Museum
30 October 2020 — 21 February 2021
Schlossmuseum Linz
8 September 2020 — 20 February 2021
iMAL
5 May — 18 August 2020
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
14 March — 31 May 2020
Royal Academy of Arts
23 November 2019 — 23 February 2020
ArtScience Museum
23 November 2019 — 9 August 2020
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
28 June — 1 December 2019
Centre Georges Pompidou
23 November 2018 — 6 January 2019
FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology
22 November 2018 — 3 March 2019
ArtLab École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
3 November 2018 — 10 March 2019
CANactions International Architecture Festival
17 — 18 May 2018
Zichy Major
13 — 29 April 2018
MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology)
10 April — 8 October 2018
Museo San Telmo
24 March — 17 June 2018
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
17 March — 5 August 2018
KÉK, the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre
13 — 27 March 2018
Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Roma)
27 February — 1 July 2018
MIT Museum
19 October 2017 — 30 March 2018
Jeu de Paume, Paris.
1 October 2017 — 20 May 2018
King's College - Somerset House
21 September — 10 December 2017
Centre Cultural El Casino
24 August — 29 October 2017
Sala Vimcorsa
22 June — 24 September 2017
DEPO2015
21 June — 20 September 2017
ArtScience Museum
20 May — 15 October 2017
Museu d'Art de Sabadell
11 May — 16 July 2017
DOX - Centre for Contemporary Art
7 April — 14 August 2017
Mextrópoli
11 March — 3 April 2017
Centre d'Art Maristany
9 March — 7 May 2017
Museu del la Pell d'Igualada i Comarcal de l'Anoia
13 — 19 February 2017
Centro de Cultura Digital
28 January — 31 May 2017
Sala Muncunill
10 November 2016 — 8 January 2017
17 — 20 October 2016
El Celler
9 September — 6 November 2016
MoMa
7 — 15 September 2016
Espació Fundación Telefónica Lima
22 July — 16 October 2016
Thermalia. Museu de Caldes de Montbui
1 July — 4 September 2016
ArtScience Museum
21 May — 16 October 2016
Citilab
5 May — 23 June 2016
Anifilm. International Festival of Animated Films
3 — 8 May 2016
Alexandrinsky Theatre
28 April — 29 May 2016
Espacio Fundación Telefónica Santiago de Chile
10 March — 5 June 2016
Mextrópoli
5 March — 10 April 2016
Centre d’Art Contemporani La Sala
26 February — 30 April 2016
La Casa Encendida (Madrid)
9 — 28 February 2016
La cinématèque québécoise
3 February — 24 March 2016
Centre Cultural El Carme -Josep Uclés
17 December 2015 — 21 February 2016
Somerset House
3 December 2015 — 20 March 2016
Can Palauet, Mataró
16 October — 5 December 2015
Palau Mercader Museum
13 September — 1 November 2015
Mercado do Forno do Tijolo (Lisbon)
11 September — 5 October 2015
Royal Academy of Arts
21 July — 9 August 2015
Jaroslava Fragnera Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic)
10 July — 26 September 2015
Espacio Fundación Telefónica de Buenos Aires
2 July — 28 November 2015
Museo de Antioquia (Colombia)
24 June — 8 October 2015
Museo San Telmo
19 June — 4 October 2015
Miami Center for Architecture & Design
18 June — 18 August 2015
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival
15 — 20 June 2015
Cèntric Espai Cultural
8 June — 11 July 2015
Museum Archive of Vilassar de Dalt
28 March — 17 May 2015
Fundación Telefónica
13 March — 24 May 2015
Casa del Lector
10 February — 19 July 2015
Museum of Finnish Architecture
4 February — 15 March 2015
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic)
23 — 28 October 2014
Szczecin's Philharmonic (Poland)
16 — 26 October 2014
Pera Museum (Istanbul, Turkey)
11 — 19 October 2014
La Casa Encendida (Madrid)
2 October 2014 — 11 January 2015
Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin)
11 September 2014 — 5 January 2015
Mairie de Bordeaux
8 — 14 September 2014
Thermalia. Museu de Caldes de Montbui
17 July — 28 September 2014
Arsenal Institute for Film and Videoart
8 — 19 May 2014
Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Roma)
15 April — 20 July 2014
Centre Georges Pompidou
14 April — 26 May 2014
Cercle Cité (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
1 April — 11 May 2014
AIA New York Chapter
27 March — 21 June 2014
Atelier Public d'Urbanisme Caennais (Caen, France)
26 February — 23 March 2014
Arsakeion Galleries (Athens, Greece)
19 February — 10 March 2014
San Francisco de Quito University (Quito, Ecuador)
23 January — 7 February 2014
Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires
19 December 2013 — 20 February 2014
Cinémathèque Française (Paris)
14 October 2013 — 26 January 2014
Sala Fundación Cruzcampo (Málaga)
8 October — 3 December 2013
Museum of Architecture and Design (Ljubljana, Eslovenia)
29 September — 24 November 2013
Training Center of Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)
27 June — 30 August 2013
Centro de las Artes de Monterrey
27 June — 29 September 2013
Jaroslava Fragnera Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic)
19 June — 6 September 2013
Archipel Centre De Culture Urbaine (Lyon, France)
23 — 28 May 2013
Centre Georges Pompidou
17 April — 29 June 2013
La Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)
25 March — 29 April 2013
Museum of Bogotá ( Bogota, Colombia)
7 February — 14 April 2013
Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville (Toulouse, France)
15 December 2012 — 15 March 2013
Centre Georges Pompidou
30 November 2012 — 7 January 2013
Sala Leopoldo Lugones (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
30 October — 4 November 2012
Centro de Desarrollo Cultural Moravia (Moravia, Colombia)
4 October — 5 November 2012
3 — 6 October 2012
Cinematheque Seoul Art Cinema / K. A. C. T
26 July — 26 August 2012
Museo San Telmo
30 June — 30 September 2012
30 June — 4 November 2012
La Pedrera
19 — 20 April 2012
2 — 23 February 2012
Biblioteca Xavier Benguerel
12 January 2012
Las Cigarreras Cultura Contemporánea
24 November 2011 — 12 February 2012
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito (Quito, Ecuador)
22 November 2011 — 24 March 2012
La Alhóndiga Centro de Arte y Cultura, Bilbao
27 October 2011 — 8 January 2012
Centro Palacio de Cibeles
22 September 2011 — 20 February 2012
La Casa Encendida (Madrid)
19 September — 30 October 2011
Casa de Cultura (Buenos Aires)
5 July 2011 — 30 June 2012
Museo de Cadiz
19 May — 3 July 2011
Casa dell'Architettura
12 May — 11 June 2011
Biennale D`art Internazionale (Rome, Italy)
12 May — 11 June 2011
Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (México DF)
27 April — 30 August 2011
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Frankfurt, Germany)
16 April — 3 July 2011
Bancaja
4 February — 29 May 2011
28 October 2010 — 29 November 2013
MACBA
26 October 2010
Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Montevideo
5 October — 21 November 2010
Zaragoza Cultural
23 September — 21 November 2010
La Casa Encendida (Madrid)
9 July — 29 August 2010
Central Térmica de Sant Adrià de Besòs
28 May 2010
Centre Cívic Sant Jordi-Ribera Baixa (El Prat de Llobregat)
7 May 2010
Hotel Sheraton (Tirana)
7 May 2010
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Frankfurt, Germany)
16 April — 3 July 2010
Biblioteca Vapor Badia
26 March 2010
Sala La Prensa de Buenos Aires
13 February — 15 December 2010
Stad en Architectuur (Leuven, Belgium)
16 November 2009 — 18 January 2010
La Pedrera
26 October 2009
5 October 2009 — 27 April 2012
Centro Cultural São Paulo
26 September — 29 November 2009
Centro de Cultural de España a Buenos Aires
12 September — 8 November 2009
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago de Chile
11 June — 9 August 2009
Order of Architects of Romania
22 May — 23 February 2009
Gallery Sala Dalles (Bucharest, Romania)
14 — 28 May 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad (Novi Sad, Serbia)
22 April — 9 May 2009
Bancaja
23 March — 28 June 2009
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