Thursday, 07. February 2013 - 17:30 - 20:00
17:00 Anmeldung
WELCOME
17.30
Uwe Altrock - Kassel University, Dept. of Urban Regeneration and Planning
Introduction to theme and concept of the conference: Windows upon Planning History
Friedhelm Fischer - Kassel
KEYNOTE LECTURE
18:15 The ‘New Planning History‘ - International Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Stephen Ward - Oxford
20:00 Dinner
FRIDAY, 08. February 2013 - 9:30 - 18:00
EYE-OPENERS AND LONG-RANGE PERSPECTIVES
9:30 From the ‘Aachen School‘ to the ‘Bauhaus-Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur und der Planung‘ - one path of Planning Historiography in Germany
Max Welch Guerra - Weimar
10:00 Discoveries Behind the Curtains. From the Myth of ‘Zero Hour‘ to the Fall of the Wall
Harald Kegler - Dessau
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Looking Back at an Age of Dictatorships and State Socialism: Stalin, Mussolini, Franco
Harald Bodenschatz - Berlin
11:30 Panel Discussion
with Gerhard Fehl and colleagues
12:30 Lunch
TRADITIONS AND TURNS, PARADIGMS AND PRESENTATIONS
14:30 The Window of planning exhibitions in an international perspective
Robert Freestone - Sydney
15:00 Smoothing the Wrinkles; how Modernism created a gender monoculture in urban space
Elizabeth M. Farrelly - Sydney
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Identities of the Urban Region: "Copernican Turnarounds"?
Celina Kress - Berlin
16:30 A window upon the role of symbolic practices in urban restructuring processes (1980-1990).
Susanne Hauser - Berlin
17:00 Discussion
SATURDAY, 09. February 2013 - 9:30 - 16:30
WINDOWS ON THE ROLE OF CITIZENS AND COMMUNITY MOVEMENTS
9:30 Transportation Planning in Boston: A Paradigm of Progress, Opposition and Reversals
Jeffry Diefendorf - New Hampshire
10:00 Perspectives on Protest and Urban Renewal 1950s to 1980s
Sebastian Haumann - Darmstadt
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Heritage, Community Activism and Urban Development: The Role of the Griffin Society in Sydney and Canberra
James Weirick - Sydney
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
NEW AND NEGLECTED WINDOWS
13:30 A Window on Weather
Michael Hebbert - Manchester/London
14:00 Opening new Windows on Power Structures in the UK
Michael Edwards - London
14:30 Coffee Break
CONCLUSIONS
15:00 Perspectives of Planning History: Where do we stand today? And where do we want to go?
Uwe Altrock/Friedhelm Fischer - Kassel
15:30 Final discussion and launch of the website "www.planungsgeschichte.de"