At all times, media have required their own architecture. Classic examples for that include libraries, radio stations, or television broadcast centers like the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing. At the same time, media are also an experimental field for devising our future environment. Hence, e.g. fully technically enabled walls as seen in "Mission Impossible" or "The Matrix" eventually reappear on a smaller scale – on the screen of the iPhone. Moreover, media experiences inform conceptions of our world, of how it is and how it should be, giving them new spatial and temporal dynamics that diminish the significance of established philosophical and spatial boundaries. In the Australian Outback, new means of communication facilitate an integration of stray settlements into giant urban spaces. On the other hand, large cities reach beyond their physical appearance and spawn meta-structures of a dual, media and urban, nature, which call for a new thinking. And also interior design is more and more becoming a socio-digital system destined to make all-day-life in a networked society easier and more inspiring. Based on this matrix, the Cologne Conference invites visionaries and experienced hands from the new, ambitious field of Media Architecture to come to Cologne.
Host: Torsten Zarges, Correspondent, kressreport, Cologne
10.00-10.15 hrs, Welcome address
10.15-11.15 hrs, Keynote & Presentation
Total Immersion. Media and Architecture in the 21st Century
Prof. Bart Lootsma, Dutch architecture thinker and curator, Innsbruck
11.15-11.30 hrs, Coffee break
11.30-12.30 hrs, Keynote & Presentation
Living the Lives of Science Fiction. A Report from the Future
René Daalder, Dutch author & filmmaker, Los Angeles
12.30-13.30 hrs, Lunch break
13.30-14.30 hrs, Keynote & Presentation
Representation and Function. The Architecture of Media Giants
Ole Scheeren, architect and partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture,
Rotterdam/Beijing
14.30-15.30 hrs, Statements & Discussion:
Making the Most of Now! Mediacity Cologne Refocused
Stefan Schmitz, Architect, Urban Planner and Head of German Architecture
Alliance, Cologne
Christoph Kronhagel, Founder & Managing Director, Kronhagel Mediatecture,
Bonn
Frans Vogelaar, Prof. für Hybrid Space, Kunsthochschule für
Medien, Cologne
Prof. Bart Lootsma, Dutch architecture thinker and curator, Innsbruck
Ole Scheeren, architect and partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture,
Rotterdam/Beijing
Ralf Müller, Founder & Managing Director, AG4 mediatecture, Cologne