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PUBLIC INTERIOR Architecture as part of production of spaces and symbols Cities as places of values, their representation and construction of collective identities Concern with the shared spaces of the city, where people meet and are aware of each other. Demands of capital, publicity, populism; but also their counter forces. Questions of appropriation: Who owns the city?

Broad examinations of urban places and their users. Different viewpoints : history, politics, economy, cultural anthropology Design: architectural proposals as powerful, realisable vehicles for critical and artistic thought.

Design studios set in contested urban contexts, where the very idea of the city and how people are supposed to act within it are uncertain or in flux.

Public interiors: typologies – public display – sociability Observations, analyses and responses through the medium of architecture: its expressions, its spaces, its relations and its materialisations.

Studio (Amsterdam) Centrum: public interiors as a strategy to re-use a city opening ways out of the deadlock of monumentalisation, the interests of the tourist industries, and the sanitisation of the centre of Amsterdam a new balance of commerce, culture, and representation; virtue and vice

Views of a city

Investigations of architectural themes and programmes: Representation of cultural identity: ideas and constructions of national identity Places of sociability and communication; the city and its hinterland Commerce and its architecture: ephemerality and metropolitanism

Area of investigation: Rokin/Nes/Kalverstraat/Da m Minitiature psychogeographies of the city New centralities: Metro stations and boulevards

Waterland House: Slow food, media and sociability in the Amsterdam archipelago A Connection between Rokin and Nes

Brakke Grond: A house for the culture of the Low Countries and its outre-mers

Boîte à miracles Metropolitanism, conspicuous consumption or a stage for meaningful common experience ?

Choices: Locations as part of an urban project Critical investigation of urban cultures and economies Relations to research on public interiors Practical experiences

Msc3&4 Interiors, Buildings and Cities: Studio Amsterdam Centrum A: Architectural Design & Research in Studios 2009: Design Course - Waterland House/ Brakke Grond: Heike Loehmann & Christoph Grafe -Boite a Miracles: Mark Pimlott & Jurjen Zeinstra

Irene Cieraad: Reading cities and their people B: Theory Architectural Thinking / Problem Statement: Deborah Hauptmann Theory and Philosophy of Science: Patrick Healy Urban Question: Heidi Sohn (ed)

Armand Paardekooper en Edin Buitenhuis : Greenlight District

Msc3&4 Interiors, Buildings and Cities

www.interiors-buildings-cities.nl contact: Heidi Serbruyns coordinator Msc3&4 Interior Thursday and Friday [email protected]