Urban Alternatives: A Blueprint for Successful Resistance
Monday, Mar 6, 20176:30 PM - 8 PMEDT
| Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY, USRelated
Discussion with the editors and contributors of The Helsinki Effect: Public Alternatives to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development
Terike Haapoja / Finnish visual artist based in New York City
Andrew Ross / Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
Michael Sorkin / Distinguished Professor of Architecture in The City College of New York
Miguel Robles-Durán / Associate Professor of Urbanism at The New School
Sharon Zukin /Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center
Helsinki was the chosen site for the Guggenheim Museum’s latest effort to replicate the much-contested “Bilbao Effect.” But in 2015, advocates of better methods for fusing the arts and urbanism had a different idea. They launched an alternative design competition, The Next Helsinki, which amplified a public debate about the role of culture in economic development that has consequences far beyond the Finnish case-study. The Helsinki Effect archives the hundreds of entries submitted to the competition and includes essays by leading urbanists, artists, and architects about its significance. It is a blueprint for successful resistance: in 2016, the Guggenheim lost its bid to build the museum.
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