Eine Initiative der
Cyril Říha
"Urbanisierung ohne Stadt oder Neuerfindung des Städtischen?" Ein Gespräch mit Regina Bittner.
22.05.2009
Born in 1975, Cyril Říha a philosopher primarily focusing on urbanism, architecture, and complex systems. He graduated from the Charles University’s Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (thesis: Reading Letters for Herodotus), where in 2006 he then defended his dissertation Idea and Phenomenon. He has worked at the Charles University – Academy of Science, Center for Phenomenological Research in Prague (2000–2004), while he has been a member of the Center for Theoretical Studies (CTS) in Prague since 2005. From 2004 to 2008 he lectured in the Charles University’s Humanities Faculty, where he was named vice-dean for science and research in 2009. Since 2008 he has also worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Theory of Art at the Academy of Art, Architecture, and Design in Prague, while he joined the editorial board of Era21 in 2006 and was appointed dramaturge for the Pecha Kucha Night Prague. He is the author of a number of studies, including “Architecture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (in Reproducibility - Arts, Science and Living Nature) and “Leonardos theoretische Malerei” (in Andere Wege in die Moderne. Forschungsbeiträge zu Patočkas Genealogie der Neuzeit, 2006). As an editor he has published Texts about Architecture, 03/05. Across Swiss Architecture (with M. Steinbachová, Prague 2005) and Husák’s 3+1: Apartment Culture in the 70’s (with L. Hubatová-Vacková, 2007).
Regina Bittner
A cultural analyst and theoretician, Regina Bittner is director of the International Bauhaus Kolleg at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Her areas of expertise include ethnological research into processes of urban transformation in East Germany and Eastern Europe, the cultural history of Modernity, and urban culture in the post-industrial city. She has given numerous lectures and has participated on many juries. As a curator, Regina Bittner is also responsible for diverse exhibitions on the cultural history of Modernity, including ‘The City as Event’ (Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main and Graz, 2002-3), ‘Paradises of Modernity’ (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 2001), and ‘“I’m the Collective” – Everyday Utopias in the GDR’ (Eisenhüttenstadt and Berlin, 2000). She has published extensively on related topics, a selection of these publications includes Kolonien des Eigensinns (1998), Urbane Paradiese. Eine Kulturgeschichte städtischen Vergnügens (as editor, 2001), Die Stadt als Event. Zur Konstruktion urbaner Erlebnisräume (as editor, 2002), and Transiträume (as co-editor with Kai Vöckler and Wilfried Hackenbroich, 2006).
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