LANDSCAPES IN MOTION

Imagina Madrid presents the projects that will be developed in nine different city spots. Nine projects that will make us think about the city from another standpoint through the artistic proposals that will transform spaces and thus provoke new ideas, encounters and very different y experiences from the ones a classical city may offer. We will explore the potencialities that art offers and start to imagine a new city, a cityzen shaped city.   Having this idea in mind, we have asked four relevant guests to join in the presentation of projects. Their international careers in similar processes and ways of thinking, will help us bring into context these proposals that were locally born, with those born in an international, global context and with a long work and investigation route in the same issues.   José Chong: Technical Coordinator of Global programme for Public Spaces from the United Nations Agency for Human Settlements (ONU-Habitat) focused on the development of urban strategies  and innovative tools for participation and collaborative urban design.   Ethan Kent: Vicepresident of Projects for Public Space (PPS), a New York based foundation that coined the term Placemaking and has spent over 40 years working with collective construction processes for public space all over the 5 continents. Ethan Kent works on the empowerment and the development of organizations, communitary urban projects around the world, with the aim of building and consolidating a global movement that may generate a system change.   Pola Mora: Head of Community & Partnerships in ArchDaily, the world´s most visited specialised site for architecture. Co-curator of the Twentieth Bienal de Arquitectura de Chile "Diálogos Impostergables". She has devoted herself in the last years to the direction of cultural projects such as PILOTO - Itinerant Architecture Gallery (Fondart 2018) and “Archikidz! Santiago”, a festival that seaks to motivate children to learn about their cities and architecture (2013 - 2015).   José Luis Vallejo: Co-fundador y codirector del estudio Ecosistema Urbano. Desde 2010 es profesor de la universidad de Harvard - Graduate School of Design en Cambridge y de la universidad de Columbia - Graduate School of Architecture and preservation en New York.   Programme of activities

May 8, 9 and 10:

5-9 pm. Exhibition of projects Imagina Madrid
Descover the 9 projects

May 9:

3 - 8.30 pm. Bus Tour

Participation subject to pre-signing in by email at info@imagina-madrid.es (ends May 3)
  May 10:

4 - 6 pm. Workshops

Participation subject to pre-signing in by email at info@imagina-madrid.es (ends May 3)   - Workshop with José Chong from UNO-Hábitat
FULLY BOOKED - Workshop with Ethan Kent, Project for Public Space Foundation
FULLY BOOKED - Workshop with Pola Mora, Archidaily, Bienal de Arquitectura de Chile.   6 to 7 pm. Presentations with project teams

Working teams will be present at the exhibition to chat with visitors   7 to 9 pm. Open Conference
Free admission   - Public Spaces that build communities - Ethan Kent: Project for Public Spaces.* - Collaborative Desig of collective spaces in the New Urban Agenda context - José Chong. UNO Hábitat. - Imperative Dialogues: Cityzens that transform their city - Pola Mora. Archdaily.  
Hosts: José Luis Vallejo.
*Ethan Kent´s talk will be held in English with translation assistance.