Week of the Vacant Building presents:

HARDCORE HERITAGE & ARCHITECTURE AS ACTIVISM
by Ronald Rietveld (RAAAF) and Christof Mayer (Raumlabor)

On Friday 19 May 2017 the Week of the Vacant Building offers two keynote lectures on an unique location: the Ballroom of the former ‘Officierscasino’ in Soesterberg (NL). Ronald Rietveld of the Amsterdam based studio RAAAF, and Christof Mayer of the Berlin based studio Raumlabor present their strategies for redevelopment of cultural heritage and urban sites.

Free entrance! But registration is required via Eventbrite.

Programme Friday 19 May 2017:
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Lecture ‘Hardcore Heritage’ by Ronald Rietveld
20:00 Lecture ‘The agency of urban practice: activism & activation’ by Christof Mayer
21:00 Drinks
22:00 End

Speakers:

> Ronald Rietveld: RAAAF operates at the crossroads of architecture, art and philosophy. In his lecture ‘Hardcore Heritage’ Ronald Rietveld presents a new way of thinking about monuments and cultural heritage. In RAAAF’s work, through deliberate destruction, radical changes in context, and seemingly contradictory additions, a new field of tension arises between present, past and future.

> Christof Mayer: Raumlabor’s ongoing engagement on the former airfield of Tempelhof in Berlin ranges from long-term planning to temporary interventions on site. It displays Raumlabor’s role as a link between the city and its inhabitants. Christof Mayer presents how this commitment demands to perform in changing roles to develop ideas for its future use.

The Week of the Vacant Building is a workshop-based education program in which students and tutors from a variety of academies and universities work on the issue of vacancy. Read more on: www.weekvanhetlegegebouw.nl.

Photos: Tempelhof, Berlin (left) / Secret Operation 610 - RAAAF | Studio Frank Havermans (right).