Join us for for the Grand Final of the Stadsgevoel series by Imagine IC and Reinwardt Academy with international speakers and on site case study.

Together with two renowned researchers we explore how our urban environment functions as a negotiating table for participatory heritage making. Heritage is what we, together, have come to call by that name. But who is 'we'?

With emotion networking we are developing a new approach on heritage as an act of negotiation between people or individuals with varying interests and feelings regarding the things that are of crucial importance in their lives and in the lives of others. Heritage professionals have taken place at that same negotiating table, with the object lying right on top of it.

Main speakers:
Vyjayanthi Rao Director of Terreform, centre for advanced urban research in New York City which also hosts all of her research activities. Her most recent work is on the Speculative City: a book and research platform about the rapid spatial transformation of Mumbai as urban territory.

May Al-Ibrashi Director of Al-Athar Lina (the monument is ours) in Cairo and adjunct professor in the Department of Construction Engineering and the Department of Architecture. Al-Athar Lina is a participatory conservation initiative that aims to establish modalities of citizen participation in heritage conservation based on an understanding of the monument as a resource not a burden.

On site study:
The Kempering Case
After a theoretical morning inside our own house with international perspectives we will test our ideas locally. On our negotiation table lies former parking garage Kempering in the Bijlmer. This structure is on the threshold of demolition/ redevelopment/monument status: no one knows which way the penny drops. This offers a unique opportunity to test our theories on emotion networks.

(breakfast, lunch and transport to on site case study are included)