[resource-net] Invite: Urban Knights, Berlin: Tue 24 Sept & Tue 1 Oct 2013 @ BetaHaus

[Teresa Dillon]

URBAN KNIGHTS: INVITE

TUE 24 SEPT & 1 OCT 2013: 19-21.00
BETAHAUS, Prinzessinnenstr. 19-20, 10969, Berlin

FULL PROGRAMME: urbanknights.org

JOIN US TOMORROW EVENING, 24 SEPT & NEXT TUESDAY, 1 OCT FOR URBAN KNIGHTS,
BERLIN

Urban Knights is a programme of events, which provokes and promotes
practical approaches to urban change. Established in Dublin, this Autumn
the programme travels to Berlin.

Urban Knights brings together people who are actively creating
alternatives, which reflect or produce disruptions to our given city
infrastructures, norms and perceptions.

Acting as a platform for awareness, exchange and dissemination, urban
knights, change agents and citizens present their civic interventions,
projects and programmes. 

FORMAT

At each event speakers present and discuss their work for 10-mins,
followed by questions and conversations
with the audience. 


URBAN KNIGHTS: BETAHAUS: TUE SEPT 24 2013: 19-21.00
BOOK: eventbrite.ie/event/8188695609
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Dmytri Kleiner [RU/CA/DE]
Programmer and author of The Telekommunist Manifesto discusses how we can
create social and technical platforms which purposefully play on
miscommunication and the unexpected

Marco Clausen [DE]
Co-founder of Prinzessinnengarten summarises the processes involved in
cultivating and developing productive urban gardens

Adam Thomas [UK/DE]
Journalist and Director of Business Development at Storyful illustrates
how radical shifts in journalism have changed how we report on civic
conflict

Olga Maria Hungar [DE]
Architect with Raumlaborberlin provides examples of how discard materials
can be used to create temporary urban structures

+++ NEXT WEEK: TUE OCT 1 2013: 19-21.00 also at BETAHAUS
BOOK: eventbrite.ie/event/8223391385
SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Martin Howse [UK/DE]
Programmer, writer, performer and explorer presents examples of his
psychogeophysic studies, which focus on where and how the urban environment
is literally encoded within human psyche

Stephen Kovats [CA/DE]
Cultural and media researcher discusses what it means to actively apply
open source methodologies to support the development of new capital city
infrastructures in South Sudan

Julia Kloiber [DE]
Project Leader from Open Knowledge Foundation discusses open transport
apps and policies for Berlin and Germany

++++++++++ UPCOMING DATES:

TUE 5 NOV: BetaHaus, 19-21.00
Book: eventbrite.ie/event/8223433511
Urban Knights with Ela Kagel, Tom Hansing & Fritz Schlüter [DE]  

TUE 12 NOV: BetaHaus, 19-21.00
Book: eventbrite.ie/event/8223479649
Urban Knights with Gordan Savicic & Selena Savic [AU/CH/SRB], Julian
Gröger, Joel Dullroy & Sam Auinger [DE] & Tatiana Bazzichelli [DE/IT/DK]
+ Unpleasant Design Workshop with Gordan Savicic & Selena Savic at Weise7,
12 Nov. 11-16.00.
Places are limited. Cost €20. Book directly:
weise7.org/subscribe/urbanknights

FOR MORE INFO..........

WEB: URBANKNIGHTS.ORG
Twitter: @TeresaHacks
Hashtag: #UrbanKnights