- Events
- December 1, 2016
The Assembly of the University of the Neighbourhoods (UoN) at City in Context. Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore, Pakistan
Staff members of the research and teaching programme Urban Design Bernd Kniess and Christopher Dell will give the lecture The Assembly of the University of the Neighbourhoods (UoN). A documentation of making new forms of agencies available during a four-day symposium of talks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, concert.
City in Context will bring together
poets and writers, theoreticians, artists and architects, musicians, activists, and various other practitioners from diverse fields of study. It will aim to discuss and expand existing ideas and projects pertaining to the multifarious aspects of the urban realm, and to explore the wider connections that they draw with the world of art.
City in Context
A four-day symposium of talks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, concert
1 – 4 December 2016
Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore, Pakistan
Urbanities – Art and Public Space in Pakistan
Goethe-Institut Pakistan & Lahore Biennale Foundation
contributors

Prof. Dr. habil. Christopher Dell
Professor, UFoK, OT and RFoP

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Kniess
Professor, Urban Design
2016/2017
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