Urban Series

Urban Series Urban Series Urban Series is a mixture of conference and workshop, urbanism and art. There is an exhibition curated on the same topic of the actual Urban Series.

Urbanisation serves nowadays as inspiration for a good amount of artworks which has the same topics with urbanism. A lot of artists find the phenomena discussed by urbanists interesting, problematic or at least worth to be used as a material. Design, often as an applied form, is naturally on the flow of new approaches, so designers are also deeply in the topic of new urban life. These coincidence

s made the designer of the event (Füsun Ipek, an activist and street artist herself) to bring all urban focused communities together. Urban Series is designed with the aim of making an international hub, in which creatives can think and create without borders (between art and science or countries), about the very same topic: how we try to make our lives better in big cities. We can call it a conference as it has the scientific level, but as all the topics put in highlight are to be discussed and not to be shown, there are also afternoon workshops with the visitors. In this meaning, lectures and workshops are equal, bringing lecturers and visitors together to think about the new urban phenomena of the 21st century. It is not to be a decorative surrounding for creation, but to make a real environment. Artworks are exhibited as mostly quiet, but still very important participants of Urban Series, they let the visitors immerse, they give the option of contemplation. Connected to the Istanbul Biennale, the second edition of Urban Series has the main curatorial question: how does art affect cities. We can also turn the question around: how does the urban environment influence art? Visitors have the opportunity to listen, discuss and create together for three afternoons with Hungarian, Turkish and Swiss participants from an array of fields: literature, photography and curating. Every layer of the art world is connected to the city in their own way: some use it as a space or canvas to paint on, others as inspiration or occasion for a statement. Urban Series presents a transdisciplinary range of these contemporary conjunctions.

21-23 October 2015 – Urban Art
21 October, Wednesday: Out of the Museum - Naz Cuguoğlu & Mine Kaplangı (curators, Maumau, BLOK art space, TR), Katalin Timár (curator and theorist, University of Pécs, Ludwig Museum, HU), Claire Hoffmann (curator and art historian, Deuxpiece, CH), Serhat Cacekli (curator, Tophane Artwalk, TR)
22 October, Thursday: New Narratives of Cities - Balázs Szőllőssy (poet and editor, FISZ, HU), Samu Szemerey (architect and urbanist, Contemporary Architecture Center Budapest, HU), Milenko Lazic (author and editor, ZHdK, Amsel Verlag, CH), Ömer Orhun (artist and photographer, YTÜ, TR)
23 October, Friday: Urban Spaces of Art - Maya Minder (curator and artist, UZH, ZHdK, CH-KOR), Samu Szemerey (architect and urbanist, Contemporary Architecture Center Budapest, HU) Füsun Ipek (artist and curator, ZhdK, HU-TR), Bedirhan Çakır (designer, %100%İstanbul, TR

Lectures and workshops: 16:00 – 20:00

Address: Macar Kültür Merkezi, İstiklal Cad. No: 213, Beyoğlu
Tel: 02122438288

If you have any feedback, questions or ideas, please do not hesitate to share them with us at [email protected]


Urban Series, konferans, workshop ve sanatı birleştirir. Kentsel dönüşüm ve şehircilik, günümüzde birçok sanat eserine de ilham vermektedir. Şehircilik uzmanların konuştukları fenomenler, sanatçıların da ilgisini çeker, onları problematik bulur ya da en azından madde olarak kullanır. Tasarım – çoğunlukla uygulanmış bir şekilde – doğal olarak yeni bakış açıların peşinde, bu yüzden tasarımcılar da yeni şehir hayatıyla derinden ilgilenmektedir. Bu tesadüfleri düşünerek etkinliğin düzenleyicisi, kendisi de aktivist ve sokak sanatçısı olan Füsun İpek kentsel dönüşümle ilgilenen tüm grupları bir araya çağırma isteğine ulaştı. Urban Series’in temel amacı, yaratıcı insanların beraber düşünebilecek ve çalışabilecek, sanat, bilim ve ülkeler arasındaki sınırları aşan uluslararası bir düşünce merkezi oluşturmasıdır. Bizi birleştiren ana fikir: bir şehri nasıl daha iyi bir yer yapabiliriz? Bilimsel tarafı da olduğu için Urban Series’e konferans da denebilir, ama bütün konuları yalnızca göstermek değil, tartışmak da istediğimiz için öğleden sonraları ziyaretçilerle beraber workshoplar yapılacak. Bu anlamda sunum ve workshoplar eşittir: sunucu ve ziyaretçileri bir araya getirerek 21. yüyzılın kent fenomeni hakkında birlikte düşünmelerini sağlar.

İstanbul Bienali’ne bağlı olarak düzenlenen Urban Series’in ikinci etkinliğinin ana küratörlük sorusu, sanatın şehirleri nasıl etkilediği. Bu soruyu şöyle de çevirebiliriz: Şehir koşulları sanatı nasıl etkiliyor? Ziyaretçilere üç akşam boyunca edebiyat, fotoğrafçılık ve kuratörlük gibi farklı alanlarda çalışan Macar, Türk ve İsviçreli konuklarımızı dinleme, onlarla tartışma ve beraber çalışma fırsatı veriyoruz. Sanat dünyasının her tabakası farklı şekillerde şehre bağlanmakta, bazıları boyamak için bir alan veya tuval olarak kullanır, diğerleri ilham veya bir açıklama fırsatı olarak. Urban Series bu çağdaş bağlaçları disiplinlerarası bir ortamda gözünüzün önüne getiriyor.

21 Ekim, Çarşamba: Out of the Museum - Naz Cuguoğlu & Mine Kaplangı (curators, Maumau, BLOK art space, TR), Katalin Timár (curator and theorist, University of Pécs, Ludwig Museum, HU), Claire Hoffmann (curator and art historian, Deuxpiece, CH), Serhat Cacekli (curator, Tophane Artwalk, TR)

22 Ekim, Perşembe: New Narratives of Cities - Balázs Szőllőssy (poet and editor, FISZ, HU), Samu Szemerey (architect and urbanist, Contemporary Architecture Center Budapest, HU), Milenko Lazic (author and editor, ZHdK, Amsel Verlag, CH), Ömer Orhun (artist and photographer, YTÜ, TR)

23 Ekim, Cuma: Urban Spaces of Art - Maya Minder (curator and artist, UZH, ZHdK, CH-KOR), Samu Szemerey (architect and urbanist, Contemporary Architecture Center Budapest, HU) Füsun Ipek (artist and curator, ZhdK, HU-TR), Bedirhan Çakır (designer, %100%İstanbul, TR


Sunumlar (İngilizce) her gün 16:00-20:00

Giriş ücretsiz. Mekan: Macar Kültür Merkezi, İstiklal Cad. No: 213, Beyoğlu
Tel: 02122438288

Herhangi bir yorum, soru veya fikriniz varsa, lütfen çekinmeden [email protected] email adresimize ulaşın!

Good morning! Today is the last day of the conference. The first presentation is at 16:00. Maya Minder will present: Cre...
23/10/2015

Good morning! Today is the last day of the conference. The first presentation is at 16:00. Maya Minder will present: Creatice Space Occupied.
Detailed programme: http://www.urbanseries.org/

29/03/2015

Good morning! Today is the last day of the conference. The first presentation is at 12:00. Samu Szemerey will present: Smart citizens in the technological city - Platforms for cooperation.

Bu akşam saat 20:00'de Mimari rehabilitasyon sergi açılışına herkesi bekliyoruz! :)Serginin açılışını Budapeşte’nin baş ...
28/03/2015

Bu akşam saat 20:00'de Mimari rehabilitasyon sergi açılışına herkesi bekliyoruz! :)

Serginin açılışını Budapeşte’nin baş mimarı Sándor Finta yapacaktır.

Rethink, rehab veya recycle? Sergi kentsel projeler ve sanat eserleri aracılığıyla şehirlerimizin daima yeni anlamlar kazanan alanlarının değişen dokusunun gündemdeki yansımalarını sizlere sunar.

2nd day of the conference has started! We are waiting for you at Istiklal 213.The first presentation was held by Zsófia ...
28/03/2015

2nd day of the conference has started! We are waiting for you at Istiklal 213.

The first presentation was held by Zsófia Szonja Illés.

We are glad to announce that the Urban Series Conference starts tomorrow! We are waiting for you at the Hungarian Cultur...
26/03/2015

We are glad to announce that the Urban Series Conference starts tomorrow! We are waiting for you at the Hungarian Cultural Center (Istikla Caddesi No:213) at 12:00. See you soon!

https://vimeo.com/123204011

Connected to the approaching Earth Day (22nd April), Urban Series vol. 01 has the main curatorial concept of recycling. Visitors have the opportunity to listen,…

29 March, Sunday 12:0012:40 Smart citizens in the technological city - Platforms for cooperationSamu Szemerey will prese...
26/03/2015

29 March, Sunday 12:0012:40 Smart citizens in the technological city - Platforms for cooperation
Samu Szemerey will present about the Smart City Lab of Design Terminal in Budapest.

25/03/2015

28 March, Saturday 13:20-14:00 Small-scale interventions to shape a liveable riverbank
Balázs Szőllőssy will present about the work of Valyo – City&River Association.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9XbPgm3tto

28 March, Saturday 12:40-13:20 Lecture: The community-based reinvention of Teleki Square, Budapest by Gábor Szohrhttp://...
24/03/2015

28 March, Saturday 12:40-13:20 Lecture: The community-based reinvention of Teleki Square, Budapest by Gábor Szohr

http://www.ujirany.com/project/teleki-square-community-park

name of work: Community Design of Teleki Square year of design / realization: 2013/ 2014 office: Újirány Tájépítész Kft. authors: Orsolya B. Orosz, Árpád Kovács, Gábor Szohr, Dominika Tihanyi 3D visualization: Zita Sarfanek area: 14 000 m2

27 March, Friday 13:20-14:00 Open! FestivalThe Festival of Shops for Rent (2014) opened longtime vacant shops for a doze...
21/03/2015

27 March, Friday 13:20-14:00 Open! Festival
The Festival of Shops for Rent (2014) opened longtime vacant shops for a dozen initiatives ready to install themselves for a month in ground-floor spaces.
The lecture is going to be held by Júlia Oravecz.
Photo © Dániel Dorkó

27 March, Friday 12:40-13:20 Millenary Park, a brown field developmentGábor Szohr is going to present about one of the m...
20/03/2015

27 March, Friday 12:40-13:20 Millenary Park, a brown field development

Gábor Szohr is going to present about one of the most attractive public park in Budapest.

http://ujirany.com/project/millenary-park

The Millenary Park is the result of a brown field development in the center of Buda, on the site of the former Ganz factory, built between 1844 and 1912. By 1989, after the closing of the Ganz Works, the site was surrounded by the dense residential areas of Buda center and the rehabilitation of the…

27 March, Friday 12:00-12:40 Recycling the CityThe lecture is going to be held by Levente Polyák, who is a founding memb...
19/03/2015

27 March, Friday 12:00-12:40 Recycling the City

The lecture is going to be held by Levente Polyák, who is a founding member of the KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre.

http://old.kek.org.hu/index.php%3Fpage=kialtvany.html

Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Kortárs Építészeti Központ

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İmrahor Cad. No:23 B Blok Kağıthane

34400

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