CONFERENCE

PRESENTATION
✦ Steven van Lummel, Artistic Director, PIP Den Haag (NL)
✦ David Schoch, Director, PIP Den Haag (NL)

For more than 16 years PIP Den Haag has been a multifaceted cultural space, contemporary urban incubator, production house and training universe. INTER-CITY evolves from PIP and will be The Hague’s new cultural hub. Located at an arm’s length from Central Station, on the fringes of the burgeoning real estate development in the former industrial Binckhorst area, INTER-CITY is a last attempt to resist gentrification and monoculture, to stand up to the suffocating market forces that increasingly rob cities of their character, humanity and diversity.

ROUNDTABLE
✦ Rebecca Godfrey, CBRE Tourism Consulting (CA)
✦ Nik Ives-Allison, Night Lab (CA)
✦ Julie Larsen, Cultural Planner, City of Vancouver (CA)

A conversation on the convergence of cultural placemaking and real estate, this panel will explore ways to bring creative communities and development, tourism and leasing interests together in alignment in the City of Montreal and beyond.

PRESENTATION
✦ Nicklas Johansson, Project Manager, City of Malmö (SE)

Working with music and sound for 30 years, Nicklas Johansson will showcase the innovative approaches that the City of Malmö took to mitigate noise from cultural activities and transform an industrial sector into Sweden’s first cultural sound zone. Shifting the narrative from a “bad neighbourhood” that needed to be rebuilt to a diverse cultural destination, the managers of Malmo’s cultural noise district are now tasked to keep developing – in a sustainable and inclusive way – until 2040. Hear how they did it and what will come next.ravaillant dans le domaine de la musique et du son depuis 30 ans, Nicklas Johansson présentera les approches innovantes adoptées par la ville de Malmö pour atténuer le bruit des activités culturelles nocturnes et transformer un secteur industriel en la première zone sonore culturelle de Suède. Passant d’un quartier en réhabilitation à une destination culturelle diversifiée, les gestionnaires du quartier culturel de Malmö ont maintenant pour mission de continuer à le développer – de manière durable et inclusive – jusqu’en 2040. Découvrez leurs histoires.

ROUNDTABLE
✦ Kady Yellow, Downtown Vision (US)
✦ Anouk Bélanger, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (QC)
✦ Benjamin Scheerbarth, Holzmarkt Berlin, Office ParkScheerbarth (DE)

Public scenes, parks, urban places, viaducts, overpasses, vacant lots, built environments and more give cities their charm and have the potential to transform what’s outdoors into cultural and community spaces. This panel brings expert insights together to discuss outdoor space management, formats and ideas to build capacity, and sustainable, “bottom up” community use.

PRESENTATION
✦ $teven Ra$pa (US), Associate Director of Community Events at Burning Man

Each year, Nevada’s Black Rock Desert gives rise to the world’s largest 24-hour pop-up city. Nearly 80,000 citizens come together to build and experience Black Rock City, a thriving community dedicated to creative collaboration, civic responsibility, and authentic self-expression. Burning Man has become an influential global cultural movement, offering models for public art, civic leadership, tactical urbanism and city design. Burning Man Project’s $teven Ra$pa will draw on his extensive experience working with artists, city leaders, and policy makers to share insights for nurturing DIY-culture, building community, prioritizing nightlife, and shaping civic life with joy and purpose.

FILM SCREENING

✦ Directed by Kristian R. Hill
✦ In presence of Jennifer Washington, producer, and Todd Johnson from Festival Charivari

The astonishing story behind one of Detroit’s great contributions to world culture: Techno, the electronic-music phenomenon created by black artists in the 1980s that transformed dance music internationally and blossomed into the multibillion-dollar industry of EDM today. Featuring interviews with Jeff Mills, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, among many more, this is a vast, compelling and highly educative cultural history of techno and musical innovation, of heritage and the people responsible for that heritage, with the city of Detroit at its very core.