Opening: -YOU ARE INVITED-

A project by VAV students from the Rietveld Academie

24 Jan 2008
  • 14:00
  • Casco
  • Nieuwekade 213-215, Utrecht

24 promising, talented students of the VAV-department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie reflect on the topic of gentrification. Urban gentrification is a phenomenon in which low-cost, physically deteriorated neighborhoods undergo physical renovation and an increase in property values. Mostly the avant-garde of cultural bohemians and hipsters start off such a development, but after having done their work as “shock troops” of gentrification, they are often displaced themselves and forced to move on to the next area.

The question, how can they benefit from these mechanisms themselves, will be answered during the different lectures.

14:00h DUTCH FUNDING LANDSCAPES
by Sandra Derks

16:00h ARTIST-RUN-SPACES
panel discussion by Frank Ammerlaan, Gijs Frieling and Bernd Trasberger

18:00h BERLIJN KUNSTHOOFDSTAD?
By Jurriaan Benschop

20:00h OPENING EXHIBITION