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Archive
First
"Oakland-Table"
2nd of September to 7th of October 2000
The
First "Oakland-Table" took place at
We the people
in 200 Harrison St., Oakland, on Saturday, September
2nd. A general description of the "Oakland-Table"
project you find here.
Seminarreader
(Seminarreader
as pdf-file)
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The
keynote lectures
LECTURE:
The Loudspeaker in the
Classroom, in the Belfry & the Minaret
BY: IVAN
ILLICH
WHEN: September,
2, 2000
WHERE: 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
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LECTURE:
Democracy and Place
BY:
DOUGLAS LUMMIS
WHEN : September,
9, 2000
WHERE: 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME:
7.00 - 9.00PM
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LECTURE:
Tools for Community Builders
BY: JOHN
F.C. TURNER
WHEN : September,
16, 2000
WHERE: 200 HARRISON
STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
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LECTURE:
The 20th century city
BY: JOSEPH
RYKWERT
WHEN : September,
23, 2000
WHERE: 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
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LECTURE:
The Office Landscape: Examining
the natural ecology of the cubicle dweller
BY: WILLIAM
BRAHAM
WHEN: October,
29, 2000
WHERE: 200 HARRISON
STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
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LECTURE
: Space versus Place: the loss
and recovery of proportionality in architecture
BY : TERRANCE
GALVIN
WHEN : September,
30, 2000
WHERE : 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME : 7.00
- 9.00PM
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LECTURE
: People regenerating Places
BY : GUSTAVO
ESTEVA
WHEN : October,
7, 2000
WHERE : 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME : 7.00
- 9.00PM
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SEMINARS
SEMINAR
: The War on Subsistence:
The Thought of Ivan Illich
BY : DAVID
CAYLEY
WHEN : September,
4th and 5th , 2000
WHERE : 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME : 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
The
first of these two seminars will introduce Ivan
Illich's thought. It will trace the emergence
and elaboration of his critique of the modern
institutions of economic development, schooling,
and medicine; examine his attempts to write "a
constitutions of limits" for modern societies;
and follow the implications of his growing awareness
during the 1980's and after that the world he
had hoped to reform was fast passing out of existence.
The second seminar will look at Illich's understanding
of Christianity, and his hypothesis that the origins
of our world lie in a corruption of Christian
freedom. "Wherever I look for the roots of
modernity," Illich says. "I find it
in attempts of the churches to institutionalize
and manage Christian vocation."
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SEMINAR
: Medieval Philosophical Latin
BY : LEE
HOINACKI
WHEN : September,
6th, 7th and 13th , 2000
WHERE : 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME : 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
During
three formal seminars I offer an introduction
to medieval philosophical Latin. Each seminar
will be based on a text from the Summa Theologiae
or the Contra Gentes of Thomas Aquinas. The aim
of the seminars is to introduce participants to
thirteenth-century Latin and to the philosophical
and theological thought of the Middle Ages. The
effort to translate and understand a Latin text
by explaining its grammar, syntax and style will
also expose participants to the language of medieval
philosophy. Further studies of Aquinas and/or
Latin will be offered for interested participants.
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SEMINAR
: The Experience
of Place
BY : LEE
HOINACKI
WHEN : September,
12th, 13th , 2000
WHERE : 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME : 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
This
two-part seminar is based on the assumption that
no good understanding of space and place is possible
apart from the experience of space and place.
Some experiences are or can be more fruitful than
others. At various times in my life, I have been
on a quest through spaces searching for the proper
way to understand and inhabit a place. I have
chronicled these journeys in two books, El Camino:
Walking to Compostela, and Stumbling Towards Justice:
Stories of Place.
The seminars will explore questions such as the
possible movement from space to place; the relationship
between personal and social space; the creation
of place; the relationship between temporal and
eternal space.
One of the principal sources for the discussion
is the experience of pilgrimage as revelatory
of space and place. There are numerous such pilgrimage
routes around Oakland beginning with walks to
one or more of the California missions. But my
bibliographical search has not turned up any recent
evidence of walking to these places. For example,
two of the most famous tourist guide books to
California, Let's Go and The Friendly Planet Guide
have no information on walking to places in California.
Participants will be encouraged to walk to one
of these pilgrimage places, thereby creating the
appropriate space.
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SEMINAR:
Historical Conceptions of Place
BY: JEAN
ROBERT
WHEN: September,
18th, 19th, 20th, 2000 & October 4th and 5th
,
WHERE: 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
This
five-part seminar series explores the experiences
of place and habitation from antiquity to modernity.
The first session will be devoted to examining
the distinction between housing and dwelling.
Houses, as the consequence of planning by architects,
often inhibit dwelling. The act of dwelling engenders
home instead of house, and the second session
investigates the relation between house and home.
Both these sessions pay attention to the autonomous
powers of dwelling that are threatened or destroyed
by housing. Oikos and domus are strong Greek and
Latin words that historically relate to the acts
of dwelling, of creating places. Both have given
birth to numerous English words: e.g. ecology,
economy, domestic, domesticity.
The third and fourth sessions are historical hunts
on the track of these words and of the concepts
they convey in architectural theory and practice.
The sessions attempt to recover the deep meanings
of these terms beneath their ideological uses.
The last session suggests that it is the technology
of transportation that transforms perception and
makes a space of the places we want to inhabit.
The seminar ends with a question: did a special
historical relation between writing and architecture
not already prepare the ultimate "spatialization"
of the dwelling experience?
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(A complete bibliography is available for participants
on request)
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SEMINAR:
Where Does the Turing Test take place?:
On the space that begets 'intelligent artifices'
BY: KOSTAS
HATZIKiRIAKOU
WHEN: September,
25th-27th , 2000
WHERE: 200 HARRISON STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
The
first of this three-part seminar will describe
the mathematical space of the Turing test in particular,
and of artificial intelligence in general. The
clarification of Turing's 'imitation game' is
set in the historical and socio-political context
of mathematical logic and cryptology. The second
session evaluates the two basic philosophical
attacks against artificial intelligence: John
Searle's Chinese room argument, and Hubert Dreyfus's
phenomenological critique of artificial reason.
The third session will show that the claims for
artificial intelligence, while consonant with
certain basic beliefs and practices of industrial
high modernity, also mark the beginning of virtual
spaces that are insensible and uninhabitable.
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SEMINAR:
Building Communities from the
Inside Out
BY:
JOHN
L. McKNIGHT
WHEN: October,
2nd & 3rd , 2000
WHERE: 200 HARRISON
STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
Many
major institutions and professions, viewing older
urban neighborhoods from outside, see deficiencies,
problems and needs. They create incentives that
confirm their view and communicate their perceptions
to the larger society. As a result, the gifts,
capacities and assets of older neighborhoods are
ignored at best and degraded at worst.
Our discussion will focus on understanding the
assets of an older urban neighborhood with special
emphasis on associational life. In associations,
local residents attempt to achieve their purposes
in spite of the systematic institutional barriers.
The history, topography and inventiveness of local
associations will be explored and the celebration
of citizens enjoyed.
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SEMINAR:
Language Policy in multilingual
settings
BY: ANTJE-KATRIN
MENK
WHEN: October,
21, 2000
WHERE: 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME: 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
Monolingual
myopia seems to be a modern Western disease. This
seminar explores the possible parallels between
the opinions and arguments of German officials
and teachers on the role of German and minority
languages in Bremen schools and the arguments
on "English only" and "proposition
227" in California. There is a special dilemma
for liberal teachers oriented towards 'Equal opportunity'.
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SEMINAR
: Prologue to Proportionality in Architecture
BY : TERRANCE
GALVIN
WHEN : October, 28, 2000
WHERE : 200 HARRISON STREET
TIME : 7.00 - 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
As
an architect engaged in proportionality, Terrance's
CROP offering will discuss the loss of proportionality
through the concepts of space as 'empty,' as opposed
to a relation between the elements, and the analogies
of harmony and sensation, through the work of
French theorist Nicolas Le Camus de Mzires in
the 18th century, leading up to a vote on the
very use of proportional systems in architecture
in the mid 20th century. The time devoted to these
discussions on ratio, proportion, and analogy
will be apportioned accordingly. Reciprocity,
twin phenomena, and complementarity remain at
the heart of the matter.
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SEMINAR
: "The satellite
View of the Sahel: seeing problems for management
BY : ANDREW
STANCIOFF
WHEN : September,
15, 2000
WHERE : 200
HARRISON STREET
TIME : 7.00
- 9.00PM
Seminar
Outline
The
talk reveals the relations between techniques
of visualization and management. It is based on
a series of slides that show trends of decreasing
rainfall in the Sahel of Africa since 1940's and
then illustrates the effect of such a trend on
agricultural production, food insecurity, poverty,
migration and finally conflict. My contention
is that scarcity induces social friction. I further
contend that scarcity in this area can be predicted
and that therefore population movement and potential
for conflict can be similarly predicted. Therefore
it seems apparent that with foresight proper programs
can be put in place to avert or at least mitigate
conflict.
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