independent school for the city

UPCOMING EVENTS

The Independent School for the City organizes various public events, addressing topics that respond to current relevant issues in urbanisation, and offers a platform to other organisation dealing with the city. The events are accessible to all 'urban' professionals in Rotterdam and beyond.

Documentary and debate of the screening “Future Made in Holland” on the legacy of past spatial and engineering projects and the future perspectives these empower in citizens. Part of Reporting space, time and everyday life in the Delta organized by TUDelft Climate Action Film Club. Tuesday 7 May 2024, 19:00 – 21:00. Tickets can be reserved here for free.

Mar 28

Alternatieven voor eigenaarschap (Alternatives to Ownership) is a debate evening organised by Amateur Cities. During the event, invited speakers, designers and the audience will discuss the role that alternative forms of home ownership – organised around sharing or commons – can play in addressing the housing crisis. How can these alternative forms of ownership be realised, and what steps can we take now to build differently in the future? Thursday, March 28, 19:30 – 21:00. Tickets are sold out!

Mar 29

Drinks, tunes, bites a short movie and a lecture by Donna van Milligen Bielke – an architect with a distinct vision and a now award-winning architectural signature. She has a fascination for redefining and positioning boundaries, and the influence of architecture on public space. She operates on the border of architecture and urban planning and moves between different scale levels, from the architectural interior to the urban fabric.

Apr 19

School’s Out! #41 – A conversation between Lara Schrijver and art historian and author Camiel van Winkel about his latest publication Lichaam en Steen: Over film (Body and Stone: About film).

In this book, the film medium figures as the unconscious of culture. Van Winkel takes it seriously as an art form with a value in itself, but at the same time, he interprets it as a reflection of symptoms and effects of cultural dilemmas and taboos. He watches films but also looks through them. With a view trained in contemporary art and dance, Van Winkel interprets films by diverse directors such as Steve McQueen and Nicolas Provost, Ursula Antoniak and Michael Haneke, Tobe Hooper and Ilya Chrzjanovski, Lars von Trier and Chantal Akerman, Gus Van Sant and Erik Poppe.

May 07

Documentary and debate of the screening “Future Made in Holland” on the legacy of past spatial and engineering projects and the future perspectives these empower in citizens. Part of Reporting space, time and everyday life in the Delta organized by TUDelft Climate Action Film Club. Tuesday 7 May 2024, 19:00 – 21:00. Tickets can be reserved here for free.

May 31

Drinks, tunes, bites a short movie and a lecture by filmmaker and architect Rohan Shivkumar

Jun 28

This School’s Out! with Wouter Vanstiphout is the book presentation of ‘Autonoom: 100% Carel Weeber’ a detailed architect’s biography and a richly illustrated architectural monograph, bringing together life and work of Weeber. According to Vanstiphout, the common thread in this story is “that from the beginning of his professional career, Carel Weeber consciously adopted the attitude of an outsider and paradoxically, through the almost theatrical elaboration of this attitude, has had a great influence on Dutch architecture and its institutions.” The evening includes a film program, followed by drinks and bites.

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