Urban Drift is a transcultural platform for new tendencies in Architecture, Design and Urbanism.
 
urban drift is .. a collaborative platform for contemporary urban strategies / a network initiating and supporting urban interventions / a hybrid urban praxis, opening up and communicating architecture to a wider audience / urban survival strategies / time-based architecture, temporary and ephemeral / urban transformation and the reanimation of lost, forgotten, hidden city spaces / drift-inspired by random movement / neon-inspired / trans-cultural collaboration / the city as a medium / scavenging, remapping, resampling the city in light, sound and text / urban nomadism / 24 hours nightwalking / the reinvention of spaces / intervention.....urban curating / working with the city's second skin / communicating a mobile, fluid urbanity / reading the city as text / psychogeographies the space of relationships / the creation of urban situations / stalking peripheral urban spaces / process-driven urban design / garage settlements / urban voids / urban animators / to know is to insert something into what is real and hence to distort reality / container cities / born in berlin - city in a state of flux / but modular, viral, transportable and translatable elsewhere .. / drift via text / smart materials, mobile telephone technologies and new hybrid cultures in urban design / soundscapes / reanimating the real / multiple identites
 



Venice Biiennale – 9 th International Architecture Exhibition 2004 „METAMORPH”
September 12 – November 7, 2004

Francesca Ferguson, the initiator and curator of urban drift e.V. is the commissioner of the German Pavilion at the 9 th International
Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2004.

DEUTSCHLANDSCAPE – the German contribution to ‘Metamorph' may confound preconceived notions of the contemporary architecture scene in Germany. This fresh overview of over 38 built projects throughout Germany dating between 2000 and 2004 is a deliberate shift in focus away from metropolitan urban centres to the more peripheral areas
on the urban fringe.

More information on DEUTSCHLANDSCAPE:
www.deutschlandschaft.de
 


rURBAN DRIFT / NEWS (JAN 2004)

Futures Revisited
A night of screenings, presentations and multimedia

Presented by urban drift e.V
A Transmediale partner event
www.transmediale.de

urban drift e.V is a transcultural platform for new tendencies in Architecture, Design and Urbanism. To coincide with the 2004 Transmediale theme of Fly Utopia, urban drift e.V will revisit the utopian architectural ideas of the past. Together with Oliver Elser (restmoderne), Futures Revisited will look back at futuristic and sometimes fantastic residential buildings such as The House Brain, self-growing underwater experiments from the Virgin islands, The Futuro house and space colonies.

Thursday Feb 5 20.00 H

Bikinihaus
Budapester Straße 48
3. Etage
10787 Berlin
Tel. ++49-30-257 57 186
Tel. ++49-30-257 57 187
info@urbandrift.org

EXHIBITION: transformers III
more information: www.trans-formers.org

A NEW PROJECT SPACE
From September 2003 urban drift will open up a new location in the third floor of the 1950's "Bikinihaus" at Bahnhof Zoo at the center of "City West". This is a deliberate shift of focus to a part of Berlin where a host of notorious listed buildings are under threat as a result of recent urban planning decisions. The space will form a basis for discourse on such issues, and for new city partnerships, through which we can introduce innovative architectural practices, and extend the debate on interdisciplinary collaborations in this field.

We welcome proposals for exhibitions & collaborations as we plan the space for 2004 - contact us at info@urbandrift.org

TRANSFORMERS: A laboratory for changing practice and transformational processes in architecture, urban and spatial design.

Supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.
more information: www.trans-formers.org

PARTICIPATION IN OTHER EVENTS / LINKS

URBAN DRIFT was part of the art biennial in April - www.sharjahbiennial.com

.. and in RIGA in May 2003:
The 6th International ART+COMMUNICATION festival entitled MEDIA ARCHITECTURE http://rixc.lv/03

++URBAN DRIFT 2002 @ CAFÉ MOSKAU++
FILMED, TALKED ABOUT, PHOTOGRAPHED: DOCUMENTED

A CD-ROM DOCUMENTATION
URBAN DRIFT EVENT 2002 / FROM FORMALISM TO FLUX
9TH - 13TH OCTOBER 2002 / CAFÉ MOSKAU, KARL MARX ALLEE, BERLIN / AND OPEN WORKSPACES THROUGHOUT THE CITY
urban drift event 2002
The interactive cd-rom recreates the experience of the conference, the night spaces, the presentations, the visuals and the open workspaces through interviews, numerous video clips, and an archive of texts and images. A visual and conceptual dérive, and a wealth of information...