3rd INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL VESTIGES OF INDUSTRY 2005

3rd INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL VESTIGES OF INDUSTRY 20053. mezinárodní bienále Industriální stopy 200519. - 24. September 2005Prague and KladnoORGANISERSResearch Centre for Industrial Heritage at the Czech Technical University in Prague (VCPD),Technical Monuments Committee of the Czech Chamber of Certified Engineers and Technicians (ČKAIT), Czech Union of Civil Engineers (ČSSI), City of Kladno.PLANNED PROGRAMME:Conference Vestiges of Industry21 - 22 September, opening at 9:30 in the Old Sewage Treatment Plant in Prague – Bubeneč.An international conference aimed at examining the possibilities, significance, and difficulties of converting technical and industrial buildings and sites to new use. Participating in the conference are top experts in the field from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Session 1:Reflecting on European Experiences, “Working Heritage and Us”, Integrating European Industrial Heritage (Petr Urlich, VCPD ČVUT)Keith Falconer (English Heritage, United Kingdom) - New Applications for Historical Industrial Buildings: The British ExperiencePaul Smith (Direction de ľarchitecture et du patrimoine, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France) – The Conversion of Industrial Buildings – The Example of the State Tobacco EnterprisesWolfgang Jung (Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany) – The Transformation of Three Factories Located in the Centre of Milan, on the Atlantic Coast at Cadiz and in PortoGyörgyi Németh (Miskolc University, Hungary) – The Protection of Industrial Landscapes and Tourism in Central Europe Julian Kołodziej (Warsaw Management Academy, TICCIH Poland) – European Industrial Heritage and Tourism: The Future of Technical Heritage Eva Dvořáková (National Heritage Institute, Czech Republic) – Czech Industrial Architecture in the Context of the Direction of Industrial Heritage in EuropeSession 2:Interdisciplinarity – Industrial Heritage and Contemporary Culture (Miloš Vojtěchovský, Audiovisual Studies Department, FAMU)Giep Hagoort (professor of art management at Hogheschool voor de kunsten, Utrecht, the Netherlands) - Creative Cities and Regions: A Challenge For Cultural EntrepreneursRolf Dennemann (artistic director of the “Off Limits” Festival, Dortmund, Germany) - Site-Specific-Art - Between the Past and the Future Hans D. Christ (initiator and curator of projects Hartware Medien - Kunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany)Corinne Pontier (member of the group Ice-meme, Grenoble, France) Marek Adamov (head of the project “Žilina-Záriečie Station”, Slovak Republic – Contemporary Railway Culture) Session 3: Vestiges of Industry – Alternative Uses/ Architects of Conversion in the Czech Republic(Benjamin Fragner, VCPD ČVUT)Josef Pleskot, AP AteliérDavid R. Chisholm, CMC ArchitectsAlberto di StefanoMartin A. Tomáš, Ateliér QartaTomáš Šenberger, ČVUTŠimon CabanAntonín Novák, Ateliér DRNHEXHIBITIONS - PRAGUEVestiges of Industry/ The Architecture of Site Conversion in the Czech Republic 2000 – 20056 September – 5 October at Karlín Studios, PragueAn exhibition of selected examples of the conversion of industrial heritage sites to new use in the Czech Republic over the past five years. Most of the exhibited examples have already been completed and are of illustrative value for the public. The exhibition highlights the various approaches architects and investors have taken to the conversion of several dozen industrial sites, many of which were saved from ruin. (This travelling exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.) Symmetry and Symbols – The German Interwar Industrial Architecture of Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer 19 September – 23 October 2005 at the National Technical Museum, Prague This travelling exhibition, created by the cultural centre of the Zollverein Essen Foundation, presents the life work of two German interwar architects and two of their works that figure on UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage List: The industrial grounds of the Zollverein Essen Mine, and the Ore Mines of Rammelsberg Goslar.Working Heritage20 September – 30 October in the Hall of Architects – Old Town Hall, Prague spotlighting several European industrial locations: the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, industrial enterprises in Terni in Italy, the former textile plant in Roubaix, France, the Italian Schio, La Colonia Güell in Catalan, and the former industrial outskirts of Prague. The Working Heritage project originated as part of the European Union’s “Culture 2000” programme. It was run under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture and the British government’s statutory adviser, English Heritage. A number of European towns and institutions took part in the project, including the Research Centre for Industrial Heritage ČVUT in Prague. The 3rd International Biennial – Vestiges of Industry 2005 includes presentations by participants in the project from England and France. Industrial WorkshopsOpens 20 September in the Old Sewage Treatment Plant in Prague - Bubeneč An exhibition of posters resulting from doctoral work by students working on several VCPD projects (Bohemian and Moravian Breweries; Railway Heritage on the Territory of the Czech Republic; The Textile Industry in the Czech Republic, The Symbolic Sub-Text of Industrial Architecture). Interwar Industrial Architecture in Czechoslovakia (A study by VCPD ČVUT) Opens 20 September in the Old Sewage Treatment Plant in Prague - BubenečTechnical Heritage of Czech and Czechoslovak Commemorative Coins Opens 21 September in the Old Sewage Treatment Plant in Prague - Bubeneč Yellow Ball / A Finnish – Czech project combining film and dance21 September (not open to the public), 22 September at 20:00 in the Old Sewage Treatment Plant in Prague - BubenečAPPLICATION FORM for the 3rd international biennial VESTIGES OF INDUSTRY 2005Other projects will be posted on an ongoing basis at:www.industrialnistopy.cz