Mirjam Struppek is based in Berlin and works internationally as urbanist, curator and consultant. She has developed the concept for the first Urban Screens conference in 2005 and is President of the newly formed International Urban Screens Association (IUSA). She is a member of Public Art Lab, Berlin. With a background in Urban and Environmental Planning she has internationally lectured and published essays with a special focus on the liveability of urbanspace, public sphere and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Currently she is coordinating Urban Screens Melbourne 08 and curating as artistic director it's multimedia program. Together with Public Art Lab she is developing the “Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008” at the German Architecture Centre, around myths and potentials of media architecture and urban screens.
Day 3: Sunday 5th October,Session 3: Strategies for Urban Regeneration
'Urban Screens as communication medium in the process of regeneration'
What is the value of local, digitally mediated public spaces for communities in times of the high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? Do they enhance the liveability and support a healthy, urban society? New modern centres are (re) created as the "Urban Livingroom" where the Community gathers around the new medium of the Urban Screen. Other examples show that digital surfaces integrated in architectural flagship projects can become for certain communities, a symbolic precursor for a process of gentrification, while being presented as symbols for a new reviving economic growth. What is the role of cultural content for this type of urban communication medium in the process of regeneration
