June 8-12, 2010

Over the course of these four days, Storefront for Art and Architecture in partnership with Museo Experimental El Eco, Tomo and Domus Magazine, hosted the third edition of Postopolis!, a public five-day session of near-continuous conversation curated by some of the world’s most prominent bloggers from the fields of architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, music and design. Ten world-renowned bloggers from Los Angeles, New York, Turin, Barcelona, London and elsewhere convened in one location in Mexico City to host a series of discussions, interviews, slideshows, presentations, films and panels fusing the informal and interdisciplinary approach of the architecture blogosphere with rare face-to-face interaction.

 

Each day, the ten participating bloggers met in the magnificent courtyard of Museo Experimental El Eco, designed by Matthias Goeritz, to conduct back-to-back interviews of some of Mexico City’s most influential thinkers and practitioners – including architects, city planners, artists and urban theorists but also military historians, filmmakers, photographers, activists and musicians. The talks were conducted in either Spanish or English. Each day of talks ended with an after-party hosted by some of Mexico City’s most influential music blogs.

 

The first edition of Postopolis! took place in the gallery space at Storefront for Art and Architecture during the summer of 2007, and a second edition was held in Los Angeles in 2009.


Participating blogs:

Urban Omnibus (Cassim Shepard)

Intersections (Daniel Hernandez)

DPR Barcelona (Ethel Barona Pohl)

Toxico Cultura (Gabriella Gomez-Mont)

Tomo (Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa)

Mudd Up! (Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture)

Edible Geography (Nicola Twilley)

We Make Money Not Art (Regine Debatty)

Strangeharvest (Sam Jacob)

Wayne & Wax (Wayne Marshall)

 

Location

Museo Experimental El Eco

Sullivan 43, Col. San Rafael, CP 09470 Mexico City,

Tel. 5535 51 86

www.eleco.unam.mx

 

Calendar

Tuesday

6:00 – Presentación Postópolis!

7:00 – Brief presentations by each blogger

8:30 – Break

9:00 – Fernando Romero

9:30 – Ali Gadorki

 

10:00 – Opening Party @ Rhodesia

 

Wednesday

4:00 – Rachel Laudan

4:30 – LA76

5:00 – Carlos Alvarez Montero

5:30 – Gilberto Esparza

6:00 – Break

6:30 – DJ Alí & Tomás Brum Álvarez

7:00 – Héctor Galván

7:30 – Alejandro Hernandez

8:00 – Pedro Reyes

8:30 – Break

9:00 – Derek Dellekamp

9:30 – Carlos Prieto Acevedo & Ximena Labra

 

Thursday

4:00 – Wendell McShine + Saner + Lili Carpinteyro

4:30 – Erendina Cruzvillegas

5:00 – Jorge Legorreta

5:30 – TBD

6:00 – Break

6:30 – Rozana Montiel

7:00 – Laurel Ptak

7:30 – José Castillo

8:00 – Talking Nose, video conference with Sissel Tolaas

8:30 – Break

9:00 – Gregory Berger

9:30 – Mark Powell & Jose Luis Cuevas

 

Friday

4:00 – Dr. Ravi Singh

4:30 – Geraldine Juarez + video conference with Magnus Ericksson

5:00 – María Moreno Carranco

5:30 – Camilo Smith & 2phase

6:00 – Break

6:30 – Juan Carlos Rulfo

7:00 – El Espectro Rojo

7:30 – Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

8:00 – Carlos Amorales – Nuevos Ricos

8:30 – Break

9:00 – Pablo I. Kobayashi

9:30 – Fernando Llanos

 

Saturday

12:00 – Said Dokins

12:30 – Alfonso Morales

1:00 – Rodrigo Díaz

1:30 – TBD

2:00 – Ehecatl cabrera

2:30 – Eduardo Terrazas

3:00 – Martha Schteingart

3:30 – Break

4:00 – Mariana Delgado / Proyecto Sonidero

4:30 – Sembradores Urbanos

5:00 – Antonio Vega Macotela

5:30 – TBD

6:00 – Break

6:30 – David Lida

7:00 – Frida Escobedo

7:30 – TBD

8:00 – Perros Negros

8:30 – Break

9:00 – Eduardo Abaroa

9:30 – Gabriela Jauregui

10:00 – Closing Party

 

Twitter: @postopolis, #postopolis

 

Partners

Museo Experimental El Eco

TOMO

Domus Magazine


Sponsors

Think Britain / UKTI

Urbi VidaResidencial

UNAM Difusión Cultural

UNAM

Hotel Brick

XXLager

Mezcal El Enmascarado

Contramar

Mero Toro

Pasagüero

Radio Ibero 90.9


Organizers

Daniel Perlin & Joseph Grima

Storefront Team (César A. Cotta & José Esparza)

Tomo (Jorge Mungia & Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa)

 

Click here to download the press release.

Presione aquí para descargar el boletín de prensa.

www.postopolis.org