Mittelmeerland Organization

20/09/2021

15/09/2021

We are launching our next MITTELMEERLAND WORKSHOP PALERMO-TUNIS in PALERMO from 01-10 OCTOBER 2021 and CALLING FOR PARTICIPANTS, who are based in PALERMO or WORLDWIDE //// Application until 25 September 2021. Participation is free of charge.

www.mittelmeerland.org

ABOUT THE MITTELMEERLAND WORKSHOP PALERMO–TUNIS

With its heterogeneity and conflicts, its divisions and connections, the Mediterranean Sea offers an extraordinary microcosm. Our planet faces common challenges that escape the limitations of national states and of their bordered thinking. And yet, our political and social practices remain constrained by the mental and material borders of the nation. Until the creation of the Schengen space, the border between Sicily and Tunisia was porous. While Sicily and Tunisia have historic ties, the two countries feature contemporary realities that are starkly different from one another: How can we envision concrete practices of cooperation that unite citizens between two Mediterranean cities, divided by continent but connected by sea?

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
//// Apply until 25 September 2021

The Mittelmeerland Organisation has established an intercultural network of workshops, exhibitions and other programmes in the Mediterranean. We are calling for participants for our Workshop in Palermo. The Workshop will take place from 01-10 October 2021 at the Ecomuseo Urbano Memoria Mare Viva. Participation is free of charge and open to students and professionals of Urbanism, Architecture, Sociology and Art. There are different levels of participation: as a full or part-time participant and experienced professionals/ teachers can participate as a guest critic or lecturer. All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for organising travel/accommodation/visa. To apply to the programme please send us a PDF with 2 pages including your profile and your motivation to participate in the workshop to Medine Altiok and Stephanie Tunka: [email protected]

PARTNERS / IN COLLABORATION WITH

Studio Rizoma, Dream City Biennale Tunis, Theater Bremen, Ecomuseo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva, Kulturstiftung, BKM, Allianz Kulturstiftung, Goethe Institut Palermo, Department of Architecture University of Palermo

12/01/2019

Conférence et Exposition autour des des transformations urbaines de la Méditerranée.

Durant cinq années, les commissaires de Mittelmeerland ont étudié la dynamique côtière de ces villes, les dépendances mutuelles de la terre et de l'eau, la construction de nouveaux ports souvent en conflit avec des fonds marins sensibles et la transformation de la société. Le salon de recherche présente les cas d’étude et les livre de voyage illustrant chaque ville, leurs spécificités en tant qu’espaces urbains et le caractère ainsi que l’usage des côtes.

12/01/2019

The Mittelmeerland Travel Exhibition can be visited in Algiers at the EPAU until 24th January 2019.

20/07/2018

Finally, the Mittelmeerland Travel Exhibition is starting next Friday in Tangier. Would be great to meet all again along this travel.

19/01/2017

02/12/2016

We are exhibiting and discussing our Mittelmeerland Research:

MITTELMEERLAND
SALON DE RECHERCHE
Front Members' Room
21/1/2017 - 25/2/2017
Monday to Friday 10:00-19:00, Saturday 10:00-17:00.

Mittelmeerland is a research project exploring the future of the Mediterranean Sea as a territory of water. Applying a comparative method and approaching cities from the sea, Mitelmeerland has travelled to six Mediterranean metropolises: Dubrovnik, Tangier, Beirut, Algiers, Alexandria and Izmir.

The Salon de Recherche shows case studies and travel books which illustrate each city, its speciality, the character of the coast, its usage and its users. It deals with urban conditions, politics and the urbanization processes along the coast. There were questions: How can the Mediterranean position itself as a territory? How would each city act in this territory? What do changes mean for the everyday spaces and their uses?

Over 5 years, Mittelmeerland has been studying the dynamic of the city coastlines, the mutual dependencies of land and water, the constructions of new ports which are often in conflict with sensitive sea ground, and the transformation of society. The Mediterranean Sea is not only situated between continents, but simultaneously acts as a historical and contemporary centre and border zone. The social, economic and political dynamics of this territory are complex and diverse.

Curators: Medine Altiok and Stephanie Tunka

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/WHATSON/Exhibitions.php?item=341 #-p-mittelmeerland-br-salon-de-recherche-p

Exhibitions programme featuring established artists and architects and those at the start of their careers at the Architectural Association School of Architecture is part of the AA's public programme of free, open events and celebrates international architectural culture and practice

06/05/2016

We are glad to exhibit AA Visiting School Mittelmeerland at the Egyptian Pavilion at 15th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia. Hope to see you there.

We are glad to announce the participants of the Egyptian Pavilion at 15th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, from both institutions and individuals, among others:
MAS Urban Design ETH Zürich
PennDesign University of Pennsylvania
AA Visiting School Mittelmeerland Architectural Association School of Architecture
Lund University
Msa University
AUC The American University in Cairo
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Baladilab
Cairo University
Cairobserver
Cluster
Community Design Collaborative - Abdelhalim Ibrahim
German University in Cairo
Integrated Zero Net Carbon Housing
MADA Architecture studio
Studio Meem
Takween Integrated Community Development
Traslochi Emotivi
RAUI architects
Research Institute for a Sustainable Environment - RISE
RWTH Aachen University
Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
University of Waterloo
Universität Stuttgart

06/05/2016

04/10/2015

X-Talk #16 by Medine Altiok

MITTELMEERLAND: Territorial Explorations on the Mediterranean

Sunday, September 20th 2015 at 7:00PM
at Makan Art Space Jabal Elweibdeh

Photos by Hussam Da'na