KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre in collaboration with Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art and the French Institute of Budapest is organizing a conference aiming to contextualize Yona Friedman’s work in today’s social, urban and architectural context by bringing together architects, urbanists, artists, scholars and activists to give critical interpretations of his legacy and to introduce projects inspired by his work.
The ambition of the conference is to analyze Yona Friedman’s ideas on art, architecture, urbanism, social work and technology, and their relevance in these fields then and today, especially in the context of the current economic crisis. The lectures will position his early work within the context of urban renewal theories of the sixties; revisit key notions of his thinking such as mobility, infrastructure or participation with respect to their current applicability; and assess his impact on contemporary architecture and art and the critical implications of his work’s presentation in a visual art (aesthetic) context.
