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Reporting ‘space, time and everyday life’ in the Delta
The Organization committee is composed of Luca Iuorio, Sophia Arbara, Carissa Champlin, Feike Smithuis, Amber Coppens, Merel Garritsen, TU Delft.
The Project is funded by the Climate Action Program and organized within the context of the Delta Urbanism research group, the Delta Futures Lab, the section of Environmental Technology and Design of the department of Urbanism, TU Delft. The project is run in collaboration with the Eye Filmmuseum of Amsterdam.
Reporting ‘space, time and everyday life’ in the Delta is an itinerant film club that focuses on video documentaries to investigate the natural, social, and spatial transitional configuration of the Netherlands before and after the execution of the Delta Works.
Motion pictures show the enormous achievement of technology in modifying nature and controlling water and its movements. Documentaries are used as a subjective instrument to scientifically analyze how specific engineering projects have shaped Dutch society during the last decades.
Main objective of the projects is to re-formulate the connection between climate change, technical solutions, and the impact both may have in the future on space and society through a scientific discourse that uses less-academic means. The thesis is that only by understanding the way technology affected society in the past we may envision how current infrastructure projects will impact our future.
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The notion of Rhythmanalysis is used to guide the theoretical discourse of the project. “Rhythmanalysis. Space, time and everyday life” is the last book of the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre; it has been posthumously published in 1992 and translated in English in 2004.
Henri Lefebvre, 2004 {1992}, Rhythmanalysis. Space, time and everyday life, translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore, Continuum, London-New York.
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Above picture has been taken by Luca Iuorio in 2022 at Saeftinghe, the Netherlands.
PROGRAM
1 Tales of Space, time and everyday Life
A screening of documentaries about water engineering projects and their impacts on society and space.
Location:
Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft
Date:
20 October
Guests:
Rommy Albers [Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam]
Guido Borelli [Iuav University of Venice]
Moderators:
Luca Iuorio, faculty of architecture and the built environment, TU Delft
Carissa Champlin, faculty of industrial design engineering, TU Delft
Walk-in screening:
Isole nella laguna, Luciano Emmer, Enrico Gras, 1948
Movies:
Filosofenportretten: Henri Lefebvre, Louis van Gasteren, 1971
De lage landen, George Sluizer, 1961
Delta fase 1, Bert Haanstra, 1962
2 Wild geographies
A screening of a movie about water engineering projects and their impacts on individuals and the environment.
Location:
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
Date:
16 November
Guests:
Digna Sinke [film director]
Marilena Mela [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
Moderators:
Sophia Arbara, faculty of architecture and the built environment, TU Delft
Luca Iuorio, faculty of architecture and the built environment, TU Delft
Movie:
Weemoed en Wildernis, Digna Sinke, 2010
3 Limits and inevitabilities
A screening of movies to debate on our common responsibility in dealing with climate change.
Location:
Radius CCA, Delft
Date:
15 December
Guests:
Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk [Radius CCA]
Gaby Langendijk [Deltares]
Michele Cerruti But [Politecnico di Torino]
Ester van de Wiel and Joost Adriaanse [-zee -plaats -werk -land]
Moderator:
Luca Iuorio, faculty of architecture and the built environment, TU Delft
Movies:
Wakers en Dromers, Annette Apon, 1994
Een Zaak van Niveau, Louis van Gasteren, 1989
4 The wonder of engineering
A screening of movies about the Dutch technical expertise of controlling water enabling cultural relations and national sentiments.
Location:
Maeslantkering, Hoek van Holland
Date:
11 April
Guests:
Emanuele Fantini [IHE Delft]
Geert van der Meulen [TU Delft]
Moderator:
Sophia Arbara, faculty of architecture and the built environment, TU Delft
Movies:
Achter het Nieuws, Live vanuit de Zierikzee, Joop van Zijl, VARA, 1982
Een nieuw dorp of nieuw land, Louis van Gasteren, 1960
5 Future made in Holland
A screening of a movie to debate the legacy of past spatial and engineering projects and the future perspectives these empower in citizens.
Location:
Independent School for the city, Rotterdam
Date:
7 May
Guests:
Roy Bendor [TU Delft]
Fransje Hooimeijer [TU Delft]
Movie:
Terug naar Nagele, Louis van Gasteren, 2012
6 Reporting the Delta
A screening of movies on the act of reporting through motions: a powerful instrument to depict reality as the interaction between landscape, people and technology.
Location:
Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft
Date:
13 June
Guests:
Jord den Hollander [architect; director; Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam]
Dirk Sijmons [TU Delft; H+N+S]
Moderator:
Luca Iuorio, faculty of architecture and the built environment, TU Delft
Sophia Arbara, faculty of architecture and the built environment, TU Delft
Movies:
Stroom, Jord den Hollander, 2005
De Rijn van Lobith tot aan zee, Jord den Hollander, 2007
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