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ARCHITECTS AND CITY PLANNERS IN MALMÖ
UBC Commission on Urban Planning organised a seminar in Malmö 1-4.12.1999. Almost 40 cityplanners, architects and civil engineers took part in the seminar. The seminar itself was hold in the historical St Gertrud cultural center from the 16th century.
The basic theme of the seminar was Best Practice in Urban Physical Planning. The seminar focused on old harbour and industrial areas. All participating cities were requested to present their own city and their Best Practice example. There were 22 short presentations of our cities and towns. Through this small exhibition of the plans from different cities and towns there was a view over nice examples how to develop urban structure.
An extraordinary presentations from the City of Malmö showed how the Øresund bridge was chancing the urban structure of Malmö and what kind of new projects are made in order to link Malmö and Copenhagen together. The massive potential which has the old shipyard areas to develop the centre of the city was shown on maps and sites. The visit in the windy constructing site of the Øresund bridge was really impressing massive experience.
You are welcome to the network of Urban Planning Commission. We will meet next time in Helsinki!
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Further information:
Mr Jussi Kautto, Helsinki
Chairman of the Commission
on Urban Planning
Tel. +358 9 169 2310
Fax +358 9 175 149
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BUSINESS COOPERATION
The meeting of the UBC Commission on Business Cooperation took place aboard m/ f "Stena Europe" on 18-20 November'99 on the route Gdynia-Karlskrona-Gdynia.
The topics discussed during the meeting were as follows: current matters of mutual cooperation, presentation of the Economical Statistical Information Leaflet and discussion on an action plan of the Commission for the year 2000.
The representatives of Elblag, Gdansk, Gdynia, Kolding, Panevėžys, Šiauliai and Ventspils discussed, first of all, the subject and the future activity of the Commission in regard to conferences. The general opinion was that the conferences should give more opportunity for a dialogue between participants.
In order to be well prepared for the next conference which will take place on
20th May, 2000 in Kolding, Denmark, the participants decided to start preparations now. Therefore, all members of the Commission will be asked to specify 1-4 matters in which they have good experience and could be useful for others. On the other hand, they should shortly describe their needs concerning other cities' experiences.
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All answers should be mailed to:
Mr Erling Winther,
Director of Industrial Development
Council of Kolding
Akseltorv 8, 6000 Kolding,
Denmark
Tel. +45 76 332111,
Fax +45 76 332121
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Some of the replies could be used as lectures or a subject to group work during the next meeting. A special visiting programme will be prepared for Kolding Conference 2000. The participants of this conference will have a chance to visit the old city, some industrial enterprises, new shopping mall "Kolding Storcenter" and meet some retailers.
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In deep grief we inform you that on November 30th, 1999, Maciej Brzeski, Deputy Mayor of the City of Gdynia and Co-Chairman of UBC Commission on Business Cooperation unexpectedly passed away. He was an extremely active person, engaged in the work for the benefit of Gdynia. He will be remembered as a man of great heart, of incredible professionalism and of openness to innovative ideas as well as sincerity. |
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N. E. W. S. !
The N. E. W. S. - exhibition of contemporary visual art of the Baltic countries has been successfully opened on 29 th of October at the Pomeranian Dukes Castle in Szczecin. It will be on show until 5 December and then move to Riga and Visby in 2000.
The N. E. W. S. project, under the UBC patronage, consists of three big scale exhibitions (Szczecin, Riga, and Visby) and four seminars devoted to the current art theory and practice (Visby, Szczecin, Riga, Bornholm). N. E. W. S. emerged from the collaboration between the MARE ARTICUM magazine editors. (Originally, MARE ARTICUM Baltic art magazine has been launched by the UBC Culture Commission in the end of 1997 in Szczecin in close collaboration with 12 associated editors from the region's leading artistic centres).
Out of 50 recommended artists, 22 artists from the 10 countries were selected to come to Szczecin to work on place during one week specially for the N. E. W. S. exhibition. Similar pattern will be adopted in the two other locations.
The exhibition presents the newest trends in the contemporary visual art, including media, video, video installation, painting, objects, as well as various interdisciplinary projects, street actions, radio encounters, performances.
The project goal is to encourage and facilitate collaboration between artists and curators of the Baltic countries. During the N. E. W. S. opening days (29-30. 10. 99) Szczecin hosted many international critics and curators interested in the Baltic art scene. All the N. E. W. S. host cities -Szczecin, Visby and Riga expressed readiness to strengthen the cultural co-operation and promote further mutual projects. The cities are also the main sponsors of the N. E. W. S. exhibitions.
The catalogue presenting the N. E. W. S. artists was published thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture and Art in Warsaw.
N. E. W. S. Baltic Contemporary Art Exhibition
Szczecin - 29.10-05.12.1999 in Pomeranian Dukes Castle
Riga - 12.05-18.06.2000 in Noah Gallery
Visby - 15.07-31.08.2000 in Baltic Art Centre, Gotland's Art Museum
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