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#294 | Analyzing the Petroleumscape of Rotterdam – Prof. dr. Carola Hein (TU Delft).

april 11, 2017 @ 20:00 - 22:00

Petroleum – its extraction, refining, transformation, and consumption – has shaped our built environment in visible and invisible interconnected ways around the world over the last 150 years. Industrial structures, buildings, monuments, urban forms, and infrastructure stand as material witnesses to the ubiquity and power of petroleum. Many people will orient themselves in space referring to gas stations, others will point to oil headquarters as local urban icons, and a select few will be aware of local oil industry facilities or the educational, housing or leisure facilities of the petroleum industry employees. But while observers recognize the connection to oil in select buildings, they do not picture the enormous collective presence of oil in the built environment, its impact on production processes, financial flows, and associated social and cultural patterns in our everyday environment, or the long history of oil’s impact on our lives. The presentation first proposes the concept of the global palimspestic petroleumscape and then explores its global dimension and its presence in the Randstad. 

Petroliumscape of Rotterdam. Bron: Museum Rotterdam, 2016

Carola Hein is Professor and Head, Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology. She has published widely on topics in historical architecture and urbanism. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research on The Global Architecture of Oil and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to investigate large-scale urban transformation in Hamburg in international context between 1842 and 2008. Her current interest is the study of international networks and the transmission of architectural and urban ideas along these networks, focusing specifically on port cities and the global architecture of oil. She has authored The Capital of Europe. (2004), has edited Port Cities: (2011) and European Brussels. Whose capital? Whose city? (2006); and co-edited Brussels: Perspectives on a European Capital (2007). Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan. (2006); Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945. (2003). Based on her research she has co-curated the exhibition Oliedam: Rotterdam in the oil era 1862-today at Museum Rotterdam  https://museumrotterdam.nl/tentoonstellingen/oliedam, which will be expanded and shown at TU Delft from 17. June to 3 July 2017.

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Datum:
april 11, 2017
Tijd:
20:00 - 22:00