ICOMOS: The Cultural Landscapes of Modernity: Brasilia, 13 apr. 19.30h

Pas in de tweede helft van de 20ste eeuw gebouwd als nieuwe hoofdstad van Brazilië, was Brasilia ook een play ground voor experimentele stedenbouw. Architect Paul Meurs ziet parallellen met Almere, het Nederlands Brasilia. Carla Costa, eveneens architect in de erfgoedsector en stadsplanner, onderzocht aan het begin van de pandemie, de invloed van Covid-19 op het gebruik van vijf typen publieke ruimte in Brasilia.

PROGRAMME

19h30    Welcome and introduction: Jean Paul Corten and Maurits van Putten
19h40   The Cultural Landscapes of Modernity by Paul Meurs
20h00    Q&A
20h15    Break
20h25   Brasilia in times of COVID by Carla Costa
20h45   Q&A 
 21:00    End

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The cultural landscapes of Modernity

by Paul Meurs

The Brazilian capital Brasília celebrated its 60^th anniversary in 2020. This celebration was reason for the Netherlands embassy in Brasilia to organize an exhibition on The Dutch Brasilias: the experience of the New World in the Dutch polders (‘Zuiderzeewerken’). The focus lies be on the DNA of the cultural landscapes of modernity and the challenge to include this DNA in studies and proposals for the future. The Dutch Brasilias show how the concept of the  modern city / landscape evolved over the 20^th century, as polder after polder were realized. The first settlements date from the 1930s, the last from the 1980s. The city of Almere is the most relevant case for Brazil, both in conception – as an ‘improved Brasilia’ – and in the current challenge to invent Almere 2.0. In the lecture Paul Meurs will address the mutual interest for Brazil and the Netherlands to better understand the cultural landscapes of modernity. 

Brasilia in times of COVID

by Carla Costa

Carla Costa will present the outcomes of her research on the impacts of COVID 19 on the usage of five different types of public spaces in Brasilia during the first moment of the pandemic before the mass vaccination started: were there any changes in behavior towards public space usage in comparison to before the pandemic?

Speakers

Dr Paul Meurs is partner and architect-researcher, of SteenhuisMeurs, a company working in the Dutch heritage industry. Paul is a consultant for complex transformation assignments in existing cities or cultural landscapes. He focuses on the question of how the existing quality of a building or area can become the point of departure for new, appropriate development. Paul is a member of the Quality-Team of the World Heritage site ‘Dutch Defense lines’ and supervisor of a number of locations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leiden and Deventer. Paul is a member of the Investment Board of BOEi (non-profit developer of adaptive reuse and restoration of heritage). From 2006 to 2016 he held the chair of ‘Heritage and Cultural Value’ at TU Delft. On behalf of the Cultural Heritage Agency and the Dutch embassies, Paul regularly travels abroad (Russia, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil) to highlight the innovative Dutch heritage practice and to offer guidance to students in respect of heritage and transformation studies. 

Carla Costa is a heritage architect and urban planner from Brasilia, Brazil. She has been working at IPHAN (Brazilian Heritage Agency) since 2006 as a policy advisor in the management of listed sites and their buffer zones. In 2020 she came to the Netherlands to complete a Masters’s program at IHS in Urban Management and Development where she researched the impacts of COVID 19 on the usage of public spaces in Brasilia.