Postopolis! is a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design. Four bloggers, from four different cities, will host a series of live discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and other presentations, and fuse the informal energy and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural blogosphere with the immediacy of face to face interaction.

BLDGBLOG (Los Angeles), City of Sound (London), Inhabitat (New York City), and Subtopia (San Francisco) will meet in person to orchestrate the event, inviting everyone from practicing architects, city planners, and urban theorists to military historians, game developers, and materials scientists to give their take on both the built and natural environments.

For the past five years, blogging has helped to expand the bounds of architectural discussion; its influence now spreads far beyond the internet to affect museums, institutions, and even higher education. Postopolis! is an historic opportunity to look back at what architecture blogs have achieved - both to celebrate their strengths and to think about their future. Topics will include the urban landscape, publishing, border control, sustainability, graphic design, migration, typography, architecture and warfare, street culture, mapping, online architectural media, refugee camps, planetary sciences and design criticism in the digital age.
(click on the names of speakers for further info)


Tuesday 29 May

3:00 pm: Robert Krulwich
3:40 pm: Tobias Frere-Jones
5:00 pm: Stanley Greenberg
5:40 pm: Michael Kubo (Actar)
6:30 pm: Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), Dan Hill (City of Sound), Jill Fehrenbacher (Inhabitat) and Bryan Finoki (Subtopia) in a back-to-back pecha kucha presentation followed by opening reception


Wednesday 30 May

1:30 pm Benjamin Aranda & Chris Lasch
2:10 pm: Matthew Clark (Acoustic engineer, Ove Arup)
4:00 pm: Panel on Sustainability with Susan Szenasy, Allan Chochinov, Jill Fehrenbacher
5:30 pm: Scott Marble
6:00 pm: Paul Seletsky
6:45 pm: Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano
7:30 pm: Michael Sorkin & Mitchell Joachim


Thursday 31 May

1:30 pm: DJ /rupture
2:15 pm: Gianluigi Ricuperati
3:30 pm: Monica Hernandez (Lifeform)
4:00 pm: Jeff Byles
5:00 pm: Wes Janz
5:30 pm: Robert Neuwirth
6:00 pm: Jake Barton
7:00 pm: Joel Sanders
7:30 pm: Live interview with Lebbeus Woods


Friday 1 June

1:00 pm: Julia Solis
2:00 pm: Andrew Blum
3:00 pm: Tom Vanderbilt, Michael Bierut and William Drenttel
4:00 pm: Eric Rodenbeck
4:30 pm: James Sanders
5:00 pm: David Benjamin & Soo-in Yang
5:30 pm: Kevin Slavin
6:30 pm: Laura Kurgan
7:00 pm: Lawrence Weschler


Saturday 2 June

2 pm: Conversations with Neil Smith, Keller Easterling, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley
4 pm: Randi Greenberg
4.30 pm: Bloggers open house with back-to-back presentations and discussions with Quilian Riano (Archinect), Miss Representation, Enrique Gualberto Ramirez (aggregat456), George Agnew (Architecture of Fear), Chad Smith (Tropolism), Abe Burmeister (Abstract Dynamics), John Hill (Archidose), Alec Appelbaum (NY Magazine), Aaron Plewke (Archinect) and many more.
7pm: Closing party with DJ /rupture

Please note that for the duration of the Postopolis! event the exhibition CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed will be suspended. The show will reopen on Tuesday, June 5 at 11am.

The Postopolis! event is generously supported by Tekserve NY.

For further information please contact Storefront at 212.431.5795 or visit www.storefrontnews.org