Conference Program
Friday, 06.06.2008
19.00-21.00 Guided city tour
Dmitriy Vorobyov: The changing cityscape of St. Petersburg. From the metro station Vasiliostrovskaya to the metro station Krestovski Ostrov.
Meeting point: Entrance to the metro station Vasiliostrovskaya
Saturday, 07.06.2008
11.00-13-00: Theoretical introduction
Conference room of the Faculty of International Relations, Smolniy Street 1/3, 8th entrance
- Vesna Tomse: Zurich Global City or Why There is No Space for Immigrants, Students, Poor or Unemployed People in our City
- Dmitriy Vorobyov: St. Petersburg – Museum-City or City of Megaprojects?
- Reiner Wild: Berlin – the Capital of Tenants in the Grasp of International Investors?
- Stefan Schneider: Berlin – Homelessness and Poverty in a Changing Structure. From the Isle to the Hub. A Short Overview.
13.00-14.00: Discussion
Discussion with representatives of the “Society for Monument Protection”, the institute “EKOM”, the “Movement of Citizens’ Initiatives” and other citizens’ initiatives and NGOs
14.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-18.00: Workshops
1.) Housing-/Owner-Cooperatives
Auditorium 124, Faculty of International Relations, Smolniy Street 1/3, 8th entrance
Presentations:
- Andreas Hofer, Swiss Association of Housing Cooperatives, Zurich: Housing Cooperatives as an Alternative in the high-price Market
- Igor Lebedev, Assosiation of the Housing-/Owner-Cooperatives, St. Petersburg: Some Problems of Housing-/Owner-Cooperatives in St. Petersburg
Subsequently group discussion
2.) Citizens’ initiatives and organisation enforcing habitants’ interests
Conference room of the Faculty of International Relations, Smolniy Street 1/3, 8th entrance
Presentations:
- Alexandra Tesakova, citizens’ initiative “Living City”, St. Petersburg: “Living City” – Where We Came from and What We Have Achieved
- “Movement of Citizens’ Initiatives”, St. Petersburg
o Evgeniy A. Kozlov: Analysing the Most Important Campaigns in St. Petersburg in the Years 2007-08
o Vladimir Soloveychik: A Sociological Analysis of the Protest Movement in St. Petersburg
o G. A. Khokhlov: The Civil Society Movement as a Method of the Struggle against In-Fill Construction
- Alexandr Karpov, institute “EKOM”, St. Petersburg: What is Really Going on Here?
- Catherine Rutherfoord: The Zurich Tenants’ Association – History and Impact of the Tenants’ Association and Actual Activities
- Reiner Wild: The Berlin Tenants’ Association – Protection of Tenants and Political Representation of Interests.
19.00: Dinner and documentary “Park Fiction”
Conference Room of the “Russo-German Exchange”, Ligovskiy Prospect 87
Russian premiere of the documentary about the citizens’ initiative “park fiction”, that recaptured a park in Hamburg from globalisation
Sunday, 08.06.2008
Plenary sessions
All day: “Memorial”, Rubinshtein Street 23, app. 103
12.00-14-00: Discussion of the group: “Citizens’ initiatives and organisations enforcing habitants’ interests”
14.15-14.45: Presentation of the workshop: “Citizens’ initiatives and organisations enforcing habitants’ interests”
15.00-15.30: Presentation of the workshop “Housing-/Owner-Cooperatives”
Tea-break
16.00 Final plenary session
