Three seminars and six documentaries discussing the cities of the XXI Century
MAXXI and Movie Movie present Megalopolis, three seminars and the projection of six documentaries, conceived and directed by Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini, discussing the cities of the XXI Century through full length films devoted to the largest urban areas from the west to the east of the world: Los Angeles, São Paulo, Cairo, Karachi, Shenzhen and Tokyo.
The seminars will be an opportunity for debate and stimulating reflection on these great cities, complex yet fragile structures whose growth is a central issue of our immediate future. A subject that involves, within an multi-disciplinary approach, planners, architects and geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, economists and experts in problems associated with transport and mobility, the environment, labour, politics, governance and relational psychology.
Saturday 18 January
MIDDLE EAST
18.30 | CAIRO, EGYPT
20.30 | KARACHI, PAKISTAN
MAXXI Auditorium – admittance free
The seminar will be presented by Lucio Caracciolo Founder of Limes and Riccardo Bocca, journalist with the weekly L’Espresso
Il Cairo, Al Qarafa, La citta? dei morti
Last seminar
25 January | FAR EAST. Shenzhen and Tokyo
Three seminars and six documentaries discussing the cities of the XXI Century
MAXXI and Movie Movie present Megalopolis, three seminars and the projection of six documentaries, conceived and directed by Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini, discussing the cities of the XXI Century through full length films devoted to the largest urban areas from the west to the east of the world: Los Angeles, São Paulo, Cairo, Karachi, Shenzhen and Tokyo.
The seminars will be an opportunity for debate and stimulating reflection on these great cities, complex yet fragile structures whose growth is a central issue of our immediate future. A subject that involves, within an multi-disciplinary approach, planners, architects and geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, economists and experts in problems associated with transport and mobility, the environment, labour, politics, governance and relational psychology.
Saturday 18 January
MIDDLE EAST
18.30 | CAIRO, EGYPT
20.30 | KARACHI, PAKISTAN
MAXXI Auditorium – admittance free
The seminar will be presented by Lucio Caracciolo Founder of Limes and Riccardo Bocca, journalist with the weekly L’Espresso
Il Cairo, Al Qarafa, La citta? dei morti
Last seminar
25 January | FAR EAST. Shenzhen and Tokyo