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UPDATE 6.9.10: Check out the complete Postópolis! schedule and watch a livestream of the event on both Domus and postopolis.org.

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It should come as no surprise that I love to talk (some might say, can’t shut up) about cities — problems, solutions, and the innovative problem-solvers who work on them. And I think I can speak for the whole Omnibus family when I say that we’re grateful for the opportunity Urban Omnibus affords us: to help share the back-stories and speculative futures of some incredible ideas about cities — some tried and tested in New York, others initiated elsewhere and applied here. With that in mind, I’m psyched to announce that I will soon get to bring this zeal for identifying and introducing good, design-based approaches to urbanism to one of the most interesting large cities in the world: Mexico City. So if anyone has occasion to be in Mexico around the second week in June, come join me and a storied bunch of urbanists, technologists, designers and bloggers for the third installment of Postopolis! — a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about the built environment and the various design cultures that influence it.

Postopolis LA, 2009, on the roof of the Standard Hotel

The first Postopolis! took place in the gallery of Storefront for Art and Architecture, here in New York, way back in 2007. The second held forth in Los Angeles in 2009. Omnibus readers will recall the brilliant recap of that event by Rachel Abrams and Alissa Walker, in which they ruminated on what it means when bloggers come out from the aether to  introduce, in person and face-to-face, their favorite innovators in the worlds of design and urbanism. Once again, Storefront — in collaboration with sponsors Museo Experimental El Eco, TOMO and Domus Magazine – has convened a group of people who wax poetic on the internet and asked each of us to invite thinkers and practitioners in Mexico City into discussion.

I have invited Eduardo Terrazas, the architect, artist and urbanist responsible for the masterplan for Mexico City’s 1968 Olympics; Juan Carlos Rulfo, director of the award-winning film En el hoyo; Professor Martha Schteingart, a internationally renowned expert on urban poverty, segregation and housing; Derek Dellekamp, an architect known for his wide-ranging collaborations with artists, engineers and environmentalists (and selected as one of the Architectural League’s 2009 Emerging Voices – a podcast of his presentation is available on the League website); and Jose Castillo, whose architecture and urban research include intimate residential spaces as well as urban-scale housing and transportation systems. I’m thrilled to be bringing these voices into this conversation. And I cannot wait to consume the insights from the participants invited by the likes of Intersections (Daniel Hernandez), DPR Barcelona (Ethel Barona Pohl), Toxico Cultura (Gabriella Gomez-Mont), Mudd Up! (Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture), Tomo (Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa), Edible Geography (Nicola Twilley), We Make Money Not Art (Regine Debatty), Strangeharvest (Sam Jacob), and Wayne & Wax (Wayne Marshall).

The Courtyard of Museo Experimental El Eco, where the presentations and discussion will take place

Here’s the official info:
Postópolis!DF
June 8, 2010

From 8-12 June 2010, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with Museo Experimental El Eco, Tomo and Domus Magazine, will host the third edition of Postopolis!, a public five-day session of near-continuous conversation curated by some of the world’s most prominent bloggers from the fields of architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, music and design. 10 world-renowned bloggers from Los Angeles, New York, Turin, Barcelona, London and elsewhere will convene in one location in Mexico City to host a series of discussions, interviews, slideshows, presentations, films and panels fusing the informal and interdisciplinary approach of the architecture blogosphere with rare face-to-face interaction.

Each day, the 10 participating bloggers will meet in the magnificent courtyard of Museo Experimental El Eco, designed by Matthias Goeritz, to conduct back-to-back interviews of some of Mexico City’s most influential thinkers and practitioners – including architects, city planners, artists and urban theorists but also military historians, filmmakers, photographers, activists and musicians. The talks will be conducted in either Spanish or English, and translations will be available. Each day of talks will end with an after-party hosted by some of Mexico City’s most influential music blogs.

The first Postopolis! took place in the gallery space at Storefront for Art and Architecture during the summer of 2007, and a second edition was held in Los Angeles in 2009.

Participating blogs:
Urban Omnibus (Cassim Shepard)
Intersections (Daniel Hernandez)
DPR Barcelona (Ethel Barona Pohl)
Toxico Cultura (Gabriella Gomez-Mont)
Tomo (Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa)
Mudd Up! (Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture)
Edible Geography (Nicola Twilley)
We Make Money Not Art (Regine Debatty)
Strangeharvest (Sam Jacob)
Wayne & Wax (Wayne Marshall)

Location
Museo Experimental El Eco
Sullivan 43, Col. San Rafael, CP 09470 Mexico City, Tel. 5535 51 86
www.eleco.unam.mx

Participants list in formation: please check www.postopolis.org

Twitter: @postopolis, #postopolis

Partners
Museo Experimental El Eco
TOMO
Domus Magazine

Sponsors
Mexicana
British Embassy
Urbi VidaResidencial
UNAM
Difusión Cultural UNAM
Museo Experimental El Eco
Cityexpress
XXLager

Organizers
Daniel Perlin and the Storefront Team

Click here to download the press release.
Presione aquí para descargar el boletín de prensa.
www.postopolis.org