Strelka Talks. Wouter Vanstiphout "Damn the Masters' Plan!"

"Damn the Masters' Plan!" is a talk by Wouter Vanstiphout on the street protest movements from Detroit in the 1960s to Paris in 2005 and London in 2011. The speaker analyses the complex correlation between certain types of urban development and the deeply rooted discontent of the citizens.
Wouter Vanstiphout is a historian of architecture and a co-founder of the Crimson Architectural Historians collective based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Reflection team of VROM, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and serves on the board of SKOR, Foundation Art and Public Space in Amsterdam. Since 2009, Wouter is a professor of Design as Politics at the Delft University of Technology. His recent research deals with protests and the way they are shaped by architecture and urban environment.