Round Table

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Monday July 11^TH  five o’clock

moderated by SARA KAMALVAND

The round table will evaluate the opportunities and challenges of the Tehran Filtering Garden Festival as an experimental urban project that can assist the city’s current will to preserve and revive the downtown core all the while remediating issues of ecology and air pollution. Mehrgerd qanat currently discharges 200 liters of water per second in Tehran’s sewage system. Conserving this wasted water is eminent, but bringing it back to surface, and ensuring the wellbeing of its trajectory poses challenges that are political, social and technical. The debate will address questions of responsibility, management, and public space.

Panel Guests:

Gilbert Fillinger / Director of the Art, City and Landscape Festival, Amiens

Eskandar Mokhtari / Heritage Preservationist, Professor at Azad University

Ali Mohammad Saadati / Head of Urban projects of the 12^th District Municipality of Tehran

Ahmad Maleki / Engineer, Qanat specialist, Tehran

Sponsored by the Pejman Foundation